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Not quite grass roots

Although Iran might not be flavour of the month as far as the George Bush is concerned, it is making progress with developing cricket. The Asian Cricket Council reports that the game is beginning to attract support.It s hard to call it grass-roots cricket in Chabahar where on the two grounds granted by the government exclusively for cricket, grass has yet to be planted, but in Tehran at least, there are turf grounds, if not turf wickets.