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WELLINGTON - In what is a blow to Pakistani aspirations to break into the global halal industry, New Zealand's meat exports are set to rise after Malaysia this week agreed to a halal standards agreement, according to a statement.
New Zealand's meat trade with Malaysia has been restricted since 2005, when Malaysian auditors unlisted many New Zealand beef plants for export as they failed to fully comply with Malaysia's new halal standards. However, the new agreement, which sets out

LAHORE - Pakistan cricket team, sans captain Shahid Afridi and four other senior players including Younus Khan, Umar Gul, Shoaib Akhtar and Abdul Razzaq, has left for Auckland on a 40-day tour of New Zealand.
Afridi and the other four players who did not board the flight to New Zealand have been permitted by PCB to go to Malaysia for a World Cup related commercial shoot, and they will join the team in Hong Kong on way to Auckland.
Team manager Intikhab Alam said he was

LAHORE: The camp training of the New Zealand bound Pakistan cricket team ended here on Wednesday with injuries to Sohail Tanvir and Test captain Misbahul Haq.
The injury to Misbah was of minor nature but left-arm bowler Sohail Tanvir has been ruled out of the tour to New Zealand with a knee injury. Pakistan team manager Intikhab Alam said: "He tried his best in the camp but is not fit enough to carry on. He requires time to recover." "The injury to Misbah is of minor nature and

CHENNAI: India completed a 5-0 whitewash over New Zealand in their one-day series on Friday when they won the final match by eight wickets after bundling the Kiwis out for 103. Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin led the Indian spinners with three wickets while part-time spinners Yuvraj Singh and Yusuf Pathan took two each on a dry pitch at the M.A.
Chidambaram Stadium. Only a 43-run partnership between Scott Styris (24) and Jamie How (23) for the fourth wicket ensured New Zealand

LAHORE: Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik's exclusion from the squads announced for the New Zealand tour has come due to his intriguing attitude that divides the dressing room. It has been learnt that Malik was dropped on several grounds and one of them was his image of being a controversial figure for creating divide within the team.
His recent form however has been praiseworthy as he performed brilliantly in some of the Quaid Trophy matches. Malik was the captain of the

KARACHI: Kamran Akmal and Shoaib Malik on Wednesday expressed disappointment at being dropped from Twenty20 and Test squads against New Zealand, clamouring for answers from the cricket board.
Pakistan has announced separate squads for three Twenty20 matches and two Tests against New Zealand ahead of their tour, which starts later this month. Kamran, Malik, senior batsman Mohamad Yousuf and leg-spinner Danish Kaneria were left out.
A separate squad will be announced for six

GUWAHATI: A century from Virat Kohli helped India secure a convincing 40-run victory in the first one-day international against New Zealand on Sunday. India's total of 276 looked enough, and New Zealand were out of contention at 169 for 8 after 36 overs before a quick ninth-wicket partnership of 67 between Nathan McCullum and Kyle Mills offered them a glimmer of hope.
But McCullum's dismissal in the 45th over allowed India to bowl the tourists out for 236 and finish as easy

NAGPUR: India rode on some inspired spin bowling to thrash New Zealand by an innings and 198 runs in the third and final Test on Tuesday and claim the series 1-0.
Spinners Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha and Suresh Raina shared seven wickets before paceman Ishant Sharma finished off the tail, bowling out New Zealand for 175 early into the second session on the fourth day of the match.
New Zealand started the day needing 349 runs to avoid an innings defeat after conceding a

GREYMOUTH: Hopes waned Monday for the survival of 29 New Zealand coal miners who have been trapped for three days underground, where the presence of explosive gases has prevented a rescue.
Family members expressed frustration with the pace of the response as officials acknowledged for the first time it may be too late to save the miners, who have not been heard from since a massive explosion ripped through the Pike River Mine on the country's South Island on Friday.
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HYDERABAD: Opener Tim McIntosh struck a fine 102 to steer New Zealand to 258-4 on the first day of the second Test against India on Friday.
The left-hander hit 10 fours and a six during his nearly seven-hour innings before being bowled by Zaheer Khan in the penultimate over of the day at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, hosting its first Test.
McIntosh added 147 runs with Martin Guptill (85) for the second wicket and 55 for the third with Ross Taylor (24) to steady the New Zealand

WELLINGTON: New Zealand media on Tuesday said the national cricket side had plumbed new depths with a 4-0 series loss to minnows Bangladesh and predicted a mauling when the hapless side tours India.
"A nightmare beyond compare" ran a back-page headline in the New Zealand Herald, while Wellington's Dominion Post labelled the one-day side's performance in Bangladesh "a debacle". "How much lower can the sport go before someone acts?" asked the newspaper, calling for a clean-out of

New Zealand's national museum on Tuesday warned pregnant or menstruating women to stay away from some of its exhibits or risk an encounter with angry Maori spirits.
The Te Papa Museum in Wellington confirmed it had invited regional museum staff on a behind-the-scenes tour of its collections on the condition that women who were pregnant or menstruating did not attend.
The museum's Maori adviser Michelle Hippolite said the condition was because some of the Maori artifacts had