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Four days ago (May 6) was the 350th anniversary of cricket in Syria. As a statistic, it sounds unlikely, if not impossible to verify, but it is reported that in 1676, in Aleppo, cricket was recorded to have been played for the first time outside of the British Isles.
The source is the diary of Henry Teongue, a Royal Navy chaplain from Worcestershire, who mentioned in a diary entry that he and his fellow travelers had played “krickett” during their stop in the city.
350 years later, this historic moment is...

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