CBC to air documentary on Canada's World Cup campaign

CBC will be airing a documentary on the Canadian team on "Sports Journal" Originall scheduled for March 24, Newsworld 7.30 and 11.30 Eastern Time it has been pre-empted by war coverage. It will now be shown on CBC Sports Saturday March 29, 12.30 p.m. The CBC write-up for the show follows:-

"An unlikely group of cricketing amateurs overcomes controversy and bad financing and manages to avoid global humiliation at the World Cup of cricket in South Africa. It's a story of impossible achievement; it's also a story that reflects a new Canada. "

"The Canadian cricket team is a micro mosaic that includes a dread locked Jamaican-Canadian street sweeper, a Grenada-born Toronto grocery clerk, a business student born in India, and an over-the-hill Australian phenom whose tenuous claim to Canada is that he was born in a B.C. logging camp and stayed five weeks until his parents moved away. There is only one born and bred Canadian on the whole team. "

"The very first national team ever to win a game at the World Cup was source of both amazement and amusement to the millions of cricket fans around the world. No one expected the Canadians to do well; they were under-resourced, had poor training facilities, had lost their coach at the last minute. They weren't given a chance. But a scrappy team with lots of heart turned the stuffy world of cricket on it's ear for a couple of weeks, surprised them all, and made Canadian Cricket history. "

"With unprecedented behind the scenes access to a World Cup team producer Robin Benger follows the agony and ecstasy of the teams' exploits in South Africa. "