japilagan:

Meanwhile in Pakistan:

sidewalk McDonald’s

delucazade:

Badshahi Mosque (by Michael Foley Photography)

beneaththepool:

Abdur Rehman performing the sajda.

AP

endilletante:

SHAMS OF TABRIZ by StreetPress on Flickr.

endlessummerx3:

Angeline Jolie helping out in Pakistan. 

picturesoftheday:

Activists affiliated with the Islamic party Jamait-e-Ulema-i-Islam gathered at the Islam Zindabad Conference in Karachi, Pakistan.

tapio-ca:

Encounter by ~FurSid on Flickr.

zaraahmed:

Perhaps my favourite image from the series so far - Mohsin Khan with the Pakistani cricket team. Re-live England’s batting collapse.

The controlled insanity of Pakistan’s victory against England| Ahsan Butt.

Yesterday was something very different. It was a choke, a suffocation. Pakistan essentially shut England in an airtight room, closed the windows and doors, threw the keys away, and waited. I’ve never really seen anything like it.

Forget the 10 wickets for a second. Just think about the drip-drip-drip of those first fourteen overs — where we got zero wickets but conceded only 18 runs. Those fourteen overs set the stage for everything that came after. It was marked by brilliant bowling and even more brilliant captaincy. Misbah’s field placings were so intelligent — he simultaneously had attacking fielders, single-saving fielders, and boundary-saving fielders. You had to look twice to make sure we hadn’t cheated by sneaking on three extra guys on the ground. One common refrain from the commentators was that England were going nowhere. But that’s because Misbah left them nowhere to go. This was Stephen Fleming and Mark Taylor level captaincy, maybe better.  [Read more…]