IT’S NOTHING LIKE THE CARNAGE OF KARACHI!

DEREK PRINGLE

@derekpringleDevastation: The aftermath of the riot in Karachi in 1969 which forced the abandonment of the Test between Pakistan and EnglandThe thing about Test cricket and Test series’ is that they give people, the players especially, time to think. Allowing room for one’s mental processes to play their own games is one of the format’s great charms but also one of its greatest challenges, as the abandoned Test match at Old Trafford reveals.So far, speculation has been rife as to what is really behind the cancellation of the final Test of a pulsa...

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