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Sports Tourism: Pakistan’s street cricketers bring game to life in Greece

In football-loving Greece, cricket is an alien concept

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In a barren Athens parking lot, young Pakistanis get in position for a game of cricket.

On one end of the dust-covered concrete is a trash can; on the other, a pile of rocks.

That is their pitch, and those are its wickets.

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In football-loving Greece, cricket is an alien concept.

But for its migrants from Pakistan, one of the world’s most cricket-crazy nations, it is a way of life, according to to a recent report by Reuters.

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