Pakistan Cricket will reap benefits of its eight-year slog

 

I live in Model Town in Lahore. It’s merely a 10-minute drive in the morning from home to Gaddafi Stadium through the Liberty roundabout you see!
Had I lived farther, my call time would have been earlier.
Had I lived farther, I would have been at Liberty earlier. Maybe, at the same time when the Sri Lanka team and officials were under attack and cricket in Pakistan was being muffled for years to come.
On the morning of 3 March 2009, I was preparing to leave home to commentate on the third day’s play, when at the gate, my driver mentioned to me a couple of blast-like sounds he thought he had heard.
Dismissing his observation, I got into the car and told him to get a move on.
But he had heard right. The team was shot at, the officials injured, a brave heroic bus driver had prevented a bigger carnage, the tour scrapped midway, a nation bruised and shell-shocked, a cricketing fabric destroyed and Pakistan forced to shut shop.