The pity is that journalists are unable to leave the hotel without armed police, with sirens blaring as the convoy cuts a swathe through the traffic, or is held up by it altogether.Įngland’s players have been used to this since arriving in Pakistan, having been confined to their luxurious Islamabad hotel - unlike reporters, who towards the end of the first Test squeezed in a visit to the British High Commission, where we mingled, ate, drank, watched the World Cup and played pool. It is one of Asia’s oldest cities, said to have been continuously inhabited for 3,000 years, and is known as the ‘City of Saints’ because of its Sufi shrines. There is more to Multan, though, than the usual tropes imagined by westerners. It is not a place for the asthma sufferer. The streets are full of dust, which mingles with the morning fog and smog to create a haze that never fully lifts. Passers-by peer through our car windows, before turning away in disappointment when they realise we are not Jimmy Anderson or Ben Stokes. The people in Pakistan could not be happier to see the visiting England side in the province
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