Osman Samiuddin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The drive to purge the game of bowlers with suspect actions may have been suppressed a little but the moralising remains

With over 200 Test wickets, including 50 in his last tenTests,Saqlain Mushtaq can rightly claim to be among the most successful, as well as revolutionary, offspinners of the modern era -yet he continues to be ignored