The world's stickiest wicket
The seductive magic of cover drives and leg spin has won cricket fans around the world and now organisers behind a new initiative close to the Gaza border hope the sport could transcend the boundaries on what is perhaps the world's stickiest wicket,
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
The seductive magic of cover drives and leg spin has won cricket fans around the world and now organisers behind a new initiative close to the Gaza border hope the sport could transcend the boundaries on what is perhaps the world's stickiest wicket, writes Duncan Campbell in the Guardian.
Towards the end of last year Cricket for Change, the organisation that advocates using the sport as a means of bringing people together, travelled to Israel to see if there was a chance of bringing the game to young Israeli Arabs, Israeli Jews and Ethiopian Jews ... Cricket for Change was set up in the wake of the Brixton riots in 1981 as way of introducing unemployed people to cricket. It also promotes the sport for people with disabilities, for girls and in parts of the world still unfamiliar with the game.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo