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Peace and joy at the crease after a life dented by war and tragedy

Submitted by rickeyre on February 4, 2006 - 4:10am

Peace and joy at the crease after a life dented by war and tragedy - Cricket

(Peter Roebuck/Sydney Morning Herald, 3.2.06)

I'm not normally a huge Peter Roebuck fan - I find his attempts at impersonating Neville Cardus in his match reports to be rather irritating - but he can do some pretty remarkable stuff when he gets away from the actual field of play. It's the story of a Somalian refugee who lost a leg during the civil war in his home country who now plays cricket on weekends in western Sydney.