KARACHI: Players from the visiting International World XI yesterday said overseas teams should return to tour Pakistan soon, after two Twenty20s against an all-star home side passed off successfully at the weekend.
The exhibition games were the first appearances by high-profile foreign players in Pakistan since deadly militant attacks on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore in March 2009 .
The visitors’ captain Sanath Jayasuriya said international cricket should return to Pakistan.
“After these two matches I hope people will believe that Pakistan is a safe country for cricket,” he told reporters on his departure.
“We had two great days with good crowds coming and I am sure that with more efforts international cricket will return to Pakistan.”
Security was tight as capacity crowds of 32,000 packed into Karachi’s National Stadium -- evidence, if it were needed, of the Pakistani public’s desperation to see cricket at home.AFP
