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Life after Younus Khan and Misbahul Haq – what does it look like?
Growing up in a perpetual shadow of conflict and turmoil, Younus Khan and Misbahul Haq were two beacons of calmness that you could count on to somehow make things better. We are fortunate enough to be...
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As captain, can Sarfraz Ahmed steer Pakistan to victory in the 2017 ICC...
Pakistan’s archaic style of ODI cricket is up for a stern test in this summer’s Champions Trophy. The team is grouped with South Africa (ranked number one in the International Cricket Council (ICC)...
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Changing the team captain will not solve Pakistan’s problems; we also need to...
Pakistan entered the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy as the lowest ranked team in the ODI charts. Even before the tournament began, Pakistan had no hope of winning, or in more...
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A victory for Pakistan does not necessarily mean a loss for India
Ever since I can remember becoming zee shaoor (in possession of one’s full mental capacity), my household has been a hard core, absolutely bonkers, completely ridiculous, and rowdy cricket fan. It runs...
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Is PCB to be blamed for our abysmal performance in the Women’s World Cup?
I will admit I am not a big fan of women’s cricket. But the horror show by our girls on the same turf where their male counterparts recently made history, was a fascinatingly wretched chapter in the...
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How will Pakistan fare in the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka without...
The Pakistan cricket team is set to resume international duty, as Sri Lanka’s tour of the UAE begins on September 28th (which will potentially feature a T20 in Lahore). This will be their first...
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#PakvsSL: Pakistan has won 5/8 ODI matches so far, but it must not be...
Pakistan picked up from where they left in the first ODI against Sri Lanka after a triumphant International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy campaign. The men in green were clinical in all...
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With his stellar skills and “explosive” celebrations, Hasan Ali has shown the...
Pakistan is quite notorious for producing bowling sensations in the cricket world. While Pakistan’s batting department has not been able to produce quality batsmen on consistent basis, its bowling unit...
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Farewell, Saeed Ajmal! You made sure the world remembers you as the ‘bowling...
Epic. Magical. Defiant. Compact. Witty. Mighty effective. Actually, when one comes to think of it, words simply cannot describe what this man was in his prime days. As a crazy cricket fan, reminiscing...
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5 observations from #PAKvsNZ which prove the men in green need to get their...
The much-awaited series for Pakistani cricket fans kicked off on January 6th, with the first match of the ODI series played at Basin Reserve, Wellington. The hype for the series was as expected since...
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#PAKvsNZ: 3 reasons why the Kiwis whitewashed the Men in Green with ease
When Pakistan first stepped onto Kiwi shores, the probability of a fairly close contest was higher than Pakistan’s previous tours, but as things panned out, that was not the case. While the series...
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Multan Sultans may be new but they have all the right ingredients needed to...
Pakistan Super League’s (PSL) third season kicks off tonight. The cricketing fraternity in Pakistan and the UAE is buzzing and cricket fever is at its pinnacle. During the past two seasons, we saw five...
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Is Pakistan ready to play real cricket in Ireland and England?
Having played the shorter format of cricket for quite some time – with the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and West Indies’ tour of Pakistan – the national team and its audience have been craving the long...
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At least now we know what Ahmad Shahzad has been smoking!
During the series against World XI last year, I wrote on Ahmad Shahzad. Roughly nine months have passed and here I am writing about the same person again. He was playing selfishly back then and now he...
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5 ways Pakistan can turn the tri-series against Zimbabwe and Australia in...
The clouds of concern have cleared, and Pakistan is now ready to take on Zimbabwe and the currently third-ranked (in T20Is) Australia in a couple of days. Due to a financial crisis, the Zimbabwe...
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If anything is coming home, it’s Pakistan with 2 trophies!
As far as the T20 format is concerned, Pakistan cricket has been on a roll since September 7, 2016, under Sarfraz Ahmed’s leadership. After a disastrous T20 World Cup in 2016, when Shahid Afridi and...
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The fantastic Fakhar-e-Pakistan
Zimbabwe thought they had finally come up with their best plan against Pakistan. After the drubbing received in the first three ODIs, they had learnt it best to keep Fakhar Zaman off-strike. That was...
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#PakvsZim: When your haters are silent, you know you’ve made it!
Pakistan travelled to Bulawayo as the only ranked ODI team to not to have won an ODI this year, having lost all five they had played against New Zealand. Despite the slump in form, Pakistan were touted...
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Ahmed Shehzad is neither performing nor behaving, yet he’s given more...
When Ahmed Shehzad first came under the limelight, a lot was expected of him and some even went on to tag him as the solution to Pakistan’s opening woes. However, despite a promising start, his...
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AsiaCup’18: Dear Pakistan, you can’t be a champion if you only play against...
Now that Pakistan has been put out of its misery and the dust is finally starting to settle, let’s get back to the drawing board. There is a lot that went wrong but it wasn’t entirely unpredictable....
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