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Cricket : A Comedy of Errors

By Jamshed Khan • Jun 5th, 2010 • Category: Features

Not so long ago, Yusuf, Younis and Malik were banned.Afridi and the Akmal brothers were fined.Everyone who  had the misfortune to captain the current Pakistan side was handed some form of punishment. Makes one wonder why anyone would want to be captain of this side.It is a crown of thorns.
The players fought among themselves. Afridi bit [...]



Pakistani Cricket Team for Asia Cup

By Sher Ali • Jun 3rd, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced a 15-member national cricket team for the 10th Asia Cup to be played from June 15-24 in Sri Lanka. PCB chairman Ijaz Butt told at a press conference here on Thursday that fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar and allrounder Shoaib Malik have passed their fitness test after [...]



Match Fixing of Pakistani Cricketers: Kamran Akmal and Rana Naveed

By Sher Ali • Feb 27th, 2010 • Category: Politics

I am sure that Kamran Akmal had felt no problem in dropping catches or missing stumping to skim off some extra cash from the match fixing, because the idiot wicket keeper has already got holes in his hands. Rana Naveed ul Hassan, the old goat whose legs tremble while facing any batsman worth his salt [...]



Kamran Akmal Blackmails PCB

By Haris Hashmi • Jan 11th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Kamran Akmal, the infamous catch-dropper and stumps-missing player of Pakistan, has  been at last asked to play only as batsman in the natioal team and his replacement as wicket keeper is on the way.
But the stubborn and intransigent Kamran Akmal has refused to do so and has said that he would play in both capacities [...]



Yousuf Captain; Younus Out; Thanks God

By Gul Raiz • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The bad shadow has at last lifted from the Pakistani cricket and the PCB has made a sensible decision at last by removing the gutless and incompetent Younus Khan from the captaincy. They must also recover what they have paid the idiot with the fine. He has screwed the Pakistani middle order for too long [...]



PAKISTANI CRICKET /My view

By captainjohann • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

When Pakistan won the T20 world cup , there was this usual awards,celebrations and it was welcome to a nation which is having a battle on its hands.For me, a long lasting Cricket junkie it was originally a final likely to be [...]



A National Victory : Balochistan Celebrates

By Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

The nation-wide jubilation of the nation after the Pakistani cricket team beat its traditionally friendly rival Sri Lanka in the 2nd Twenty Twenty Cricket World cup in Lourdes raises a point to ponder that we as a nation are not only proud of our identity but look for a status of  self respect and dignity [...]



T20 Final Fever : Pakistan Versus Sri Lanka

By Shayan Khan • Jun 21st, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Update: Congragulations, Pakistan has won the world cup.
Quite unexpectedly, as usual, the Pakistan Cricket Team has shocked and amused everybody at home and abroad. They have managed to reach to the final of the T20 world cup in England after beating South Africa, which was going unbeaten in the tournament and was the hot favorite. [...]



Selectors should be questioned

By Dawar Naqvi • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Entertainment

RECENTLY our selection committee announced the team for ICC Championship but unfortunately ignored the best batsman and highest scorer of the Quaid-i-Azam trophy, Nomanullah. Omission of young dynamic player Fawad Alam is also unfortunate. Fawad Alam was part of the Pakistan one-day team. In the last one-day series with India, he won the last match [...]