Pakistan wins first 20-overs-a-side international
Pakistan has beaten New Zealand by five runs in the first 20-overs-a-side international at the Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad. It happened on November 23, 1984. Bad weather delayed the start of the game, which was set at twenty overs for each team when it finally got under way. Pakistan made 157 for 5, New Zealand were […]
Australia by 9 wickets
In the end it took about an hour short of four days for Australia to wrap up the series. Not quite as close as the equivalent Test on the SCG 32 years earlier which set alight my interest in the game.
Day 2: Cough up Danish
For giving Pratten Park Golden Boy Michael J Clarke a “far cough” after having him stumped at the SCG yesterday, Danish Kaneria is coughing up.
Day 1: Enter the pantheon, Salman Butt
Five wickets for twenty runs. If Pakistan were consistent, they’d be dangerous.
It’s Sydney Test time!
(Post-production note: This is a concatenation of a series of live blogs originally posted separately on the pre-lunch session on January 2 2005, day 1 of the Sydney Test against Pakistan. RE – 2017-07-20)
Where are they now? Waqar Younis
Dumped, not just as captain but as a player, after Pakistan’s first-round exit from the World Cup. One of the world’s finest fast bowlers of the last fifteen years, Waqar Younis has come to Sydney to ply his wares over the 2003-04 summer.
Bring back the Don’s cap, and onya the Black Caps
The streak is over. Australia’s run of twenty-one successive one-day wins has been cut down by the West Indies in Trinidad this morning. Which is a good moment to spare a thought for the New Zealand cricket team.
Made for TV, not for people
Made-for-television cricket. We’ve seen a lot of it in the past five years dished out in the name of “globalising” the sport. Televised but meaningless one-day matches dished up for an insatiable market from the “emerging” regions of world cricket. Singapore, Toronto, Kuala Lumpur, Kathmandu, and even a park in northern Los Angeles have all […]
Pakistan to replace WI on Sri Lankan tour
Pakistan will play one Test and three one-day internationals in Sri Lanka in January following the cancellation of the West Indies’ tour. The West Indies Women’s Cricket Federation decided last month that they would not proceed with their tour of Sri Lanka and Pakistan because of security concerns related to geopolitical instability in the south […]
WI shelve Asian tour but plan home triseries
The West Indies’ plans for their first international tour since the 1997 Women’s World Cup were shelved during November. The West Indies Women’s Cricket Federation cancelled its tour of Sri Lanka, scheduled for January, and abandoned tentative plans for a visit to Pakistan immediately afterwards. The war in Afghanistan, and broader concerns about security in […]