There is no way of writing this without seeming unduly boastful but, look, let me tell you about the day I dismissed Inzamam-ul-Haq. When that person with authority is General Qamar Bajwa, head of the Pakistan army, things happen. Unless you prize your dignity, you have little to loseBut we were Peter Oborne’s Wounded Tigers – taking our name from the skipper’s acclaimed history of Pakistani cricket – and we knew what we were here for. As one Waziri tribesman told him, many members of the Taliban love cricket: “Though they are fighting against the Pakistan army, they love to see the Pakistan cricket team winning matches.”Normalisation is a word you hear often in Pakistan these days. Cricket is not enough to sustain the idea of Pakistan but it is difficult, and perhaps impossible, to imagine the idea of Pakistan without cricket.

Source: The Guardian December 19, 2017 12:45 UTC