That international cricket is returning to Pakistan, no matter how fleetingly, can only be read as good news. No people deserve to endure the kind of isolation that Pakistanis have had to, not only over the last three years when there has been no …Se…
As the Pakistan team – a mixture of players from Islamabad, the UAE and the north of England – sung their national anthem before kick-off, the interest of scores of cricket supporters sitting on the neighbouring banks was immediately piqued.See all sto…
Back in 1999, they beat a Pakistan team that would go on to reach the World Cup final. Many viewed that game with suspicious eyes, but for millions of fans back home, it was a landmark day, affirmation that the side belonged at cricket's top table….
Another journalist from Pakistan was there and we didn't feel comfortable probing him. In any case, he was maintaining innocence so there wasn't much to ask. Maybe he needed the company and we, fellow Pakistanis, brought a broad familiarity.See…
ISLAMABAD // Pakistan's parliament today opens a review of the country's controversial and much criticised military deal with the United States, vital for ending the decade-long war in Afghanistan but which has undermined the government's p…
Support for the UAE national cricket team is shamefully pitiful. The home contingent of supporters for the first of two matches against Scotland in the World Cricket League Championship in Sharjah last week amounted to precisely nil.See all stories on …
Maybe the UAE's cricketers should be allowed to indulge themselves just a little more in that dream they have about qualifying for the World Cup, after they capped a fine few days with victory over Scotland on Friday. When Swapnil Patil dragged the…
AP ISLAMABAD // Pakistan has asked Interpol to help arrest the country's former military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, over the 2007 assassination of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The interior ministry has written to Interpol, …See…
Javed was offered the UAE job while he was with the Pakistan team for their home series against England, which consisted of three Tests, four one-day internationals and three Twenty20s, played in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah from January 3 to February …
Three Emirati cousins, two of them with only limited cricket experience, will come under the international spotlight this week in an Under 16 tournament in Thailand. Abdulla, Khaled and Hamad Al Baloushi all learnt the game playing taped-ball cricket ….
