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Since Featherstone, 51, retired from professional cricket and moved here with his Brazilian wife in 2000, he and Cricket Brasil’s 19 staff have managed to grow the sport exponentially. There are now more than 5,000 cricketers in Brazil, thanks mainly to the organisation’s 63 community youth programs, and the women’s national team have won four of the past five South American championships. But that all ground to a halt when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, leaving those spreading the gospel of cricket without one key import: bats.

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