Farooq Nomani
Is it perverse that a close win in a good game makes me dwell on defeat? I can’t seem to get my mind off those four...
Published 24 Feb, 2012 03:36pm
Not that any further affirmation was needed, but Pakistan's plight in the ODI series against England underscores the...
Published 21 Feb, 2012 04:19pm
Late last Sunday as the spectators filtered out of the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Shahid Afridi had a quiet moment to...
Published 22 Nov, 2011 03:47pm
As the spot-fixing trial unfolded before us, I couldn’t help but feel a little ashamed. Not for the cricketers...
Published 04 Nov, 2011 04:53pm
-Photo Illustration by Faraz Aamer Khan/Dawn.com At some point during his first day as chairman of the PCB, Chaudhry...
Published 28 Oct, 2011 12:38pm
Last week the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) unveiled its Registration of Agents Regulations, 2010 – a set of rules...
Published 27 Apr, 2011 11:01am
I suppose with age, one tends to develop a higher regard for people, objects or events which had defined one’s...
Published 08 Apr, 2011 08:28am
Here’s to Australia's bitterness because without it, this victory probably wouldn’t taste as sweet. As it happened,...
Published 21 Mar, 2011 12:07pm
If Pakistan are somehow able to lift this World Cup, they won’t have Afridi’s bowling to thank. Nor will it be Umar...
Published 09 Mar, 2011 11:34am
So it begins. On February 23, Pakistan will take the field to kick off a campaign that proved to be utterly beyond...
Published 17 Feb, 2011 03:51pm
It is worth taking the time to carefully evaluate the batting strategy employed by the Pakistan team in the ODIs in...
Published 04 Feb, 2011 10:28am
Has it really been only about 12 months since we were last in New Zealand? At the conclusion of the Twenty20 series...
Published 06 Jan, 2011 03:03pm
Illustration by Faraz Aamer 2010 will be remembered as the year Pakistan cricket finally got it right in all the...
Published 31 Dec, 2010 12:44pm
In the next few days Kamran Akmal may finally meet the one bullet he can not dodge when the Pakistan Cricket Board’s...
Published 22 Dec, 2010 03:07pm
Right now, somewhere in the UAE, Younis Khan is sitting back in a chair enjoying a chilled glass of freshly-made...
Published 18 Nov, 2010 01:47pm
What is a man to do when he believes sinister forces are closing in on him? How does a man cope when bereft of all...
Published 11 Nov, 2010 03:55pm
Fabtastic! Stupendiforous! Supranormous! There are not enough adjectives in the English language to describe Abdul...
Published 01 Nov, 2010 09:41pm
By the end of the 18th over of the second Twenty20 match against South Africa, Pakistan had managed to crawl to a ...
Published 29 Oct, 2010 03:35pm
I’d like to tell you a story about a man named Younis Khan, a cricketer who only wanted to do good by his country. ...
Published 13 Oct, 2010 12:42pm
It’s unfortunate that the least publicised aspect of the recently concluded one-day series between Pakistan and...
Published 28 Sep, 2010 01:30pm
