Kamran Abbasi

Afridi in, Butt out

Governance of international cricket requires much broader skills than ability with ball and willow. But nobody bought a match ticket or sports subscription in the hope seeing an administrator make a well considered decision

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Ire in Babylon

Where was once there was fire, now there is ire. West Indian fast bowlers are making a healthy business out of whispering into television and radio microphones

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Batting, a case of chronic neglect

When Pakistan reflect on their defeat in the first Test, they should examine why their batsmen have developed a habit of falling to some of the world's least celebrated bowlers

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Misbah at history's threshold

Is Misbah-ul Haq about to achieve what Imran Khan couldn't? Misbah has a sumptuous opportunity to win Pakistan's first ever Test series in the West Indies

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

More shame for the nameless

Wisden's withdrawn accolade to the unnamed Pakistan cricketer has heavy symbolism of its own: a memorial to the identified and unidentified cricketers who have brought dishonour to the game of cricket

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Crushed but not broken

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

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Who will seize the day?

When twenty-two men face off in the Punjab, hundreds of millions of Indians and Pakistanis around the world will turn their attention to a sport born in England

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

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

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

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?

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

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

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Storm in an idiot cup

Pakistan end Australia's unbeaten World Cup record and Shahid Afridi, the winning captain, is an idiot? Excuse me, is that news?

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

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

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

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

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

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

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

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

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

In praise of low expectations

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

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

End of grief

Denial, anger, bargaining, sadness, and acceptance: the five stages of the grief reaction that Pakistan fans have experienced over the spot-fixing controversy

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Divide, rule, and destroy

Any tinge of happiness at Pakistan's Test series victory over New Zealand is rapidly vanishing courtesy of a farce orchestrated by the Pakistan Cricket Board

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Test cricket, a wiser priority

Test wins for Pakistan are rare pleasures. The last time they enjoyed two in succession was in 2005, and the wins were five months apart

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Justice is best delayed

Pakistan's ex-cricketers are lining up to condemn a delay in the spot-fixing verdict. Zaheer Abbas, Asif Iqbal, Rashid Latif, and Sarfraz Nawaz have all joined the chorus

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

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