Time to bring back cricket to Pakistan

By Richard Edwards

Optimistic: Azeem Rafiq

PAKISTAN has been out of bounds for nearly all national teams since the 2009 bus attack on the Sri Lankan side but two English cricketers have ignored those warnings and spent time playing and training there.
And both are well aware of just how important it is that Pakistan’s next generation of cricket lovers are given the opportunity to watch their heroes play in the flesh on home soil.
Former England under-19 skipper and Yorkshire allrounder, Azeem Rafiq, spent part of this winter training in Karachi, the city of his bi...

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