The announcement that Karachi will not host a Test match during the England tour is one more nail in its cricketing coffin

Pakistan's reckless, relentless crackpot may have found his greatest inspiration as patience and trust are belatedly invested in him. Osman Samiuddin on Shahid Afridi

Fazal Mahmood, one of the greatest of Pakistani cricketers, has died at his home in Lahore aged 78

Enough - or as much as can be said about something so random and intangibly spectacular - has been said about Shahid Afridi's batting. Of his bowling, which is more consistent but less dramatic than his batting, less is said and understandably so

Twenty-20 has found a spiritual home in Pakistan, says Osman Samiuddin

Shoaib Malik, the captain of the Sialkot Stallions, could have put his place in the Caribbean-bound Pakistan squad in jeopardy

Osman Samiuddin considers the player of the tournament: officially it should be Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan, he says, but is this really the case he wonders

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Rarely, through the bizarrely grueling itinerary this tour has charted, has cricket and all its pre-match rituals - the scouring of the ground, pre-match press conferences, press box arrangements, coming to the stadium in the morning - been as

For the first time in three matches Inzamam-ul-Haq came to the post-match press conference as the victorious captain

Two vice-captains, two in-form batsmen

Bob Woolmer spoke after the game on where his team went wrong

Marks out of ten for Pakistan

It is difficult to downplay the magnitude of what Pakistan, and this Pakistan side in particular, has accomplished

Virender Sehwag and Shahid Afridi; safely we can say that cricket has never known the likes of them before

Younid Khan

Virender Sehwag, who became the quickest Indian to 3000 runs on the way to his belligerent 201 on the third day of the final Test against Pakistan, spoke to the press at the end of the day

Quite rightly, Inzamam-ul-Haq takes all the plaudits today

The way he is, he shouldn't be a batsman