Osman Samiuddin

Senior editor, ESPNcricinfo

The forgotten man of Pakistan cricket

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

05-Jun-2014•Interview by Osman Samiuddin

A welcome return for one who left too soon

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

06-May-2014•Osman Samiuddin

All change in Pakistan's domestic structure. Again

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

24-Apr-2014•Osman Samiuddin

Why Pakistan must change to fit Akmal

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

01-Apr-2014•Osman Samiuddin

The Shoaib Malik question

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

24-Mar-2014•Osman Samiuddin

ESPNcricinfo Awards 2013 ODI bowling winner: Afridi's mysterious freakery

In Georgetown he employed indescribable bowling to achieve a feat of statistical ridiculousness

14-Mar-2014•Osman Samiuddin

The power of the unremarkable

Like Asif Mujtaba before him, Fawad Alam brings to Pakistan a much-needed eye for detail and alertness to opportunity

06-Mar-2014•Osman Samiuddin

Afridi: a Pakistani sort of hero

Enlightenment and order take a walk when he delivers the rare performance that brings the country together like nothing else can

03-Mar-2014•Osman Samiuddin

Junaid Khan's slow burn

He hasn't burst onto the scene all flamboyance and wild hair, like the stereotypical Pakistani fast bowler, but his bowling has started to talk all right

08-Jan-2014•Osman Samiuddin

An electric instability

When they won it was magnificent, when they lost it made for dynamite drama. In short, just another year in Pakistan cricket

31-Dec-2013•Osman Samiuddin

The ironies of Pakistan cricket's latest farrago

The PCB is at loggerheads with the courts over matters that have grown too convoluted for most people to care about

12-Nov-2013•Osman Samiuddin

What's the fuss about ball-tampering anyway?

Maybe it's time to take away the layers of morality and shrillness around it and treat it like the low-grade offence it is

29-Oct-2013•Osman Samiuddin

Irfan finds the right length

Not too many tall fast bowlers can pitch it up to good effect. Pakistan now have one, and he has the makings of a skilful customer

21-Oct-2013•Osman Samiuddin

What Hafeez's Test career tells us about failure

He has broken into the Test side three times and departed each time making the same mistakes. Has he simply reached the limit of his ability?

09-Oct-2013•Osman Samiuddin

Pakistan's first step towards governance nirvana

The PCB's plan to empower the regional associations and turn them into self-sustaining, revenue-generating units is a good one, but how feasible is it?

01-Oct-2013•Osman Samiuddin

India via its cricket

A new book by a foreign correspondent based in the country offers a wide range of voices, if not much in terms of fresh perspective

24-Aug-2013•Osman Samiuddin

From the handshake to the airplane

Players' celebrations of milestones and wickets are now full-blown, thought-through routines that range from the extravagant to the embarrassing

06-Jul-2013•Osman Samiuddin

Holiday time in Sri Lanka, again

Arriving in any country on a public holiday is never the best plan

25-Feb-2013•Osman Samiuddin

Dasti bites the dust

The scourge of Pakistan's cricketers, a self-styled moral crusader and head of the national assembly's standing committee on sports Jamshed Dasti has been forced to resign from his seat...after allegations that his MA degree in Islamic Studies was

25-Feb-2013•Osman Samiuddin

The sacred cow that is Australia

25-Feb-2013•Osman Samiuddin

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