Berlin's cricketers received the shocking news this last weekend that the city's only ground, Körnerplatz, will no longer be able to be used for cricket. Dismantling has already begun. Talk about a king-hit! This, on the weekend when the WHOLE WORLD was watching the World Cup final from India - even the German press got involved at last.
The Körnerplatz ground has been home to Berlin and German cricket since 1948, when the British troops built a pitch here. Since then it has been used every summer, crammed full with foreigners (and a few Germans) from all works of life - all united by one thing: a love of cricket. Now those days seem over and it's all to make way for an Olympiapark guided tour, where God forbid, one of the paying guests could get hit by a cricket ball. I knew that Berlin was turning into a sell-out, but this has to be the saddest thing that the city has done so far.
Dear Berlin Senate, you claim to be multicultural and tolerant towards all of us here. Well, stop this craziness now!
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