Tag: pakistan cricket

It’s unfair to criticize Whatmore: Hafeez

Unless it is the World Twenty20 final, winning a match in the shortest format is seldom the cause for massive celebration. Today, it was. For...

Match-fixing has taken toll on Pakistan cricket: Imran

Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan lamented that the match-fixing scandal has robbed the country of two match winning bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer....

A superb win, a good beginning

Pakistan cricket has often wilted under the weight of expectation. It looked like that for brief spells during the game at Bangalore. But then...

Bomb squad combs match venue

Police bomb squad officers and sniffer dogs searched Bangalore stadium Monday as part of a massive security operation for the start of the first...

Butt returns to haunt Pakistan cricket yet again?

The Pakistan cricket early last year saw a light of hope with the change of command at the helm when Chaudhary Mohammad Zaka Ashraf...

PCB plans awards ceremony to lure foreign teams

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is planning to hold a grand awards ceremony on the lines of the International Cricket Council (ICC) annual awards...

Why the corrupt haunt Pakistan cricket

When Pakistan's leg-spinner Danish Kaneria was banned for life for fixing, many were baffled as to why Pakistanis were so talented at cricket yet...

Sohail Tanvir to be retained

On the request of Team Management, Chief Selector Iqbal Qasim, in consultation with the National Selection Committee has recommended the inclusion of Mr. Sohail...

Whatmore calls the shots

Australian coach Dav Whatmore showed that he is going to play an influential role in Pakistan cricket in the future as PCB and selectors...

The rub of the green!

Heads high, but feet on the ground How are the mighty fallen or, in its mocking Americanised version, the bigger they are, the harder they...

Pakistan cricket’s benefactors

What did not kill it, only made it stronger For its recent unexpected bounce back-with-a bang after a long period of hibernation spread over nearly...

Another controversy

Cricket between Pakistan and England seems to be jinxed. No series goes by without controversy, bitterness, accusations and counter-accusations. This year again the first...

Pakistan will have a foreign coach

Pakistan cricket team’s associate manager Col (retd) Naushad Ali said on Wednesday that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has shortlisted names of three foreign...

The funeral of cricket

Cricket is the most lovable, watchable and cherished game in Pakistan. Our hearts beat with cricket. Our life and death sometimes get associated with...

Umar learning to bat with patience

Pakistan's top batsman Umar Akmal doesn't want to change his attacking style of play but says he is learning to stay longer at the...

Zaka pronounces discipline as his guiding principle

New-appointed PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf has said that maintaining discipline would be his first priority in the Pakistan team. Zaka said that players with...

Sri Lanka look for revival against Pakistan

Sri Lanka hope to end their Test drought when they face Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates later this month, the team’s captain Tillakaratne...