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Saturday, February 27, 2010 LAHORE: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has provided match fixing proves to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) against alleged involvement of wicket keeper Kamran Akmal and medium pacer Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan. PCB chairman Ijaz Butt on Friday made the startling revelation that ICC had provided PCB with the concrete proves of their alleged involvement in match fixing. Despite repeated questions, Ijaz Butt had refused to name the players. On investigation, a highly placed official in PCB exclusively told Voice of America on the condition of anonymity that “the two players were wicket keeper Kamran Akmal and medium pacer Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan”. Wicket keeper Akmal had come under heavy fire for his repeated fumbles on the Australian tour. Its worth mentioning that both players were dropped from the T-20 series against England recently played in Dubai. When asked if the proves were so concrete, why PCB included Akmal and Rana in the initial list of 30 pla...

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 GWALIOR: India's Sachin Tendulkar became the world's first batsman to smash a double-century in one-day internationals, achieving the feat against South Africa on Wednesday. The 36-year-old was unbeaten on 200 in the last over. Pakistan's Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe's Charles Coventry had jointly held the record with 194. Anwar made that score against India in May 1997 while Coventry hit 194 not out against Bangladesh last year.

There is no team in the world that doesnt tamper with the ball. My methods were wrong. I am embarrassed, I shouldnt have done it. I just wanted to win us a game but this was the wrong way to do it,

Sunday, January 31, 2010 PERTH: Pakistan T20 skipper Shahid Afridi is set to miss the only Twenty20 clash with Australia after he was banned for two Twenty20 matches on Sunday. The International Cricket Council found Afridi guilty of tampering the bill during the final one-day international against Australia. Afridi admitted the charge, after which the match referee put a two Twenty20 matches ban on him. Coach Inftikhab Alam described the ban as ‘unfortunate’. It may be reminded here that Shahid Afridi was seen tampering the ball with his teeth during the final ODI match.

January 29, 2010 PERTH: Pakistan once again showed disappointing performance against Australia being defeated in the fourth consecutive One-day International here at the WACA ground on Friday. Chasing a difficult target of 278 runs, the entire Pakistan team collapsed for a mere 142 in 37.5 overs, giving Australia a 135-run big-margin victory. Australia are leading the five-match series 4-0 with one ODI remaining and they are aiming for another whitewash after making a clean sweep in the three-Test series. Pakistan were in trouble right from the beginning with losing opener Salman Butt (nought) in the very first over and later Younis Khan (6) when they were on just 14. Kamran Akmal also went for 17 and then captain Mohammad Yousuf for 10, Pakistan were reeling at 39 for four. Later, young batsmen Umar Akmal and Fawad Alam added 60 valuable runs for the fifth wicket before Fawad was run out for 21. Umar Akmal made 38 , the highest score of the Pakistan innings, with two fou...

Thursday, January 07, 2010 LAHORE: Lashing out at the batsmen for defeat in Sydney Test, Chairman Selection Committee Iqbal Qasim said that such performance could not tolerated. In a strong message to the players, he said they will have to perform for retaining their places in the team. Qasim said the committee has decided to send Sarfaraz Ahmed to Australia to strengthen the wicketkeeping department. Speaking to media after meeting with PCB Chairman Ejaz Butt at Qaddafi Stadium here, he said that the decision to send Sarfaraz Ahmed was not made in consultation with the team management. However, they were informed about the decision. The team performance has been very poor, he said, adding that too many changes in the touring team don’t bode well. He said that performance of every player would be thoroughly evaluated after the conclusion of Australia tour. The former spinner said that it was no the first time that our batsmen had let us down, noting that similar thing happen...