'This is the country of hospitality' - Australia tour to Pakistan review

In the latest episode of the podcast we chat with cricket journalists Adam Collins and Bharat Sundaresan about their unforgettable trip - covering Australia's first tour to Pakistan in 24 years.

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Talking Points:

• The uncertainty over Australia's tour to Pakistan in the build-up
• The historic first day at Rawalpindi - despite the flatness of the pitch
• The Shane Warne jolt at the end of day one of the first Test
• Abdullah Shafique's ability to shift gears against a quality attack
• The Karachi Test - and Cummins and Starc paying homage to the two Ws
• Khawaja resists, Babar enthralls, Rizwan adds the cherry to the cake
• The grandeur of Lahore - and memories of the terrorist attack in 2009
• Umpire Ahsan Raza's poetic moment
• Is there anything Cummins can't do?

Participants:

Bharat Sundaresan (@beastieboy07); Adam Collins (@collinsadam); Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee); Ashoka (@ABVan)

Related:

So far yet so near - under Shafiq's watch rises Abdullah - Bharat Sundaresan - Cricbuzz

The last night in Pakistan - Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon - The Final Word podcast

Ahsan Raza’s dream return to Lahore 13 years after bloody attack - Nic Savage - News.com.au

The menace and unfairness of Pat Cummins - Osman Samiuddin - ESPNcricinfo

Shaheen, Naseem and a partnership of devastation - Bharat Sundaresan - Cricbuzz

The final frontier - Adam Collins, Dan Brettig and Shannon Gill - The Greatest Season That Was Presents podcast

Shane Warne - magical, tireless, immortal - 81allout podcast