History or Heritage?

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It felt like walking back in time as I made my way past the huge shisham and peepal trees, each more than a century old. The birthplace of Test cricket in Pakistan, the near-forgotten Bagh-e-Jinnah ground awaited me. It was here that the Maharaja of Patiala used to play against Lahore Gymkhana teams in the early part of the previous century. Douglas Jardine, Lala Amarnath, Keith Miller, Wesley Hall, Fazal Mahmood are just a few of the names I could think of at that moment -- men who've played some of their best cricket out here. Laid out in a north-south direction so that so that the sun wouldn't blind the players, the pitch told me that this place had more in store. Little did I know. Revered by many great cricketers as the Mecca of Pakistan cricket, the Bagh-e-Jinnah has been witness to some fantastic cricket.....