09-03-2019 01:01 via theguardian.com

Delight is a cricket pitch in Beirut’s Shatila refugee camp

For the displaced Syrian children learning the rudiments of a new sport, it’s a time for hopes and dreamsOne of cricket’s most charming attributes is its habit of being played in the strangest places: mountain tops, short-lived sandbanks, the bottom of lakes, the South Pole. But perhaps no venue has ever been as improbable as this.Across south-east Asia, cricket is played in slums and shanty towns all day every day but this was the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut. And the players were
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