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Former Pakistan cricketer-cum-politician Imran Khan while answering a question that will Peshawar host matches if PSL 2018 is held in Pakistan next year, stated that they will welcome and make all arrangements for hosting the matches.
"We have constructed 70 grounds and state-of-the-art stadiums in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and will make all arrangements to host the matches," Khan stated this in an interview with a private TV channel on Tuesday. "I have been calling for regional cricket for 40 years. It is very important he added.
Answering a question, he said that his recent remarks about foreign cricketers who played the Pakistan Super League final in Lahore was not meant to humiliate them, for those were 'all pure cricketing terms of his time'. "We used the terms like Renu Katta, Fokker or Jet to describe cricketers, when we used to play at Lahore Gymkhana," he said.
"We referred Renu Katta to a player who would both bowl and bat, but would not perform either way. These terms are not derogatory, they rather describe marginal players," he explained.
Questioned about his opposition to hosting of PSL final in Lahore in contrast with his earlier stance on the event, the skipper said: "The situation before February 21 was different which is why I supported the idea of hosting the PSL final in Lahore, but the series of terror attacks in the country made me oppose the same thing.
Imran Khan argued will foreign teams come to Pakistan only by having witnessed the PSL final being played in Lahore. "They want peace in Pakistan to play cricket here, not just hosting of a final."
http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/index.php?page=newsdetail&news_id=6916
"We have constructed 70 grounds and state-of-the-art stadiums in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and will make all arrangements to host the matches," Khan stated this in an interview with a private TV channel on Tuesday. "I have been calling for regional cricket for 40 years. It is very important he added.
Answering a question, he said that his recent remarks about foreign cricketers who played the Pakistan Super League final in Lahore was not meant to humiliate them, for those were 'all pure cricketing terms of his time'. "We used the terms like Renu Katta, Fokker or Jet to describe cricketers, when we used to play at Lahore Gymkhana," he said.
"We referred Renu Katta to a player who would both bowl and bat, but would not perform either way. These terms are not derogatory, they rather describe marginal players," he explained.
Questioned about his opposition to hosting of PSL final in Lahore in contrast with his earlier stance on the event, the skipper said: "The situation before February 21 was different which is why I supported the idea of hosting the PSL final in Lahore, but the series of terror attacks in the country made me oppose the same thing.
Imran Khan argued will foreign teams come to Pakistan only by having witnessed the PSL final being played in Lahore. "They want peace in Pakistan to play cricket here, not just hosting of a final."
http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/index.php?page=newsdetail&news_id=6916
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