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Canada's Danielle McGahey is set to become the first transgender cricketer to play in an official international match.

In a city nestled high in the mountains in football-mad Brazil, children are running excitedly around a sports field under a bright morning sun, indifferent to the goalposts behind them: they are swinging cricket bats instead.

On a concrete playground in a poor hillside neighborhood in Brazil, ecstatic children are chasing a ball at top speed, but in an unusual scene for the soccer-mad country, they are indifferent to the goalposts nearby, instead swinging cricket bats and fielding drives. Welcome to Pocos de Caldas, a city of 170,000 people that is the capital of a lovably quirky quest to turn the land of Pele and Neymar into a passionate cricketing nation. Defying stereotypes, Brazil is emerging as a force to be reckoned with in cricket, especially the women’s national team, who were given professional contracts...

, May 31 (IANS) Baseball may appear to be the sport closest to cricket but it is Taco's similarity to cricket that has brought Brazil onto the cricket map.Back in the 19th century, British expatriates brought cricket to the South American ...