Cricket flourishes with influx of asylum seekers

A boom of interest in cricket in Germany, fuelled by the influx of asylum seekers from Pakistan and Afghanistan, is a tale poised to hit the silver screen.

The season has just finished, but as Brian Mantle, chief executive of the German Cricket Federation, explained, 2016 has seen clubs shoot up all over the country.

"The summer has been unbelievable, we've had success on and off the field and we've attracted sponsors," Mantle told AFP.