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Quetta's aspiring cricketers bat against security concerns and lack of support for the sport
QUETTA: The car park attached to a sports complex in Quetta is full most afternoons ─ but there are no cars parked there.
Instead, the lanes criss-crossing the enormous stretch of asphalt are filled with dozens of teenage boys clad in bright colours, playing cricket with taped-up tennis balls and stumps erected at all points of the compass.
The chaos of the battlefield leaves onlookers baffled ─ but each of the fielding teenagers knows exactly where his ball is flying and how he needs to catch it. These boys are devoted to the game.