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Pakistan Team for T20 World Cup 2010

By Amin Rehman • Mar 13th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

Pakistan Cricket Board’s new Chairman of Selectors Mohsin Hassan Khan is an intelligent and honest person keeping aside his personal issues with cine world and reported drunken appearance in a live TV show. When he was appointed to this post I had my all the sympathies with him as he was more interested in batting [...]



End of Players’ Power

By Rai Azlan • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Politics

For last an hour I am watching TV not for the reason of by-election which is taking place in NA123 which is not far away from my place. The reason behind this activity is the news which created a Bang in the cricket sky of Pakistan.  A few days back it was suggested to punish [...]



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.



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 [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



Pakistan Cricket

By Amin Rehman • Jan 4th, 2010 • Category: Features

Cricket and Pakistan have always been together since our independence. The progress has always been topsy turvy like economy of a  country or inexplicable geomatric graphs which i never understood as student. Cricket has always been in my life and the passion started when i was quite young. My father used to play cricket for Railways and I [...]



Lights, Camera and Action

By Rai Azlan • Nov 15th, 2009 • Category: Features

It was the only title in my mind while I was linking all the moments and incidents that took place in Pakistani cricket team and PCB during, and after T20 world cup. During the T20 world cup or even before the world cup the captain was good and quite acceptable to everyone; players were willing [...]



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 [...]