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Mullah black mailer of Pakistan cricket

Mullah black mailer of Pakistan cricket

Despite the fact that Sind high court suspended the ban on Pakistan’s ICL players, PCB has made it clear that none of the Players would be selected in the Pakistan team until they sever relations with ICL.
Mohammad Yousuf said on Saturday he would not end his contract with ICL, insisting that if Pakistan needs him [...]

PCB announces prelimary squad for upcoming test series

PCB announces prelimary squad for upcoming test series

Pakistan cricket selectors ignored fast bowler Rao Iftikhar in their 22-man training squad named Tuesday for the first test against Sri Lanka later this month.
‘Rao is a good fast bowler for one-day cricket, but we have depth in our fast bowling for test matches,’ chief selector and former test leg-spinner Abdul Qadir said.
The 22-man squad [...]

Srilanka leads the way

Sri Lanka has decided to lift ban on its ICL players the decision will create ripples in the International cricket community and might create a rift in the Asian block if the situation is not resolved.  A few days ago 13 Bangladeshi players joined the rebel league creating a huge crisis for BCB.  PCB is [...]

Out of the frying Pan into the fire

PCB cleared Rana Naveed and Mushtaq to play county cricket, both the players have been playing in the rogue Indian league ICL, under a previous mutual understanding between the boards and ICC it was decided that players playing in ICL will not be able to play any domestic cricket, although PCB has not allowed its [...]

A step in the right direction

PCB has approached former bowling great Waqar Younis once again for the post of bowling coach,Waqar was removed as bowling coach by the same PCB administration last year before the WC 07 and Mushtaq Ahmed was appointed in his place as a result his relations got sour with the Board and he moved to Australia [...]

Pentangular cup

Final Result
Sind 149 (Naumanullah 47, Shakeel-ur-Rehman 6-28) and 309 for 5 (Manzoor 118, Latif 72, Alam 51* ) beat North West Frontier Province 203 (Shakeel-ur-Rehman 45, Sohail 4-65) and 254 (Younis 111, Kaneria 5-62, Ali 3-66) by five wickets.
Scorecard
Sind managed to beat NWFP quite comfortably although their was a minor collapse when they lost [...]

Bad light & Kumble ruin India’s chances

First it was Kumble and then it was the bad light which ruined India’s chances to win the series 2-0. India gave Pakistan an impossible target of 374 in 47 overs, being 1-0 in the series Kumble was in no mood to take any chances and decided to play it safe by continuing to bat [...]