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In a city nestled high in the mountains in football-mad Brazil, children are running excitedly around a sports field under a bright morning sun, indifferent to the goalposts behind them: they are swinging cricket bats instead.
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On a concrete playground in a poor hillside neighborhood in Brazil, ecstatic children are chasing a ball at top speed, but in an unusual scene for the soccer-mad country, they are indifferent to the goalposts nearby, instead swinging cricket bats and fielding drives.
Welcome to Pocos de Caldas, a city of 170,000 people that is the capital of a lovably quirky quest to turn the land of Pele and Neymar into a passionate cricketing nation.
Defying stereotypes, Brazil is emerging as a force to be reckoned with in cricket, especially the women’s national team, who were given professional contracts in 2020