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How Did the Cricket Revolution in Brazil Start?

Cricket was first played by british expats who were there to build the railways. mat featherstone huse, an ex-cricketer from Britain moved to Brazil two decades ago. He noticed a street virgin of cricket called tako i's which uses bottles instead of stumps. And so he started encouraging them to play more traditional version of cricket. The national centre for cricket is mposses and all its professionals are women.

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