A new BBC Three documentary will follow the first British all-Asian girls’ cricket team as they train for their last ever tournament together.
Bats Balls and Bradford Girls, which will air on January 8th, focuses on a team which started at a school in the West Yorkshire city four years ago when the girls’ only experience of cricket was their dads and brothers watching it on the TV.
In spite of this, the girls – Mariyah, Sawiyyah, Zaira, Sabeha, Hanfia, Jasmin and narrator Zainab – took to the sport “like naturals” and began winning most of the tournaments they entered.
