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The next 'big' minnow - SWEDEN!!!!
Here is just a bit of the intro to article, I don't know how long it will be up.
Immigrants dream of playing cricket - for Sweden
The thwack of leather against willow is the sound that for inhabitants of countries from Pakistan to Australia signifies the game of cricket. Immigration means that it's a sound being heard more and more in Sweden, as Nicholas Chipperfield finds out.
Forget football's mass appeal, frenzied fawning over ice hockey heroes and innebandy's cult following, Sweden is home to a growing and devoted band of cricketers determined to boost the sport's profile and lead the national side back to international competition.
"The number of those playing cricket has increased a lot in the last two years – interest has developed," Rashid Zafar Waraich, chairman of the Swedish Cricket Federation (SCF), tells The Local.
Around 98 percent of the some 250 adults playing cricket in Swedish clubs are ex-pats, many of whom have roots in major cricketing nations, predominantly Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the West Indies, Australia and England, Waraich says.
Here is just a bit of the intro to article, I don't know how long it will be up.
Immigrants dream of playing cricket - for Sweden
The thwack of leather against willow is the sound that for inhabitants of countries from Pakistan to Australia signifies the game of cricket. Immigration means that it's a sound being heard more and more in Sweden, as Nicholas Chipperfield finds out.
Forget football's mass appeal, frenzied fawning over ice hockey heroes and innebandy's cult following, Sweden is home to a growing and devoted band of cricketers determined to boost the sport's profile and lead the national side back to international competition.
"The number of those playing cricket has increased a lot in the last two years – interest has developed," Rashid Zafar Waraich, chairman of the Swedish Cricket Federation (SCF), tells The Local.
Around 98 percent of the some 250 adults playing cricket in Swedish clubs are ex-pats, many of whom have roots in major cricketing nations, predominantly Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the West Indies, Australia and England, Waraich says.
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