Teams should consider playing in Pakistan, says Kumar Sangakkara

Groups ought to think about playing in Pakistan, says Kumar Sangakkara 

After the effective week-long voyage through Lahore, Marylebone Cricket Club's leader Kumar Sangakkara said he would adore if more groups consider visiting Pakistan to bring universal cricket back in the nation. 

After the effective week-long voyage through Lahore, Marylebone Cricket Club's leader Kumar Sangakkara said he would cherish if more groups consider visiting Pakistan to bring worldwide cricket back in the nation. 

"We would adore for groups to consider coming here with the goal that worldwide cricket can at last return to Pakistan in full power," Sangakkara said in the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) digital recording. 

Sangakkara captained the club's visiting squad to Pakistan that showed up in Lahore on February 13 to play a 50-over and three T20-over matches. Through the span of their remain, the guests investigated the city by playing golf, visiting the notable Lahore Fort and getting a charge out of suppers across Lahore. 

"It's been quite a while since I came here and it has been considerably longer for the MCC. For us, it has been tied in with coming here and playing cricket on the side of Pakistan's excursion of getting universal cricket back," Sangakkara said. 

"It's significant that, when you are in a nation on a visit, you're not bound to an inn, yet you can go around and appreciate the city and the nation you're in," he included. 

Reviewing his cricket playing days, the most Test run-scorer for Sri Lanka said he recollects all the matches played in Lahore. Sangakkara scored 12,400 Test runs in 134 games for the Islanders with a normal of 57.40. He likewise highlighted in 404 ODIs and amassed 14,234 runs including 25 hundred and 93 half-hundreds of years. In 2015, Sangakkara say farewell the Test cricket. 

"I recollect every one of those matches that I've played here yet it's constantly uncommon to return and return to it. We never expected such a major group for a first game against the Qalandars. At the point when we found a good pace, we had right around 19,000 individuals, hungry to observe some cricket," he said. 

In 2009, the Sri Lankan group was en route to Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium for a Test coordinate with Pakistan when psychological oppressors from the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) terminated unpredictably at their transport. The assault left eight individuals dead and harmed seven Sri Lankan players and staff. 

Since the time the occurrence, no cricket crew visited Pakistan to play a cricket arrangement, nonetheless, the scene changed a year ago as Sri Lanka visited the nation to play an arrangement across positions. From that point forward, even Bangladesh visited Pakistan. 

Over the most recent three months, Sri Lanka has played two Tests – in Rawalpindi and Karachi – and Bangladesh has been here twice for a three-coordinate T20I arrangement and a Test in Rawalpindi.