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A World XI is playing three T20 matches against hosts Pakistan in Lahore. It's the first time a big international cricket match to be held in the country since an attack on the touring Sri Lankan team in 2009, which killed several police officers and members of the public, and injured some of the visiting squad. Â鶹Éç Urdu's Arif Shamim tells Â鶹Éç Minute that the return of the national sport to home soil has brought much excitement. Photo: Pakistani soldiers patrol outside the Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in Lahore ahead of the first World XI match, September 2017, Credit: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images.