Vatican launches cricket club, challenges Anglicans

Vatican City — The Vatican served up tea and cucumber sandwiches on Tuesday as it launched its own cricket club, challenging the Church of England to a match and vowing to take on Indian Hindu and Muslim clerics.

With the coat of arms of St Peter's as its symbol and the Vatican yellow-and-white flag as its colours, the club will unite cricket-mad priests and seminarians -- and perhaps eventually nuns.

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The initiative brings together the sporting madness of hundreds of clerics -- mainly from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka -- with a Vatican aim to find new ways to spread the word.

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The Church of England responded with a statement from the Bishop of Shrewsbury Mark Rylands, a known cricket enthusiast, who said he looked forward "to welcoming them to England as brothers".

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I know the NFL and the NBA want to expand to Europe. How soon till we get the Vatican City Padres?