Archive for ‘November 3rd, 2008’

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Nov03

Anil Kumble- India’s spin king calls it a day

by wasim on November 3rd, 2008 at 8:28 am
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket India

Anil Kumble announced his retirement from Test cricket here on Sunday, leaving India with a huge task of finding a consistent match-winning spinner.

Anil Kumble announced his retirement  minutes after the tea break on the final day; Kumble then bowled four overs before the match was called off as a draw.

Although an announcement of his retirement was expected by the end of the series but nobody expected him to announce the retirement in the middle of the series, his dismal performance in the last few test series due to a persistent shoulder injury , Amit Mishra’s match winning performance in the second match and Dhoni’s superior captaincy skills were the main factors which prompted his retirement.

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Nov03

Greedy Yousuf joins ICL once again

by wasim on November 3rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

Mohammad Yousuf has joined ICL once again , the news came out on the eve when his name was announced in the 15 member squad of Pakistan for the Abu Dhabi series. Mohammad Yousuf joined ICL before his inaugural season citing differences with PCB, but Nasim Ashraf later on convinced him to back off from the contract he returned the ICL money and was financially compensated by PCB, he also received Us $300,000 from IPL without playing a single match.

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Nov03

PCB appoints Aqib Javed as assistant coach

by wasim on November 3rd, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Posted In: Cricket, Cricket Pakistan

PCB has appointed Aqib Javed as assistant coach of Pakistan team for a period of two years, Aqib was a coach in the PCA and will now assist Intikhab Alam . Aqib has played 22 tests and 163 Odi’s for Pakistan, he said that he will be paying special attention to the young pacers, he will take charge of his new assignment before the Abu Dhabi ODI series.

Aqib has produced good results while working with the PCA and coaching the U19 team, the popular choice for the job was Waqar Younis or Wasim Akram but both are quite busy with their international  commentary assignments and perhaps were not considered.

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