The general secretary of the Serbian Cricket Federation Vladimir Ninkovic, is the man who is giving cricket-loving refugees a new hope in Serbia.
"We were approached in the beginning of this year by the Serbian commissariat for refugees to start organizing cricket for the migrants and refugees situated in the camps in Serbia," Ninkovic tells SBS Serbian.
"In Serbia currently there are 17 camps in which the majority of the population come from cricket-playing nations such us Afghanistan and Pakistan, with small numbers coming from Sri Lanka, Nepal and even Bangladesh."
Ninkovic says the cricket federation took on the project with gusto.
"We agreed to take on the project and the implementation started in early May," he says.
It was then as early as "May, June and July we held 85 training sessions in three camps."
"There are 17 camps in Serbia but we had to concentrate on three camps, two in Belgrade and one in Sombor, due to our resources. Our clubs are located near those towns."
"It gives them a few hours where they don't think of themselves as refugees or migrants or inmates, just good cricketers."
Twice a week Ninkovic, together with the coaches from different cricket clubs comes to the three migrant camps in Serbia to organize two-hour training sessions.
"During these two hours, twice a week, it gives them a few hours where they don't think of themselves as refugees or migrants or inmates, just good cricketers," he says.
"They are extremely passionate and enthusiastic about the game. And they have enough quality to play club-level cricket in England."
One Pakistani player is Sim. He is situated in the refugee camp known as "Obrenovac" and says that in Pakistan they have better cricket equipment, but playing the game in Serbia makes him to feel like at home.
Two other migrants in the camp, named Muslim and Mar Mar Sun are in the same camp.
"Playing cricket is helping us very much to focus on game, not on something bad," says Muslim. "It is very good that Serbian people come here to play with us in this peaceful area."
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Serbia's intake of refugees are not going anywhere soon. For Serbian Cricket that could mean a sudden influx of talented players in to Serbian cricket.
"Ideally that would be the case," says Mr Ninkovic. "However not many of the migrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan wont to remain in Serbia."
"They plan to to move forward to the West.
"But those who want to stay and apply for asylum in Serbia and who get the official papers from our authorities, they will be able to join our clubs.
"So far only three of them have applied and they are playing for my club Mirijevo and they are good assets to us."
The Serbian Cricket Federation recently organised a tournament in Krnjaca camp which is in central Belgrade and took migrants to play a hard ball on the ground.
"We had two teams of 11 players," says Ninkovic. "They played 20-20 match and it was a very good quality match."
"Even the most of players never played hard ball before.
"But in the camp in Obrenovac we organized tape ball matches with five teams of 11 players.
"We had over 60 players and I would say more then 100 spectators. It was a good fun."
The ongoing project will last until November - as it marks the start of the cold season in this part of the world, Serbian Cricket Federation plans to organize indoor cricket matches then.
As to whether the project will continue into next year, that depends of the number of the migrants.
In Serbia at the moment, the number of migrants is decreasing and is about 30% less than three or four months ago. According to the official numbers there are about 4,200 migrants in Serbia at the moment and of that, about 100 of them would like to remain there.
