“Hello! Are you watching the match on TV? If not, turn it on and see the crowd — it’s packed! Tickets were impossible to get. Kids, youngsters, old men — everyone’s enjoying the game at Gaddafi Stadium. And yet you people keep saying cricket is finished in Pakistan, that it’s going the same way as hockey, that people have lost interest. If that’s true, then why is the Lahore stadium full?

Why was Rawalpindi house full? Remember my words — cricket runs in Pakistanis’ DNA. No one can take it out of us.

We just defeated South Africa in a T20 series — a reason to celebrate indeed. But if we look at the last few years, our team’s performance has been quite disappointing, especially in big tournaments.

Maybe that’s why many of us started feeling that Pakistan cricket was nearing its end, that

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