LifeCricket bestows unlikely celebrity on rural Thai women
Fighting poverty and prejudice, hilltribe girls become national champions
Sunida Jaturongratthana, 14 years old, practices her batting with coach Aroon Numchokchaijarenkul. (Photo by Denis D. Gray)
DENIS D. GRAY, Contributing writer
September 29, 2018 18:33 JST
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.