Osman Samiuddin

Senior editor, ESPNcricinfo

Shafiq, unsung but not an underachiever

Asad Shafiq's prominence in Pakistan's rise would have perhaps been a bigger deal, had he been a player from cricket's Big Three

22-Dec-2016•Osman Samiuddin in Melbourne

Pakistan unfazed by Misbah's dip in form

Pakistan's batting coach Grant Flower is confident that captain Misbah-ul-Haq will work himself back into form, after a string of low scores recently

22-Dec-2016•Osman Samiuddin in Melbourne

Pakistan's cycle of horrors in Australia

Pakistan's batting collapse on the second day of the day-night Test at the Gabba was a continuation of their woeful history on Australian pitches

16-Dec-2016•Osman Samiuddin

Time to reassess Pakistan attack already?

Does this Pakistan attack defy mathematics by showing that the whole attack is distinctly less than the sum of its individual parts? Maybe the maths is right, that this attack is only as good as its numbers, which aren't great

15-Dec-2016•Osman Samiuddin

Yasir Shah's Australian burden

Down under, a spinner needs all the tricks of his trade. Unlike his Pakistani legspin predecessors, Yasir is not quite that tricksy sort of spinner

13-Dec-2016•Osman Samiuddin

Bangla love

Cricket was adored in Bangladesh long before it became a country. The rest of the world is only catching up to that fact now

01-Sep-2016•Osman Samiuddin

The solitary master

Loneliness was a theme not just of Hanif Mohammad's batting but also of his career and life

11-Aug-2016•Osman Samiuddin

Aslam hints at an end to Pakistan's most permanent problem

As good a batsman as he has shown himself to be, to give off a sense of permanence in his first Test innings in England is what stood out about Sami Aslam

04-Aug-2016•Osman Samiuddin at Edgbaston

Yasir and Sarfraz: can we hear an ai hai hai?

The pairing of legspinner and keeper is unlike any other in cricket, and full of rich and complex dynamics

30-Jun-2016•Osman Samiuddin

McCullum speech thrusts trust question at ICC

The ACSU asks players to trust the organisation when it comes to reporting corruption. But when the information they offer is treated poorly and leaked, where does trust come in?

08-Jun-2016•Osman Samiuddin

England shining

They've never been quite as poor at one-day cricket as we've been given to think. These days, in fact, they're positively electric

02-May-2016•Osman Samiuddin

Defiant till I die

How to survive as a batsman in Pakistan, parrying blows, fighting the system, soaring to greatness. Aka, the Younis Khan story

01-Apr-2016•Osman Samiuddin

The art of the interview

It can be adversarial, revelatory, somewhere between conversation and interrogation. This month we showcase a triumph of the genre

02-Mar-2016•Osman Samiuddin

What's the BCCI's hang-up about the UAE?

It refuses to let India play Pakistan there, but hasn't been forthcoming with reasons why

25-Nov-2015•Osman Samiuddin

Misbah breaks it down

The Pakistan captain talks about the many observations, plots and decisions that go into the game's most important task: taking wickets

21-Nov-2015•Osman Samiuddin

The fast man and the leggie

It's a bowling partnership not peculiar to Pakistan but highly identifiable with the country

26-Oct-2015•Osman Samiuddin

The Seinfeldian nature of BCCI-PCB relations

All the talk of resuming talks on India-Pakistan bilateral ties seems to be a lot of noise yet so little else

21-Oct-2015•Osman Samiuddin

Majid's plan for Pakistan cricket

Along with his son Bazid, the former Pakistan batsman has come up with a proposal - though hardly the first - to decentralise domestic cricket in the country

09-Oct-2015•Osman Samiuddin

Give us this day a whistle-blower

We need investigative zeal to counter the stunning lack of transparency in cricket administration

02-Oct-2015•Osman Samiuddin

How simple is spotting a no-ball?

Hardly: bowling actions, and the circumstances of the job, make it difficult for the umpire to detect whether the bowler has overstepped

31-Aug-2015•Osman Samiuddin

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