The great game at the ends of the earth
IT hasn’t gathered many headlines in Ireland, but the remarkable series of matches played by Pakistan’s exiled cricket team on English turf this summer could carry huge ramifications for international sport, and world peace, over the next nine months.
Pakistan is one of the great cricket nations, producing some of the most thrilling players in the history of the game. They invented reverse swing which is now the decisive weapon in pace bowling attacks, and one of their former heroes, 1992 World Cup captain Imran Khan, is an outspoken political activist and spokesman, albeit of a party started by himself and consisting of one MP.
