Kamran Abbasi

Team Misbah triumphs

The Abu Dhabi pitch was easing up, the heavy roller would flatten it further. Team Misbah had batted too Misbah-ly, going at a crawl when a thrash or two would have eased nerves

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Saeed Ajmal lifts Pakistani hearts

Never in the field of cricket conflict have so many enjoyed a match played before so few. Pakistan's thumping victory in Dubai was accompanied by shrill cries of glory that echoed around a near-empty stadium

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

The tortoise can triumph

When Pakistan play England, to paraphrase Coldplay, every series is a watershed. Confrontations are frequent, disagreements a ritual

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Pakistan emerge from swampy lowlands

Undefeated in a Test series in 2011, Pakistan are condemned for a slow, unadventurous version of cricket that renders any success hollow

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

'Boom Boom' thunders in Sharjah

Don't bother looking at the umpire's finger when Shahid Afridi takes a wicket, just watch the man himself. The instant Afridi strikes his star-man pose, fingers pointing to the heavens, cue pandemonium

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

The question about Misbah

Misbah has the second-highest Test average for a captain after Don Bradman (minimum ten Tests). Why murmurings of discontent?

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Jail isn't the answer

The convictions of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif, and Mohammad Amir are no surprise, and their incarceration is nothing unexpected

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

A deterrent, nothing more

I didn't know how I'd feel, a voyeur at the prosecution of Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif? There was no thrill at being party to historic events, only sadness, regret

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

New Pakistan revive the old school

Is any cricketer bigger than Pakistan? Imran Khan, the man who came closest, held a political rally yesterday in front of Pakistan's monument to liberty in Lahore

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Misbah's words more positive than deeds

Anybody in search of final day heroics was best advised to look away from the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. Pakistan toiled in attack, Sri Lanka toiled in defence

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Good riddance to Calamity Butt

Ijaz Butt is a miracle man. It was a miracle that he survived so long, and a greater miracle that Pakistan cricket survived him

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Shoaib feels the heat of his own inferno

Indeed, you might not know Shoaib Akhtar as a comedian but, almost by accident, he has made the world laugh

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Survival of the fittest

In a week famous for sixty-fourth anniversaries, India and Pakistan might wish to reflect on the fruits of those intervening years of toil on the cricket field

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Power above integrity, an Asian malady requires remedy

India dominating in the Caribbean, Pakistan cricketers shining in an English domestic tournament, Sri Lanka winning at the home of cricket, Bangladesh a full member of the ICC, all rosy in the garden of South Asian cricket?

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Can ICC stop this ruin and ridicule?

Imran Khan has described it as a suicide attack but you might wonder if there is anything left worth destroying?

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Afridi in, Butt out

Governance of international cricket requires much broader skills than ability with ball and willow. But nobody bought a match ticket or sports subscription in the hope seeing an administrator make a well considered decision

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Ire in Babylon

Where was once there was fire, now there is ire. West Indian fast bowlers are making a healthy business out of whispering into television and radio microphones

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Batting, a case of chronic neglect

When Pakistan reflect on their defeat in the first Test, they should examine why their batsmen have developed a habit of falling to some of the world's least celebrated bowlers

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

Misbah at history's threshold

Is Misbah-ul Haq about to achieve what Imran Khan couldn't? Misbah has a sumptuous opportunity to win Pakistan's first ever Test series in the West Indies

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

More shame for the nameless

Wisden's withdrawn accolade to the unnamed Pakistan cricketer has heavy symbolism of its own: a memorial to the identified and unidentified cricketers who have brought dishonour to the game of cricket

25-Feb-2013•Kamran Abbasi

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