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After a long time, it seems that the team has been selected on merit, give or take the odd favourite accommodated
The Associates see the news that the 2019 World Cup should be restricted to 10 teams as daylight robbery. That was the idea from Australia for next...
A few days back I happened to hear the first part of an interview before I had to rush to meet an appointment. It was quite an interesting talk,...
The revelation last week that along with Australia, England caved in to the threat of India breaking away from ICC to form a separate body must have...
The history of cricket is full of instances where the ‘I’ word has come back to haunt the individual who claimed that "I will do it...
It looked like a clever move by the International Cricket Council , until it was bungled by a leak. Something that Rashid Latif had suggested to the...
Are we headed for a judicial law in PCB? I don’t see the day very far when the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the Islamabad High Court will...
Considering we must surely have annihilated the Guinness world record for any one city setting the most Guinness world records, why shouldn’t...
There’s a saying in cricket for batsmen, and that is that "when in doubt, hit out." It of course was not much listened to by our batsmen in...
I wonder when the hypocrisy will end. When Najam Sethi came in he promised to overhaul the PCB and throw out the deadwood. "Bring on the...
Rashid Latif has reversed his decision to join PCB as chief selector. The Board chairman is taking long-term decisions not knowing whether he will...
It took Sri Lanka 18 years to win a world crown again and after their fifth attempt in a final since 1996. The fireworks may have come sporadically...
So Pakistan did not make it to the semi-finals of World Twenty20 for the first time since the tournament began in 2007. Why am I not surprised? So...
All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, can relate in some paradoxical way to the fifth...
Pakistan will be playing Australia today after the idyllic opening match of the tournament between India and Pakistan. But was it the opening game?...
I suppose only the Pakistan cricket team can do the transformation overnight from being bowling-strong-batting-weak to becoming exactly the...
It does not matter to me whether Pakistan have lifted the Asia Cup or not. What the tournament has demonstrated is what I have advocated since 2004....
PCB has been hanging in the centre for the last few years in more ways than one. Now it seems they are following the state of Pakistan cricket over...
Right! The League of Extraordinary Experienced has made a comeback. I would have thought that after the limited overs matches in South Africa and...
I have been listening for many years Andy William crooning "Where Do I Begin?" Little did I know that I would be humming the song again as I look at...
