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Today the Great Wall, tomorrow the world. Chinese children get to grips with cricket
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No pitches, no cricketers, no infrastructure, but the game is still finding a way in China, as
this month's article in Cricinfo magazine by Ranajit Sankar Dam and Wei Jie highlights:
Liu Pingping is not quite John Buchanan, at least not yet. The 47-year-old schoolteacher from Shanghai has never played cricket in his life, and is yet to even watch a match on TV. A baseball player while in college, Liu is one of the 30 former athletes from other ballgames such as baseball, and from track and field, handpicked to undergo cricket training by the Chinese Cricket Association (CCA). Liu was teaching softball to teenagers in Shanghai's No. 3 Girls Middle School when the CCA approached him.
