plastic wickets
11 Aug 2019
They play on a football pitch with plastic wickets and most Chinese people have never even heard of cricket. But a devoted band of followers says the sport is gradually growing in China, where there is thought to be only one grass cricket pitch for a population of 1.4 billion people.
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