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UPDATE: photos from North Korea’s first cricket game:

ORIGINAL POST:

The venue: Mt. Taesong Park. 
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This week Pyongyang hosted its first ever cricket match.  I hope to get an update on the game when the team returns to China.  Until now, here is what we know from the Telegraph:

The three visiting teams for the Twenty20 tournament will be largely expatriates from England, Australia, South Africa and Holland who are based in Shanghai.

The North Korean side will be boosted by staff from the Indian and Pakistani embassies.

The tournament was planned by Bryan Clark, a British employee of the logistics firm DHL, which has an office in Pyongyang, and the Shanghai Cricket Club, which has been leading attempts to develop the game in China.

The game will be immortalized in the next version of “North Korea Uncovered” on Google Earth.

Read the full story here:
North Koreans take on the English at cricket
Telegraph
Richard Spencer
4/24/2008

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