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How car-park cricket in Lebanon gives Sri Lankan migrant workers an escape – By Emma John<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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A 2020 game in Beirut \u2013 more recently Sri Lankan migrant workers have had to petition to gain permission to use the underground car park that hosts their matches. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal\/Shutterstock <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sri Lankan workers and a women\u2019s project at a Syrian refugee camp come together for games in an underground car park<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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W<\/span><\/span>hen Fernando Sugath arrived in\u00a0Lebanon<\/a>\u00a0in the mid-1990s, cricket was an underground sport. Literally. After living in Beirut for a year as one of the country\u2019s 80,000 Sri Lankan migrant workers, a fellow countryman he met in a supermarket invited him to a game. \u201cI had been looking for somewhere to play,\u201d says Sugath. \u201cAlso, I didn\u2019t have any friends.\u201d He turned up at the address he was given to discover the players crammed into a tiny underground car park beneath an apartment building.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sugath is a man used to improvising. \u201cAs kids we didn\u2019t need a big playing area or good equipment to play,\u201d he says. \u201cWe used plastic balls, the old base of a coconut leaf for a bat.\u201d Within 10 years, he had founded Nomads CC, who played in another, open-air car park behind a Jesuit church. Sugath was the captain, star batter and organiser extraordinaire.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2005 they staged a tournament for migrant workers in the excavated foundations of a yet-to-be-built high-rise. The Sri Lankan ambassador was in attendance, but that didn\u2019t prevent the Lebanese army surrounding the players with guns and demanding to see everyone\u2019s papers. Of the 500 people present, 30 were detained for not having the correct documents; it cost the community $35,000 to bail out their friends and colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n

While attention is fixed on the football World Cup, and sport reckons with\u00a0the treatment of migrant workers in Qatar<\/a>, the far smaller-scale tale of cricket in Lebanon is worth considering. It is an upbeat one too, although it has not been without trials and setbacks. A few weeks ago, Sri Lankan migrant workers returned cricket to the streets of Beirut after a five-year ban \u2013 and in doing so, mounted a celebration of everything we want and hope sport to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 36-team Sri Lankan Ambassador Trophy tournament that took place at the end of September transformed the car park behind the Jesuit church into a mini-festival site. There were DJs and dancing, a calypso band and all manner of stalls selling South Asian street-food. Most of the players were migrant workers, some were Syrian refugees; there were teams from the British and Australian embassies, others which had travelled from Damascus, and no fewer than four sides representing the Indian and Pakistani peacekeeping troops that serve on the Blue Line bordering Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

There had been such cricket gatherings in Beirut in the past, although none quite so big. The local rules are well known: if the tennis ball hits the wall behind the wicketkeeper, the batter gets a bye and swaps ends; if it goes into the trees behind the bowler\u2019s arm, they can run for as long as it takes to re-emerge without fear of being caught. The five-over games went on all day; when Sugath was asked by a local reporter what it meant to see so many people enjoying the game, and each other\u2019s company, he wept.<\/span><\/p>\n

For 26 years, cricket has been the activity that ameliorates a hard life, thousands of miles from his family in Sri Lanka. He works 12 hours a day, six days a week, for a furniture depot. His employer treats him well; when Sugath first arrived he worked as a cleaner and now he is the boss\u2019s PA. It is a rare example of personal development in the exploitative kafala system practised in the Gulf states, that gives employers control over their employees\u2019 immigration status.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Members of the Bangladeshi community play in Beirut in July 2020. Sri Lankan Fernando Sugath says: \u2018When we\u2019re at work, every one of us is counting the days til Sunday.\u2019 Photograph: Amer Ghazzal\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But the economic crisis in Lebanon has halved the value of Sugath\u2019s monthly earnings and when he finishes his day job he returns to the small subterranean maids\u2019 room \u2013 bed, toilet and gas hob almost abutting each other \u2013 where he has a second role as the building\u2019s concierge. His sacrifices have enabled him to send home enough money to build a house for his parents, his brother and himself. But the light at the end of each week is cricket. \u201cIt makes my life here much easier to handle,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2017 the owners of the car park suddenly and unexpectedly refused permission to play cricket there, threatening to have anyone who showed up arrested. With a dearth of alternative venues, the scene threatened to wither and die. A new women\u2019s project at a camp for Syrian refugees, Alsama\u00a0Cricket<\/a>, meant the game continued to be played in Lebanon \u2013 but not by the migrant workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

It has taken five years to reinstate permission to use the car park \u2013 and when the game finally returned, it brought together the workers with the refugee players for the first time. \u201cThese two disparate communities have never had any interaction before,\u201d says William Dobson, a Beirut bookshop owner from England who co-founded the September tournament with Sugath. \u201cNow these teenage refugees who have only been playing for three years are turning up each week to learn from 50-year-old Sri Lankan guys.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There were four teams of women at the tournament, including some who were playing for the first time. \u201cAfter that we realised how excited women are to play cricket,\u201d said Sugath. \u201cNow we have 10 women\u2019s teams practising every week.\u201d He recalls how a woman called Pradeep told him: \u201cFor six days of the week I\u2019m in Lebanon and I\u2019m nobody. On Sunday I come to cricket and I\u2019m back in Sri Lanka again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dobson says: \u201cIn England it\u2019s easy to take cricket for granted. But for a 50-year-old Sri Lankan woman who has lived in Beirut for 30 years, and hasn\u2019t seen her family for two years, to be with other women in a similar situation and connecting to something from their homeland and their childhood \u2013 that\u2019s something else.\u201d Sugath has already arranged for a women\u2019s tournament at the end of November. \u201cWhen we\u2019re at work, every one of us is counting the days til Sunday,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

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