
Cricket could almost have been invented in Mongolia
Sir, You published a letter from me during the 2006 winter Ashes when I was in trouble for carrying a cricket ball up a Baker Street escalator. Your newspaper was sympathetic to my passion for the game, but others dubbed me the “Lethal Weapon Cricketer” and I moved to Ulaanbaatar, escaping infamy and seeking reformation. However, I must now break my silence to report on the state of play in Mongolia. Battulga Gombo, cricket’s only Mongolian coach, plans to raise a permanent g