Pakistan fans such bad eggs (25 June 1999)

25 June 1999

Pakistan fans such bad eggs

The Electronic Telegraph

Pakistan's World Cup squad returned home yesterday to face hundreds of angry fans who pelted them with rotten eggs at heavily-guarded Karachi airport.

Fans are demanding a probe into the team's performance after newspapers claimed Pakistan's players 'sold' the final last Sunday.

A century of county cricket at Portsmouth's United Services Ground may have come to an end following a blunder by contractors which yesterday forced Hampshire to switch their two championship fixtures from there this summer.

English Landscapes ordered the square to be mechanically spiked last February - leaving thousands of holes all over the playing surface.

Sri Lanka's cricket board, embroiled in a legal wrangle, have been given observer status at this week's International Cricket Council (ICC) meeting.

Source :: The Electronic Telegraph