Neil Pickup - ARTICLES

Four wickets from Chaminda Vaas gave Sri Lanka very much the better of the final day’s play in the rain-wrecked First Test at Chennai

England’s hopes of saving the Third Test against Pakistan at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore evaporated on the final afternoon

Inzamam-ul-Haq recorded his 24th Test century, but England fought back from 20/4 to save the Second Test at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium

Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has been hit by a one-Test and two-ODI suspension following his actions during the Second Test

Danish Kaneria struck the decisive blows at Multan as Pakistan completed an astonishing comeback in the First Test against England

A knee injury to captain Michael Vaughan overshadowed an improved English batting performance on the second day against Pakistan A

Rookie seamer Liam Plunkett returned match figures of 7 for 57 as he and Ashley Giles combined to save England’s blushes at Rawalpindi.

They said he was finished. They said that he was injury prone, that he was a shadow of his former self. They should have known better.

Marcus Trescothick stood firm to defy collapse at the top of the English order after the first day against a Patron’s XI in Rawalpindi

I don’t know when it first struck me. Perhaps it was standing in the car park, asking forlornly who the team’s wicketkeeper was.