Over five thousand children now play cricket in brazil. That's more than the number of kids who play football in the city georgia. And also that so many women are playing professionally. So i think still early days for cricket in bBrazil, but already it's got a lot of fans. One of those fans is actually the mayor of possos. He's very confident that soon it can spread to the whole of Brazil.
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