Cricket bestows unlikely celebrity on rural Thai women

Fighting poverty and prejudice, hilltribe girls become national champions

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Sunida Jaturongratthana, 14 years old, practices her batting with coach Aroon Numchokchaijarenkul. (Photo by Denis D. Gray)

DENIS D. GRAY, Contributing writer

LUANG NUA, Thailand -- There is a band of young women, some without parents, others with alcoholic mothers and fathers jailed on drug charges, who have come down from the mountains of northern Thailand. Poverty rules there --and almost nobody can tell the difference between a stump and a wicket.

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