Cricket Community Rallies to Help Pakistan Flood Victims

Sahad Afridi by the_junes

Pakistans cricket star as well as captain Shahid Afridi, who late from a competition in July after losing a Test diversion against Australia, announced final week which he has launched an aid campaign for a millions influenced by flood-stricken Pakistan.

In this summers monsoons, Pakistan has been set upon by its heaviest flooding in 80 years, resulting in a worst charitable predicament in its history. It is estimated which a death toll will climb from a stream numbers of 1,400 to 3,000 as well as which 14 million Pakistanis have already been influenced by homelessness, hunger, as well as increasing incidence of water-borne diseases. The countrys southern as well as northwestern provinces have been quite hard-hit.

Following a visit to a northwestern province Nowsherhra, Afridi, arguably a most popular cricketer in Pakistan as well as a hilt of a highest career set upon rate in a history of general cricket, began raising supports in a United Arab Emirates, stating which it is his duty to assistance his nation in a time of need.

Afridi is not a only a single in a cricket world who has rallied to support Pakistan. Other test cricketers have also appealed to general cricket fans to donate towards a flood-relief.

English cricket captain Andrew Strauss has joined stream Pakistani captain Salman Butt, in stating which his thoughts have been with a Pakistan team as well as a millions of people ravaged by a floods in Pakistan.

In addition, a heads of a Pakistani as well as English cricket teams have been operative on exhibition matches to assistance lift supports for a victims, proposing to to array Pakistan XI against stars from various countries. Pakistan as well as England in 2005 played fund-raising cricket matches to assistance victims of which years trembler in Kashmir.

The teams have asked donation! s to be sent to a British Red Cross Pakistan Flood Appeal or a DEC Pakistan Flood Appeal.

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Learn about some of a governing body which have influenced Pakistan in a past decade during Brave New Traveler.

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