< 1 minute read No-one comes here for the clever headlines, right? As most of you know, Pakistan did indeed win the first Test against South Africa, doing so in typically Pakistani style. Chasing 40 to win, they fell to 7-3. At this point, Misbah-ul-Haq, who continually strives to be the most dour batsmen
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Pakistan cricket likes to stay in balance
< 1 minute read This is the conclusion we’ve reached. Far from being a see-saw on a roundabout in an earthquake, Pakistan cricket is actually very stable. It’s just that different branches of it have to compensate when there’s upheaval elsewhere so that the whole remains perfectly balanced. Last month, Pakistan lost a Test
Continue readingPakistan Test preparations as smooth as Stickle Bricks
< 1 minute read Next Monday sees a proper Test series – Pakistan v South Africa. Well, we say ‘proper Test series’ but it’s actually just two Tests, so not a proper Test series at all really. The background Pakistan recently managed to lose a Test against Zimbabwe. For any other nation, this would
Continue readingCricinfo scorecard news
< 1 minute read In the spirit of being a half-arsed website with no clear direction, we thought we’d bring you the news as gathered by looking at a couple of scorecards on Cricinfo. First of all, if you haven’t seen it before, we can confirm how the internet’s foremost cricket website (Cricinfo, not
Continue readingGeneric ‘someone is better than someone else’ post
< 1 minute read South Africa are supposed to be playing the Windies today, then India play Pakistan before England play New Zealand. However, we’re away for the weekend with no plans to use the internet, so you’re going to have to fill in the gaps yourselves in the comments section. We’re not really
Continue readingSouth Africa are better than Pakistan
< 1 minute read Largely because Pakistan never actually got round to chasing the target. Instead, the batsmen just sort of stood there and hoped that it would go away on its own. It didn’t.
Continue readingWest Indies are better than Pakistan
< 1 minute read This post title policy will come to a crashing halt should England lose to Australia today. An odd and absorbing match at the Oval, where only Misban-ul-Haq and the Jam Shed managed to score more than six runs in Pakistan’s innings. Misbah’s 96 not out was exactly the kind of
Continue readingWe wrote about Shahid Afridi for Cricinfo
< 1 minute read Most of the sentiments have been expressed here before, only because this was for Cricinfo we made the article longer, more rambling and less to the point. We pretty much repeat ourself in every paragraph as well to really drive the non-point home. That non-point is basically that Shahid Afridi
Continue readingSouth African fire v Pakistani ice
< 1 minute read That is a deeply unsatisfactory title and we’ll tell you why – fire and ice are not equal. No matter how dangerous ice can be, fire is just fundamentally scarier. Talk about fire and it conjures images of blazing infernos. Talk about ice and you think of slipping over and
Continue readingYounus Khan is still around
< 1 minute read For a man with 21 Test hundreds and an average of over 50 who’s also been involved in his fair share of drama, Younus Khan can be surprisingly low profile. That said, your singy, shouty ‘look at me’ types tend to lack inner steel. Younus is far too busy getting
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