Cricket-Pakistan, Australia vie for series win as test returns to Lahore


  • Cricket
  • Sunday, 20 Mar 2022

FILE PHOTO: A Pakistani soldier stands guard outside the Gaddafi Cricket Stadium ahead of a Twenty20 international cricket match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Lahore, Pakistan October 28, 2017. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza

(Reuters) - Pakistan and Australia head into a winner-take-all third and final test from Monday as test cricket returns to Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium for the first time since the 2009 attack by gunmen on a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team.

Top teams have largely shunned Pakistan since the attack that killed six policemen and two civilians with Australia visiting the country for the first time in 24 years.

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