Seventy-two seasons in Toronto. One of the earliest cricket clubs in Canada. Eighty championships in the cabinet. Sixty-six players who’ve worn the maple leaf for country.
Victoria Park Cricket Club was founded in 1954 in the City of Toronto — one of the earliest cricket clubs in Canada and still on the same patch of green seventy-two years on. A club, as the saying goes, is what it does over time.
Over the course of seventy-two seasons, eighty championships have come home to VPCC — fifty-seven senior league titles, fourteen junior titles, and nine added across the most recent seasons. Sixty-six players who pulled on the VPCC jersey have gone on to wear the maple leaf for Canada: thirty-four at senior level, thirty-two at the junior level.
What follows is the short version — the chapters that brought the badge to where it is in 2026. The longer version is told over a meal after stumps. New members welcome at every age.
Victoria Park Cricket Club is founded in the City of Toronto — one of the earliest cricket clubs in Canada. The first season is played on the same patch of green where the club still plays today.
Through the sixties and seventies VPCC establishes itself as a senior cricket club in Toronto, fielding sides into the predecessor competitions of what would become the TDCA and SCA.
The chapter that turned VPCC from a Saturday side into a Toronto institution belongs to Richard Ramlall. He took over the club and carried it through the decades when it grew its membership, its fixtures, and its standing in the local game — laying the foundations on which everything since has been built. Eight teams wear the badge in 2026 because of the years he gave to the club.
The cabinet starts to fill. Through the eighties and nineties VPCC win league titles across the senior ranks — the first chapters of what becomes a fifty-seven-title senior tally.
Fifty years on the pitch. A long-form essay on the club’s first half-century is published, and the badge gains a second generation of players coming through the senior sides.
VPCC has its own pathway running through it. Kumar Erramilli and Shailesh Patel grew up as junior players in the club, matured into senior cricketers, and in time took up the responsibilities of running it. The modern VPCC — eight teams, a working junior programme, the recent run of silverware — has been shaped by their hands. As the club turns seventy-two, they’re now readying the same handover for the next generation of youth coming up the ranks.
Through the 2010s VPCC players begin pulling on the maple leaf in growing numbers. By the present day, sixty-six VPCC players have represented Canada — thirty-four at senior level, thirty-two at junior.
Nine fresh championships are added across recent seasons, bringing the lifetime tally to eighty. The junior program continues to deliver players up into the senior sides.
A long, hard summer of cricket. Headline acts across TDCA and SCA top flights, cup runs across formats, and the standout performances that get talked about all winter.
VPCC fields eight sides in 2026: two in the TDCA (Super 9 and Elite), three in the SCA (Elite, Premier and T20), and three travelling squads on the T20 / 100-Ball circuit across Canada and the USA. Eighty-plus active players. Seventy-two years on the pitch.