The Surfer

It's costly filling Shoaib's boots

Shoaib Akhtar in a bid to maintain his fitness at the optimum level and avoid any foot injuries uses specially made boots, each pair costing 500 pounds (about 53,000 Pakistani rupees), and he carries five pairs in his kit bag.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Targeting the umpires

IS over-appealing leading to the spate of very poor umpiring decisions in international matches over the last 12 months

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Ban the Kookaburra

Waqar Younis is fuming

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Amitabh, Aishwarya jostle for space with cricketers

Bollywood v Cricket Pakistan’s love and craze for Bollywood and Indian tele-serials continued even as the Indian team is there on a 45-day tour to play three Tests and five one-day internationals

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Cricket... caught on tape!

Sanjjeev Samyal of Mid Day , the Mumbai-based tabloid, had a practice session with a local club to understand the nuances of tape ball cricket , which is a rage in Pakistan.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

When Roy and Mankad tormented the Kiwis

Clayton Murzello, sports editor of Mid-Day , the Mumbai-based daily , looks back at the world-record opening partnership of 413 between Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad in 1955-56 that Sehwag and Dravid came within an ace of breaking

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The mystery of spin

The ECB’s goal of England becoming the world’s best team by 2007 will probably elude them because they don’t have a quality spinner, says Vic Marks

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

When Dravid charmed Bari

Wasim Bari, former Pakistan wicketkeeper and current chairman of selectors, appears to be floored by Rahul Dravid

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What colour do you see the world in?

PCB definitely doesn’t see it red

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Opening salvo

R Mohan , the veteran Indian journalist, has eulogised Rahul Dravid’s decision to open the batting, calling it an "unselfish" move

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Mushtaq finally gets bowling coach appointment

The Pakistan Cricket Board has appointed Mushtaq Ahmed, the legspinner, as the bowling coach of the senior team for the home series against India.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

If I keep scoring, who will have the guts to drop me?

Younis Khan, who continued his love affair with India with a 199 in the first Test, talks about his career, about coming back from being dropped and more

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

The art of bat making

Sachin Tendulkar, in a lunch time chat with Dean Jones, talked about his equipment

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'Goodness gracious'

John Wright has backed Sourav Ganguly , rubbishing most of Raj Singh Dungarpur’s comments on the former Indian captain

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Galli Galli mey Irfan - Not quite says Miandad

Javed Miandad is surprised by the reluctance of the Indians to go on defensive even when Pakistan was on top

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More to it than just cricket

Mike Marqusee, weeds out the hype, and plants the proper perspective.

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Pakistan's paid fan putting pen to paper

Whenever you watch a match involving Pakistan there will always be at least one familiar face in the crowd, the flag-waving Abdul Jaleel

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Haroon and the sea of stories

No, we are not talking about Salman Rushdie’s book but Haroon Rashid, the former Pakistan team manager, who lost his job a year back

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World Cup: it's time Warne chose

The speculation over the possibility of Shane Warne returning to one-day cricket continues

25-Feb-2013•The Surfer

Much ado about the roof

" Telstra Dome's debut as an open-air cricket venue threatened to dissolve into farce last night," writes Nabila Ahmed in The Age , "with the roof opened, closed and opened again in a night of confusion caused by a massive shadow across the

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