The Spin 'The boys are obsessed' lockdown has not stopped budding young cricketers
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Families have found ingenious ways to keep playing despite Covid-19 lockdowns bringing amateur cricket to a halt
It was on one of those dutiful lockdown-three walks, double-socked, chilblains heavy in coat pocket, that I first saw it. There, behind a hedge in a small Manchester garden, was a full-sized cricket net. I checked again the next time I trudged that way, yes, definitely a net.
A note through the letterbox later and Tayyab Akhlaq and his three boys, 12-year-old Hassan, 10-year-old Mohsin and seven-year-old Salman are waiting in their garden, the boys giddy in T-shirts despite the heavy January gloom, dusk brewing on the brink of 4 o’clock. Continue reading...
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