The beauty of Test cricket and how Umar and Kamran Akmal defy description.

Football needs to give up its traditions and catch up with cricket and tennis when it comes to the use of video replays.

Selecting the Pakistan XI for the Test series against New Zealand

Mohammed Aamir came so close to taking Pakistan to a miraculous win. If we don’t over-hype his talent, he may be a match-winner of the future.

Finally we have something to celebrate.

Remembering David Shepherd and Huma Akram.

Argentinian coach Diego Maradona may have taken Argentina to the World Cup but he isn’t about to win any plaudits. His bizarre press conference after a tight 1-0 win over Uruguay ensured qualification has raised further questions about his mental stability.

A roundup of the best match-ups this week.

I am a huge cricket fan but an ever bigger fan of skiving off work. I was flying to Singapore on the night of the Pakistan-New Zealand semi final and so was only able to watch Pakistan’s lacklustre batting performance at home and parts of the New Zealand innings at the airport.

Probably not, but Pakistan’s member of the International Olympic Committee certainly wasn’t going to let President Obama have his moment of glory as he made Chicago’s presentation in its bid to host the 2016 Olympics.