da pinnacle： Ranjit Saini, Cricket Canada’s interim president, has told Cricinfo of his board’s plans to expand cricket across schools to reduce the senior side’s current reliance on ex-pats
Sahil Dutta02-Feb-2010Ranjit Saini, Cricket Canada’s interim president, has told Cricinfo of his board’s plans to expand cricket across schools to reduce the senior side’s current reliance on ex-pats.”We want it to become huge, much bigger than it was – 150 schools are currently involved and over the next couple of years we would want 1000 to 1500, we want a wider pool of player to pick from and identify and channel into an elite order.”To get up to 1500 schools we would need $100,000 to $150,000 a year and I think that’s realistic. We could get many sponsors involved, in each local area and make the programmes a real community event, which could attract community sponsors.”Saini’s ambitions could stumble on the board’s finances which are already under strain following the loss of a major sponsor late in 2009 but he remains confident.”We are in talks with many agents, and what comes out of that we don’t know yet, but schools will be a major focus. This is a new time for cricket here and we are a new cricket Canada.”