The Spin | 'The boys are obsessed': lockdown has not stopped budding young cricketers

Families have found ingenious ways to keep playing despite Covid-19 lockdowns bringing amateur cricket to a haltIt was on one of those dutiful lockdown-three walks, double-socked, chilblains heavy in coat pocket, that I first saw it. There, behind a hedge in a small Manchester garden, was a full-sized cricket net. I checked again the next time I trudged that way, yes, definitely a net.A note through the letterbox later and Tayyab Akhlaq and his three boys, 12-year-old Hassan, 10-year-old Mohsin