UAE's Ramzan night tournament

Osman Samiuddin finds that night cricket in Abu Dhabi is big during Ramzan. He talks to several Sri Lankan and Pakistani first-class cricketers who turned up for the club competition during the festive period. More in the National.

It is serious stuff, as Azeem Ghumman, recently an Under 19 Pakistan and Hyderabad captain, explains. "I actually left a league in England to come and play here. There were a couple of players from Hyderabad who played here last season and I saw the improvement in them through the season back home." ...

The standards here, he says, have been good enough to provide a useful warm-up for a big season. The financial incentives, he adds, have not been bad either.