Pakistani cricket player Haris Sohail is back playing after reportedly being traumatised by an alleged “ghost” in his Christchurch hotel room, the NZ Newswire reported yesterday.
Haris Sohail awoke one night over the weekend believing he was being shaken by a “supernatural presence” in his room in the Rydges Latimer Hotel, according to Pakistan media reports.
The experience severely traumatised him, so much he missed training and a one-day warmup match against a New Zealand President`s XI.
But Sohail fronted for a second warmup game in Christchurch on Tuesday and made six runs from 25 balls.
Team manager Maveed Akram Cheeva said Sohail was examined by the team doctor after his encounter and found to be in good health.
“He s OK and he s concentrating on cricket as he should be,” The Associated Press quoted Cheeva as saying.
“He had a fever. We think it was the fever that caused it but the player still believes his bed was shaken by something and it was a ‘supernatural’ something.”
The Pakistan team is in New Zealand for warm-up matches ahead of the Cricket World Cup, which starts next month.
The Rydges Latimer was built after the devastating earthquake of February 2011, about 100 metres from the site of the CTV building, which collapsed, killing 115 people.
A spokesman for the hotel said he would not comment on any “ghost-related” questions.
