The second Street Child Cricket World Cup starts later this month.
Jehan Mubarak has helped prepare the Sri Lanka team for the Street Child Cricket World Cup
Yet before either of those events take place, another international competition begins as Chennai hosts the second Street Child Cricket World Cup.The tournament later this month features teams from around the globe comprised of children who have grown up, or are growing up, in acute poverty, living on the street or in slums.
“Some of them are coming to Colombo for the first time – seeing a big city for the first time – and now they are going to get on a plane to go to India. The tournament, a mixed-gender event played with a soft ball, features teams from unheralded cricketing outposts such as Mexico, Hungary and Rwanda as well as established nations like England, South Africa and Sri Lanka.
“One of my wife’s cousins was volunteering at CAL and they were looking for some cricketers to have a cricket day for some of the kids,” said the 43-year-old.The children involved are from poverty-stricken backgrounds “Now, everywhere I go, I see things differently. I see people less advantaged than us.
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