The cricket enthusiasts turned up in large numbers at the Bagh-e-Ibn-e-Qasim in Clifton to watch final match between Karachi Zone’s best street (gali) cricketers, organised under the Sprite Cricket Next 2011. First launched in 2010, Sprite Cricket Next is an innovative campaign, with an aim to unearth hidden talent and pick the best street cricketers Pakistan has to offer. The format has teams of four players contending with each other to be crowned the first ever National Gali Cricket Champions of Pakistan. Spread across 13 cities, the campaign offers cricketing technology that previously was only available to professionals of the sport.
