ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Thursday wrote a letter to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe for his cricket team’s recently concluded visit to cricket starved Pakistan.
The Pakistan PM thanked the Zimbabwe President for sending his team to Pakistan, a country where international cricket came to a halt after a 2009 attack on Sri Lanka team.
Zimbabwe were the first Test-playing nation to tour Pakistan in six years since gunmen attacked on Sri Lanka team bus – also in Lahore – in 2009.
Eager to avoid a repeat of that incident and push the case for a full return of international cricket to the country, Pakistan government provided VIP-level security to Zimbabwe’s team.
A fleet of security vans with armed gunmen shielded the team buses during their travels from hotel to the stadium.
Zimbabwe arrived on May 19 to play two Twenty20s and three ODIs. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has given official status to the series.
