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Stumped The BBC World Service cricket show recently had a segment about cricket and baseball players trying to make it in their respective leagues. They profiled cricketer Kieran Powell who is trying to make it in MLB. They also interview cricket coach Julien Fountain, who is trying to recruit languishing minor leaguers into cricket. His current project is Boomer Collins, a former Blue Jays farm hand. You can listen to the full program that includes some discussion from the studio panel of pundits here: http://bbc.in/1OvAFXM

But you can also listen to most of the interesting bits a la carte and see a video of Boomer trying to figure out a yorker here: http://bbc.in/1OzlvRk

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