East-end Ramadan cricket a fusion of faith, friendship and fun after dark
After a long Sunday of fasting and three hours of night prayer, a group of young men are gathered in a parking lot shouting, “Catch, catch, great catch, shabash boy!”
After a long Sunday of fasting and three hours of night prayer, a group of young men are gathered in a parking lot shouting, “Catch, catch, great catch, shabash boy!”
Canada’s biggest cricket league, Global T20, has returned for its third season this year, bigger and bolder. The tournament started on July 20 at TD Cricket Arena in Brampton, Ont., and runs until Sunday, Aug….
When Canadian College Cricket (CCC) was founded in 2010, Hassan was a student and played for the school. After graduating in 2012 he became an assistant coach, and in the 2014-15 school year he became head coach.
At her street food outlet near Kensington Market, Cookie Martinez prepares empanadas each work day. There is chicken and beef for the empanadas.
But sometimes, in the bread part of the empanadas, she adds mealworm powder in the dough, cricket salt, and whole crickets in the filling.
Her customers can plainly see the torsos and heads of the crickets.
At Martinez’s outlet, Gustavo Holloway, 26, from Chile, held a whole cricket between his fingers. Holloway ordered “cricket snax,” a little box filled with insects.
“This is like the movie Lion King. Hakuna matata,” Holloway said.
The Canadian National team gathers in a small, dark, windowless warehouse, an odd place for the country’s best cricket players.
The Toronto City Cricket Club (TCCC) is hosting its 10th annual festival at Centennial Park this Saturday, celebrating one of the world’s most popular sports. In Toronto the demand for cricket facilities is quickly overwhelming…
In the northwest corner of Malvern lies a discreet industrial sector. But this area — with no sign or clearly marked entrance, on a chilly Saturday afternoon — is a hotbed for young talent in a game that is steadily growing in popularity.