17 July 2014, The Tablet

Friars play Cupid


 
With their match against the Church of England fast approaching, the Vatican cricket team is garnering support from across the world. Dr Ishrat ul Ebad Khan, governor of Sindh in Pakistan, has sent six Test Match-quality bats to the team in preparation for their tour of England, when they will play the Archbishop of Canterbury’s XI. St Peter’s Cricket Club – better known as the Vatican XI – includes one Pakistani member, Aamir Bhatti, a seminarian from Karachi. The game between the archbishop’s XI and the Vatican is to take place on 19 September. At a ceremony where he presented the bats to Fr Robert McCulloch, an Australian Columban Father and member of the club’s committee, the governor said he would send a Pakistani Test cricketer to coach the team l
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