< 1 minute readIf 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
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Find out whether you’ll one day captain Pakistan
< 1 minute readUsing a Venn diagram!
Continue readingShahid Afridi should only play Test cricket
< 1 minute readOnly 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 readOne 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 readWith 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 readWe’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 readIf 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 readEven 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
Continue readingLife bans for Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan?
< 1 minute readBanning Pakistan cricketers for in-fighting? It’s like firing a computer programmer for being interested in Star Wars. Some things just come with the territory. With Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan banned for life, there’s every chance that one of them might not play in the Test series against Australia this
Continue readingWhat is it like inside Shahid Afridi’s head?
< 1 minute readVery few cricketers combine stellar brilliance with all three major types of retardation. Update: We’ve done some slightly lengthier writing on this subject for The Wisden Cricketer. Update update: The Wisden Cricketer doesn’t exist any more, so we’ve had to remove the link.
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