Boundaries North wants to help expand cricket in Canada by increasing participation, providing pathways for promising players and creating commercial partnerships to boost the sport’s bottom line
In the 150-plus years since former prime minister John A. Macdonald declared cricket the first national sport of Canada, it’s probably fair to say that it no longer occupies the lofty perch it once did in this country.
“It’s been a long time coming,” says Rashpal Bajwa, the president of Cricket Canada. “It took us almost two years to come to this point where we could get into this partnership. We are excited. … The time for cricket is now.” “I think when people like TD and the commercial people who have no link with cricket are showing it, there is an appetite for that right now,” he says. “And they have the demographic of people that are there to support it.”“You talk to any politician nowadays when he wants votes, he comes to Cricket Canada,” Bajwa says. “So that shows you that there is an appetite for that right now.”
Both Bajwa and Srinivasan accept that Canada’s ability to produce its own superstar, such as soccer’s Christine Sinclair or Alphonso Davies, would do wonders for the sport’s growth in Canada. Srinivasan points to the success of Afghan bowler Rashid Khan, who earlier this month became just the fourth player to take a hat trick of wickets in the Indian Premier League, despite hailing from a non-traditional cricketing country.
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