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Posts Tagged ‘Pakistan Cricket’

Cricket Ka Muqadama: GEO Playing Judiciary

By Shayan Khan • Feb 7th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The Jang, GEO media group owners are very fond of becoming rulers and judges. They are on record to say that it would be them who would be deciding the fate of the nation. Through their powerful monopoly over the private media, they are wielding quite a power.
Now they are also trying to become the [...]



Pakistan Cricket: Time to Overhaul Everything

By Ali Yar Khan • Feb 1st, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Before the cricket becomes hockey in Pakistan and goes to the dustbin of oblivion, we need to get up and blow away the movers, shakers and players of the current dispensation responsible for cricket in Pakistan.
Yes we won the world cup of cricket in 1992, but dammit that is 18 years ago. How we won [...]



Handover PCB and Pakistan Team to Taliban

By Shayan Khan • Jan 23rd, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Make Hakimullah Mehsud, the chairman of Pakistan Cricket Boad, Qari Younis the coach of the team and Qari Waliur Rehman, the manager. The whole shura of the Taliban will be deciding upon the selection of the players and this redoubtable selection shura will make sure that nepotism doesn’t count in.
The word of Hakimullah Mehsud will [...]



No Pakistani Player in IPL, Why Chide India?

By Gul Raiz • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment, Politics

Given the performance of the Pakistani cricketers in the international cricket, no wonder the Indian Premier League will be played without them this year like the previous one. No team  in the IPL made bid for the Pakistani player and the media is trying to find out yet another conspiracy in this.
We shouldn’t be putting [...]



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 [...]



Cricket in Pakistan

By Amin Rehman • Jan 11th, 2010 • Category: Features

The weather in this part of the world can be so unpredictable that you never know what you will face in the morning snow or rain. The Americans rely so much on weather forecast and always tune in the local weather channel on TV or go to weather.com instead of looking outside the window. It [...]



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 [...]



Younus Khan : An Idiot, through and through

By Sher Ali • Oct 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Do you remember that scene in a match some years ago, where a bowler misbowled and the ball went to near mid-off, and Younus Khan bolted from his crease and hit the ball for four. Everyone was in agreement that it was the only way he could hit the ball across the boundary.
The talent draught [...]



Imran Nazir: The On-Off Dramatist

By Ayaz Ali • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

He adds another count to the most amazing ‘strikers’ list of Pakistan Cricket.  An excellent smasher of the ball, unanimously known for his on-field stunts and turns in the air, Imran Nazir is a performer that cricket geeks have ever dreamt of. In all probability, he is the only player, along with Shahid Afridi, to [...]



The Legend of the “Fall”

By Ayaz Ali • Sep 3rd, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Naseem Ashraf’s era has been the worst time for Cricket in Pakistan. It was during his time, when Pakistan Cricket went through most wounds and downs. He, being appointed by a dictator, was nothing different from his appointer. The miserable defeat of 2007 World Cup and the on and off aggressions with players, all go [...]