THE PAK NEWS

2011-05-21T09:12:00.000-07:00

BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis: Half-centuries from Azhar Ali and Umar Akmal helped Pakistan get better from a shaky start in the second Test next to West Indies on Friday before deprived climate prompted an early close.

Azhar hit the top score of 67 and Akmal made 56, as the Pakistanis, electing to bat, reached 180 for six in their primary innings before rain then bad light stopped play 16.4 overs early on the breach day at Warner Park.

Azhar added 93 for the fifth wicket with Akmal, following a stand of accurately 50 with Pakistan head Misbah-ul-Haq that resurrected the visitors from 24 for three in the primary hour.

Azhar and Akmal, though, both succeeded in gifting their wickets when it appeared they were well set.
Akmal was caught at third man off West Indies captain Darren Sammy, chasing a broad release, and Azhar was jog out, when Mohammad Salman failed to respond to his call for a single to extra cover off Sammy, and

they together ended up at the same end.
Ravi Rampaul was the pick of the West Indies bowlers with three for 40 from 18.2 overs.

Gaining near the beginning assistance from the hard, factual Warner Park pitch, Pakistan were set back early, when Taufeeq Umar was caught behind for 11, too late in lifting his gloves out of the way of a growing delivery in Rampaul’s fourth over.

The Pakistanis were beneath additional pressure when Mohammad Hafeez edged a forward defensive shot, and was caught at third trip for eight in the West Indies fast-medium bowler’s fifth over.
Asad Shafiq then cut a short, broad delivery, and was caught at gully for a duck in Rampaul’s seventh over to leave Pakistan wobbling.

After lunch, runs started to flow for Pakistan, but the the sack of Misbah set them back, as they reached 106 for four before rain forced an early tea.

Misbah had got things going after lunch when he carved Kemar Roach to the third man frontier for his second four, and Azhar drove leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo fluently through extra cover for his second four in the next over.

In the next over, Misbah took a pair of boundaries off Roach, steering a delivery to third man, and hurtful a short, wide delivery through backward point.

But Misbah was fixed low down at mid-on for 25 off Bishoo, essaying an foolish on-drive, leaving Pakistan 74 for four.

Akmal came to the fold, and immediately got into the thick of things with a flick through backward square leg for his first boundary, then herd Rampaul sweetly through cover off the back-foot for his second four.

He and Azhar however, were interrupted, when rain stopped play about 40 minutes before the scheduled tea break, and continued to wreak havoc after the break.

The Pakistanis complete one change to their team replacing Umar Gul with left-arm fast bowler Tanvir Ahmed.

West Indies suffered a hinder with veteran Shivnarine Chanderpaul sidelined with a sore shoulder to be replaced by Marlon Samuels as one of two changes.

The other saw Kraigg Brathwaite making his debut at the expense of left-hander Devon Smith, and is the fifth youngest West Indies Test player ever.

Pakistan trail 1-0 in the two-Test sequence, following a 40-run defeat inside four days in the first Test, which ended last Sunday at the Guyana nationwide Stadium, crushing the visitors’ thoughts of a maiden Test series victory in the Caribbean.

Wasim Akram takes aim at Waqar, PCB

2011-05-21T08:58:00.000-07:00

Wasim Akram takes aim at Waqar, PCB

Famous speed bowler Wasim Akram on Saturday joined the rising list of former Pakistani players criticising the taking away of Shahid Afridi as ODI skipper, saying the result defied logic.

He as well took a shot at Waqar Younis by saw, “In Pakistan, the trainer wants all the power and when it doesn’t happen, the fight begins.”

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) discarded the the flamboyant Afridi as Pakistan’s ODI captain following reports of a tussle with coach Waqar Younis became civic.

“Arguments flanked by captains and coaches are not new-fangled in Pakistan cricket. Afridi was hailed as a national hero after the World Cup, and came reverse from the West Indies after winning the ODI sequence only to find out he has been sacked. What is the PCB upto?” Akram told ‘Mobile ESPN’

Akram also thought the result to appoint 36-year-old Misbah-ul-Haq as Afridi’s substitute was “at best a stop-
gap arrangement.”

“The present Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq is on the mistaken side of 30 and I don’t see him leading the side beyond 6 to 8 months”, said Akram.
“It is a wrong footstep taken by PCB, and only (chairman) Ijaz Butt is to be blamed for this,” he extra.

Pakistan will have fun India

2011-05-20T07:57:00.000-07:00

KARACHI: Pakistan will have fun India in three open matches in the combined Kingdom in July depending on government clearance, the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) confirmed.

PFF promotion director Sardar Naveed thought an accord had been reached with the All India Football alliance and the dates for the three-match series are the majority probably 6-18 July.

The series against India was planned after the tour to Palestine was postponed indefinitely due to visa issues. Pakistan was supposed to play the go back prop of the bi-lateral succession in Palestine following Palestine had played in Pakistan earlier in the year.

“The series beside India will go ahead once their federation gets the clearance from their administration,” Naveed said while talking to NDTV.

The proposed cities anywhere the matches are most probable to be played are London, Manchester and Birmingham. Naveed said TouchSky Sports was helping the PFF fund this series, which will give the players some much needed international contact.

Naveed said the future three-match series alongside India will serve as good practice for Pakistan’s World Cup qualifiers. Pakistan will be up against Lebanon if they make it to the second round after playing Bangladesh in the first encircling.

Pakistan will play their initial round World Cup qualifier in Dhaka on June 29 while their second qualifier will be in Lahore on July 3.

The squad is also scheduled to play two practice matches with the national teams of Dubai and Qatar after which they plan to go to the United Kingdom.

Cricket: Pakistan pull Afghan match in bin Laden town

2011-05-19T08:32:00.000-07:00

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan cricket establishment on Thursday pulled a one-day match against Afghanistan which had been planned to take place in the town where US forces shot dead Osama bin Laden.

The game, the third in a sequence between Afghanistan and Pakistan’s second players, attracted media attention for being hosted in Abbottabad, where US Navy SEALs killed the world’s most-wanted man on May 2.

The fixture has been relocated to Islamabad.
Afghanistan, the first global team to tour Pakistan in additional than two years after militants attacked the Sri Lankan team in March 2009, will now occupy yourself matches in Islamabad on May 25, Rawalpindi on May 27 and Faisalabad on May 29.

“The itinerary… has been revised and now the Abbottabad contest will be played in Islamabad on May 25,” said the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

No official motive was given for the decision which was taken at a meeting on Thursday flanked by PCB chairman Ijaz Butt and Interior priest Rehman Malik.
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ohail Tanveer will lead Pakistan’s ‘A’ team, comprising of young players who have either been left out of the first squad or are being nurtured as future flair.

The Afghan team, coached by former Pakistan leader Rashid Latif, will arrive in Islamabad on May 24.
The war-ravaged nation has made speedy strides in international cricket, progressing in 2009 from ICC (International Cricket Council) division one to five, and securing one-day standing the similar year.

Afghanistan capable for last year’s World Twenty20 in the West Indies and also won the ICC Inter-Continental Cup in 2010, meant for countries who are not filled ICC members.

They beat Pakistan in the semi-final of last year’s Asian Games in China and went on to win a silver medal after behind to Bangladesh in the last.

Warne slapped by means of $50,000 very well

2011-05-19T02:41:00.000-07:00

MUMBAI, May 18: Australian cricketer Shane Warne has been fined $50,000 for publicly criticizes an official, the Indian Premier League (IPL) said on Wednesday.

A two-member payment, comprising IPL chairman Chirayu Amin and former India leader Ravi Shastri, heard Rajasthan Cricket Association’s (RCA) complaint that Warne had widely insulted its secretary Sanjay Dixit behind an IPL match.
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It [the expenses] regards the public criticism of Mr Dixit as being a serious breach by Mr. Warne of his IPL playing indenture,” the expenses said in a account.

The commission noted Warne had apologized to Dixit and said it had considered the spin bowling great’s “giving to the game of cricket in general, and to the Indian Premier League”.
Warne will play his most recent match for Rajasthan against Mumbai Indians on Friday.

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2011-05-17T12:44:00.000-07:00

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2011-05-17T12:31:00.000-07:00

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Illegal object to be lodged in opposition to Warne: statement

2011-05-17T11:54:00.000-07:00

NEW DELHI: A limited cricket relationship is set to lodge a criminal complaint beside Australian bowling legend Shane Warne for his part in a bust-up with an official, reports said on Sunday.

Warne, skipper of the Rajasthan Royals team in the Indian Premier League, was involved in an angry exchange with Sanjay Dixit, secretary of the Rajasthan state cricket association, following his team’s defeat at home on Wednesday.

Leg-spinner Warne lying on Saturday apologized for the incident but the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) supposed they would still lodge the complaint, the Press conviction of India (PTI) news agency statement.

“It is an goaded offence and it needs to be dealt with like that. Some kind of disciplinary action is to be taken,” PTI quoted Dixit as saying.
Rajasthan Royals chief executive Sean Morris on Saturday said in an email to Dixit that the franchise had taken action against Warne.
“The player has conventional the action that we have taken and apologized for any distress caused,” Morris whispered, without elaborating more.

Dixit said the apology letter sent by Morris be deficient in details.
Accordingly, the officially permitted committee of the RCA decided to file a criminal protest against Warne, the agency added.

“I don’t recognize what class of penal action has been taken. A mere statement was made and nothing more has been done, just (the) proverbial red herring,” Dixit believed.

The debate kicked off after Warne expressed displeasure over the playing surface chosen for Rajasthan’s last two matches against Chennai and Bangalore — equally of which the habitat side mislaid.

Safety forces capture elder al Qaeda functioning

2011-05-17T11:27:00.000-07:00

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani defense forces have arrested elder al Qaeda operational Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, alias Abu Sohaib Al Makki, in the southern port city of Karachi, the military said Tuesday.

“According to first round investigations, Al Makki is a Yemeni general and has been effective directly below Al-Qaeda leaders along Pak-Afghan borders,” the military’s media wing alleged.

“The capture of Al Makki is a major progress in unravelling the al Qaeda network operating in the region,” it said.

The detain follows a US covert maneuver in the fort city of Abbottabad near Islamabad on May 2 that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and comes a day after US senator John Kerry visited Pakistan to horizontal a damaging row caused by the raid.

Pakistan’s civilian and military privileged were left angry and embarrassed after the independent US assault that killed the Al-Qaeda chief, who had been living, possibly for years, two hours drive from the capital.
The forced entry rocked the country’s powerful defense institution, with its intelligence services and military widely accused of incompetence or collusion over the presence of bin Laden in a uptown house in Abbottabad.

Al Makki is it appears that not on the list of globally most wanted Al-Qaeda operatives but the military’s statement mentioned his network was operating in the district.
His capture came a day after a Saudi Arabian diplomat was killed in a hail of shot on his way to the Saudi consulate in Karachi.

heart Minister Rehman Malik blamed al Qaeda for the attack which was the second on Saudi interests in Pakistan’s biggest city in a lesser amount of than a week, media news believed.

Asian sports meeting: Women cricketers honored

2011-05-16T21:53:00.000-07:00

Asian sports meeting: Women cricketers honored

KARACHI: fairly a lot of respected and remarkable sports personalities belonging to Sindh came together to honour Pakistan team’s women cricketers from the county at a reception hosted by the Department of Sports, Sindh Government in group effort with the Karachi Sports Forum at the Karachi Gymkhana on Saturday.

performing arts consistently since their Asian Games victory in Guangzhou, China, Pakistan’s women cricketers also won both the Twenty20 and the One-day International editions of the recently-concluded Women’s Quadrangular Series in Sri Lanka without losing a single contest to Ireland, Holland and the hosts. The series also saw wicket-keeper Batool Fatima equalling her earlier world confirmation of six dismissals in one match whilst she took four catches and puzzled two Sri Lankans.

Six women cricketers in the Pakistan team, namely former vice-captain Nain Abidi, current vice-captain Javeria Khan, wicket-keeper Batool Fatima, Masooma Junaid, Kainat Imtiaz and Rabbia Shah hail from Sindh.

Paying rich tributes to the girls, Dr Shah also praised Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Women’s Wing Karachi delegate Mrs Naz Alam Sherazi for her able contribution in sports, especially women’s cricket. “The girls have proven quite a bit through their performance on the field and we recognize that they have potential for doing even better,” said Dr Shah.

Meanwhile, Test leg-spinner Danish Kaneria said he was very happy to be there to support the women cricketers. “It is a matter of pride for me to see as many like six girls from my city playing and doing so well in the national team,” he said.

Batool said it felt good to be getting so little respect and support for their efforts from the Government of Sindh, too, after getting the same kind of recognition from the Punjab government soon after the Asian Games success.

Nain Abidi, who had to miss the event in Sri Lanka due to a fracture in her right hand, is now recovering very well. “My hand is almost healed now and the doctors have acceptable me to play. So you will see me in action again when I represent my province in the Pentangular Cup to be apprehended in Islamabad at the end of this month,” she learned.

Also near on the occasion were former Test cricketer Shoaib Mohammad, Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Sindh Shoaib Siddiqui, Mrs Naz Alam Sherazi, former cricketer Sagheer Abbas and cricket reporter Munir Hussain. Team vice-captain Javeria Khan couldn’t attend as she was out of city.

Former Pakistan spinner under arrest over IPL bets

2011-05-15T07:25:00.000-07:00

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LAHORE, Pakistan: Former Pakistan Test spinner Akram Raza, fined in a match-fixing inquiry eleven years ago, was arrested more than betting on lucrative Indian league matches, police said Sunday.

The 46-year-old Raza, who played nine Tests and 49 one-day internationals for Pakistan, was one of seven men arrested from a hard Lahore shopping area when police raided a bunch of hooligans of bookmakers who were taking illegal bets on Indian Premier League (IPL) games.

“Seven men were in detention after a tip-off that they were taking bets on IPL matches, and one of them has been identified as Raza, a former Pakistan player,” a control officer at Gulberg police post, who did not want to be named, told AFP.

Police thought they recovered cell phone sets, computers, televisions and a large amount of money in the raid, and will charge the arrested men later Sunday.

Raza, who currently stands as umpire in Pakistan’s household matches, was one of six Pakistan players fined in a match-fixing inquiry conducted by Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum in 2000.

The former off-spinner was regarded as a close friend of former Pakistan captain Salim Malik, who was expelled for life by the Qayyum inquiry. Former paceman Ata-ur-Rehman was also handed a life ban.

Pakistan’s administration ordered the post-mortem after Australian players Shane Warne, Mark Waugh and Tim May accused Malik of offering them bribes during Australia’s tour to Pakistan in 1995.

Raza, who made his introduction in the same chain in which Indian master batsman Sachin Tendulkar started his Test profession in 1989 in Pakistan, was also piece of the team in that series against Australia.

Match-fixing has rocked Pakistan cricket since the accusations by the Australian trio.

Three Pakistani players — Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer — were handed lengthy bans by the International Cricket Council in February this year over claims of spot-fixing in last year’s Lord’s Test against England.

The trio also faces criminal charges in United Kingdom, a hearing for which is scheduled for May 20.

Commonwealth Games to push for Twenty20 cricket inclusion

2011-05-13T21:34:00.000-07:00

KUALA LUMPUR: the Commonwealth Games coalition (CGF) is to come near the International Cricket Council (ICC) again to push for Twenty20 cricket’s inclusion in future Games, the CGF said on Tuesday.

“It is basic that our sports programmed continues to change in such a way as to sustain the Commonwealth Games as one of the world’s leading multi-sport events,” CGF games review committee chairman Tunku Imran said in a report.

“Given cricket’s brawny association with the Commonwealth, the CGF will have further dialogue with the ICC as to the possibility of 20/20 cricket being incorporated as an option for future editions of the Games,” the CGF vice-president whispered.

Organizers of last year’s Delhi Commonwealth Games were keen to include Twenty20 cricket but the powerful Indian cricket board rejected the idea, saying it did not want to further persuade this format of the sport.

India had sent a second-string squad when cricket featured in the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Games.

The CGF said it would also ask its 71 member countries to vote on whether to take account of beach volleyball from the 2018 Games.

indian cricket

2011-05-13T11:25:00.000-07:00

CHENNAI: India’s World Cup-winning captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, batting ace Sachin Tendulkar and pace man Zaheer Khan were rested lying on Friday for subsequently month’s Twenty20 and one-day chain in the West Indies.

Left-handed opener Gautam Gambhir will direct the 16-member squad with Suresh Raina as his deputy, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a speech.

“Dhoni, Tendulkar and Zaheer have been rested. They will be existing for the Test chain,” BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan said in the statement.

India have been playing virtually non-stop cricket since October most recent time when Australia played Test and one-day series in the country.

Hard-hitting opener Virender Sehwag, suffering from a shoulder injury, has already been ruled out of the series that opens with a one-off Twenty20 international in Trinidad on June 4.

It will be followed by five one-day and three Tests. The Test team will be named later.

Tendulkar is the world’s leading scorer with 18,111 runs in 453 one-day internationals with 40 centuries, while Dhoni led the country to the World Cup success previous month.

Zaheer, who emerged as the leading fast bowler in the World Cup with 21 wickets, has so far taken 273 scalps in 191 one-dyers.

Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla, pace man Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and offended fast bowler Ashish Nehra, all part of the 15-man World Cup-winning team, were dropped.

Praveen Kumar and Ishant Sharma returned to the team after gone the World Cup to bolster the pace attack.

Rohit Sharma, Subramaniam Badrinath, Parthiv Patel, Vinay Kumar, Amit Mishra and Wriddhiman Saha also made comebacks following their striking shows in the ongoing Indian Premier League.

The West Indies have won 54 of their 96 one-day internationals touching India.

India’s T20 and one-day squad: Gautam Gambhir (capt), Suresh Raina (vice-capt), Parthiv Patel, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Subramaniam Badrinath, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Ravichandran Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Vinay Kumar, Yusuf Pathan, Amit Mishra, Wriddhiman Saha.

Pak vs Srilanka ???

2011-05-13T09:57:00.000-07:00

KARACHI: Pakistan IS scheduled to host England for a Test and one-day international series early next year but with the precarious safety condition in the country, the series is likely to be hosted at a impartial venue and Srilanka has emerged as one of the ideal hosts.

“I have spoken to the cricket boards of both England and Pakistan and they have been very activist about playing the series in Sri Lanka,” Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) Secretary Nishantha Ranatuga told cricket website Chicano.

While PCB’s Chief Operating administrator Subhan Ahmed said the UAE and SriLanka are likely venues, he did not confirm where the series could host.

SriLanka’s confidence as emanates from the victorious hosting of Pakistan’s group matches during the World Cup, which attracted a large number of Pakistani and narrow fans.

The two South Asian neighbors enjoy friendly kindred and Pakistan’s cricket team receives generous support from local Sri Lankan fans.

The other factor favouring Sri Lanka over the UAE may be the finances involved, as the cost of hosting series in the gulf country has hit the PCB in its pockets.

The series, comprising three Tests, five ODIs and a Twenty20, is programmed for January and February 2012.

cricket news

2011-05-12T08:48:00.000-07:00

While PCB’s Chief Operating administrator Subhan Ahmed said the UAE and Sri Lanka are likely venues, he did not confirm where the series could host.

Sri Lanka’s confidence as emanates from the victorious hosting of Pakistan’s group matches during the World Cup, which attracted a large number of Pakistani and narrow fans.

The two South Asian neighbors enjoy friendly kindred and Pakistan’s cricket team receives generous support from local Sri Lankan fans.

The other factor favouring Sri Lanka over the UAE may be the finances involved, as the cost of hosting series in the gulf country has hit the PCB in its pockets.

The series, comprising three Tests, five ODIs and a Twenty20, is programmed for January and February 2012.