World Cup 2011

Crushed but not broken

Mar 30, 2011 Defeat hurts. You feel hollow and broken. You have been let down, misled. Your expectations falsely raised, your dreams dashed

World Cup 2011

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

Mar 28, 2011 A look back at how India and Pakistan have fared in World Cups, and who has the better record going into the 2011 tournament

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The joy of discipline

Mar 24, 2011 Load shedding has been put on hold -- for a day. Pakistan simply won a World Cup quarter-final, what's the fuss?

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Progress is a bonus

Mar 22, 2011 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

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Pakistan's Australian sandwich

Mar 18, 2011 The last time Australia lost a World Cup match, Abdul Razzaq and Shoaib Akhtar both played. It was a dramatic May day in Leeds

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A cringe at the death

Mar 10, 2011 Pakistan's serene progress to the World Cup quarter finals suddenly became a shambles in the final ten overs of the New Zealand innings

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Surprise but no shocks enliven Pakistan's progress

Mar 4, 2011 Until the turn of this century qualifying from the first stage of a World Cup had become a formality for Pakistan

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Ambition demands an extra bowler

Feb 24, 2011 Pakistan, like all the major teams, have three banana skins to avoid to ensure qualification and they neatly sidestepped the first one

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In praise of low expectations

Feb 14, 2011 In the tournament's early years, Pakistan cricket fans viewed the World Cup with fascination but reasonable expectations