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Posts Tagged ‘IPL’

Doped Mohammad Asif

By Amna Gilani • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

According to the media reports, Director cricket operations PCB Zakir Khan has confirmed that Mohammad Asif was tested positive for a banned substance during random testing on May 30 during the Indian Premier League (IPL).
So that proves that Mohammad Asif is a chronic addict, and that tells a great deal about the current affairs of [...]



The audacity and dope - the latest in Shoaibisms

By Tazeen Javed • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

If there ever was a famous person who would sell his mom, pop, dog, ducks, donkey and 6 children to hog limelight, headlines, television airtime and what not, he could not have done it better than our very own Shoaib Akhtar (or is he looking for an Indian citizenship like the formerly rolly polly Adnan [...]



Indian Premier League Final Live

By Gul Raiz • Jun 1st, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

The Indian Premier League will reach its climax today (Sunday), when the Rajasthan Royals, led by Shane Warne, take on the Chennai Super Kings, skippered by Mohinder Singh Dhoni, in what promises to be an action-packed final in Mumbai.
The final showdown was set up after Chennai defeated Punjab in a one-sided semi-final on Saturday. On [...]



India, Pakistan : Kya Dosti Ho gi?

By Ali Yar Khan • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

In the Indian Premier League, you cannot point out any animosity among the players of Pakistani and Indian origin. They are playing there with colors of the game while maintaining their own proud identities. Can that be replicated in all the contentious issues between India and Pakistan?
Since the blood but inevitable partition in 1947, India [...]



Jaipur Bomb Blasts

By Fatima Tassaduq • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Misc

The human life has become so cheap in all the corners of the world. In a recent gory incident of terrorism, more than hundred people have died and hundreds more feared injured in a spate of bomb blasts in the city of Jaipur in the Rajasthan state of India.
The five blasts occurred in tandem and [...]



IPL and Asif Ali Zardari Resembles?

By Farid Masood • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Indian Premier League is on the up on Indian as well as international sports channels. Money, Glamour and coverage is involved in this event of short form cricket tournament. The format is twenty-20 over inning, which is a short form of one day cricket. Many international players are playing. In five to six hours result [...]



Harbhajan Singh and Shoaib Akhtar

By Rohail Butt • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

Both Harbhajan Singh and Shoaib Akhtar seems to be similar in the sense that they both like to beat the fellow team players in front of public without notice. Or perhaps as they say they both often become sikh at intermittent times and lose whatever thinking powers they might have.
After Mohammad Asif with the bat [...]



Pakistan Premier League in 2009

By Rohail Butt • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

After Indian Cricket League and Indian Premier League, Pakistan Cricket Board has also naturally gone on to start their own premier league starting from next year, and have asked for franchises from the city and regional teams.
The PCB would enhance the current ongoing national Twenty20 champion ship and would get sponsors for it and would [...]



Indian Premier League

By Muskan Hina • Apr 20th, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

In front of intimate, excited, gleeful, jumping, eager and passionate spectators in the jam-packed stadiums of India, Indian Premier League is all set to present some scintillating, stirring and dazzling performances of this century.
With joyous, enraptured, gay and happy spectators eager to see best of the breed players from around the world amidst the fulgurant [...]