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Sunday, February 07, 2010 KARACHI: The ill-fated Pakistan cricket team has arrived here in Karachi after the worst Australian tour on Saturday night, Geo news reported. It may be mentioned that Pakistan team lost to World Champions Australia all types of international matches played on the tour including 3 Tests, 5 ODIs and a lone T20. No player or official talked to media at Quaid-e-Azam International Airport after their arrival besides, coach Intikhab Alam, who refused to resign like Iqbal Qasim, vowing to continue fighting for the glory of Pakistan cricket. He held responsible sub-standard fielding for the debacle performance of team however, he claimed responsibility for worst show from team on the tour. PIA tried its best to keep arrival of Pakistan cricket team secret as much as possible as they were sneaked out of airport through Hajj Terminal instead of Jinnah Terminal but Geo camera team caught them red-handed. Players seemed worried over facing newsmen therefore a...

Saturday, November 14, 2009 DUBAI: Pakistan overcame a late order flurry from New Zealand to win the second Twenty20 international by seven runs at Dubai Stadium here on Friday, taking the two-match series 2-0. Teenager Umer Akmal lifted Pakistan to 153-5 before they survived a late charge by Brendon McCullum (47) and Scott Styris (43) to maintain their 100-percent record against New Zealand. Pakistan, who won the first match by 49 runs here on Thursday, have now won all four Twenty20 matches against the Black Caps. McCullum and Styris kept New Zealand in the hunt during a 66-run partnership as New Zealand needed 51 off the last five overs and 38 in the last three. But once big-hitting McCullum holed out to off-spinner Saeed Ajmal in the 19th over, New Zealand's task of making 18 in the last over proved too difficult. McCullum hit three fours and six off 41 balls. Paceman Umar Gul dismissed Styris off the last ball to finish with 2-29. Styris's 33-ball knock had two fours and ...

Monday, November 09, 2009 MUMBAI: Pakistan, who were wary of playing in India due to political tensions between the two nations, will play its six league matches of the World Cup 2011 in Sri Lanka.India will clash with Bangladesh in the opening match of the 2011 World Cup in Dhaka on February 19, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Monday.The first match takes place two days after the opening ceremony of the 14-nation showpiece at the same venue in Dhaka on February 17, according to the schedule released by the ICC here.The final of the 43-day tournament, being co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, will take place at the renovated Wankhede stadium in India's financial capital of Mumbai on April 2.The teams have been divided into two groups of seven each for the preliminary league, with the top four from each group advancing to the quarter-finals.Defending champions Australia head group A which includes Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and two qualifier...

Thursday, November 05, 2009 NEW DELHI: A 12-year-old has scored 439 runs in a school cricket tournament in Mumbai that was used as a launch pad for the career of current Indian superstar Sachin Tendulkar, local media reported on Thursday.Sarfaraz Khan faced 421 balls and hit 12 sixes and 56 boundaries for his Springfield Rizvi school against a hapless Indian Education Society in a three-day Harris Shield match on Wednesday, a local newspaper reported.It was in this tournament in 1988 when Tendulkar, then a prodigal 15-year-old, made 329 during a 664-run partnership with childhood friend Vinod Kambli, who also went on to play international cricket.Tendulkar made his Test debut a year later and became the most successful batsman in history with a world record 12,773 runs and 42 hundreds in Tests and 16,993 runs and 44 centuries in one-dayers.As television cameras and reporters surrounded the young Khan after his mammoth knock, he joked that it was easier scoring 400 than posing for the m...

Thursday, November 05, 2009 HYDERABAD DECCAN: India’s master batsman Sachin Tendulkar has achieved the honour of becoming the first player to make 17,000 runs in One-day International cricket.He reached the coveted milestone in his 435th one-dayer.Besides making the most runs in one-day internationals, Tendulkar also holds several other world records in cricket.He is the highest run-getter in Test cricket also by scoring 12,773 runs in 159 Test matches.Tendulkar holds the records of making the most centuries in both Test and ODI cricket. He made 42 Test and 44 ODI hundreds. He has also made the highest number of one-day international appearances.

Monday, October 19, 2009 KINGSTON: Chris Gayle is widely known for smashing sixes off bowlers of any type but this aggressive batsman became victim of a player who has no relation with cricket.However, he is not an ordinary person but the fastest athlete of the world Usain Bolt who knocked off the wicket of Gayle.Both players’ birth place is Jamaica and their common value is their aggression.When Gayle stays at the wicket, bowlers find themselves in great trouble and in presence of Bolt, other athletes are seen far behind him.However, the scene became very interesting when two danger men from the same area faced each other in the field.In an exhibition match, played in Jamaica, Bolt took the bowl and Gayle held the bat.Gayle began in his aggressive style against Bolt but the game reversed soon when Bolt clean bowled Gayle and showed that he is not only a great athlete but knows the art of bowling very well.Bolt said: “I have been watching Gayle batting for many years and got idea wher...

Shane Watson's second hundred in a week sealed Champions Trophy glory for Australia as they clinched a six-wicket win over New Zealand at Centurion. Watson hit an unbeaten 105, getting to his landmark and securing victory and a successful title defence with consecutive sixes off Jeetan Patel, following his man-of-the-match performance against England three days ago. Ricky Ponting's Australians, who have been in imperious one-day form since losing the Ashes, were rocked by the fall of two early wickets in pursuit of a 201-run target. But they got home in the 46th over thanks largely to Watson's 128-run stand with Cameron White. Watson crashed seven sixes in his 136 not out against Andrew Strauss' team and showed the advantage of being able to clear the rope once again, doing so four times on the same surface used for Friday's semi-final. Australia crawled along at under three runs per over until Watson pulled Ian Butler into the advertising boards at midwicket and f...

Saturday, October 03, 2009 CENTURION: Captain Ricky Ponting became the third batsman to reach 12,000 one-day international (ODI) runs as he guided Australia to a nine-wicket win over England in Friday's Champions Trophy semi-final.Ponting hit 111 not out and Shane Watson thumped an unbeaten 136, the pair sharing an unbroken second-wicket partnership of 252 to set Australia up for a final meeting with New Zealand or Pakistan on Monday."(Passing 12,000) is a nice little achievement I guess but I'll look at it when I have finished playing," Ponting said at the post-match presentation."(Squad member) Dave Hussey came out (to the middle) tonight and said, 'I wanted to tell you that you were getting close to 12,000 runs'. I had no idea, it's never been anything that motivates me, personal stats."It is about doing a job when it matters for the team so I'm happy I have been able to do that today," added Ponting.The 34-year-old, who joins India...

Sunday, October 04, 2009 LAHORE: The New Zealand cricket team has qualified for the final of ICC Champions Trophy defeating Pakistan in second semi-final on Saturday which has left people of Lahore highly disappointed.People made arrangements to watch live action of Pak-New Zealand semi-final on big screens at many places all across Lahore, which testified people getting sentimental amid progress of match.People were supporting green shirts on every single ball but by the time, Pakistan were nearing to defeat, people were becoming dismayed. Though fans appreciated Pakistani teams’ fight in the match but they were also critic of Pakistan’s poor fielding which cause their side’s ousting from race of Champions Trophy title.

Saturday, October 03, 2009 CENTURION: Australia cricket team has defeated England convincingly by 9 wickets with 49 balls to spare in the first semi-final of ICC Champions Trophy, thus qualifying for the final to be played on Monday with the winning team of today’s semi-final which is between Pakistan and New Zealand cricket team at Wanderers park.

Thursday, October 01, 2009 CENTURION: Australia will take on England in the first semi-final of ICC Champions Trophy to be played here on Friday.Australia clinched top spot in Group A with a last-ball two-wicket win over Pakistan.Australia and England will face each other for the first time in the Champions Trophy event. The match will be played at 6:00 PM (Pakistan Standard Time).The match toss will be of key significance between the two teams.Forecast of rain has been made during tomorrow’s critical match.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 JOHANNESBURG: Pacemen Ashish Nehra and Praveen Kumar shared six wickets as India dismissed under-strength West Indies for 129 in an inconsequential Champions Trophy match here on Wednesday.India were knocked out of the competition following defending champions Australia's tense two-wicket victory over Pakistan in a day match at Centurion on Wednesday, while the West Indies were already out of the tournament.Australia topped the four-team Group A with five points from three matches, followed by Pakistan (4/3). India have secured just one point and the West Indies none after two games.The top two sides advance to the semi-finals.India's slim hopes before this match rested first on a Pakistan victory over formidable Australia and then beating the West Indies in a day-night game. It was all over when Australia clinched a last-ball victory.Left-arm seamer Nehra finished with 3-31 and Kumar with 3-22 to boost India's hopes of posting a consolation v...

CENTURION: Australia and India received one point each after the match between the two teams was abandoned due to heavy rain on Monday.Rain interrupted Australian batting charge against India when they were on 234 runs for four wickets in 42.3 overs in the day/night match in Group A of the ICC Champions Trophy here at SuperSport Stadium.

Monday, September 28, 2009 CENTURION: England defeated South Africa by 22 runs, restricting them at 301-9 in the day/night match here at the Super Sport Park on Sunday.Chasing a difficult target of 324 runs, South Africa could not achieve despite a fine hundred by their captain Graeme Smith who opened the innings and got out as ninth victim batsman, scoring 141from 133 balls with 16 fours.AB de Villiers made 36 while no other batsman could make any significant contribution.For England, James Anderson and Stuart Broad claimed three wickets each Earlier, captain Andrew Strauss won the toss and decided to bat first after which England piled up a huge total of 323 runs for the loss of eight wickets to set an improbable target for the hosts.Owais Shah made 98 from 89 balls and smashed six sixes and five fours while Paul Collingwood scored 82 off 94 balls with six fours and a six. Both added 163 runs for the third wicket partnership.Eoin Morgan also hit a hurricane 67 off 34 balls, smashing ...

CENTURION: Shoaib Malikand Mohammad Yousuf shared a record fourth-wicket stand to help Pakistan beat India by 54 runs on Saturday to reach the Champions Trophy semi-finals. Pakistan compiled 302 for nine after winning the toss and batting before restricting their arch rivals to 248 all out. The victory led Pakistan to the top of Group A with four points from two matches ahead of Australia on two. India and West Indies have no points. Shoaib (128) and Yousuf (87) put on 206 in 193 balls, the biggest stand for any wicket in the Champions Trophy and a fourth-wicket record for Pakistan. The previous record in the competition was 192 for the first wicket, shared by Indians Virender Sehwag and Saurav Ganguly against England in Colombo in 2002 and Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds for West Indies against Bangladesh in Southampton in 2004.Pakistan's previous best for the fourth wicket was an unbroken stand of 198 between Kamran Akmal and Misbah ul-Haq against Australia in Abu Dhabi earlier this...

Sunday, September 27, 2009 JOHANNESBURG: New Zealand astonishingly defeated Sri Lanka by 38 runs in their Group B match of the ICC Champions Trophy here at the New Wanderers Stadium on Sunday.Chasing a difficult target of 316 runs, Sri Lanka batted well but could not reach the target as they were all out for 277 in 46.4 overs.Despite a good opening stand of 66 runs between Sanath Jayasuriya (24) and Tillekaratne Dillshan (41), Sri Lanka began losing wickets at regular intervals and soon they were reeling at 141 for six. However, former captain Mahela Jayawardene stood firm and along together with Nuwan Kulasekera took the score to 219 adding 78 for the seventh wicket.Jayawardene made 77 while Kulasekera remained not out on 57.For New Zealand, Kyle Mills claimed three wickets while Daryl Tuffey, James Franklin and Daniel Vettori took two wickets each.Earlier, New Zealand batsmen displayed brilliant batting performance by plundering a mammoth score of 315 runs against Sri Lanka here at t...

Thursday, September 24, 2009 JOHANNESBURG: Pakistan defeated the West Indies by five wickets in their first Group A match of the ICC Champions Trophy here at the New Wanderers Stadium on Wednesday night.Chasing a rather easy target of 134, Pakistan completed the task in just 30.3 overs for the loss of five wickets.Young batsman Umar Akmal top scored with an unbeaten 41 while stand-in captain Shahid Afridi was 17 not out.Both added 58 runs for the unbroken sixth wicket stand after Pakistan lost their five top order batsmen for 76 runs.Gavin Tonge bagged four wickets for 25 runs.Earlier, Pakistan bowlers skittled out West Indies for 133 runs in 34.3 overs after the West Indies captain Floyd Reifer won the toss and elected to bat first but their batsmen could not resist the Pakistani seamers and the West Indies lost their seven wickets for 47.Later, their late-order batsmen took out the team from disaster and succeeded in taking the score to 133.Number nine batsman Nikita Miller emerged a...

Saturday, September 05, 2009 LONDON: Australia survived a late flourish by England to beat its old rival by four runs in the first of their seven one-day internationals.England took the Ashes two weeks ago but Australia regained alittle pride at The Oval through Callum Ferguson's best-ever 71 not out and Mitchell Johnson's three wickets in a 13-ball spell that cost just five runs. England's spinners did well to restrict Australia to 260-5 but the tourists got an even firmer grip on the English run rate, at least until a seventh-wicket blitz of 46 from 33 balls by Luke Wright and Adil Rashid made the score competitive. The home side needed 13 from the last over to win but Rashid and No. 10 batsman Ryan Sidebottom just came up short in front of a crowd that had earlier jeered England for its slow scoring. The target had looked attainable on a slow pitch but England quickly fell behind Australia's scoring rate as none of the top-order batsmen could build a game-changing sc...

Sunday, August 16, 2009 BULAWAYO: Bangladesh won the five-match series 3-1 defeating Zimbabwe by four wickets with 13 balls left in the high-scoring fourth One-day International here on Sunday.Batting first, Zimbabwe made 312 runs for eight wickets in the allotted 50 overs at the Queen’s Sports Club ground in Bulawayo.The main highlight of the innings was Charles Coventry’s marathon 194 not out as the right-hand middle-order batsman struck seven sixes and 16 fours, facing 156 balls.He equaled the 12-year-old world record of stylish left-hand batsman Saeed Anwar, who made 194 from 146 balls against India at Chennai.Chasing the improbable target of 313, Bangladesh achieved it in 46.5 overs for the loss of six wickets.Opener Tamim Iqbal made 154, the highest individual score by a Bangladeshi batsman.

Sunday, August 16, 2009 MUMBAI: India have announced their team for the next month’s three-nation tournament and the Champions Trophy.Former captain Rahul Dravid has been included in the team after two years. The Indian selection committee has selected him in place of Rohit Sharma. Dravid had played his last ODI in 2007.Virender Sehwag could not make his place in the team due to fitness problem. India will play with hosts Sri Lanka and New Zealand in the triangular series.