Osman Samiuddin

Senior editor, ESPNcricinfo

Pakistan minus that old, eerie panic

After years of skipped heartbeats and sweaty palms, just how does one reconcile with a nerveless Pakistan as they waltz through a tall chase?

08-Jul-2015•Osman Samiuddin

Banish Danish

And so cricket has done. Kaneria's is the loaded story of a double exile

02-Jul-2015•Osman Samiuddin

Younis Khan's hard-earned hundred

We say that Tests reveal mettle; if you play 100, you must be some man. When it comes to Younis, that doesn't tell half the story

25-Jun-2015•Osman Samiuddin

An immense, nervy occasion

Pakistan's six-year isolation has impacted players, administrators and fans - often in ways hard to quantify. Zimbabwe's visit is a significant and small first step towards a recovery

07-May-2015•Osman Samiuddin

A captain like no other

Selfless, brave, humble, but also infuriatingly complex: Misbah-ul-Haq offers joys and contradictions in equal measure

07-Apr-2015•Osman Samiuddin

The contradiction that is Ahmed Shehzad

Off the field, he's all flash and hair gel; on it, he's a slowpoke, given to hitting pretty shots straight to fielders

19-Mar-2015•Osman Samiuddin

Wahab Riaz and the tale of the Pakistani bouncer

In the high art of Pakistani fast bowling, where the short ball is mostly used as a warning, Wahab's uncomplicated, extreme pace is an indulgence that stands out

11-Mar-2015•Osman Samiuddin

'Meekened' Pakistan still waiting to prick India's bubble

Every time India beat Pakistan at the World Cup it cuts into the ego and bluster that had characterised Pakistani cricket for years

13-Feb-2015•Osman Samiuddin

The year the World Cup left us cold

The tournament in the West Indies ought to have been among the most joyous, but it was marked by a general cheerlessness, and with the death of Bob Woolmer, outright dismay

08-Feb-2015•Osman Samiuddin

Awesome in whites, awful in colour

Pakistan's year oscillated between superb and dreadful, with their ODI form particularly worrying ahead of the World Cup

29-Dec-2014•Osman Samiuddin

Let's talk about flex

As the ICC seeks refuge in science, it may have to confront the possibility that nothing we know about chucking - and bowling - is quite as it seems

03-Dec-2014•Osman Samiuddin

Misbah gets his bucket-list hundred

Misbah-ul-Haq gives the impression of constantly being on the verge of doing something out of the ordinary, and on Sunday he did just that; he let go of all the self-restraint he has shown over the years and hit the hundred he knew he could hit

02-Nov-2014•Osman Samiuddin

The power of slow

We live in an age that prizes swiftness and urgency. More of a reason to celebrate a great batsman who urges us to pay attention

01-Nov-2014•Osman Samiuddin

The miracle of '92

Twenty-two years after Pakistan's headiest triumph, it's still hard to believe how that ramshackle bunch surged to glory

01-Nov-2014•Osman Samiuddin

Workload took toll on Ajmal's action

With biomechanics at the crux of the ICC's testing process, it is important to find out how much of an advantage a kinked action gives to bowling

09-Sep-2014•Osman Samiuddin

Exile on Sloane St

Once cricket's flashiest administrator, Lalit Modi is now its flashiest muckraker. And still relevant

03-Sep-2014•Osman Samiuddin

Fazal swings it Pakistan's way

Sixty years ago, Fazal Mahmood inspired Pakistan to an incredible triumph against England

13-Aug-2014•Osman Samiuddin

Ajmal move reveals ICC's firm hand

The scrutiny over Saeed Ajmal is one of the signs that the ICC is taking greater control in the process of identifying suspect bowling actions by backing match officials and bringing uniformity in testing

12-Aug-2014•Osman Samiuddin

The old-world virtue of Younis Khan

There's something dated, and comforting, about the security he represents for Pakistan, and when he is gone they will be truly bereft

07-Aug-2014•Osman Samiuddin

Pentastic

India and England play five Tests this summer, rare for a non-Ashes series. We pick five modern classics of the genre

03-Aug-2014•Osman Samiuddin

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