2006 was Yousuf’s halcyon year. He would never scale the same heights again but the impression that he left in the minds and visual memory of...
Umpiring controversies and Pakistan cricket
The list consists of three fast bowlers and three leg spinners and all six have had reasonably long stints in English county cricket
Pakistan were undefeated in their first 34 Test at this venue until the winning streak was broken by England in December 2000 in what was a disputed...
Gama’s forte was his great strength and amazing speed in the ring. He gained real recognition as a wrestler in 1904 when he triumphed in a...
By 1974 Pakistan had surrendered both the Olympic and World Cup titles and retained just its Asian crown
From 1971 to 1974, Pakistan’s hockey team experienced a series of ups and downs, winning the inaugural World Cup in 1971 but suffering a major...
Between 1960 to 1970, Pakistan’s hockey team was at the pinnacle of the international hockey arena
Pakistan’s path to hockey ascendancy
The most productive fast bowling pairs in the last 50 years of Test cricket
Asif would mount more rearguard challenges in his career like his 120 in the 1977 Sydney Test versus Australia or the 135 later that year against...
Javed Miandad belongs to a select breed of batsmen whose Test batting average never dropped below 50 runs per innings at any point in their career.
Moin Khan’s pugnacious batting, often in difficult circumstances, is best remembered for the little cameo that he played in the 1992 World Cup...
Saleem Malik was a courageous cricketer who came out to bat with a broken arm in the 2nd innings of the Faisalabad Test against the West Indies in...
In 11 Tests against the West Indies, Wasim Raja scored 919 runs at an average of 57.44. In the 19 year period from 1976 to 1995 when the WI pace...
The phrase ‘twenty two families’ rings a familiar bell in Pakistan. In the late 60’s it was a term popularly used to identify the twenty two...
This week we continue our journey through the twenty two Test-playing families of Pakistan in which at least two family members have played in the...
In the first 89 Tests that Pakistan played there was always a member of the Mohammad family in the team
Pakistan have almost always produced exciting young talent that took the world of cricket by storm
