00:00This might look like your average amateur cricket match, but this group is playing Tapeball.
00:08It's slightly different to the traditional game and interest is booming across the globe.
00:13So here in Australia it's getting very popular, there are lots of new arrivals, new people
00:20coming from Pakistan, so they started playing here the tapeball as well.
00:25Tapeball is played with a tennis ball wrapped in electrical tape and a curved bat, sometimes
00:29with holes along the edge.
00:31It was one of the, like a great passion, like everyone was starting to think there's a new
00:35way of fast cricket.
00:37The sport started in Pakistan and is now played professionally, with crowd numbers there sometimes
00:43reaching more than 100,000, even more than at some cricket games.
00:47It's also given rise to some of the world's best bowlers.
00:50In Australia, tapeball is already a competitive sport.
00:53There were more big tournaments happening in Sydney as well as in Hobart, so in the
00:58last three, four years a lot of people have migrated to Hobart.
01:02People from Sri Lanka, India, even Nepali, Nepali people they play tapeball cricket as
01:07well.
01:08For these players, the sport also offers opportunities to connect with different migrant
01:12communities and put aside cultural barriers.
01:14When you play tapeball and different communities come and all that, it just brings us together
01:18man, it's better for everyone.
01:20Earlier this year, the England and Wales Cricket Board introduced a new tapeball tournament
01:24as a way of finding unique and future talent for their national sides.
01:29Tapeball enthusiasts warned Cricket Australia to follow suit.
01:32Cricket Australia says for now, it's focused on grassroots participation, but may consider
01:37a similar tournament in the future.
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