Close on the heels of an insipid World Series Cup campaign in Australia in 1988-89, where they failed to reach the finals after having won only two out of eight league games, Pakistan hopped across the Tasman Sea for a full tour of New Zealand. After warming up against a National Second XI in a […]
Read More Who Would Have Thought It – Auckland rout Pakistan for 48Pakistan begin a three-Test series in South Africa on Boxing Day, with the first Test slated to be played at SuperSport Park in Centurion. Pakistan’s batsmen have more often than not found the going tough on South African soil, and it is expected to be the same this time as well, what with the […]
Read More Record Book – Pakistan’s Test centurions in South AfricaIndia were due to play in their third consecutive ODI tournament in Singapore, but pulled out at the last minute, citing that it would not be appropriate to take part during the match-fixing crisis. Pakistan came in instead, joining New Zealand and South Africa for the Godrej Singapore Challenge held at the Kallang Ground […]
Read More Specials – ODI cricket in Singapore, Part 3The Asia Cup group game between India and Pakistan in Dubai on September 19 was the first instance of the arch-rivals playing each other in the United Arab Emirates in over 12 years. The previous instance of the two teams meeting in the UAE was in 2006, when they played a two-ODI series in […]
Read More Specials – Best of Indo-Pak duels in the desertIn the first of this three-part series, we look back at the first ever One-Day International (ODI) tournament to be hosted by Singapore. The subcontinental trio of India, Pakistan and newly-crowned World Cup champions Sri Lanka came together to contest the Singer Cup, a week-long round-robin competition played on the Singapore Cricket Club ground […]
Read More Specials – ODI cricket in Singapore, Part 1By virtue of winning the six-team Asia Cup Qualifier held in Malaysia, Hong Kong confirmed a return to the Asia Cup after a decade. Earlier this year, Hong Kong lost their ODI status after a wooden-spoon finish at the World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe, but their qualification for the Asia Cup has ensured them […]
Read More Specials – Hong Kong at the Asia CupPakistan’s thumping 244-run win in the record-breaking fourth ODI against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo last week was their second-biggest in ODI history, and their sixth by a margin of more than 200 runs. Here is a look back at Pakistan’s five biggest ODI wins in terms of runs. Beat Ireland by 255 runs, First ODI, […]
Read More Record Book – Pakistan’s biggest ODI winsPakistan’s 15th Test series in England, a short two-match affair that gives them little room for slip-ups, is underway. Over the years, Pakistan have been among the better performing sides when it comes to touring England – they have won three series, consecutively in 1987, 1992 and 1996 – and lost seven. Among the […]
Read More Record Book – Pakistani double-centurions in EnglandIt is only fitting that Pakistan are the opponents for Ireland’s inaugural men’s Test. The Irish cricketing renaissance began with the famous defeat of Pakistan at the 2007 World Cup, and moreover, Pakistan have played more bilateral ODI series in Ireland than any other team (thrice: in 2011, 2013 and 2016). Here is a […]
Read More Record Book – Pakistan’s first meeting with IrelandThe second ODI between New Zealand and Pakistan at Nelson tomorrow will be the hundredth contested by the two teams against each other, in a span of nearly 45 years dating back to their first encounter at Christchurch in 1972-73. Thus, it will become the eleventh fixture to reach the milestone of a century […]
Read More Record Book – The 100-ODI club
