Faisalabad, Pakistan

For the first time ever, I watched every ball bowled of a cricket test at the stadium. Sri Lanka were touring Pakistan and after being 9 for 3 in the first 20 minutes of the test, the tourists managed to turn the game around, win by a couple of hundred ...

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My Lonely Planet guide had threatened that the place that I would be visiting, Faisalabad, to watch a cricket test was known as "The Manchester of Pakistan". Why any place would want to liken itself to Manchester is beyond me, that any place would be ...

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... a game can be played for 5 days and there is no winner, but that is part of the beauty of cricket!) Faisalabad was founded by the British when Pakistan was still part of India and therefore the Empire. So we could tell when it was time for high tea we ...

... but after haggling with Al-Onso my Formula One driver he took me there for the equivalent for 20 pounds. Faisalabad is called the Manchester of Pakistan because they have at least two things in common: 1) it is the textile capital of the country (as ...