Tag: Form

I’m in the form of my life: Malik

LAHORE - Former Pakistan cricket team captain Shoaib Malik said Thursday that he was experiencing the most difficult painful time of his career. Malik, 28, has not been selected for the forthcoming Pakistan 15-member World Cup team to be played from next month in subcontinent.
Malik was quoted as saying by German Radio Deutsche Welle Urdu service that playing the World Cup was topmost desire of any athlete and it becomes more disappointing when one is ignored in the best form of

England hope to maintain form in ODIs

MELBOURNE - Fresh from humiliating Australia's Test side in the recent Ashes series, a buoyant England have the chance to do similar damage to the struggling limited overs team ahead of next month's World Cup. The seven-match Commonwealth Bank one-day series, which starts at the MCG on Sunday, will give both nations an opportunity to prepare for the World Cup, which starts in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh on February 20.
Australia might have slipped to fifth in the Test

Punjab Assembly XI in top form at Media Cup

LAHORE - Another six matches were played on day two of the Khayaban-e-Amin Media Cup Cricket Tournament on Thursday. ATV, CNBC, APP, Waqt News and ARY won their matches to move to the second round.
The second day of the tournament started with an exhibition match between Punjab Assembly XI and Sponsors XI. Parliamentarians made 73 runs Allah Rakha 33 and Imran 23 were the prominent batsmen. Khayaban-e-Amin, in reply could manage 68 runs. The Parliamentarians in their second

Sharapova struggling to regain form

AUCKLAND - Maria Sharapova, reputedly the world's best-paid sportswoman, underlined her commercial pulling power at the Auckland Classic with her presence helping to effectively sell out the entire tournament -- something that had never happened before. But the former world number one's decision to shake-up her normal Australian Open preparations by playing in New Zealand left few who saw her in any doubt.
She was nowhere near the same level she was when she captured her last

Farhat finds form in Quaid Trophy

LAHORE - Pakistan opener Imran Farhat hammered a century to lift his team HBL to 226 on day two of the four-day Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match against NBP here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday.
In another match, SNGPL provided Wapda first innings lead after they were all out for 141 at the LCCA ground.
National Bank resumed their innings at 190 runs for eight and their remaining two players failed to add any score to the total and were sent back by Sarnmad Anwar, who took four

Afghan MPs demand president form new parliament

KABUL: A group of about 100 Afghan lawmakers demanded on Monday President Hamid Karzai inaugurate a new parliament by Dec. 19, almost three weeks after final results of a fraud-marred parliamentary election were declared.
Afghanistan has effectively been without a parliament since the Sept. 18 vote, a worrying sign of political instability as Washington finalises a review of its Afghanistan war strategy.
There have been reports of the attorney general's office asking the