Osman Samiuddin

An intriguing battle beckons

Pakistan will take any cricket, soft or hard, after the autumn they have just undergone. Just playing, you sense, will be relief enough

10-Nov-2006•Osman Samiuddin

Running with scissors

Osman Samiuddin looks at Nasim Ashraf, the new PCB chairman, and how his remarks on religion have really revved up the chattering classes

27-Oct-2006•Osman Samiuddin

A deeply stirring spectacle

Osman Samiuddin watches Pakistan bounce back from their recent travails

17-Oct-2006•Osman Samiuddin

Pakistan revert to familiar disarray

Reports in Pakistan are suggesting that Mohammad Yousuf has been appointed captain for the Champions Trophy in place of Younis Khan, who earlier today refused to take up the Pakistan captaincy.

05-Oct-2006•Osman Samiuddin

More than an inconvenient truth

When Darrell Hair and Billy Doctrove decreed Pakistan guilty of ball tampering on the afternoon of August 20, 2006, they were venturing into uncharted international territory

02-Oct-2006•Osman Samiuddin

Justice still awaits

Having seen Inzamam-ul-Haq, the Pakistan team cleared of ball tampering charges and Pakistan the country, a slur removed and its honour restored, sights were set trained on Darrell Hair

29-Sep-2006•Osman Samiuddin

Otherwise pandemonium

Pakistan outright lost the Test series against England this summer and though they drew the one-day international series, never has a draw been more a loss than this

14-Sep-2006•Osman Samiuddin

It's Hair's word against Pakistan's

Not much clarity has yet emerged from the stinking carcass of the match on any of the many grave issues involved. One thing though is becoming clear and it is a time-honoured truism; like the tango, it takes more than one.

21-Aug-2006•Osman Samiuddin

Painful and sadly predictable

Lurking nastily beneath all the hopes Pakistani fans must have harboured last night at the prospect of a spectacular heist lay the fear of a day like this

08-Aug-2006•Osman Samiuddin

Pakistan defy Headingley history

Osman Samiuddin watches a Pakistan side defy the history of Headingley

05-Aug-2006•Osman Samiuddin

Trouble in the left-arm front

Pakistan's Old Trafford shellacking was, a Pakistani paper sagely observed, one of their worst ever under Bob Woolmer and Inzamam-ul-Haq

30-Jul-2006•Osman Samiuddin

The opening conundrum

Osman Samiuddin tracks Pakistan's age-old dilemma - the search for that seasoned, durable, Test opener

15-Jul-2006•Osman Samiuddin

These boots were made for filling

Pakistan's age-old dilemma - the search for that seasoned, durable, Test opener - still remains

13-Jul-2006•Osman Samiuddin

Inzamam or Younis?

Inzamam-ul-Haq or Younis Khan? Osman Samiuddin ponders over the big question

01-Apr-2006•Osman Samiuddin

The thin red line

Nowhere are lines between success and failure thinner than in ODIs

13-Feb-2006•Osman Samiuddin in Lahore

Inzamam's reaction leaves a bad taste

Osman Samiuddin on how Inzamam-ul-Haq's post-match reaction to his controversial dismissal at Pashawar was so wide of the mark

10-Feb-2006•Osman Samiuddin

Shoulder injury forced Rana out

Rana Naved-ul-Hasan's surprising omission from the second Test at Faisalabad was the result of a minor shoulder injury

22-Jan-2006•Osman Samiuddin in Faisalabad

Playing safe could mean sorry

The omission of Naved-ul-Hasan may backfire

21-Jan-2006•Osman Samiuddin in Faisalabad

Sami the enigmatic

Just what do you do with the boy Mohammad Sami, asks Osman Samiuddin

18-Jan-2006•Osman Samiuddin

Making a pitch for favourable weather

Wasim Akram wanted them hard and bouncy. Inzamam-ul-Haq wanted them fast and bouncy. The PCB, according to its official newsletter, also wanted them fast and bouncy.

15-Jan-2006•Osman Samiuddin

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