Osman Samiuddin

Peter Chingoka, chairman of Zimbabwe Cricket, is confident his country are well on their way to being a Test nation again

Shoaib Malik is confident of not only his participation in the ODI series against Zimbabwe, but also Pakistan delivering the goods while introducing new faces

Pakistan, over the last year, and Zimbabwe, for some time, have probably realised the significance of that sentiment more than most nations

Zimbabwe will look to the ICC to ensure that their future tour commitments go ahead as planned

More technology or less? The ICC's proposed new system of referring contentious umpiring decisions may have its pros and cons in about equal measure, but it needs to be given a fair run

Plenty happened in Pakistan cricket in 2007, little of it good

The heroes and zeroes, the purple patches and the flops, feats and falls, the weird and the wonderful. Osman Samiuddin hands out the gongs for the year in cricket

Question are being asked of Shoaib Malik's captaincy after Pakistan's poor performance in India, with Younis Khan emerging as a possible alternative

Osman Samiuddin reviews Pakistan's Test series and rates the players as they contributed

Once heralded as the next big brown hopes of spin, Danish Kaneria and Harbhajan Singh now find themselves losing the magic that made them great

With the injury to Shoaib Akhtar, and Pakistan's decision to stick to only four specialist bowlers, meant Pakistan allowed India, as well as the series, out of their grasp on the opening day

A 136-run partnership between Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf dragged Pakistan from a perilous 78 for 4 to safety.

India gave themselves some hope of winning the second Test at Eden Gardens, finally hustling out Pakistan's resistance on the fourth day

Defiant centuries from Misbah-ul-Haq and Kamran Akmal left Pakistan 258 runs behind India's mammoth first-innings score of 616

Sourav Ganguly got his first Test hundred in Kolkata as India bruised, battered and pummelled Pakistan

Wasim Jaffer's bat sparkled brightest on a day of total dominance for India's batsmen

Although Pakistan may have lost the first Test by six wickets, there still are positives to take out for Shoaib Malik from the defeat

The failures of Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan have given the other players an opportunity to take charge and the response has been heartening

In nearly every one of the 23 international innings Misbah-ul-Haq has played since his surprise return into Pakistan's scheme of things, a situation has presented itself, a problem to be resolved

Half a century into their storied rivalry, India and Pakistan are yet to produce a series that is great all the way through. Will this be the one?