A northern Italian town bans cricket
Politically opportunistic xenophobia at work
Cricket, you might think, is among the more benign legacies of British imperialism—a sport that unites blazer-wearing English toffs and players who first applied bat to ball in the slums of Kingston or Kolkata. But in Monfalcone, a town in north-eastern Italy, cricket has become a political football. (Sorry.)
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “No ball”
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