Basit Ali's Blog

This blog will serve as my diary when I’ll not be around. The blog will tell you that it was an age of cricket magicians that I lived in. It was an age when the two Ws used to scare the batting line up of any world class team by opening the bowling attack, it [...]

I am a cricket fan and I know if you are reading this, probably you are a cricket fan as well. And its obvious that fans watch live cricket whenever possible. Things get even more serious if it is a World Cup tournament and your favorite team is playing a crucial match. If you are [...]

Pakistan’s first complete 3D Cricket game
Mindstorm Studios’s Babar Ahmad caused several hundred audience’s jaws to drop last night at P@SHA’s ICT awards. He showcased a video demo of “Cricket Revolution“, a great looking game that they’ve been working on for quite some time now. But the output was worth the wait.
The game is neat, simple [...]

Pakistan vs India cricket match is always a popular event to watch not only in these two countries but everywhere else cricket is played, understood and liked. I was also very excited about the match on Saturday but was also afraid of the possible power failures. It went great for the initial hours but when [...]

After all those hickups, finally some cricket for Pakistan on a neutral stadium. It was an amazing thriller after such a long time. Not only players are short of match practice, but supporters like myself are starved of watching Pakistan-cricket. Thumbs up to an overall great team-effort.
You can find match details here

As I watch this semi-final of national 20-20 series in Gaddafi stadium, Lahore, I feel so great looking at this large crowd.
A nation that is so short on entertainment and so high on tension and depression from all sorts of problems is enjoying an evening of relief.
Despite the fact that the match is [...]