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An Australian pitch made in Pakistan
After the first days play Australia are comfortably placed to score over 500 runs in their first innings. They won the toss and elected to bat on a surface which was probably imported from Faisalabad or Rajkot. There was no sideways movement, no pace and no bounce in it. Tailor made for a struggling Ponting [...]
A positive start by Pakistan
Pakistan started there Australian tour in a positive fashion. Salman Butt and Kamran Akmal both scored contrasting centuries in the tour opening three day practice match against Tasmania. The pitch reportedly had some juice in it for fast bowlers, both Imran Farhat and Salman Butt batted patiently and they managed to see off the new [...]
A rare opportunity for Pakistan
Last three years have been very turbulent for Pakistan cricket, security problems in Pakistan led to the cancellation of many home series against the top teams in the world and the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore put an end to any hopes of hosting any foreign team in Pakistan for foreseeable [...]
A team with a vengeance
The late order resilience has always been the hall mark of great teams, probably this was the reason that Australia was desperately looking for a replacement for out of form and out of character Andrew Symonds.
In North and Johnson they have found two all rounders, if their yesterdays batting wasn’t a one time fluke then [...]
T/20 champs got run over by Australia
INDIAN captain Mahendra Dhoni last night attempted to justify his team’s embarrassing nine-wicket mauling by Australia as a mere “practice match”, India fielded a Young team and were playing without their Big Four who performed so well in the tests their young players failed to match the intensity of the Aussies.
The match was played in [...]
Tait quits cricket indefinitely
Breaking News……….
AUSTRALIAN fast bowler Shaun Tait has quit cricket indefinitely, citing emotional and physical exhaustion.
Tait said his love for the game had diminished and he would not play cricket at any level for an indefinite period.
“This is a very difficult situation for me to be in at this time,” Tait said today in a statement.
“This [...]
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