Tag: Cricket

LAHORE - President of the Lahore City Cricket Association Khawaja Nadeem Ahmed said,"We will fill the city of Lahore with cricket grounds and one of the additions will be Ittifaq Cricket Ground, to be inaugurated by CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif soon in healthy and environmental friendly surrounding H-Block Model Town, Lahore".
Chief Executive of Shapes (Pvt) Limited, Nadeem said Lahore is full of talented cricketers but there is no protected platform for them to keep their future

LAHORE - Fazal Sweets Cricket Club outplayed Al Falah Bank by 62 runs to win the final of Lahore Premier Cricket League at Lahore City Cricket Association Ground. Fazal raced to 259, with the courtesy of the brilliant batting from Kamran Sajid 61, Rashid Riaz 45 and Waqas Ahmed 37*.
In reply, Al Falah Bank made only 198. The Chief guest, President of the Lahore City Cricket Association, Khawaja Nadeem Ahmed, handed over the winning trophy to Fazal's skipper Afzal Shah along with

DUBLIN - The Irish government promised full backing to their cricketers Friday in efforts to overturn their removal from the next World Cup, slamming the decision as flying in the face of sportsmanship.
On Tuesday the International Cricket Council confirmed a decision to slash the 2015 and 2019 World Cups to just 10 teams in a move that was described by Cricket Ireland's chief executive Warren Deutrom as "frankly outrageous". Sports Minister Leo Varadkar, at a special reception

DHAKA - Michael Clarke celebrated his captaincy debut with a responsible century as Australia raced to an emphatic 60-run victory over Bangladesh in the opening one-day international on Saturday.
The stylish middle-order batsman, leading in his first one-day series after replacing Ricky Ponting as skipper last month, scored 101 for his sixth one-day hundred to help his team post a challenging 270-7 on a slow pitch.
Bangladesh never looked like achieving the target despite

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's outgoing coach Trevor Bayliss on Thursday said the country needed a strong and stable cricket administration to allow players to focus only on the game and not be distracted by politics.
"On the field, we've done pretty well for past 18 months," Bayliss said in an interview with AFP. "Getting to the World Cup final itself is an achievement, though we lost (to India)." But off the field, Australian-born Bayliss said, Sri Lanka could improve the way the game

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Monday dismissed a petition against distribution of cash prize to Pakistan cricket team by Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif from national exchequer, ruling that courts cannot interfere in policy matter of government. If the government wants to give award to someone for encouragement, the courts have nothing to do with it.
CM has announced Rs500,000 cash prize each to Pakistan cricket team players from public exchequer. Barrister Javed Iqbal

LAHORE - India was seized by a growing controversy as it was revealed that there was more than one trophy and that India was presented with a different one from that given to previous Cricket World Cup winners, according to a report in The Telegraph newspaper.
The report said while the final was being played, that original trophy was locked in a Customs warehouse in Mumbai as £30,000 of duty had not been paid by the ICC for its release. Cricketing officials said the Indian team

ISLAMABAD - Kashmir Council EU Chairman Ali Raza Syed on Monday said that cricket diplomacy was not enough to improve the relations between Pakistan and India and Kashmir issue would have to be resolved on priority basis according to the will of Kashmiris.
Addressing a news conference here at National Press Club (NPC), Ali Raza said that failure of numerous agreements between India and Pakistan including Tashkant and Shimla, revealed that conflicts between both the countries

NEW DELHI - The fireworks that exploded after India's scintillating World Cup triumph over Sri Lanka in the final were not the only ones that eventually added sparkle to cricket's showpiece event. Some thrilling contests, the enthusiasm of the home fans and big money for sponsors and advertisers -- everything added up to make the exhausting, six-week odyssey a success in the eyes of the organisers.
Sri Lanka deserved huge credit, making it to the title clash until falling at the

LAHORE - A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court on Saturday seeking to restrain Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif from giving a reception in honour of the national cricket team.
Iftikhar Hussain Rajput filed the petition submitting that the CM should be stopped from hosting the reception, which will cost Rs 3 million to the provincial exchequer. He said that if Shahbaz wants to give prizes to the cricketers, he should do it from his own pocket.
The petitioner,

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani invited the Pakistani Cricket team at PM house on April 04.
A reception will be arranged to lift the morale of the team.

WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday praised the "cricket diplomacy" between India and Pakistan after their leaders met for a game, saying that better ties between the rivals were in the world's interest. "The expansion of dialogue between India and Pakistan is a welcome and encouraging development for both countries, for the region and for the world," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement. But while the US voiced support for the dialogue, it said that future

LAHORE - Terming the Mohali World Cup semi final between India and Pakistan as fixed in favour of India, a petition was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday requesting the court to hold an inquiry by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as to whether the 'cricket diplomacy' was a conspiracy prepared by bookmakers to cover their crime.
The petition was filed by Irfan Mukhtar, through his counsel Azhar Siddique, requesting

KARACHI - The KSE-100 index, on Thursday, closed at 11,809.54 points marked by a gain of 0.93 points, while total volume and total value stood at 55,378,100 and 3,594,159,574 respectively. The KSE-30 index accumulated 18.63 points to close at 11561.50 levels, while All Share index closed at 8,276.78 levels after losing 0.17 points. End of the cricket fever failed to instill investor's interest. The index return in the concluded first quarter of the CY11 remained below par, at -1.77

ISLAMABAD - The Spokesman of Prime Minister's House has said that Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani will invite the members of Pakistan's cricket team, on their return to Pakistan, to commend them on their performance in the Cricket World Cup for reaching the semi-final and encourage them for even better results, in the future.
The spokesman added that semi final match in Mohali, provided a very useful opportunity to the leadership of Pakistan and India to get together and

MIRANSHAH - Tribesmen were cleaning their guns and collecting explosives for gunfire Wednesday fir cricket World Cup semi-final. The North Waziristan region near the Afghan border, which is infested by Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked militants and is target of repeated US drone attacks, ground to a halt like cities and towns across the country.
Awash with light and heavy weapons, the tribal belt -- described by Washington as the most dangerous place in the world -- is cricket-crazy