Features

Can Virender Sehwag dominate Shoaib Akhtar like he did the last time the two played? Can Inzamam-ul-Haq thwart the Anil Kumble menace?

Osman Samiuddin looks back at an year which saw Pakistan develop a togetherness and commitment seldom seen

Cricinfo and Wisden writers select their best and worst moments from 2005

Cricinfo and Wisden writers select their best and worst moments from 2005

The regular Monday column in which Steven Lynch answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket.

A lowdown on Faisalabad, the venue of the second Test between Pakistan and England

How Danish Kaneria demolished England

With England's cricket team suddenly fashionable again, their tour of Pakistan offers a chance to assess how far the growing Asian population in the UK have been integrated into British society and what role cricket plays in this

Slow tracks, knee-high balls, a steady diet of spin - these are some of the conditions England will probably have to conquer to walk away with their second consecutive series victory in Pakistan

The regular Monday column in which Steven Lynch answers your questions about (almost) any aspect of cricket

Cricinfo sizes up the stats of the heavyweights in the Super Series one-dayers, and looks at some interesting individual match-ups

Yousuf Youhana's conversion to Islam and a new identity - Mohammad Yousuf - illustrates the growing phenomenon of faith within the Pakistan team

England name Udal and Loudon in squad for Pakistan tour

A sometime bearded assassin, Abdul Qadir reignited a lost art in spin's dark ages

Osman Samiuddin on the fading fortunes of Pakistan's veteran wicketkeepers

The National Stadium in Karachi suddenly seems a less impregnable fortress

The performance of Sri Lanka in Faisalabad was unusual, not just because it was a rare overseas win (there have only been 11 in two decades), but also because this was a drawn out four-innings dogfight

Pakistan's cricket team is on an upward curve

There was a dream that was Pakistan cricket, and it died in the dust of Sharjah

Inzamam-ul-Haq and Danish Kaneria showed just how valuable they are to the Pakistan team - when they fired the team won, and won easily