Cricket fans in Mexico hope to boost the sport and add teams
Children learn to bat during a cricket workshop at Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City, Saturday, June 22, 2024. The workshop was held by the Mexican cricket federation. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Fernando Llano]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Cricket has been on the upswing in Mexico over the past decade due to a growing Indian community in the Latin American nation. It is now played in six of the country’s 32 states. The sport arrived in 1827 with diplomats, entrepreneurs and British contractors. It has never came close to soccer’s popularity but now has some cricketers in the making. For many years British and Indian cricketers in Mexico did not make an effort to reach out to the locals and it limited the sport’s growth in the country. But times are changing.
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Cricket coach Gurpreet Singh, left, shows Aarush Atulannant how to grip the ball during his first training session at Reforma Athletic Club in Mexico City, Saturday, June 15, 2024. Atulannant arrived from India one month prior with his parents who moved to Mexico to work with a multinational company from India. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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