Unpredictability has its advantages. It makes the team unique and inscrutable, perplexing opponents and making them wary about expecting the...
A key lynchpin of Pakistan’s batting over many years, Younis was both its cudgel and its crutch, switching modes to suit the circumstance, a true...
Over three generations, the Mohammad family has accumulated more than 100,000 runs, 1000 wickets and 1000 catches in first-class cricket
He was a true showman, a wonderful image for the modern game, gifted with unique ability and flair, a magician in a leg-spinner’s garb who...
The high, curiously looped backlift, steely wrists, deft touches from soft hands, the willow subtly threading the ball through imperceptible gaps in...
Though they missed out on the final this year, Pakistan's performance in this World Cup has been superb and augurs well for the future.
Pakistan’s batting has had many adjectives applied to it. Mercurial, artistic, elegant, enigmatic, rumbustious, regal, inventive, it can be any...
From grafting stonewallers to exhilarating stroke makers, from classic orthodoxy to heretic batting techniques, from ultra safe defence to...
Dubbed as the Rock of Gibraltar he was a midfielder par excellence, who often acted as the pivot around whom many Pakistani victories revolved.
Loose limbed, lithe and nimble, Asif in his prime was a joy to behold. A batsman who used the bat both as a rapier for attack and as a wand to...