As the curtains drew on Pakistan's domestic season with the Pentangular Cup, astoundingly nearly eleven months after a not-so-grand opening in June 2006, huge sighs of relief were clearly audible even from the domestic-double winners Habib Bank Limited (HBL). Given the number of stars that don their jerseys, HBL's presence on the podium was not surprising. Thus the mismatches of the Pentangular Cup finally bid adieu to the aching bodies of players, of whom a substantial number will head for the lucrative, and cooler, shores of club cricket in the The season said hello to new rising stars, in particular Under-19 alumni including Fawad Alam, Anwar Ali and Sarfraz Ahmed, reacquainted us with one old horse, Ijaz Ahmed, after a six-year absence and had the now-customary Shoaib Akhtar controversy: fined for not wearing the requisite sponsor logo.
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© Faras Ghani 2007
Published on Cricinfo 1st May 2007
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