Osman Samiuddin

Senior editor, ESPNcricinfo

Unapologetic Ijaz Butt arrives in London

Ijaz Butt, the Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, has refused to apologise for suggestions he made that England fixed a match in the recent one-day series

27-Sep-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Prescriptions for the PCB

Get rid of Ijaz Butt, take away some of the chairman's powers and spread them around, hire a CEO answerable to the governing body, and bring in more prominent former cricketers

27-Sep-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Butt has shot himself in both feet

The PCB chief's statements attacking a board that has worked hard to bring international cricket to Pakistan are beyond the boundaries of sanity. But the ICC is also to blame

20-Sep-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Conspiracy to defraud Pakistan cricket - Ijaz Butt

A day after the ICC launched a formal investigation into Pakistan's win in the third ODI at The Oval, Ijaz Butt has hit back at what he believes to be a "conspiracy to defraud Pakistan and Pakistan cricket"

19-Sep-2010•Osman Samiuddin

No reason to call off UAE tour - Majola

Pakistan's continuing scrapes with allegations of spot-fixing has pushed the spotlight onto their next international assignment, a full series against South Africa in Abu Dhabi and Dubai

19-Sep-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Suspended Pakistan trio file replies to ICC

The three Pakistani players provisionally suspended by the ICC on allegations of spot-fixing have filed appeals against their suspension

14-Sep-2010•Osman Samiuddin and Nagraj Gollapudi

Suspended Pakistan trio return home

A couple of hundred protestors were at Lahore airport when the three Pakistan players at the centre of the spot-fixing scandal returned home

09-Sep-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Riaz to be questioned on September 14

Pakistan's Wahab Riaz to be questioned by Scotland Yard on September 14.

09-Sep-2010•Osman Samiuddin and Nagraj Gollapudi

PCB fought for suspended cricketers

The PCB had tried to fight the case for the three cricketers accused of spot-fixing, and are unhappy with ICC's 'haste' in suspending them

08-Sep-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Pakistan to send investigators to UK

A team made up from Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and possibly an official from the sports ministry will be heading to England as part of Pakistan's probe into the spot-fixing allegations

30-Aug-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Mazhar Majeed known to Pakistan players

Mazhar Majeed, the man at the centre of the spot-fixing controversy that has engulfed the ongoing Lord's Test between England and Pakistan, is known to many members of the Pakistan team as a UK-based agent

29-Aug-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Players were told not to meet Majeed brothers

The Pakistan team was warned about meeting Mazhar and Azhar Majeed by the team management at the start of their tour to England

29-Aug-2010•Osman Samiuddin

South Africa, Pakistan to play flood fund-raiser

South Africa and Pakistan will play an extra T20I in Dubai to raise funds for victims of the floods that have devastated Pakistan over the last month

26-Aug-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Yousuf returns to limited-over squads

Mohammad Yousuf's rehabilitation back into the Pakistan fold is complete as the batsman was recalled to a 16-man squad to face England in a five-ODI series and two Twenty20 internationals in September

24-Aug-2010•Osman Samiuddin

New Zealand deny offer to play in Pakistan

New Zealand have denied making any offer to tour Pakistan to help raise funds for victims of the floods in the country

23-Aug-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Cricket boards offer to help Pakistan

A number of cricket boards have offered to help Pakistan raise relief funds for the people affected by the floods that have devastated the country

21-Aug-2010•Osman Samiuddin

There's more to Pakistan than Punjab and Karachi

Karachi may have a genuine gripe about being sidelined in terms of national selection at the moment - but that's how the rest of country has felt forever

16-Aug-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Karachi association slams Pakistan team composition

The Karachi City Cricket Association has condemned the national side and the selection committee for failing to put together "a representative team" in the ongoing Test series

11-Aug-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Confusion reigns over Yousuf recall

There are concerns about how his return, after being axed previously, will affect the team

02-Aug-2010•Osman Samiuddin

Hope floats after hoodoo ends

Despite the near panic at the end, this win is memorable as the one that breaks the stranglehold Australia have had over Pakistan

24-Jul-2010•Osman Samiuddin

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