POCOS DE CALDAS, Brazil, Jun 7 – On a concrete playground in a poor hillside neighborhood in Brazil, ecstatic children are chasing a ball at top speed. “My wife thinks I’m mad” for trying to get Brazilians playing cricket, jokes Featherstone, 51, a strapping sportsman with infectious enthusiasm. But in poor neighborhoods, where the options were “football or football,” he discovered families were elated to have a new sports program. Roberta Moretti Avery, the women’s team captain, recalls her first reaction seeing cricket on TV. The women’s team play Brazilian funk at practice, samba before matches, and prefer loud parties at the grounds to tea and cucumber sandwiches.

Source: Daily Nation June 07, 2022 07:59 UTC