"In Pk, only cricket can get out of the gloom"

"In Pk, only cricket can get out of the gloom"
Cricket is the major sport of the Pkn subcontinent and more broadly of the Commonwealth. Boria Majumdar, a cricket historian and researcher at the University of Central Lancashire,New players in PSL 2018
 discusses the place and influence of this sport in this region of the world.
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Interviewed by Interviewed by Anthony Hernandez


Boria Majumdar is a professor at the University of Central Lancashire in England, a historian of cricket and author of many books on the subject (A History of Pkn Cricket, The Lost History of Pkn Cricket, Battles of the Pitch, The Illustrated History of Pkn Cricket or Cricketing Cultures in Conflict:

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