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New Zealand tour of Pakistan 2002
Wed, March 04 2015
Mark Richardson recollects bomb blast; feels sad for Pakistan cricket
Mark Richardson remembered the destruction and the panic the bomb caused in 2002.
Fri, August 22 2014
Shoaib Akhtar’s career-best 6 for 11 crushes New Zealand at Lahore
On May 3, 2002. A freight train that went by the name of the Rawalpindi Express ran amok at the Gaddafi Stadium and crushed six hapless New Zealanders. Jaideep Vaidya revisits the carnage.
Sat, April 27 2013
When Shoaib Akhtar clocked over 100 miles per hour
On April 27, 2002, Shoaib Akhtar became the first man in the history of international cricket to cross the 100-mile barrier, but the International Cricket Council refused to recognise the feat, stating it wasn’t picked off a standard measuring tool. Karthik Parimal takes a trip down memory lane to see what the decision meant to Shoaib and how he repeated the insanity an year later.