< 1 minute read Poor Salman Butt. That’s all we can think about. He’s trying to organise a nice tea party, even though the crockery’s jagged and serrated and keeps cutting people’s hands. The teapot’s got a hole in it and it’s dribbling boiling water over everyone. Yet Butt’s holding it all together. He’s
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We have a not-so-serious point to make
< 1 minute read It’s not really a point. In fact, several of the commenters on our latest Cricinfo piece say it just sort of tails off. It’s a fictional Pakistan team meeting, if that makes you more or less likely to click through and have a read.
Continue readingAsif, Aamer and Gul ask you if you enjoy fun
< 1 minute read If you actually enjoy cricket, you can’t help but have enjoyed watching Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer and Umar Gul bowl yesterday. It was better than spoon meat and carbonated dipping jam. That they bowled Australia out for 88 was something of a bonus. Quite simply, this was cricket LIKE IT’S
Continue readingFind out whether you’ll one day captain Pakistan
< 1 minute read Using a Venn diagram!
Continue readingShahid Afridi should only play Test cricket
< 1 minute read Only four days after returning to Test cricket, Pakistan captain, Shahid Afridi, has again announced his retirement with the typically odd yet straightforward statement: “My temperament is not good enough for Test cricket and we need a proper batsman or a proper bowler.” Only yesterday we were remarking how Test
Continue readingDanish Kaneria outwits Mitchell Johnson
< 1 minute read One thing we don’t like about modern cricket is the long batting order. We want to see the best batsmen against the best bowlers and then we want the lower order to just fold so that we can get on to the next innings. In truth, these long batting orders
Continue readingShahid Afridi might smash a hundred
< 1 minute read With Shahid Afridi, it’s not about what will happen; it’s about what might happen. Pakistan might need 20 an over, but if Shahid Afridi has got a bat in his hand, that’s not beyond the realms of possibility. In order to maintain this feeling, Afridi occasionally needs to do something
Continue readingOverturning Shoaib Malik’s ban was the best decision
< 1 minute read We’re using ‘best’ to mean ‘funniest’ there. Of all the player punishments to have been reversed by the PCB in the last few weeks, the reasoning behind the Shoaib Malik decision was the best. Lest we forget, Shoaib Malik was banned for a year for being a negative influence on
Continue readingMohammad Yousuf’s “retirement”
< 1 minute read If you want to know how to retire from cricket. Look to Pakistan. Look to Mohammad Yousuf, who’s executed a textbook Pakistan cricket retirement. “This is my retirement. I have retired from international cricket.” He then added: “For now, this is it. For now this is my retirement.” That’s how
Continue readingYousuf and Younus AREN’T banned for life
< 1 minute read Even by Pakistan’s standards this must be some kind of a record. After claiming to be on very firm ground with the punishments they’d doled out, the Pakistan Cricket Board has now said that actually what may have sounded like a life ban was no such thing. Mohammad Yousuf and
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