Karachi cricket mob’s greeting

Press, 25 October 1982, Page 16

Karachi cricket mob’s greeting

NZPA Karachi The vast Karachi cricket stadium lay sprawled silent and empty yesterday in stark contrast to Saturday's exploding fury.

The smell of burnt canvas drifted from one corner of the ground. Across on the other side some 500 plasticbound chairs lay broken and bent after the outer stand mob had given vent to their frustration, of hearing the Australian cricketers had returned to the safety of their hotel.

Hefty lengths of sugar cane, in handy throwing sizes, lay round the ground together with rotten potatoes, some hard green ones, bolts and nuts and a discarded shoe heel. Some 30,000 had been in the stadium only a few hours previously to watch the last Pakistan-Australia one-day clash.

Greg Ritchie had a bad time, fielding as he does far distant from the inner circle

ot . close-to-the-wicket specialists.

The missiles have chased him on tour, but never more so than in Karachi.

He was at deep third, was hit, moved to mid wicket and was hit again. “I’m thinking of developing my slips fielding quickly,” he said after the game.

lan Callen has hit on the leg and later a rock hit his foot.

Imran Khan ' told Kim Hughes: “I don’t blame you going off. They throw things at me here too,” he said.