Will a glorious sport rescue Pakistan from the Islamists? Tunku Varadarajan in Forbes:
As Pakistan fights for its survival against the barbarian Taliban–who would turn that fragile quasi-democracy into an Islamist state so extreme as to obliterate all girls’ schools from the face of the land–its people find themselves possessed of a weapon with which to vanquish the forces of darkness. I speak here not of drones or tanks or helicopter gunships, but of the glorious game of cricket.
Pakistan’s national cricket team has just won the World Cup in a version of cricket called Twenty20, a dynamic, novel form of the game that might be compared–for the benefit of American readers–to a three-inning baseball game, short, eventful and innovative.
The cricket victory is the best news that Pakistanis have had since the departure from power of their military dictator, Pervez Musharraf; and unlike the latter event, which only ushered in a long period of uncertainty and violence, the former offers clarity, light and a shot at redemption from evil. More:
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