Urban Seed's Credo Cricket and Cricket Victoria partnered to do what they do best on Australia Day. We hosted a fun match between Victoria Police and Indian students (who are friends of Urban Seed through our connections in Footscray with the Barkly Street Uniting Church Cricket Club and Footscray Baptist Church).

The Jai Ho Festival at the Myer Music Bowl celebrated January 26 as both Australia Day and Indian Republic Day, and was the perfect location to celebrate the connections cricket can create between our nations. In attendance was Chief Police Commissioner Simon Overland.

Urban Seed's Marcus Curnow: "Reports of street violence against Indians in Melbourne on Australia Day and reports coming from India that Australians may not be able play cricket in Mumbai are saddening and the responses of extremists. The Australia Day/Indian Republic Day match between Victoria Police and Indian students is a statement that cricket should not be used to bowl hand grenades but build partnerships that bring our nations together... That wherever you are from you are always welcome to play cricket in Melbourne. This is made a reality with Urban Seed running matches each week in Footscray and on city streets and through initiatives from Cricket Victoria and Harmony Australia - including ticket giveaways and pathways to employment in cricket umpiring for Indian students."

Media covering the event included the Indian Local and the West Australian.

Later in the evening on Australia Day, Urban Seeders had opportunity to keep talking cricket when they joined with locals in West Footscray at the busy Indian hub of Barkly Street Village for an "Australians listening to Indians" event organised by members of the Footscray Church of Christ.