Extremely Disappointing Lead Post

That is an extremely disappointing lead post anonymous/TD12345.

It is precisely the kind of thinking that has held Canadian cricket back for the last 25 years.

To say that Ontario cricket is so vastly superior, to the point that good players from other provinces should pack up and move to Toronto to further their ambitions, is arrogant, hopelessly negative and based totally on a mythical assumption that has been successfully spun by those in Toronto to the rest of Canada and the cricketing world for far too long.

Canadian cricket needs to be strong in all provinces and all provinces need to recognized as being important centres for cricket throughout the nation both from a playing point of view as well as from a marketing and promotion angle.

It is painfully obvious that while Ontario has dominated the workings of cricket in Canada, the sport has remained stagnant. It is also clear that during that time, while players from outside of Toronto have rarely been selected to represent their country, the Canadian cricket team has delivered only mediocre results.

Canadian cricket will only ever reach its full potential when every talented player is recognized and identified and given the same opportunities to represent their country as those from Ontario.

For as long as administrators fail to recognize the importance of developing and assisting cricket throughout the nation, Canada will remain an unforunate, under achieving cricketing backwater.

While it may give those in Ontario a feeling of satisfaction to see so many of its players selected for the national team, it will always be clear in the minds of fans, supporters, players and administartors that this occurence is only possible due to the false and quite certainly contrived method in which they are selected.

In all truth, it is an embarassment and a blight on Canadian cricket as a whole both to those living in Canada and more recently and quite belatedly, though most definately to those who follow the sport all around the world.

Lets hope that this antiquated way of thinking is in its last throes.

The time appears at last to have arrived where cricket will be promoted throughout the nation. Where development programs, schools programs, talent identification systems and marketing objectives are introduced and implemented in every province without exception and where national tournaments take place annually to allow every cricketer at both junior and senior level to press his or her claim to represent their country at their chosen sport-cricket.

When this day arrives and perhaps it already has, according to the information provided on the CCA website, then everyone from east to west can get on with the business of turning Canada into to the world rated, well respected cricketing nation which it has always promised to be.