In pictures: Cubans playing cricket

From left, Duani Rojas, Yoendry Díaz, Daniel Ordani and Yordeni Caballero gather in the street to start a game of cricket in the neighbourhood of San Miguel del Padron in Havana, Cuba, on September 29, 2014. Cuba’s cricket partisans subsist on homemade and donated equipment from the embassies of cricket-playing countries. Ramon Espinosa / AP

Several players cheer their team on, while children with a football talk with a team member, during a cricket game between Cuban and South African students in Havana, Cuba. According to an official of the National Sports Institute, Cuba has organised cricket in six of its 16 provinces, with 1,150 registered players throughout the country of 11 million. Ramon Espinosa / AP

Andy Perez, right, eats a piece of cake as his friends catch a ball during a game of street cricket, in the neighbourhood of San Miguel del Padron in Havana, Cuba. Cricket is most deeply rooted in the eastern province of Guantanamo, home to many of Cuba’s immigrant-founded communities, where cricket is frequently taught to children in after school athletics programs despite the lack of standard equipment. Ramon Espinosa / AP

Yordeni Caballero, centre, bats the ball while his friend Duani Rojas, right, and his coach Kiomai Aguiar, left, watch during a game of street cricket in the neighbourhood of San Miguel del Padron in Havana, Cuba. The Caribbean is divided between baseball-playing countries with US ties and cricket-playing islands that once belonged to the British Empire. Nowhere is more baseball-crazy than Cuba, but even here, a tiny but passionate group of men are trying to win people over to cricket. Ramon Espinosa / AP

Yordeni Caballero, centre, chooses his teammates before a game of street cricket in the neighbourhood in Havana, Cuba. Cricket is a part of the cultural identity of Caribbean migrant communities in Cuba, the descendants of some 250,000 workers from Jamaica, Dominica and other British colonies who moved to sugar towns in eastern Cuba where they attended Protestant churches, ate spicier food and played cricket. Ramon Espinosa / AP

Coach Kiomai Aguiar, left, talks with children during a game of cricket in a neighbourhood of Havana, Cuba. The offspring of immigrants from the island of Martinique, Aguiar said he played baseball and basketball as a child, then switched to cricket at 16, falling in love with its leisurely pace and courtly interactions between players. Ramon Espinosa / AP

A cricket player waits his turn to play next to a football in Havana, Cuba. Ramon Espinosa / AP

Images from around Havana, where communities of Caribbean immigrants and their descendants have given cricket a foothold in baseball-mad Cuba.