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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 [...]
KARACHI: Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam said on Sunday he accepted full responsibility for his team’s dismal performance on its tour of Australia last month, and vowed not to run away from any investigation. Pakistan were whitewashed 3-0 in the Tests and 5-0 in the one-dayers and lost the only Twenty20 match on the tour – [...]
KARACHI: The Pakistan cricket team landed in Karachi unannounced on Saturday night after a disastrous tour of Australia in which they lost all matches. The cricketers were ushered out of the Haj terminal instead of the Jinnah terminal and security officials even tried to shield them from the media. Journalists, however, managed to get hold [...]
KARACHI: A committee investigating Pakistan’s humiliating whitewash in Australia will also probe the ball-tampering offence by star all-rounder Shahid Afridi, an official said today. “The six-man evaluation committee will start work from next week and we have also included Afridi’s case in our terms of reference,” said Wasim Bari, head of the committee and Pakistan [...]
MELBOURNE: Shaun Tait proved he can still be a force at international level as he helped Australia to a tense two-run win
LAHORE/PERTH: Iqbal Qasim, the chief selector of Pakistan cricket team, has tendered his resignation in the wake of the team’s dismal performance in Australia.
LINCOLN: Australia followed the lead of their senior team as they shut down Pakistan’s challenge to claim their third Under-19 World Cup trophy. Pakistan’s top side has lost seven matches in a row in Australia recently and Azeem Ghumman’s boys had a chance to give the country some cheer when they held their opponents to [...]
PERTH: Australia mercilessly ripped through a feeble Pakistan at the WACA to keep alive the prospect of inflicting upon the tourists only their second 5-0 whitewash in ODIs. Michael Hussey and Nathan Hauritz starred with the bat, before Ryan Harris tore through the batting with a second successive five-for to set up a crushing 135-run [...]
LINCOLN: The captain Mitchell Marsh’s impressive 97 set up Australia’s entry into the Under-19 World Cup final, but not before they were given a huge fright by a committed Sri Lanka. On a tense day it was Australia’s first-class players who had the major impact, with Marsh backing up the effective bowling of Josh Hazlewood [...]
ADELAIDE: Ryan Harris snapped a five-wicket haul as a forceful Australian side celebrated the national day with a 40-run defeat of lackluster Pakistan at Adelaide Oval. Posting 286-6, the Australians bowled Pakistan out for 246 in 47.4 overs to take the series 3-0 and complete their fifth consecutive ODI series success since the Ashes. Picked [...]
SYDNEY: Australia produced a commanding all-round performance to take a 2-0 lead with a 140-run demolition of Pakistan at the SCG. After being
BRISBANE: Cameron White’s second ODI hundred helped Australia defeat Pakistan by five wickets with nine balls remaining in the first One-day International of the five-match Commonwealth Bank series here at the Gabba stadium on Friday. White made 105 off 88 balls with four sixes and eight fours. He was bowled by Rana Naved-ul-Hasan when Australia [...]
HOBART: Australia wrapped up their 12th consecutive Test victory over Pakistan on the final afternoon in Hobart, where Khurram Manzoor’s fighting half-century was not enough to salvage a draw for the visitors. Nathan Hauritz added to his growing reputation as Test bowler by picking up the key wicket of Manzoor and finished with three, while [...]
HOBART: Salman Butt’s third Test century and Ricky Ponting’s decision not to enforce the follow-on should ensure the Hobart Test goes for the full five days, although Australia remain in control with a 277-run advantage. After the second day’s play, Ponting talked up the likelihood of making Pakistan bat again straight away, but his mind [...]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board Thursday named squad for ODI and Twenty20 series against Australia. Struggling Misbah-ul-Haq has been dropped from the squad while former skipper Younis Khan has been recalled. Pakistan and Australia will start the five-match one-day international series on January 22 in Brisbane. According to the selection committee, Khurram Manzoor, Misbah-ul-Haq, Danish [...]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has shown concerns over Akmal brothers’ press statements, taking decisions all by themselves about playing or not in the third and final Test against Australia, starting in Hobart on Thursday. Wicket-keeper batsman Kamran had declared by himself that he would play the Test despite his poor performance in the [...]
HOBART: Pakistan have made four changes going into the third and final test against Australia at Hobart. Shoaib Malik, Khurram Manzoor, Sarfaraz Ahmed and Mohammad Aamer will replace Misbah-ul-Haq, Faisal Iqbal, Kamran Akmal and Mohammad Sami. The announcement by the Pakistan Cricket Board and the inclusion of Sarfaraz has finally put an end to days [...]
HOBART: Kamran Akmal, Pakistan’s embattled wicketkeeper, has ruled out the possibility of playing in the Hobart Test as a batsman alone, and has insisted again that he is confident he will play. Akmal’s position in the side has come under intense scrutiny after a dismal second Test in Sydney in which he dropped four catches [...]
Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam has called for separate teams for Twenty20 internationals as a possible means of arresting his side’s current decline in the Test format. Intikhab echoed the comments made by captain Mohammad Yousuf after Pakistan’s defeat in Melbourne, when he said the players in the Test squad were struggling to adapt to the [...]
SYDNEY: Australia completed a nerve-shredding 36-run victory over a willing Pakistani side, thus becoming only the sixth team in Test history to triumph after trailing by 200-plus on the first innings. An obstinate 123-run ninth-wicket partnership between Michael Hussey and Peter Siddle drew Australia back into a contest they appeared to have conceded after a [...]
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