By now everyone knows that Salman Butt has been sentenced to 2.5 years in jail, Mohammad Asif to a year, Mohammad Aamir to 6 months, and agent Mazhar Majeed to 2 years and 8 months. Are the sentences too harsh, too lenient, or perfect?
It is sad for Pakistan cricket. The image of the country is [...]
Shahid Afridi announced his retirement in haste after a spat with coach Waqar Younis over team selection. There were speculations that Shahid Afridi would return after Waqar Younis quit as coach. However, after PCB charman Ijaz Butt was replaced by Zaka Ashraf, it has been made official. This is great news for Afridi fans.
Shahid Afridi [...]
South African opening Batsman Hashim Amla is currently the best ODI batman in the world, with an average of 57 at a strike rate of almost 93.
What is also fabulous is Hashim Amla’s devotion to Islam. He pays a monthly fine of $500 for not wearing alcohol tags on his cricket gear. Not only [...]
And the award goes to…
1. Umer Gul, for giving India a brillant start till the end
2. Younis Khan, Abdur Razaq and Misbah ul Haq for sleeping during the match, with Misbah finally waking up in the last over
3. The Akmal brothers for ensuring that the bookies were busy through out the match
“Actually it was very [...]
These days I am facing a kind of series criticism from my friends, colleagues and most importantly family as well. Why I keep on favoring the English team although this is the same team that lost to Bangladesh and Ireland. This reached to its climax yesterday when there was a do or die match for England. After the first innings [...]
Initially I decided to write about the team announced for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. Name it my laziness or any other thing I never been able to write about it, anyhow many other blogger fellows have done this job already, but there was one thing that was disturbing for me and with every [...]
Pakistan’s World Cup campaigns have had their share of dramatic moments.The World Cup was held for the very first time in 1975.Pakistan squandered a golden opportunity to defeat the eventual champions,the West Indies.West Indies were nine wickets down with over 50 runs to get,when the last wicket pair of Deryck Murray and Andy Roberts,defying expectations [...]
The Pakistani women’s cricket team received a rousing welcome at the airport upon their arrival. They were garlanded and showered with rose petals after winning Gold in the Asian Games. It was Pakistan’s first Asian Games gold medal in eight years.
Nida Dar was the hero of the match with a brilliant all round performance. She [...]
Of late,the controversies surrounding Pakistan cricket never seem to stop.A bumbling administration,a team which disappoints all too frequently ,the shadow of spot fixing,frequent changes of captain and players,disastrous results on the field,fines and bans on players and if all that were not enough,now there is a cricketer (Zulqarnain Haider) on the run claiming that he [...]
Media in Pakistan is said to be free now, and it’s been said that media gained this freedom after a great struggle. Both of the statements might be right but I think it’s still immature and they themselves prove it especially in electronic media. Some TV channels create a fuss just to make sure that [...]
