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Something was not quite right

Azhar Mahmood scored a scintillating century on his Test debut for Pakistan - and has been in and out of the side almost ever since

It is easy to forget, in these times of never-ending politicking, that cricket is a game that relies on cricketers for its well-being and popularity

In this week's edition of Beyond the Test World, Malaysia receives a lift ahead of next month's Asian Cricket Council Trophy, Nepal's coach, Roy Dias, wants to take his team home to Colombo, and Hot Dogs have become the rage in Shanghai cricket

This week, Malaysia receives a lift ahead of next month's Asian Cricket Council Trophy, why Nepal's coach, Roy Dias, wants to take his team home to Colombo, and how Hot Dogs became the rage in Shanghai cricket

When the Pakistan Cricket Board announced, with much gusto last year, that regional cricket was indeed the antidote to the many ills of Pakistan cricket, it was greeted with as much enthusiasm as cynicism

Lord's was a picture for the first big match of the season

The ICC has found out what anyone who has opposed the Zimbabwe board already knew: if the going gets tough, then the ZCU just pretends that all is well and carries on regardless

Muttiah Muralitharan has shelved his doosra for the timebeing, but he's angry and out to prove a point over the next few months

In the latest issue of The Wisden Cricketer, Peter Chingoka, the Zimbabwe Cricket Union's chairman, makes an eloquent defence of his board's conduct and handling of cricket inside Zimbabwe

At best, the tour will be gruesomely one-sided

The Duckworth-Lewis system for calculating target scores in rain-interrupted one-day internationals has come in for plenty of debate, but it is clearly the best of all methods that have been used so far

On Saturday week (May 22) Zimbabwe play a Test match against Australia at Harare

Put him up in front of a TV camera or microphone, and Muttiah Muralitharan will blush and appear shy, his face creased by a nervous smile and his answers, despite good English now, short and sharp

Weaker men would have folded under the pressure of it all, but MuttiahMuralitharan, the greatest sportsman to emerge from Sri Lanka's teardropisland, appears remarkably unfazed by the debate that rages throughout thecricketing world over the legality

Put him up in front of a TV camera or microphone, and Muttiah Muralitharan will blush and appear shy, his face creased by a nervous smile and his answers, despite good English now, short and sharp

Put him up in front of a TV camera or microphone, and Muttiah Muralitharan will blush and appear shy, his face creased by a nervous smile and his answers, despite good English now, short and sharp

Put him up in front of a TV camera or microphone, and Muttiah Muralitharan will blush and appear shy, his face creased by a nervous smile and his answers, despite good English now, short and sharp

Steven Lynch on how the ICC has delivered stinging broadsides against two easy targets

It is a travesty of Test cricket