Why cricket is gaining popularity in Brazil
Particularly among women
A SPA TOWN in the foothills of coffee country may not be the likeliest place to find a cricket revolution. But at a crumbling country club in Poços de Caldas, a city of 170,000 people, the Brazilian national team is in full swing. Funk music blasts as women in brightly coloured shirts spin balls into nets. They stop only to laugh, to check on a teammate’s baby and, when the clouds start to swell, to duck out of the summer rains. It is a far cry from the kind of cricket first played in Brazil in the 1850s. Then it was the pastime of British railway workers. Today it is for Brazilians.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Bowling maidens over”
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