When an airliner crashes, the first thing that the accident investigators do is to search for the 'black box' and the cockpit voice recorder which might provide clues about the likely cause for the crash

I must admit that it is not easy to concentrate on cricket, much less enjoy it while a brutal war rages in Iraq

Is it right that we should be playing cricket while a war rages in Iraq

Australia and lately India play their cricket with intensity

If the building process is continuous, there is no need to re-build

Pakistan's chance in the World Cup hangs by a slender thread

Australia won the VB series in style and in the process showed that there were two ways of going about the winning business

There is a holier-than-thou self-righteousness about the Darren Lehmann case

I don't think we need any post-mortems to tell us what went wrong in the Cape Town Test match and indeed in the entire tour of South Africa

It took nine overs for South Africa to make the 44 runs, required to win the Durban test match by 10 wickets

There was never really any doubt that Waqar Younis would lead Pakistan in the World Cup

There is first of all the injury to Shane Warne that may keep him out of the World Cup

PAKISTAN made a clean sweep of both the Test and the One-day internationals against Zimbabwe and the margins were emphatic

Nothing has suggested so far that there is any basis to the security concerns that have been raised about Harare and Bulawayo as venues for World Cup matches

England proved not to be an immovable object as Australia, the irresistible force, blew them away as it had Pakistan

MUHAMMAD Ali (as Cassius Clay) taunted Sonny Liston mercilessly, "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee" was the least offensive of his taunts

Once one had got over the disappointment, a huge disappointment for Pakistan had come tantalisingly close to winning, one felt good for the future of Pakistan cricket

The perception is that all is not well with the Pakistan team

Even, as we slam our cricket team, spare a thought for the brilliant cricket that Sri Lanka played, this was a team that seemed down and out on its tour of England, almost entirely because Muttiah Muralitharan was unfit

All I know about the sending back of Yousuf Youhana from Nairobi on disciplinary grounds is what I have read in the newspapers