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Article: Binding moment
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- The Sunday Observer
- Article date:
- April 12, 2009
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Colombo, April 12 -- Mohammed Khalil's coming to Sri Lanka brought to life the bonds binding man to cricket.
The moment - their meeting up again hugely solemn; as much, moving for the Sri Lankan cricketers, whose lives had been virtually single handedly saved by Khalil, their bus driver from the terrorist attack during their tour of Pakistan last March.
This time in better confines at the cricket board, far flung from that dastardly Lahore scene; a very humane moment meeting up with one whom for once, unlike when they are usually the heart throbbing heroes from a game of cricket, was their unusual hero in paying back the man to whom they owed their very lives.
And there they were honouring ...