

Pitching Cricket to Mongolia
It was soon clear that there was nowhere I could sit in the small gymnasium at School No. 34 where I would be safe from flying balls. At 9:00 a.m. on Saturday morning, 14 boys aged between 11 and 14 had dragged themselves out of bed from the surrounding ger district of the school to practice throwing and catching cricket balls.
Cricket, which originated in England, is popular in Australia, the Caribbean, South Africa, India and Pakistan and is being launched in Mongolia by s