Vandals hit Calgary's Forest Lawn cricket pitch for 2nd time within a year

For the second time in a year, cricket players in Calgary are scrambling to repair a pitchin Forest Lawn.

"They just destroyed the whole thing," saidSalman Khan, president ofCalgary and District Cricket League.

"They made sure that nobody can play cricket."

He saidvandals "intentionally"cut a strip down themiddle of the carpet on thepublic pitch, located in the city's southeast.

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The damage has forcedeightgames to berescheduled,which Khan said can be tricky to accommodatebecause there are only six public cricket pitches in the city.

"Calgary has more than 1,000 players and tons of people are getting in the queue to join us."

Khan isn't surewhy the Forest Lawn cricket pitch continues to bevandalized.

"People need to step up and tell us if it's something that we're doing wrong. We're ready to fix it."

He said it will take about a week for the new carpet to arrive from the U.S. and will cost the league about $3,000 to repair it.

With files from the Calgary Eyeopener