Ahmer Naqvi

A lament for Pakistan's VCR age

Dec 17, 2015 Remembering Pakistan Sports in Karachi, a one-time haven for cricket nostalgists

Is sporting fandom a set of rituals or a relationship?

Aug 1, 2015 Do you have to be obsessive in your love for the game to qualify as a true fan?

A song called Younis

Nov 27, 2014 For a country torn by internal strife, he offers hope with his magnanimity, humility and cheerful disposition

In praise of those who don't set the pulse racing

Nov 8, 2014 Pakistan cricket has largely been about celebrating the winners, the mercurial, the flamboyant, but its current success has been built on players who are largely the opposite

All hail the new, macho Fawad Alam

Aug 27, 2014 He had phenomenal numbers before he sprouted luxuriant facial hair, but it seems Pakistanis have started to take him seriously only now

Isn't it time Pakistanis were in the IPL?

Jun 3, 2014 There were reasons for why the two countries stopped playing each other, but they aren't all that valid anymore

An alternative definition for the spirit of cricket

Apr 27, 2014 It's the game's ability to provide struggling societies with a sense of national identity and belief

Why T20 is about cricket's natural evolution

Apr 8, 2014 The shortest format is but a logical extension of cricket's bias towards batsmen, and our changing ideas about time

Australia's Ashes win: a blast from the past

Jan 14, 2014 The 5-0 result was the ultimate validation of the impulse towards an idealised notion of Australian cricket

Two more to Pakistan's fast bowling tally

Nov 25, 2013 It's too early to anoint Bilawal Bhatti and Anwar Ali as the next big things, but it's great to watch them send stumps flying and batsmen hopping