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Posts tagged with ‘Pakistan’

Features:

Kamran Akmal's wicket-keeping ability has been under the spotlight after a series of high-profile errors. Meanwhile, focus at the World Cup has been cast upon match-fixing, with every batting collapse, dropped catch and slow run-rate under scrutiny. If we are to overcome the latter, we should be treasuring the former.

The Akmal antidote

News & Notes:

March 30, 2011

Misbah-ul-Haq tries to save a test match

There is certainly still an important place in fifty over cricket for innings building, but this was taking the concept to an unhealthy new level.

May 20, 2010

Who’d be a Pakistani cricketer?

Life as a Pakistani cricketer is, to put it mildly, a challenge. And that’s before Ijaz Butt starts phoning their mothers.

April 29, 2010

World Twenty20 preview

It’s only 10 months since the last edition, but I am strangely exited about this tournament in a way that it’s impossible to be about the IPL right now. The format is lean and snappy, the cricket will be competitive and it’s genuinely hard to call this one, although I am going to have a go.

April 23, 2010

Cricket & the psychology of fear

Cricket is a game played mostly in the mind. No amount of technique and panache can compensate for the mental frailties that have reigned so tyrannically over potential throughout the years. It is the psychology of fear that makes Test cricket great.

October 14, 2009

An unnecessary controversy

A new match fixing row is the last thing that cricket needs. Especially when the allegations made are so patently ridiculous as to not merit the attention they are being given.

July 8, 2009

Meanwhile, elsewhere…

Bored of the Ashes already? There are some other things going on in the cricket world you know. Here is a summary.

June 19, 2009

Saffers suffer

Of all the reaction to South Africa’s surprise defeat to Pakistan in the semi-final of the World T20, by far my favourite and the most concise is this from The Reverse Swing Manifesto.

June 7, 2009

England v Pakistan: Pakistan Innings

So after all the panic, England are through to the Super 8, and it is Pakistan who must sweat. How competitive England will be against the best teams remains to be seen.

England v Pakistan: England innings

So, England have set Pakistan 186 to win. A better performance this time, although still the suspicion that it could have been more at the half-way point of the innings.

June 3, 2009

World Twenty20 predictions

In case you had forgotten, apparantly there is a Twenty20 tournament about to take place. What’s that? You have been pre-occupied with the Ashes? Shame on you!World

From around the web

The GCW Twitterverse

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5th September 2011, 8:20pm

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29th August 2011, 7:28pm