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Multiple World Cup appearances. Team Canada captaincy. Blistering statistics as a batsman. As far as Canadian cricketing is concerned, Zubin Surkari has done everything you could imagine. <\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s everything Surkari is doing now, off the pitch, that will guide Toronto\u2019s sports imagination for decades to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sitting down with the Toronto native, you can sense his passion for the game. Beginning to play competitively at a very young age, Surkari retired early because of health issues. But his 20-year cricketing resume opened up opportunities, and he eventually became a sport development officer with Cricket Canada, where the question of cricket\u2019s future is always on his mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCricket here, for the longest time, has been facing hurdles \u2014 trying to get facilities or adequate facilities,\u201d says Surkari. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly growing, but we\u2019re not getting the facilities that are good enough for high performance cricket, and for those facilities, they are few and far between.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Toronto cricket community counts in the tens of thousands \u2014 Cricket Canada alone sports 10,000 to 12,000 students (about 250 schools) each year in their school-based programming.<\/span><\/p>\n

For those thinking about growing the game, the Greater Toronto Area is the place to do it: more people play here than anywhere else in Canada. But this growth presents cricket\u2019s most difficult challenge. Apart from the Eglinton Flats in Etobicoke, Sunnybrook Park and, with some finessing, on soccer pitches and playgrounds across the city, where can cricket actually lay proper roots within Toronto\u2019s borders?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t facilitate it quick enough,\u201d says Surkari.<\/span><\/p>\n

Master Planning a creative solution <\/span><\/h3>\n

Torontonians want a place to play. About 90,000 of them were on recreation program waitlists in 2006, and that number grew to about 200,000 in 2016. (The City predicts that it will double again by 2026.)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA city builds facilities so its people can build community,\u201d wrote Jane Arbour, speaking on behalf of the City, in an email. \u201cToronto\u2019s parks and recreations facilities \u2014 our community centres, our sports fields, our courts, our arenas \u2014 are not just places for fun, games, and personal growth, but where people of all ages and abilities come together to share their interests, ideas and cultures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Toronto wants to deliver on that growing demand. The City\u2019s Master Plan details a 20-year strategy that proposes spending about $2.1 billion to expand and maintain facilities, fill a $460-million repair backlog, and seek to invest in new facilities. A tall task, but the City says that this plan shows its \u201congoing commitment\u201d to delivering services.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt will ensure everyone has an opportunity to create the sense of vitality and community that makes Toronto such a vibrant city, now and well into the future,\u201d she wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, as Arbour writes, \u201cThe biggest challenges of this growth will be land availability and cost.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed. Especially in the case of cricket (the City wants to add five pitches to bring their total to 33 within 20 years), you need space that spreads two soccer fields. \u201cFinding the room for the five new cricket pitches needed to match growing demand will require optimizing new land for multiple uses and adaptation of existing facilities,\u201d she writes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cricket Canada introduces the game in a simplified way, with programming for kids as young as seven. Surkari says introducing the game doesn\u2019t have to be complicated at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey learn a bit about their body, but also learn a bit of cricket,\u201d said Surkari, who was introduced to the game by his dad at that age.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be played on a cricket field; it can be played on soccer field or a gym.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cricket Canada has a plan in motion, but a continued, permanent solution will require some creative thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cricket in a parking lot near Islington Station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Toronto stadium building<\/span><\/h3>\n

David Miller knows this dilemma all too well. The former Toronto mayor had a broad array of sports infrastructure challenges on his plate, most famously the development of the National Soccer Stadium \u2014 known today as BMO Field.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The stadium\u2019s original purpose was to deliver the FIFA under-20 tournament in 2007, and develop a facility with professional turf and stadium standards, Miller says. Interest from Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (who own Toronto FC) to run and manage the stadium, whereby the City could make a good profit without suffering losses, produced a \u201cpretty good arrangement\u201d for Toronto, says Miller. \u201cIf you include the public access over the winter, which was packed because there was so much pent-up demand for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Miller says the City contributed $10 million to the $73-million project.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it was a rarity, because it was a facility for professional sports \u2014 with an ownership group willing to share the profits with the local government.<\/span><\/p>\n

And, as turf standards evolved at BMO Field (leagues and players asked for real grass), community access to the grounds changed. MLSE, in the early 2010s, then agreed to renovate the grounds at Allan A. Lamport Stadium in Liberty Village, which itself now has multiple uses and users \u2014 including the Toronto Wolfpack rugby club and year-round programming of the Toronto Sports and Social Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

Miller sees this evolution as having an overall positive community benefit.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s worked out as expected; we got great use of Lamport, and the public didn\u2019t pay anything for that, and BMO is very good now for professional soccer,\u201d says Miller, a TFC fan from Day One.<\/span><\/p>\n

Miller watched closely as the cricket file entered the Toronto purview \u2014 the sport was a part of the City\u2019s Master Plan in 2007. He saw a massive number of people play at Eglinton Flats and Cedarvale Ravine, in places where cricket wasn\u2019t the intended use. People came to play, but also enjoy each others\u2019 company, picnic, and socialize \u2014 what is referred to as a \u201cfestival feel\u201d in cricket circles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe sporting event [was] not just a sporting event, it [was] a community event,\u201d says Miller.<\/span><\/p>\n

Growth of the sport, and its support, really came from the bottom up, and creative thinking helped the community play. For the City, it also had to think creatively, and think deeply about how available space could accommodate uses like cricket.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow do we find ways to use this space for multiple users? Can you have the cricket pitches and soccer pitches in the same place and keep the wicket protected?\u201d says Miller.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where do we build?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Creating space within soccer fields, extending hours for play, and making facilities available year-round (particularly under sports domes) have offered the best chance for cricket in Toronto, but there are other ideas floating about.<\/span><\/p>\n

The City\u2019s sports plan will couple with residential and other development modes. Because of that, Arbour says, it\u2019s easier to build recreation facilities in areas where the city is growing \u2014 with a lot of the facilities funded by development charges.<\/span><\/p>\n

The City touts the Canoe Landing project, slated to open in 2019 in the Fort York neighbourhood, as an example of an innovative project that combines parks and recreation facilities with elementary schools and a childcare centre. <\/span><\/p>\n

But this line of thinking has limitations.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf after 20 years we\u2019ve only built the growth-related infrastructure, the difference in provision levels between certain communities in Scarborough and Etobicoke and the rest of the city will be stark,\u201d says Arbour.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which, theoretically, leaves the cricket-hungry at a loss, especially in Toronto\u2019s inner suburbs, which have more open space for the game.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whichever way the City maneuvers, fields managed by Toronto\u2019s three school boards will also play a major role. The City acknowledges that the schools are recreation facility providers, so working with them to make spaces available will be key.<\/span><\/p>\n

Specifically, says Arbour, they want to \u201cstrengthen and modernize agreements with those providers for guaranteed public access and greater municipal oversight for needed parks and recreation facilities.\u201d This will include opening facilities for longer periods.<\/span><\/p>\n

Miller agrees, but this approach will require investment on the City\u2019s part. He argues it has to be made a priority. \u201cThe school fields are often woeful, there\u2019s not enough investment in Parks and Rec,\u201d he says, describing how, when the City has tax freezes and budget cuts, services like sports and libraries come under the knife. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cParks and Rec\u2019s budget has been under stress for quite a while, and we really do need to see some investment in these kind of places so that people will have the opportunities to pursue the sports that they want to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Indo-Pak CC Vs. Apollo SCC Caledonia South, June 15, 2011.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hitting the wickets<\/span><\/h3>\n

It\u2019s come full circle for Surkari. When he played, cricket was barely an afterthought, not even on his school\u2019s radar. Today?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow, the school that I went to, they\u2019re contacting me asking to get cricket started. There\u2019s tons of demand,\u201d he says. <\/span><\/p>\n

Cricket may not garner the participation numbers that hockey and basketball do in Toronto, but Surkari argues the sport is nearing a \u201ccritical mass.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The biggest jump in the sport\u2019s appeal has been in the development of the Indian Premier League \u2014 one of the most fervent six to eight weeks of cricket in recent memory. With franchises spanning South Asia and the Pan-Pacific region, hundreds of thousands of spectators congregate to watch their favourite players bat and bowl in a Twenty20 format \u2014 a shorter form of cricket that only takes hours, compared to test cricket, which takes several days to complete.<\/span><\/p>\n

Surkari says there are talks to expand similar leagues in the Americas (specifically the Caribbean Premier League), and that Canada is itching for its own franchise, with a chance to organize tournament games in the GTA. It\u2019s something that Surkari thinks could create \u201cthe Olympic effect,\u201d in which heroes people could only ever watch on television occasionally will be here, live.<\/span><\/p>\n

To keep kids playing, Surkari argues the opportunities need to be localized.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat needs to happen is to get kids involved early,\u201d he says. \u201cThe initial experience should be local, fairly reasonable in terms of price, and after that… the parents will have a choice. They\u2019re going to have to drive, like they do in hockey \u2014 they\u2019re going to drive to Sudbury because the kid needs to play.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

top photo courtesy CIMA Mayor<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

photos by\u00a0Trevor Schwellnus<\/em><\/a> and Michael Fountain<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"This story originally appeared in<\/em> Spacing’s winter 2018 issue.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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