The influence of tapeball on Pakistani cricket

Another interesting Pakistan-related feature, this time by Jonathan Dyson in The Guardian, who writes about Pakistan's cricket-obsessed public: specifically, "tapeball."

Every Saturday night, all across Pakistan, matches between families, groups of friends and organised teams take place in the streets.

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Since its inception in the early 1980s, tapeball has revolutionised the game here - and it could do the same in England, having been adopted by the London Community Cricket Association as a children's game on 30 council estates, thus making cricket available to those who would not normally be able to play it