[7] The book progresses with the tour, providing detailed accounts of the matches and recounting the journeys and off-field encounters.

Bhattacharya provides numerous accounts of Pakistani hospitality, narrating how taxi drivers and shopkeepers refused to charge fans that had come over from India.

Peppered with deep insights and cricketing trivia, it is partly in the form of a travelogue and provides a fascinating account of contemporary Pakistan.

[8] Mike Marqusee wrote of the book in Wisden Asia Cricket:[2] Thankfully Bhattacharya does not suffer the tunnel vision that is the occupational curse of the press box.

He conjures up the poetry of cheap hotels and late-night bus stands, the anguished search for cybercafes in provincial towns, the charm of fleeting but intense human encounters.

He is not out to prove a point about either country, but to chronicle and savour an encounter in which, for once, "India and Pakistan were playing without fright, playing with expressiveness.Marcus Berkmann wrote of the book in The Wisden Cricketer:[3] Bhattacharya's prose style is rarely restrained but he really lets rip during the matches, with flurries of metaphor, simile and allusion.

Pundits from Pakistan is, like nearly all books these days, too long; it often rambles; sometimes you have to read a paragraph three times to work out what he is talking about.