Matiullah Khan dreamt of being a cricketer since his childhood and made use of every opportunity that came his way as a youngster. But things didn’t go according to the plan in Matiullah’s later life. Chasing his cricketing dream became increasingly difficult, given the financial difficulties his family faced back home in Bannu, a city near Pakistan’s border of Afghanistan.

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