From The Guardian-It might not have been obvious to the tourists who streamed down the Via della Conciliazione towards Saint Peter's basilica but something decidedly odd was going on inside the pontifical council for culture.
A plate of cucumber sandwiches had been laid out on a table. Cups of Irish breakfast tea were brought out soon after. Apart from the cardinal – whose prerogative it was to speak in whatever language he liked – the lingua franca was English. And, in the middle of it all, lay a helmet, two balls and a G
Monsignor Melchor Sanchez de Toca, the council's Spanish undersecretary, admitted to being just a little out of his comfort zone. "I feel here," he said, "as strange as you would feel in a press conference about bull fighting."
It may leave most people in Italy perplexed or entirely indifferent, but cricket – a game traditionally only played in Rome by anglophone cardinals, eccentric English aristocrats and immigrants from the subcontinent – on Tuesday arrived at the Vatican in the bold form of Saint Peter's CC, an organisation for seminarians and priests who want to put bat to ball in the name of the Holy See.
ray Nicolls cricket bat.
More here-
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/22/lords-vatican-cricket-team-match-anglican
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