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LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday announced a provisional 30-man squad for the ICC World twenty20 to be played in April-May this year. The squad includes seven players who have not been previously selected for a major international tournament. Controversial fast blower Shoaib Akhtar has been overlooked by the selectors. While squad has been [...]
LAHORE: Ijaz Butt, the chairman of PCB, has said no Pakistani team will participate in the Champions League Twenty20 this year. “I have already spoken to Lalit Modi about this and there is no chance of any team from Pakistan playing in the Champions League this year,” Butt was quoted as saying by PTI. “After [...]
GWALIOR: India’s Sachin Tendulkar became the world’s first batsman to smash a double-century in one-day internationals, achieving the feat against South Africa on Wednesday. The 36-year-old was unbeaten on 200 in the last over. Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe’s Charles Coventry had jointly held the record with 194. Anwar made that score against India in [...]
KARACHI: Pakistan’s enterprising all-rounder Shahid Khan Afridi said on Monday that he was deeply hurt and disappointed the way a smearing campaign was launched against him after the ball biting incident during the final ODI against Australia at the WACA. “I made a big mistake in frustration and faced the punishment for the same,” he [...]
JAIPUR: India overcame the absence of four top stars to beat South Africa by one run in a thrilling one-day international on Sunday and take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Wayne Parnell was run out off the final delivery, attempting a second run that would have tied the match, to leave the Proteas [...]
DUBAI: Abdul Razzaq single-handedly changed the course of the match with a brilliant innings as Pakistan beat England by four wickets to level their two-match Twenty20 series 1-1 here on Saturday. At the Dubai Sports City stadium, England scored 148-6 from their 20 overs after being put in by Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik, who was [...]
DUBAI: Eoin Morgan and Kevin Pietersen put on a record fourth wicket century partnership as England beat World Twenty20 champions Pakistan by seven wickets here Friday in the first of their two-match Twenty20 series. At Dubai Sports City, England were in trouble at 18-3 chasing Pakistan’s modest total of 129-8, but Morgan (67 in 51 [...]
KOLKATA: India defied an unbeaten century from Hashim Amla to crush South Africa by an innings and 58 runs in the final Test on Thursday to draw the series 1-1. Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh claimed 5-59 as the tourists, trailing by 347 runs on the first innings, were bowled out for 289 in their second knock [...]
LAHORE: Australian-born Pakistan fitness trainer David Dwyer, who recently quit his post, will temporarily rejoin the team before the World Twenty20 Championship in the Caribbean later this year. Dwyer, who has overseen a massive rise in the fitness of Pakistan’s cricketers, will link up with the side in Lahore from early April to begin work. [...]
DUBAI: While the tentacles of Twenty20 cricket wrap ever more firmly around the world game, Pakistan meet England in a hastily arranged two-match series that will show just where the two sides lie ahead of the World Twenty20 which starts at the end of April in the Caribbean. Coming off the back of success in [...]
ABU DHABI: After a disastrous Australian tour, Pakistan’s confidence will not have been helped as they were overcome by an inexperienced Pakistan A in their warm-up game ahead of the twenty20 series against England. Abdul Razzaq’s rollicking unbeaten 39 boosted Pakistan to 143 for 8 after they were put in to bat, but well-paced innings [...]
NEW DELHI: Dozens of television news channels across India will boycott the glitzy Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament due to what they said were
CALCUTTA: Indians declared their first innings at 643 for 6 on day three of the second test against South Africa today. VVS Laxman and MS Dhoni saw off the tricky period with the second new ball, put together the second double-century stand of the innings, and virtually batted South Africa out of the Test. It [...]
LAHORE: Pakistan’s Test and one-day captain Mohammad Yousuf, coach Intikhab Alam and three team members appeared before cricket chiefs on Saturday to
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s temporary Twenty20 captain Shoaib Malik said on Friday he wants his teammates to stop making excuses and work harder to compete in international cricket. Australia whitewashed Pakistan in both their test and one-day series. Captain Mohammad Yousuf said there was one player who was disturbing the team’s unity, although he refused to name [...]
For all those still scratching their heads, wondering why our cricketers do what they do, the time has come to rest easy: the greatest unsolved mystery after The Bermuda Triangle and Who Killed JFK has in fact been solved. The clues were always there, they just had not been presented to the public in court. [...]
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to play a T20 match series in United States of America (USA). The actual schedule would be decided later. PCB chief Ijaz Butt said that Pakistan would play in USA in accordance with the ICC policy of promoting cricket in the region. Ijaz Butt informed that he had [...]
KARACHI: Former Australian batsman Greg Chappell has reportedly declined an offer by the Pakistan Cricket Board to take charge as the national team’s coach. “Wasim Bari (PCB’s chief operating officer) rang me yesterday…I was honoured and flattered by the approach but I have declined the invitation,” Chappell told media. Chappell, who is currently heading the [...]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Sports has thrown its support behind the cricketers who are under fire after the Australian cricket series debacle. Pakistan lost all the three formats of the games — Test matches, One-day series and a Twenty20 — against the Aussies. “The Australian cricket series is ‘a relic of the [...]
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan allrounder Wasim Akram has been appointed to the Pakistan Cricket Board’s inquiry committee looking into the national team’s poor performance on its just completed tour of Australia. Akram replaces ex test batsman and PCB director of cricket development Haroon Rasheed, who resigned from the inquiry committee last week, the PCB said in [...]
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