Refugees A Boon To German Cricket

BAUTZEN, GERMANY - AUGUST 21: A team member shows team colleague Temurska Barakzai (2nd L) from Aghanistan taking a dumbbell during a team discussion with other members lead by pakistani team leader of the Bautzen cricket team Arshad Ahmad following the a friendly match against the Dresden cricket team in accommodation Spreehotel on August 21, 2016 Bautzen near Dresden, Germany. The teams are made up nearly entirely of migrants and refugees who arrived in the last year from countries including Afghanistan and Pakistan where the sport is very popular. Most team members live in refugee shelters and are waiting for their asylum applications to be processed. The arrival of the men in Germany has been a tremendous boon to the small cricket league in a country where football dominates. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)