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How Pope Francis blessed cricket projects in Rome and Buenos Aires

JAMES COYNE: Pope Francis was the first in his role to embrace the game as he posed with the Rome-based St Peter's Cricket Club and offered his support to Cricket Sin Fronteras, who use cricket to improve life skills in his native Buenos Aires

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