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April 23, 2017 Pakistan

Younus Khan, the world’s oldest 39-year-old, might yet play on

< 1 minute readAin’t no retirement like a Pakistan cricketer retirement, because a Pakistan cricketer retirement is highly conditional. For a man who’s already resigned, quit, been rested, stood down, walked and been banned for life, Younus Khan is still strikingly present. He is due to call it a day (again) following this

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March 3, 2017 Pakistan

The hefty, graceful Inzamam-ul-Haq is slightly older

< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images Apparently it’s Inzy’s birthday today. We know this because All Out Cricket linked to an old Kings of Cricket piece we wrote about him on that basis. If recycling content on a Friday because it’s someone’s birthday is good enough for All Out Cricket, well it’s

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January 6, 2017 Australia / Pakistan

What does Australia’s Test series win over Pakistan actually mean?

2 minute readDoes it amount to a hill of beans? A fell of discarded iPhone covers? A mountain of offcuts of plasterboard? Just before Christmas, we said that Pakistan are, essentially, a swing bowling side, and therefore pretty much always do terribly Down Under. There has been more to the series than

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December 30, 2016 Australia / Pakistan

Did Australia win or did Pakistan lose? YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE

< 1 minute readOne of the rules of cricket coverage is that Australia, England and India have results and the other teams are merely inactive participants. In 2016, India beat New Zealand, Australia lost to Sri Lanka, and England drew with Bangladesh. Technically, this also means that New Zealand lost to India, Sri

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December 27, 2016 Australia / Pakistan / South Africa / Sri Lanka

Mop-up of the last couple of days – Angelo Mathews still has work to do

< 1 minute readFor a good long while you could accurately gauge Sri Lanka’s score by whether or not Angelo Mathews was walking out to bat or not. If he was, they were 22-3. If he wasn’t, it was some other score. A couple of recent batting finds had encouraged the notion that

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November 29, 2016 New Zealand / Pakistan

Neil Wagner sacrifices the opportunity to run in for a small fragment of the final session

< 1 minute readPakistan had already lost six wickets in the final session of the match when Kane Williamson brought forth The Great Neil Wagner. Three ducks later, the series was over. This isn’t going to help Wagner’s reputation one bit. How the hell are you supposed to run in all day when

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November 2, 2016 Pakistan / West Indies

The riddle of Kraigg Brathwaite’s extra G

< 1 minute readMaybe one day someone will be able to answer the riddle of Kraigg Brathwaite’s extra G. The K we can understand – it’s jarring, but not unprecedented. But the second G? What does that contribute to proceedings? Maybe his parents wrote Kraig, knew it looked wrong and added a bonus

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October 19, 2016 Australia / England / Pakistan

Why has no-one asked Jonathan Trott’s mum how we can stamp out match-fixing?

2 minute readWe don’t normally report on excerpts from cricket autobiographies because, you know, read the book. We have to make an exception for this majestic exchange from Jonathan Trott’s Unguarded though. (We haven’t read it, but he wrote it with George Dobell, so we’re pretty confident it’s excellent.) After Pakistan Cricket

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October 17, 2016 Pakistan / West Indies

Mickey Arthur really knows how to retract a compliment

< 1 minute readEven by the lofty doublespeak standards of a Test match press conference, this was an impressive effort from Mickey Arthur after Pakistan were bowled out for 123 by West Indies’ Devendra Bishoo. “I am not going to take anything away from the way Bishoo bowled because he bowled really, really

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September 7, 2016 England / Pakistan

‘We played like pretty boys there at one stage’ – Trevor Bayliss

< 1 minute readIt’s been very humid in the North-West these last few days. That probably didn’t have any impact on the outcome of the T20 International between England and Pakistan but we haven’t got much to say about the cricket so thought we’d flesh out this piece by talking about the weather

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