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ISLAMABAD - Interpol said on Thursday it had foiled a militant plot to carry out an attack during the cricket World Cup now being played across South Asia.
"Last week, through cooperation from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, we were able to identify, locate and arrest a terrorist," head of the Paris-based international police agency, Ronald K. Noble, told reporters in Islamabad along with Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik.
He said the man with "criminal

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board is hoping to make some headway in the resumption of bilateral cricket ties with India when its officials reach Mumbai later this month for an ICC meeting. Reports quoted sources that the Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of the PCB would be in Mumbai next week for the World Cup final as well as to attend a meeting of the ICC starting after the final on April 2. "Although no formal meeting has been scheduled with the Indian board officials but we

LAHORE - P&T Gymkhana overwhelmed SPM Colts by 60 runs to clinch the final of the first SPM Club Cricket.
P&T gave no room to their opponents in the final at Ali Garh ground, Model Town after racing to 314-9 in 75 overs.
Chief guest Shafiq Ahmed Papa, PCB General Manager, presented the Man of the Match award to Khaqan Arsal for his fine batting performance. Ruhail Ali was picked as MVP. P&T bagged Rs 100,000 while SPM received Rs.50,000. Khaqan scored an unbeaten 135 while

LAHORE - Pakistan's cricket fans have now a great opportunity to entertain themselves with the city's main cinemas showing ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2011's knockout matches on big screen. Spectators were happy that, having been denied the right to host the Cricket World Cup, they could experience an 'extraordinary' atmosphere by watching matches live in cinemas.
Cinemas including DHA, Cinestar and Sozo World have started advance bookings for the matches of the CWC. It is

LAHORE - The East Zone Cricket Association Tournament Committee meeting held its meeting under the Chairmanship of Waqar-ul-Munir on Sunday to finalise the matches schedule.
The tournament Committee has declared that four clubs i.e Mughalpura Institute(Group A), Lucky Star (Group B), Ghalib Sports (Group C), Baghbanpura Eaglets (Group D) will play the quarter finals. Mughalpura Institute will face with Jallo Gym in quarter final.
In the group B Lucky Stars will meet with the

LAHORE - Pepsi Cola organised a Cricket Revolution - Ultimate Gaming Tournament, in order to provide an unmatched experience to the cricket crazy nation here. Gaming areas were set up at different bazaars, malls and colleges where the youth showed their skills in the amazing Pepsi Cricket Revolution Game.
The final round of the tournament was held across different zones in Lahore and over 50 gamers took part in the competition. Player with highest runs in five overs was selected

LAHORE - The Pakistan Blind Cricket Council is conducting the two One-day matches of Veteran Blind Cricket on March 14 and 15 at Cricket Ground of Punjab University (New Campus) Lahore.
The veteran blind cricket players from all four provinces of Pakistan and also from Azad State of Jammu & Kashmir will take part in these matches. The players have been divided into two teams, PBCC Green and PBCC Blue.
PBCC Green will be led by Syed Sultan Shah (Chairman PBCC and former

SYDNEY - Australian cricket chiefs Thursday enlisted the help of three of the country's greatest Ashes captains to find out why the Test team imploded in their last major battle against England. Allan Border, Mark Taylor and Steve Waugh, who led Australia to their most sustained period of Ashes dominance, will be part of a team performance review panel commissioned by Cricket Australia (CA). The review panel is charged with working out what has gone so wrong following beatings,

DASKA - Local and export purchase orders for cricket goods and garments industry such as green cricket shirt, trouser, team bats, batting gloves, pads and cricket balls have massively increased in Cricket World Cup 2011, said Director of Malik Sports Malik Zahid.
Three famous Pakistani brands MB, CA and AS have captured 60 percent of total world cricket goods market. He said that Pakistan produced around half a million batting pads and gloves annually - out of which around 0.2

LAHORE - University of Management and Technology Sports Club will be organising the first UMT Intervarsity Cricket tape ball tournament from March 10. Eight teams from various institutes will compete with eight different teams of UMT. The tournament will be played on a knockout basis.

LAHORE - Chaudhry Sports beat Lahore Tigers by four runs in the Amar Cables veterans T20 Cricket here on Tuesday. Batting first, Chaudhry Sports scored 157 for nine and in reply Lahore Tigers scored 153 for nine. Azizur Rehman scored 59 for the winning side and Naseer Bhatti topscored for the losing side with 70. Meanwhile, Lucky Stars and Shining Club marched into the next round of East Zone Cricket Championship. Lucky Stars outplayed Dharampura Club by five wickets at Jallo Ground

LAHORE - The Amar Cables Veteran Twenty20 Cricket Tournament rolled into action at Ali Garh Cricket Club of Model Town. On the opening day, Stags and Aamar Cables won their matches and the chief guest SPM head Aizad Sayid gave the Man of the Match award to Sajjad Akber. Eight teams are taking part in the event and the awards for the concluding day are: Winner Rs.50,000, Runners Up 25,000, Player of the Tournament Rs.7500, Best Bowler Rs.5000, Best Batsman Rs.5000, Best All rounder

LAHORE - Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) has rescheduled the country wide "Istehkam-i-Pakistan Sunni Conference" for April 17 at Minar-i-Pakistan. "March 23 is the day of Cricket World Cup's quarter final, therefore we have readjusted our program," announced SIC Chairman Fazl-i-Karim in a press conference on Monday at the Lahore Press Club. Fazl told the media that SIC will protest on Friday against the rise in price level and expected release of Raymond Davis. He asked the government to

FAISALABAD - Raza Abad police arrested two separate groups of cricket lovers after a tip off that they were gambling on cricket World Cup matches. Reportedly, a total of 19 arrests were made and thousands of rupees recovered that had been put on stake at the cricket match between India and England.
Raza Abad Station House Officer (SHO) Shahid Sarwar Alvi raided two separate places in Raza Abad and arrested Adnan, Bilal, Shahbaz, Sajjad, Ghulam Muhammad, Irfan, Kashif, Shahbaz,

LAHORE - Workshop clinched the final of Pakistan Railways Divisional Cricket Championship 2011, played at Railway Stadium. Workshop defeated Lahore by 119 runs. DS Officer Workshop Nasir Khalili was the chief guest while Rashad Mehmood presided over the function.
Workshop piled up 267 runs in 45 overs, with Shahbaz Butt (91), Sohail Idriss (83), Asif Khan (27) among the top-scorers. Kashif Naveed took two wickets for Lahore, who were later bundled out for 148. M Mehdi (47) and

COLOMBO - Captain Shahid Afridi said Pakistan had sent out a clear message of intent to their World Cup rivals after beating Sri Lanka by 11 runs in a tight Group A encounter on Saturday. Pakistan scored 277 for 7 in their 50 overs with Misbah-ul-Haq hitting an unbeaten 83 and Younis Khan scoring 72 before restricting the home team to 266-9.
"That was a big game and the boys all knew how big that game was," said Afridi, praising Misbah and Younis for very mature cricket. Afridi,

KARACHI - NIT and Rover Cricket Club Karachi are jointly organising a limited-overs cricket tournament at the Aga Khan School Ground, adjacent to the Aga Khan Gymkhana in Garden East, from February 27.
Ten teams are participating in the tournament, which is spread across three weekends. The final would be held on March 13. A large number of former cricket icons and enthusiasts are expected to attend the event.