In terms of popularity, cricket is nowhere close to football in Barcelona. However, a report in The Guardian said Barcelona gave its citizens the chance to vote on a 30-million Euro package of facilities ranging from cycling lanes to playgrounds and out of 822 projects, the cricket ground got the most votes.

This was all courtesy a campaign led by a group of young women, all from Indian and Pakistani families, the report mentioned. It quoted 20-year-old Hifsa Butt as saying that the game was introduced to them in 2018 when their gym teacher informed them about starting a cricket club out of school hours.

Damien McMullen, the Australian president of Barcelona International Cricket Club, had said “finding somewhere that’s flat and covers 16,000 square metres in Barcelona is impossible.” The plan now is to convert the Julia de Capmany dirt field on Montjuic, a shallow hill with a flat top, into an Astroturf cricket pitch and it was this proposal that “hit the council for a six when it won the most votes.”