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ICC News January 22 2013 Hot Africans Win Snow Cricket World Cup Tez O’Rorke The African Alliance overcame conditions completely alien to their natural climate to secure a thrilling victory over Australia-New Zealand in the sixth edition of the ‘unofficial’ Snow Cricket World Cup in Montreal. Despite having to endure the full range of Quebec’s [...]

Cult#MTL January 18 2013 Icy Wickets at the Snow Cricket World Cup Erik Leijon Montreal has a pre-eminent cricket guy, and his name is Angus Bell. The Scottish expat, who moved here in 2003 to pursue a Québécoise he was smitten with, has done his best since arriving to educate us bad Commonwealthers on his [...]

ICC News January 17 2013 Who will Keep their Cool in ‘World Cup’ on Snow? The sixth unofficial Snow Cricket ‘World Cup’ will be in action in downtown Montreal this Sunday. More than 60 players from six continents will be gathering in the French Canadian city to battle it out in sub-zero temperatures for the [...]

CTV News March 30 2012 For the Love of the Game… of Cricket Brian Wilde One of the most multi-cultural cricket clubs in the entire world is right here in Montreal. Pirates of the St-Lawrence boasts members from 60 nationalities and continues to grow. This summer, the club will host teams this summer from as [...]

CBC January 22 2012 Snow Cricket Returns to Montreal Salimah Shivji Click HERE to see the full article and listen to the radio report. Cricketers donned snow pants and parkas for a Nordic-style cricket tournament on McGill University’s McTavish Reservoir field Saturday. The annual Snow Cricket World Cup is going strong in its fifth year, [...]

OpenFile Montreal January 19 2012 Howzat! Montreal’s Cricket Experiment Shaun Malley Parc-Extension’s Howard Park will become the home of Montreal’s first permanent, publicly-accessible cricket training ground in the spring of 2012. The facility is a joint venture between the Royal Bank of Canada and the Pirates of the St. Lawrence Cricket Club. As part of [...]

ESPN Cricinfo 1 October 2011 Égalité, fraternité, pirate A team in Quebec makes the United Nations look like an exclusive club Liam Herringshaw In the small Quebecois town of Otterburn Park, just across the Richelieu River, on a field between a chocolate factory and a volcano, a revolution is taking place. French may be the [...]

Progrès Villeray-Parc Extension 20 July 2011 Le Cricket Gagne en Popularité à Villeray et Parc-Extension Clément Gassy Chaque lundi soir, Angus Bell, un écossais de 30 ans mordu de cricket, accueille une vingtaine de joueurs amateurs sur les pelouses du parc Jarry. Avec son association les Pirates du St-Laurent, qui compte près de 130 membres, [...]

Montreal2Mondes 11 July 2011 La pratique du cricket en net rebond à Villeray Clément Gassy Populaire dans le Montréal du 18ème siècle, ce sport british par excellence, a beaucoup perdu de sa superbe. La faute au baseball et surtout au hockey. Si bien qu’aujourd’hui peu de Québécois le pratiquent. Pourtant, le cricket redevient populaire ces [...]

Progrès Villeray-Parc Extension 25 May 2011 Des cages de frappeurs de cricket dans Parc-Extension José Antonio Pires Les adeptes de cricket seront heureux d’apprendre qu’une aire d’entraînement pourvu de gazon artificiel, de filets et de cages de frappeurs sera bientôt installée dans Parc-Extension. Engagé à l’égard des programmes communautaires de cricket au Canada, RBC Fondation [...]

Check out Radio Canada’s Infoman report on our 2011 Snow Cricket World Cup!

Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph January 14, 2010 Cricket + Snow = Snow Cricket Andrew Greenfield Photo by www.servicesemchar.com Cricket, quite possibly one of England’s daftest inventions, is alive and well in Quebec Province. Whilst that may be true that it is played the world over, mainly in former British colonies it has to be said, today it [...]

The Westmount Examiner August 6, 2009 Cricket: Alive and Well in the City Robert Wilkins Few people are aware that the sport of cricket was once a major diversion in 19th-century Montreal. In fact, at the time, the expansive Ste. Catherine Street Cricket Grounds encircled the Church of St. James the Apostle on Bishop Street. [...]

LE DEVOIR Thursday, July 30, 2009 Une autre séduction Tranquillement, mais sûrement, le cricket gagne des adeptes au Québec Jean Dion Angus Bell se trouvait en Transylvanie, il y a quelques années, lorsque sa vie a basculé. Dans le bon sens. Ce que cet Écossais faisait là? Il voyait du pays, bien sûr, mais il [...]

The Westmount Examiner April 21 2009 The Most Popular Sport You’ve Never Played – Yes, Cricket Actually Exists in Montreal Noah Sidel It’s played by millions all over the world, Canada has an internationally-recognized travelling squad, and our country regularly hosts teams from around the world in competition play. In our own community, however, this [...]

CBC News Thursday 19 February 2009 Cricket players 1st to feel effect in Canada While it is not yet clear whether any Canadian investors have been affected by the problems with the Stanford Group, some Canadian cricket players are feeling the consequences. Stanford Group officials had offered to fund an all-star cricket tournament involving teams [...]

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Watch our annual snow cricket tournament on CBC News!

The Montreal Gazette June 2 2008 Kids Had a Wicket Idea Brenda Branswell Students at Carlyle School pestered their principal to let them play a new sport at lunchtime. It wasn’t hockey or baseball they were clamouring to play – but cricket, one of the most popular sports in the world. Last year, Grade 5 [...]