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NEW YORK - Actor Josh Gad has created a new scripted comedy series that's going to be distributed exclusively online. In Gigi: Almost American, a foreigner played by Gad immigrates to the US with dreams of obtaining the American dream - and not letting his lack of street smarts, fashion sense, or mastery of English stand in his way.
The Borat-like series is from BBC Worldwide Productions (the company's first digital series, in fact), My Damn Channel and comedy troupe The Lost

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

CENTURION - India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has blamed his team's fragile batting for the one-day series defeat in South Africa.
India, set 268 to win in 46 overs, lost the final one-day match by 33 runs after crashing to 119 for eight at Centurion on Sunday, losing the series 3-2 after being 2-1 ahead.
"The batting department has not been good in these one-day internationals and that was the main reason we lost the series," Dhoni told reporters. "We should have got 268

CENTURION - Yusuf Pathan's blistering century proved in vain for India as South Africa won the fifth and decisive one-day international by 33 runs on Sunday to take the series 3-2. Morne Morkel bagged four wickets and Dale Steyn and Lonwabo Tsotsobe two apiece for the hosts who dismissed India for 234.
India had been set a Duckworth/Lewis revised target of 268 to win in 46 overs following a rain delay. India were in desperate trouble at 119 for eight before Pathan resurrected

PORT ELIZABETH - Virat Kohli struck a sparkling 87 not out and had a hand in three dismissals but couldn't stop South Africa from winning the fourth one-day international against India at St George's Park on Friday.
South Africa won the rain-affected game by 48 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis method to level the five-match series at two-all, making Sunday's final match at Centurion the decider. JP Duminy was South Africa's star, making an unbeaten 71 and leading a recovery after the

The ODI series between New Zealand and Pakistan which starts today, offers a final opportunity to both the teams to experiment with their 15-men squads for the World Cup.
Pakistan will aim to continue their winning momentum after a good show in the Test series. In their last two ODI series they took both England and South Africa to the wire before losing out in the final game of the series to lose 3-2.
Shahid Afridi and his charges will be aiming for early damage. Pakistan

Pakistan captain Misbha-ul-Haq scored the highest number of runs while team-mate Umar claimed the highest number of wickets in the just concluded Test matches between Pakistan and New Zealand. Pakistan won the series 1-0. The Pakistani skipper scored 231 runs at an average of 115.50 and a strike rate of 38.88 with three half-centuries in as many innings of two Test matches. He hit 30 fours and one six in this series. Martin Guptill scored 163 runs at 40.75 and a strike rate of 34.38

WELLINGTON - Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq produced a man of the match performance to ensure his side batted out the final day to draw the second test against New Zealand on Wednesday and claim their first series victory since 2006.
Misbah finished the day on 70 not out, following on from his 99 in the first innings, as Pakistan reached 226 for five at the close of play, 48 runs short of their victory target of 274, to wrap up the two-match series 1-0.
Adnan Akmal was two

Pakistan weathered a hostile opening spell that reduced them to 42 for 3 in 13 overs in the first hour, worked their way to safety in the second session, and made a half-hearted attempt to win the Test before settling for a draw that gave them the series 1-0 on the fifth and final day of the second Test at Basin Reserve, Wellington, on Wednesday (January 19). It was their first victory outside the sub-continent since the triumph in New Zealand in 2003-04, and their first overall since

LAHORE - Chairman PCB Ijaz Butt has congratulated the Pakistan Team on their victory in the Test series against New Zealand. Pakistan secured their first Test series win after four years when the second Test match at Wellington ended in a draw. The team had won the first test at Hamilton by ten wickets.

WELLINGTON - Pakistan need 274 runs on the final day to win the second Test and complete a 2-0 series sweep against New Zealand after bowling the hosts out for 293 late on the fourth day.
Umar Gul ripped through New Zealand's tail, taking two wickets in two balls, as the hosts lost four wickets for seven runs late on Tuesday.
Last man Chris Martin faced Gul's hat-trick seeking delivery and just about kept it out with an inside edge behind square to the cheers of the small

WELLINGTON - Pakistan will set aside off-field controversies to chase their first series win for four years when the second Test begins in Wellington on Saturday, as hosts New Zealand struggle for form. Unable to hold international matches at home due to security concerns and beset by corruption allegations, Pakistan have not won a Test series since defeating the West Indies in early 2007.
But after crushing the Black Caps by 10 wickets in the first Test, the tourists are in

Lahore - Curtain raiser ceremony for "Faseel-e-Jaan Se Aagay " (Beyond the Life's Limit), a drama series jointly produced by Inter Services Public Relations and Communication Research Strategies Private limited (CRS), was held at the Pearl Continental Hotel on Wednesday.
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik was the chief guest, while ISPR Director General Major General Ather Abbas, Pakistan Television Managing Director Yousaf Baig Mirza, Senior Analyst Shafqat Mehmood and CRS

SYDNEY - England stood on the brink of a first Ashes series triumph in Australia for 24 years after dominating the fourth day of the fifth test with both bat and ball on Thursday.
The tourists racked up a record 644 for a first-innings lead of 364 before James Anderson, Tim Bresnan and Chris Tremlett wreaked havoc among the shell-shocked Australians and reduced them to 213 for seven in their second innings.
Australia, batting in what now looks a forlorn attempt to save

CAPE TOWN - India validated their ranking as the number one team in Test cricket when they drew the third and final Test and earned a share of the series against second-ranked South Africa at Newlands here on Thursday.
Opening batsman Gautam Gambhir guided India to safety with a cautious innings of 64. Set to make an improbable 340 to win, India were 166 for three when play was called off with eight overs remaining.
It was the first time in five tours of South Africa that

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan medium fast bowler Tanvir Ahmad has said that coach Waqar Younis has plenty of bowling experience in New Zealand and his advice and help will be crucial in two-Test series commencing January 7 at Hamilton.
"The wickets for the Test matches should be much more helpful to the bowlers than what we all saw in the UAE, which is certainly something that I am looking forward to," Tanvir said. Tanvir expressed confidence that his "preferred length and bowling style"

LAHORE - The Pakistan Hockey Federation is considering change in the dates of Pakistan and Egypt hockey test series to avoid clash with the Cricket World Cup. The PHF and its Egyptian counterparts have agreed to hold a hockey series and as the plan goes, it was to be held in February-March on a reciprocal basis in which Pakistan would first visit Egypt and then they would make a return visit in March.
However, the dates and number of matches are yet to be finalised but before