Al Jazeera’s Rahul Pathak reports from Dubai’s brand new Sports City cricket stadium, where raucous crowds have flocked to watch the one-day cricket series between Pakistan and Australia.
With the UAE’s huge migrant population from the cricket-loving subcontinent, there’s hope that Dubai could become a global sporting hub.
Pakistan have signed up to play matches there for three years. But could the economic slowdown turn the $3billion Sports City into a white elephant?
