Cricket fans will be aware that this headline on the BBCs South Asia page right now relates to the crimes of disgraced cricketer Salman Butt. Even if you’re not a fan of the sport, though, the headline is splendid!

Right about now the England cricket team are setting about taking the last three Australian wickets before winning the first Ashes series Down Under since 1987. And what was No1 at the time? The incredibly appropriate Nothing’s Gonna To Stop Us Now… Well done to Straussy and the lads. Ashes […]

It’s inspired! It’s an act of genius! The Pakistan cricket cheats were never going to be banned from international competition for their blatant cheating and corruption so tonight England’s team has done the dirty on them. By throwing away their wickets and crashing to apparent defeat, England have deprived Pakistan […]

Well, there are plenty of odd ways to get a British passport…claiming to be gay is currently in vogue – not only does it get you asylum but improves your odds of a job at the BBC. Going on the run for a year works splendidly, as does being a […]

Sounds of the England v Pakistan game are wafting through the window of the casa next door. This is the first time in no-idea-how-long that TheEye hasn’t bothered watching an international fixture; regardless of format. But this time why bother? Pakistan is playing, and there are rumours that the series […]

The headline “Pakistan Cricketers Are Cheats” doesn’t seem appropriate as a one-off, because it could really apply to a dozen incidents in the last 10 years. Right back in the summer of 2000 the Qayyum Inquiry into match-fixing was damning. Justice Qayyum’s investigation seemed thorough, and the Indians threw in […]

In the words of Earl Warren – “I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people’s accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man’s failures.” And so it is that Afghanistan make their big-screen debut at cricket’s ICC World Twenty20 tournament in about half an hour […]

Cricket, surprisingly for some who are unfamiliar with the sport, is so popular in Afghanistan that even the Taliban couldn’t ban it, with the country becoming an associate member of the ICC in 2000. At the moment they are playing Ireland in the final of the World Twenty20 Qualifier competition […]

Amid scenes of delirium unwitnessed in South London since the unforgettable summer of 2005, England’s cricketers reclaimed the Ashes on a tumultuous fourth afternoon at The Oval, as Australia’s brave resistance – led by a century of incredible mental fortitude from Michael Hussey – was unpicked, wicket by wicket, minute […]