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Could this be a headline you might read in the future? It’s possible, although how far in the future is anybody’s guess. But the fact is, cricket in Canada is leaping ahead in popularity, while it’s hard to say the same about the game in Australia.
The thing that’s turned cricket around in the not-so-frozen North is the immigration to Toronto of hundreds of thousands of young men from cricket-crazy South East Asia.
Greater Toronto already has 300 competitive teams made up mainly of talent from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and the West Indies. One of the current stars is a guy who played 30 tests for the Windies, Mahendra Nagamootoo, and he’s very impressed by the standard of play.
So are the crowds. So much so that the city has plans to built a cricket facility to international standards.
The support is there.
This sudden rush of quality has many people revising their thinking about teams which the ICC ranks below the lowest of the biggies. Indeed, with more South East Asians pouring into Toronto, including first class coaches from those countries, Canada’s going to move up the rankings.
How far? Far enough, according to Mahendra Nagamootoo, to give some of the big fish a real scare one of these days.
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