Osman Samiuddin

Mohammad Yousuf's retirement announcement wasn't all that convincing - after all, we've been there before

Mohammad Yousuf is preparing to retire from all forms of international cricket, a direct result it is believed, of the treatment and punishment the PCB handed out to him in the aftermath of Pakistan's recent Australian tour

Shahid Afridi has been named captain of the Pakistan squad for the World Twenty20 starting next month in the Caribbean

Mohammad Yousuf, Younis Khan, Shoaib Malik or Naved-ul-Hasan were not awarded central contracts, but their fates shielded a number of very bizarre decisions taken by the board and selection committee in its picks

Members of Pakistan's senate standing committee on sports believe that "one or more" players in the national side are involved in deliberately underperforming for money

Since the punishments Raqib has publicly spoken of his surprise at the fines and bans but the board today released a statement claiming that Raqib had wanted players to be heavily fined

Pakistan will announce a captain for the World Twenty20 in the next couple of days

The PCB remains tight-lipped about the nature of charges laid against senior players and the procedure followed in punishing them

Waqar Younis, Pakistan's incoming coach, has expressed "shock" at the clean-up operation in Pakistan which saw the PCB ban and fine seven leading players

The players have been singled out for punishment, but the managers, selectors and board officials who run the show have sidestepped the mess nicely

The Pakistan Cricket Board has come down heavily on the national players, acting on the findings of an inquiry committee that looked into the team's disastrous tour of Australia

The PCB chairman has promised to take "more than significant" action against leading Pakistan players in the aftermath of an inquiry committee report

The inquiry committee looking into Pakistan's disastrous tour to Australia has recommended a string of harsh punishments against a number of Pakistan's senior-most players, ranging from heavy fines to bans

Shoaib Akhtar has hit out at the Pakistan board's decision to deduct Rs 7 million from his annual earnings as punishment for a contested misdemeanor

Mohsin Khan began his stint as Pakistan's new chief selector by calling for Pakistan's Twenty20 set-up and thinking to be divorced from the Test and ODI line-ups

Waqar Younis has signed on as the new coach of the Pakistan side, in the process becoming the fourth coach of the team in three years

A year on from the horrors of Lahore, a Karachi tournament shows that the game is alive and well - despite the bumbling of the PCB

Waqar Younis has been offered a contract by the PCB to coach the Pakistan side until December 2011

The PCB has received evidence from the ICC regarding the involvement of Pakistan players in match-fixing. Ijaz Butt, the chairman of PCB, said the evidence concerned old cases

Pakistan's next full-time coach is "99%" certain to be a local man, according to PCB chairman Ijaz Butt, though a tweaked coaching set-up may also look at incorporating inputs from foreign coaches as and when required