Yes Cricket comes home :jhanda: All the enemies and haters of Pakistan will not be able to sleep on this day. Thanks Zimbabwe
In this thread we will try to add photos and news of this tour.
I am very happy today that finally Zimbabwe has arrived in Lahore.
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Bhayya dua karo kuch garbarr nai ho.. abhi se bari bari baten mat karo..
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All the enemies and haters of Pakistan will not be able to sleep on this day. ]
You underestimate Misbah's ability to put packed stadiums to sleep.
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Zimbabwe brings international cricket back to Pakistan
LAHORE: The Zimbabwe cricket team landed in Pakistan in the early hours of Tuesday, becoming the first Test-playing nation to visit the militancy-wracked South Asian country in six years, Lahore airport officials said.
Zimbabwe are set to play two T20s and three ODIs in a mini-series under high security involving 6,000 police and constant surveillance by commandos and helicopters.
The tour is a first by a full ICC member since Sri Lanka visited in 2009, when their team bus was attacked by RPG and machine-gun wielding militants, with eight people — six police and two civilians — killed and seven players wounded.
Forced to host home games in neutral venues like the United Arab Emirates, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) estimates it has lost $120 million in TV rights and extra overheads.
Even hosting Zimbabwe will cost PCB more than $1 million, half of which is for the visitors’ fees and expenses. Not much of the outlay will be recouped by sponsorships and gate proceeds.
An incident-free series is seen as crucial to Pakistan’s hopes of ending its sporting isolation.
But risks remain high and the massacre of 45 minority Shiites in an attack on a bus in Karachi last week nearly prompted Zimbabwe to pull out at the last minute.
While the March 2009 attack on the Sri Lankans forced the long hiatus, it wasn’t the first time a cricket team had been caught up in Pakistan’s militant violence. In 2002, 14 people died in a suicide blast outside a Karachi hotel as New Zealand and Pakistan prepared to leave for the second Test, prompting the tour to be abandoned. The PCB now says it has “foolproof” security involving thousands of police to protect Zimbabwe as they shuttle between their five-star hotel and Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium. The area around the venue will be cordoned off, with various security checkpoints for fans, and paramilitaries will watch the area around the clock with constant surveillance from rooftops and helicopters. The players will not be allowed to leave their hotel without security and their movements will be restricted within the stadium. “It is our first step towards the goal of reviving international cricket and we will leave nothing to chance to make this tour safe and successful,” PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan told AFP. For players like Umar Akmal, Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq — all of whom have played more than 50 internationals — it will be their first chance to represent Pakistan at home. Tickets are not yet sold out, given the uncertainty surrounding whether the tour would go ahead, but officials are reporting a surge in demand- AFP
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Chacha Cricket :jhanda:
[video]Dunya News: 'Chacha Cricket' reaches Gaddafi Stadium 4 days before match.
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Zimbabwe, awesome words :salute:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qoredLAHORE: A Zimbabwe cricket team official on tour in Pakistan with his national team said players had volunteered for the 13-day tour.
Ozias Bvute, head of the delegation and a former Zimbabwe Cricket chief executive, on Tuesday said, “Our players were offered the opportunity to voluntarily come to Pakistan. They accepted, and that’s why we have a full-strength team.”
“We are here to support Pakistan,” said Bvute, adding: “We are here to play cricket and we will play cricket. We are satisfied with the security arrangements and all players have come here voluntarily.”
Bvute said Zimbabwe Cricket weighed “the pros and the cons [of the tour] … and what we wanted to achieve is to come and play against our brothers”.
Zimbabwe’s captain Elton Chigumbura was also present at the press conference. “I am very pleased on coming here. The Government of Pakistan and the Pakistan Cricket Board has put in place brilliant arrangements for the tour,” he said.
When asked whether bowling or batting was his team’s strength, Chigumbura confidently replied: “Everything.”
The Zimbabwe team is set to play its first Twenty20 match against Pakistan in Lahore on May 22.
The Zimbabwe team’s arrival marks the first time a Test-level team has toured Pakistan since seven Sri Lankan cricketers were wounded during a 2009 attack by militants in Lahore.
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Since the attack on the Sri Lankans, Pakistan have staged ‘home’ matches in the United Arab Emirates.
The PCB said it has “foolproof” security involving thousands of police to protect Zimbabwe as they shuttle between their five-star hotel and the Gaddafi Stadium.
The area around the venue will be cordoned off, with various security checkpoints for fans, and paramilitaries will watch the area around the clock with constant surveillance from rooftops and helicopters.
“It is our first step towards the goal of reviving international cricket and we will leave nothing to chance to make this tour safe and successful,” PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan said.home games in neutral venues like the United Arab Emirates, the PCB estimates it has lost $120 million in TV rights and extra overheads.
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practice session in Qaddafi Stadium
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Wahab Riaz
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Although series has end but Pakistani’s have shown their love with their Cricket :jhanda:
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Six years is the time for Straight bat Azhar to score 6 runs.
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he is power hitter now !
