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

Waqar Younis' last term as coach saw Pakistan rise in the international arena. Now he returns to take charge of a side filled with talented young batsmen but one facing a decline in fast bowling stocks

Change has been the only constant in the country's first-class system. And a recent set of proposals - worthy as they sound - only serve to reinforce that

They have long mistaken his fearlessness for irresponsibility and clipped his wings. But he can't be denied for long

No one can give a satisfactory answer about why he's in the side and what has happened to his supposed utility. Maybe the answer has to do with his captaincy stint