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LAHORE - The PCB Women Wing has confirmed the Nepalese cricket team tour dates here on Tuesday for the four-match series as part of the national team's preparation for the World Cup qualifying round.
The Nepal women cricket team will be touring Pakistan to play a friendly series comprising four T20 matches against the Pakistan women team. The Nepal team will arrive in Lahore on Feb 9 with the first T20 set to be played on Feb 11.
The Nepal women team's tour is in line with

LAHORE - Pakistan's run-away wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider is planning to take the PCB to the court for declaring him mentally ill.
The wicket-keeper has sought asylum in London since leaving the team hotel in Dubai last November during the series against South Africa, saying he received death threats from match fixers.
A Pakistan Cricket Board inquiry into Haider's actions stated that Haider had a complex personality, was a "weak nerve" person and "a person who is easily

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Friday issued notice to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for early-hearing of appeal of fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar who has challenged the penalty of one-and-a-half-year ban and a fine of Rs7 million imposed on him by an appellate tribunal constituted by the PCB.
In this case, the then LHC Chief Justice on July 3, 2008, had allowed Shoaib Akhtar to participate in national or international cricket by suspending the ban on his playing cricket.
The

ISLAMABAD - A single bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) comprising Justice Muhammad Anwar Kasi on Friday issued notices to the officials of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for not recognizing special people's cricket association.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Pakistan Cricket Association for Physically Handicapped. Abdul Latif Kohkar, counsel for the petitioner, contended before the court that despite fulfilling all legal requirements, the association of handicapped

LAHORE - Contrary to Zulqarnain Haider's claims that he had asked the PCB to clear his dues, the Pakistan Cricket Board said it did not receive any request from the runaway wicket-keeper for clearance of dues.
The wicketkeeper presently is seeking asylum in the UK. An official of the board said that since the fact-finding committee of the board compiled its report, there had been no contact at all with Zulqarnain.
"The last time he spoke to the board was when the committee

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board has issued a notice to the national team coach Waqar Younis for giving a media statement regarding the announcement of captain for the World Cup. The former pacer had expressed surprise over PCB's decision to withhold the name of the captain for the World Cup starting next month. A PCB official said that the board had taken notice of Waqar's statement regarding the captaincy issue.
"We have asked him to explain his comments on the captaincy

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board, in a series of experimental steps to improve its domestic structure, has enforced a new policy of grading the performance of umpires. Following complaints of sub-standard umpiring in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, a senior official of the board confirmed that they were already experimenting with a new grading system for umpires. "Yes, the umpiring was not up to the mark, but we have already enforced a system where the umpires getting bad reports

LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ijaz Butt has secretly left for New Zealand to "sort out" the captaincy issue that is threatening to hamper the team's World Cup preparations.
Butt left for Wellington to be with the Pakistan team which will play six one-day internationals against New Zealand starting Jan 22.
Reports say the PCB chief has asked the officials to keep his visit a secret as he wants to quietly hold a few meetings on Thursday and Friday before deciding

LAHORE - Former Pakistan cricket team selector Basit Ali has launched a scathing attack on the Pakistan Cricket Board for mishandling the selection issue of Danish Kaneria and Shoaib Malik.
He has urged the authorities to clear the fog and declare the reasons open. Malik and Kaneria had met the PCB's Integrity Committee prior to the announcement of the 30-member preliminary squad for the World Cup, but neither of them was cleared for selection, leading to both expressing

There is an age old saying, "the graveyards are full of indispensable people". The PCB would do well to ponder this little piece of wisdom. It will stand them in good stead. Among the players short listed for the New Zealand ODIs are names that are controversial to say the least. Then there is the apparent wait to see how the Doha trio fare at the verdict.
This simply won't do. It is high time for the PCB to clean up its Augean stables. There is no dearth of players who would

LAHORE - Leg-spinner Danish Kaneria is planning legal action against the Pakistan Cricket Board after the PCB refused to meet his lawyer who was seeking clarification for his continued exclusion from the Pakistan team.
"We have received another email from their lawyer saying again they are not prepared to have a meeting so obviously we are very, very disappointed about that," Steve Haurigan, Kaneria's lawyer, said. Sources close to the bowler said that the way things are falling

LAHORE - Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi will meet PCB chairman Ijaz Butt at the PCB headquarters on Monday to finalise the probables for the 2011 World Cup and the 15-man squad for the ODI series in New Zealand.
Afridi arrived in Lahore on Friday night from Christchurch after the end of the three-match Twenty20 series for the meeting. He will leave on Monday night to join the team in Hamilton for the first Test against New Zealand starting on January 7.
A top official in the

LAHORE - The Faisalabad SOS Village cricket team visited National Cricket Academy (NCA) Lahore Thursday.
During their visit to NCA, 15 kits to all the team members were delivered by the NCA management as a goodwill gesture from the PCB.

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board's integrity committee has asked the three sidelined cricketers to explain the details of their assets.
It has been learnt that the PCB has also held secret investigation to check the details of the players' assets and for the purpose it has also acquired the help of government agencies.
The PCB has asked Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik and Danish Kaneria to submit the details of their assets and also requested the ICC to grant extension in

LAHORE - The International Cricket Council and Pakistan Cricket Board have rubbished reports stating Pakistan's suspended batsman Salman Butt may face a seven-year ban while his team-mates, Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Aamer, could escape with two year bans respectively. A report on Friday said that Butt is likely to be banned and slapped with a heavy financial penalty. But ICC spokesperson, Sami-ul-Hasan, clarified "the report is completely untrue and speculative".
He said: "The

KARACHI: The newly-appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Subhan Ahmed, has said that inclusion of former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal among the 30 probables for World Cup depends upon the submission of some documents. "The PCB has asked them to submit the documents about their assets and bank accounts by Dec 30 to be considered in the list of probables for the World Cup 2011," he said at the National Stadium here on

KARACHI: A three-member Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) committee recommended that the Board seek more information from Haider because it is unclear why the wicketkeeper quit the team and left the United Arab Emirates for London. The committee has been told that wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider, who had sought asylum in London last month, has a complex personality and "weak nerves."
The committee interviewed Pakistan team members and support staff, and were told that Haider "is a