Australia won the NatWest Trophy because it was the best team, by far, in the tournament and in the process put to rest the theory that cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties

No part is greater than the whole has been amply demonstrated by the Pakistan team

The momentum of Old Trafford carried to Edgbaston, Pakistan on a high and England singing the blues and the first game of the NatWest triangular series was a mismatch

Of the three results possible on the last day of the Old Trafford Test match, a Pakistan win looked the least likely

The Condon report merely confirms what most people already knew that match-fixing is worldwide rather than confined to a specific country or region and the bookies have cast a wide net

It's hard to know where to begin

Long distance Test match fever is not the same as being there and suddenly I wished that I was with the team and at Lord's

A two-Test series is the equivalent of grabbing a quick snack

Two weeks ago, I had mentioned in this column that Farooq Mazhar, a senior sports journalist and commentator, was seriously ill and his condition had been described as "critical." Farooq passed away peacefully

Pakistan had gone into the final at Sharjah having won all its league matches while Sri Lanka had won only one and had qualified for the final by virtue of a better run-rate

Bad news comes in battalions

Unlike unhappy families, which according to Tolstoy, are unhappy in their own ways, losing teams resemble one another, low morale, lack of motivation, disharmony in its ranks and poor leadership

I have been covering cricket for more than half a century, a labour of love but which is also my livelihood

Before everyone and his uncle starts to get on the band wagon and take the credit for Younis Khan, the record must be set straight

Don Bradman died at the age of 92, failing by 7

I can't make heads or tails of the demands of the captains of the Test playing countries that there should be a greater equality in earnings between the rich teams and the poor teams

Words fail me

There is a news item that the Asia Cup scheduled for April in Karachi has been postponed

It was a nightmarish year for cricket

To say that there is disappointment in Pakistan at losing the Karachi Test match and with it the series would be to convey the most polite of sentiments