World Cup

MARCH 30, 2011

Crushed but not broken

Defeat hurts. You feel hollow and broken. You have been let down, misled. Your expectations falsely raised, your dreams dashed

Wahab Riaz's place was begrudged yet he turned the match on its head © AFP

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MARCH 28, 2011

India v Pakistan in World Cups: A historical pseudo-analysis

A look back at how India and Pakistan have fared in World Cups, and who has the better record going into the 2011 tournament

MARCH 24, 2011

The joy of discipline

Load shedding has been put on hold -- for a day. Pakistan simply won a World Cup quarter-final, what's the fuss?

MARCH 22, 2011

Progress is a bonus

A wonder of this World Cup is that all the expected teams have qualified for the knock-out stage but the tournament has still been thoroughly exciting

MARCH 18, 2011

Pakistan's Australian sandwich

The last time Australia lost a World Cup match, Abdul Razzaq and Shoaib Akhtar both played. It was a dramatic May day in Leeds

MARCH 10, 2011

A cringe at the death

Pakistan's serene progress to the World Cup quarter finals suddenly became a shambles in the final ten overs of the New Zealand innings

MARCH 04, 2011

Surprise but no shocks enliven Pakistan's progress

Until the turn of this century qualifying from the first stage of a World Cup had become a formality for Pakistan

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Ambition demands an extra bowler

Pakistan, like all the major teams, have three banana skins to avoid to ensure qualification and they neatly sidestepped the first one

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

In praise of low expectations

In the tournament's early years, Pakistan cricket fans viewed the World Cup with fascination but reasonable expectations

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