The possessed Kiwis make it to their first World Cup final
South Africa beat New Zealand by six wickets and AB de Villiers is the man of the match for his unbeaten 89 off 85 balls. No, this is not the match result of the 2015 World Cup semi-final in Auckland;...
View ArticleIndia, you will have to #GiveItBack now
It couldn’t have been any other team than Australia who could knock the unbeaten defending champions out of the 2015 World Cup. And when the time came in the semi-final at the Sydney Cricket Ground,...
View ArticleMighty Kangaroos did what they do best – win World Cups
A record attendance of 93,013 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), an unbeaten opposition in front, nerves, anxiety, tension, stress and everything ready to break the concentration needed to focus on...
View ArticleAre we really ready for Zimbabwe?
Pakistan announced its T20 squad today with former captain Shoaib Malik and star all-rounder Umar Akmal making a comeback. Muhammad Sami, another lost tale of the Pakistan cricket biopic, was given a...
View ArticleYounus Khan rains on nine-year Lankan drought in the Island
Misbahul Haq was optimistic that the absence of Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene on the Sri Lankan side would increase their chances of victory, but he forgot about Dimuth Karunaratne and the...
View ArticlePCB kills two birds with one stone
Shoaib Malik measured Milinda Siriwardana on the third and fourth ball of the 41st over by playing two dot balls. Pakistan only needed six runs to bag an unassailable three-one lead in the five-match...
View ArticleWhat is it about Umar Akmal that people don’t understand?
Manzoor, Zahoor and Saleem Elahi. Imran and Humayun Farhat. Moin and Nadeem Khan. Hanif, Mushtaq, Sadiq and Wazir Mohammad. Wasim and Ramiz Raja. This is not a listicle of the cricketing families of...
View ArticleRoger Federer versus Novak Djokovic: The old lions still roar
As expected, Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer in the US Open final in four sets. I wasn’t surprised. However, what astonished me was when Croatian Marin Cilic and Japanese Kei Nishikori made it to the...
View ArticleImad Wasim, the man with the golden touch
Pakistan beat Zimbabwe by 13 runs in the first T20 of the two-match series on September, 27 2015 letting Imad Wasim exhibit his brilliance on the cricket ground. [caption id="" align="alignnone"...
View ArticlePakistan Super League: Let the games begin!
February 4, 2016 marks an extremely important date in the history of Pakistan cricket. The idea which was first conceived in 2012 is finally going to turn into a reality; the curtain will rise and...
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