Rahul Dravid was India's go-to man whenever the Indian team lost early wickets, says Rashid Latif

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly had said plans are afoot to organise a four-nation meet, involving cricket's heavyweights, from 2021, for which discussions had been held with England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket Australia (CA)

Controversy could have played a part in Shoaib's pullout. The Pakistan team management for the last two years has been weak. One cannot be strict and lax at the same time.

Shoaib tried all through to get his outswinger going but could not summon it. Sami was nowhere his best and suffered from a fault in his bowling action. How we wanted Umar Gul to be available in the final Test!

The skipper might have been influenced by the fact there was grass on the pitch and that it couldn't have been rolled out well. It implied a pitch of variable bounce on the fourth and fifth day, given the hot conditions. The Indians didn't reckon the

The Pakistan camp of today isn't like the Indian unit where a Sehwag or a Yuvraj are given a free hand to showcase their talent. No wonder, there is a feeling the unit appears shackled

Their tough, uncompromising cricket turned the tide in the final two games at Lahore and squeezed Pakistan out of the contest

'They did it in the NatWest Series, in the Adelaide Test Down Under and now they have taken the series down to the wire. Pakistan is still to learn this art'

'As the matches become regular and the players feel less pressure, Pakistan tends to dominate, like in Sharjah, in the context of the two teams'

'I was sitting in the stands and watching Tendulkar unfold his genius. Time and again I thought, has there been a better batsman I have watched in my life? I couldn't think of anyone, not even Viv Richards'