All hail Haris Rauf, sensation of the opening week of PSL3. It is a well-worn Pakistan cricket trope, the urban foundling wandering out of gully-cricket and straight on to our TV screens. This is, of course, a bit of a myth in itself, and an unhelpful one, casting an air of noble primitivism on Pakistan cricket. It is from this perspective the ballad of Haris Rauf is interesting to an English cricket fan. For now, and for all the wider, next-level problems of Pakistan cricket, we can only marvel a little enviously at the story of the kid from nowhere.

Source: Pakistan Today February 23, 2019 06:11 UTC