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Shahid Afridi Withdraws Retirement, Ready To Play For Pakistan Again

By Mohammad Yusha • Oct 19th, 2011 • Category: Entertainment

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.
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Shahid Afridi Retirement , Good Riddance

By Shayan Khan • May 30th, 2011 • Category: Entertainment

The man who has damaged the Pakistani Cricket most, and who has blocked the coming talent into the team, and who has promoted and supported and supervised the match fixing on the orders of Wasim Akram has disappointed the Pakistanis always.
Now good riddance, as he has left team after being ignominiously fired. Such a good [...]



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 [...]



Politics in Pakistani Cricket

By Haris Hashmi • May 28th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Cricket arena in Pakistan has become playground of politics for sometime now. Players look and feel more like politicians than what they ought to be.
Politics in the game is not new, but for the last decade or so, Pakistani dressing rooms have become power brokering houses with players making and breaking groups, conspiring each other, [...]



A Great Talent for Pakistani Cricket Team

By Dawar Naqvi • Mar 28th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

A really great talent finds its success in execution. Pakistan had won the one day cricket world cup of 1992. It was a great moment for our cricket history. At the beginning of world cup 92 Pakistan cricket team performance was not very satisfactory. Pakistan had won only total five matches in that world cup [...]



Shahid Afridi, New Captain of Pakistan Cricket Team

By Fahim Khan • Mar 27th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

akistan cricket team coach Waqar Younis has welcomed the appointment of allrounder Shahid Afridi as captain of the national team and said that his leadership would benefit the team.
Talking with a foreign news agency, Waqar Younis said that Shahid Afridi enters in the field with a positive frame of mind and [...]



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 [...]



Shahid Afraidi, The Ball Eater

By Shaukat M Malik CPA • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Features

Through repeated bombings and killings of policemen, military and civilians our “Sharia and Hadood” loving extremist Mullahs and their clones the Taliban have scared away cricketing nations from Pakistan. Through this they have destroyed the livelihood of millions of Pakistanis.



What can be a befitting response to IPL snub? PPL!

By Guest Blogger • Jan 23rd, 2010 • Category: Politics

Shahid Afridi - silence. Umar Gul - silence again. And the same cold lull was heard nine more times in the ballroom of Mumbais elite hotel a couple of days back, when the names of Pakistani cricketers were announced for the IPL-III auction.
But as they say, a prolonged silence often signals a storm. A storm [...]



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 [...]