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Sunday cricket an escape for migrant workers in Lebanon / 34TG3WE
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In a Beirut car park, migrant workers cheer as their teams face off in a cricket tournament, a moment of respite in crisis-hit Lebanon, where working conditions are often tough. "On Sunday, we are so happy because we're together," says Pradeepa Silva, a housekeeper from Sri Lanka, as she and her teammates prepare coconut rice and other traditional food to share at the game. Migrant workers in Lebanon are employed under the "kafala", a controversial sponsorship system which rights groups have repeatedly denounced for enabling a wide range of abuses. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES