That Indians are flocking to international B-Schools in large numbers is a well-known fact. That they are taking the nation's favourite past-time, cricket , with them is a relatively new one.

The cricket craze seems to have reached Canadian shores with the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (Rotman) arranging live broadcasts of the DLF Cup Tri-Series and ICC Champions Trophy cricket matches at their campus.

This is just one example of how international B-Schools are ensuring that Indians, prevalent in large numbers on campus, feel at home. Rotman has a huge Asian student population and 40 per cent of the 2007 class are international students.

All 27 matches from both the tournaments will be broadcast over live internet streaming video in a classroom in campus. Says Ken McGuffin, manager, Media Relations, Rotman, "This initiative was taken after students broadcast a few matches last year. They were a great success, even though the matches started in the middle of the night. It's another thing that I'll need to take a crash course in cricket!"

Rotman even has a Rotman South Asian Business Association (SABA) that advocates on behalf of the large South Asian student population and is an entity that organizes events for those currently enrolled at Rotman School of Business.

The Indian influence is also well emphasized by the fact that Jared Ross, a recent MBA graduate of Rotman, gave up lucrative fields like consulting and banking to set up an Indian restaurant, Veda, in Toronto which delivers food in tiffins, a traditional system of delivering food to office workers in cities in India.

Rotman became one of the first Canadian B-Schools to come to India in January this year after entering into a student exchange programme with the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.