Agha Akbar

Why did the sole Christian in the Pakistan cricket team embrace Islam? Was it coercion or career move?

Born out of notes he took on Pak's India tour, Khan's book bats for cricket as peacemaker

The Rawalpindi Express faces flak all around. Can Shoaib Akhtar bounce his way out, make it to India?

The Rawalpindi Express on why he spluttered to a halt at home and on his differences with the skipper

Apart from brutal bouncers, breathing down our players' neck will be securitymen

The former Pakistani cricket captain on his autobiography, Cutting Edge. Excerpts from an interview with Agha Akbar, sports editor, The Nation, Lahore

On reviving Indo-Pak cricketing ties and the recently retired Wasim Akram in an interview to Agha akbar, sports editor of The Nation

The curse of captaincy—and its attendant faction wars—fells a once-great team

Random drug-testing awaits players at the 2003 World Cup as the ICC formulates its anti-doping code

What ails Pakistani cricket? Mismanagement, ego clashes and a very low player morale, to start with.

"The match referee for such a patently unfair judgement, and the ICC and BCCI for unnecessarily starting the media war," says PCB chief Lt Gen Tauqir Zia.

Former Pakistan skipper Intikhab Alam blames the ICC for triggering off the crisis by backing Mike Denness even if he seemed to be blatantly unfair and partisan.