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Pakistan is now out of Twenty 20 World Cup Cricket Tournament 2014, courtesy Hafeez

After loosing the first match of its  group against India, Pakistan had managed to pull two well deserved victories against both Australia and Bangladesh. Today Pakistan and West Indies had Do or Die match. This means the team winning the match will go through to Semi-finals of Twenty 20 World Cup and looser will be out of Tournament. After West Indies won the toss and decided to bat first, while Bowling Pakistanis did well and even got some early wickets and restricted West Indies to lower score but then some hitting came forward and they scored 166, which is not unbeatable but a good score. Pakistan did scored well about 190 in matches with Australia and Bangladesh. So there was […]

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Shoaib Akhtar’s new book Controversially Yours upsets many

The famous Pakistani cricketer, Shoaib Akhtar, known as ‘Rawalpindi Express’ have just written a controversial book named as ‘Controversially Yours’. The book is the auto biography of famous Fast Bowler and the fastest bowler of world from Pakistan Shoaib Akhtar. Book is yet to be released, some of the excerpts from the book were made public lately. Exactly as name suggests, book is much controversial and hold lots of controversial stuff about most Pakistani and some Indian players. Also reveals some of stuff which was earlier unknown to people. One of many controversies that book brought with itself was the claim by Shoaib Akhtar that Waseem Akram had opposed the selection of Shoaib Aktar in his first ever international match. […]

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Pakistan cricket team players banned from Social Networking by PCB

PCB have recently banned all of Pakistan Cricket Team players who in contract with PCB from using social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. Ban was the result of posts by Zulqurnain Haider to his Facebook page like the post about his retirement and few other posts after he disappeared from a match in Dubai about a month ago gone to London afterwards claiming of threats which he said he received. No matter what in my opinion Pakistan Cricket board (PCB) in no capacity eligible to add such clauses to the contract with any player as this is open attack on players’ freedom of speech. Facebook and Twitter provide people means to communicate and specially for celebrities and Players they […]

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Pakistan cricket team gets Waqar Younis as new coach

Performance by Pakistan cricket team in recent past have not been any thing normal where they lost a number of first class cricket matches in a row. Pakistan Cricket Board now again seem to do measures to make things better. I this regard Waqar Younis have been offered the bowling coach position and he have accepted this offer. Currently Waqar is living in Sydney Australia with his family but he accepted the offer and told that he will be glad to take this challenge at these hard times. Waqar Younis have been the bowling coach of Pakistan Cricket Team for 2 years in 2006 – 2007. He also have been team captain for test matches. Waqar Younis is soon expected […]