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Misbah’s Day of Reckoning
There have been many divisive players to represent Pakistan in recent memory: Shoaib Akhtar, Shahid Afridi, Wasim bhai, even Shoaib Malik and Kamran Akmal. These are players who can boast some combination of bombastic personas, inhuman ability, odious morals, or at least—in the case of Malik—instant hate-ability. Misbah-ul-Haq, on the other hand, has nothing. The man […]
Buffering USA
June 11, 2011
A few months ago, the West Indies took on Sri Lanka in a Test match in Colombo. This match was of such little commercial consequence that no major broadcaster bothered to cover it, and so the only transmission available was from the understandably ill-equipped Sri Lankan state TV. It would only be mild hyperbole to […]
Of Sins Not Tragedies, or The Last You’ll Hear of Amir
February 16, 2011
For us Pakistan fans, build-up to the World Cup, much like all recent editions of the tournament, has been flush with motivational pop songs, cathartic youtube videos, chest-thumping previews, and TV specials whose tone is more threatening than supportive. This cacophony of patriotic multimedia suggest the same general conclusion: the boys are gonna bring it […]
The Case for Afridi’s Captaincy
January 30, 2011
The grand pursuit of the economist should be to fine tune a system that in the long-run insulates its population from aggregate negative outcomes during troughs in the business cycle, while increasing aggregate benefits during peaks. Agree? Well tell that to this guy: The problem with our dear Chacha here (Chacha is Urdu for Uncle, […]
ICC World Cup 2011
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- New Zealand 1-1 England report cards: grading every England and New Zealand player
- Pakistan 0-3 England report cards: grading every England and Pakistan player
Alternative Cricket Almanack
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Bloody Cricket
- Pakistan v England Series: Controlled Chaos
- Shahid Afridi, The Leg Spinner
- It is Really the Tip of the Iceberg This Time
- A sad day for the authentic man's game
- Welcome to the Cult, Chosen Ones - Post TGME
- Well done Senator Rehman Malik
- Prescribed Ettiquettes and Attitudes for TGME (The Greatest Match Ever)
- Payback is a mean bitch - To the 12 years of pain.
- The 10 Commandments of Shahid Afridi
- Fast bowling - of orgasms and its mega porn star
Bored Cricket Crazy Indians
- The big IPL hangover before the WTC Final
- IPL Final After Effects
- Types of Dhoni Fans.
- Inside CSK and GT camps before the IPL final
- What makes Virat Kohli go on and on
- Dhoni after CSK.
- The day Rohit Sharma lost his appetite.
- Can Kohli-Gambhir spat inspire Delhi Capitals?
- Indian cricket: Stuck in a moment
- Delhi Capitals Update
Cricketing View
- On Pressure
- Is This Bowled?
- Podcast Episode Seven: Snehal Pradhan
- Episode Six: Daniel Norcross (Part II)
- Podcast Episode 05: Daniel Norcross (Part I)
- Podcast Episode Four: Gary Naylor
- Podcast Episode Three: Tim Wigmore & Freddie Wilde
- Podcast Episode Two: Gaurav Sabnis
- Podcast Episode One: Subash Jayaraman
- Archer, Smith Headline Memorable Fourth Day At Lord's
Cricket with Balls
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Lansdown Ladies
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Man in Beige
- New Zealand Claim Historic Win; On Verge Of Internal Collapse
- Kevin Pietersen Threatens to Quit Twitter, ‘May Have Tweeted Last Tweet'
- Ross Taylor calls For More Breaks In New Zealand’s Increasingly Congested Off-Season
- Recent Sightings Spark Fierce Debate Over Existence Of ‘Test Cricket’
- Tendulkar dropped - selectors frustrated by 'unfulfilled potential'
- Lost Gate Receipts Will ‘Cripple’ Australia in the Long-Term, Claims Dhoni
- South Africa shake off ‘Chokers’ tag after tight 258 run win
- My Favourite Cricketer - Gavin Larsen
- Taylor defiant ahead of Australia series: “We might not lose both games by an innings”.
- The Beige Archives: Historic History: 1932 - Scientists outline ‘Fast Leg Theory'
The Randwick End
- Mankad dismissal hides English frailties
- 2013 Rugby League World Cup Overview
- Slapdash Cricketers
- The Pat Cummins Complex
- This is for the true believers
- Cricket Australia Contracts: Who’s in and out
- New South Wales Team Picking Blog #254768
- League Fans royally shafted
- Save the Associates!
- Soaken and defeated in the Shire
Sid Vee
- Moving…
- Remember this guy from the Karachi Test in 1989?
- Steve Bucknor unplugged
- Backyard tales: when England trounced India in 1993
- Kapil’s crazy day out in Kent
- If Wasim Akram were to bowl today…
- The power and glory of Jasprit Bumrah
- The uncategorisable Virat Kohli
- Ind v Aus: a storied World Cup rivalry
- The forgotten parts of unforgettable World Cup games
Straight Points
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SoAL
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Test Match Sofa
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Thoughts from the Dustbin
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Turn and Bounce
- It Ain’t Over…
- Tom Maynard
- Twenty20 Vision
- The Only Way Is Up
- Anticipation
- 2012 – Year of the Glamorgan Dragon?
- Glamorgan – The 12 Innings Of Christmas (2011, Pt.12)
- Glamorgan – The 12 Innings Of Christmas (2011, Pt.11)
- Glamorgan – The 12 Innings Of Christmas (2011, Pt.10)
- Glamorgan – The 12 Innings Of Christmas (2011, Pt.9)
Clear Cricket 
October 20, 2011
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