NEW YORK   The exclusion of Shahid Afridi from thePakistansquad for next month's Champions League Trophy after a run of poor form has evoked comments even in theUSnewspaper which rarely covers cricket, a game yet to gain popularity in this country. "On form, Afridi is one of the most ...

        ISLAMABAD   Former cricketer Sarfraz Nawaz has said that Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi and Imran Farhat should be dropped from the squad for the Champions Trophy to be held inEnglandnext month. Sarfraz Nawaz said that the three players were out of form and the ...

  KARACHI   Flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi will not be included in the national squad for the ICC Champions Trophy, to be held inEnglandin June, sources said Friday. Although the national selection committee is yet to announce the final 15, sources told PTI that Afridi has not been ...

KARACHI  - Superstar all rounder Shahid Afridi is to campaign to get people out to vote in the country’s upcoming general election.The big-hitting Afridi, one of the country’s biggest sports stars who has previously led media drives urging parents to vaccinate children against ...

LAHORE - Cricket all-rounder Shahid Afridi called on PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif Sunday to condole the death of Mian Abbas Sharif. His meeting with the elder Sharif gave rise to media speculation that he has joined the PML-N. Afridi, later, clarified that he had not joined the party, as he had ...

LAHORE - Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt advised Shahid Afridi to concentrate on improving his batting and bowling skills to keep his place in the national side, rather than criticize the ex-administrator.Last week, Afridi said that during Butt's tenure Pakistan was hit by ...

KARACHI - Pakistan's flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi has lambasted former cricket board chairman Ijaz Butt for suggesting that M Hafeez and head coach Dav Whatmore had formed a nexus against Test and one-day captain Misbah-ul-Haq in the national team."I think everyone knows the scandals that ...

KARACHI - Veteran allrounder Shahid Afridi said Thursday he is targeting the 2015 World Cup after returning to the Pakistan side, but vowed to quit if he became a burden on the team.The 33-year-old was left out of the squad for the one-day series against India in December before staging a comeback ...

KARACHI  - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has sought the help of a sports psychologist to help experienced all-rounder Shahid Afridi regain his confidence in bowling ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy.Afridi has been named in the shortlist of 30 probables for the Champions Trophy by the ...

LAHORE – All-rounder Shahid Afridi continued his poor performance at national and international level as Afghanistan ‘A’ crushed Karachi-Hyderabad Region team by nine wickets at Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad on Wednesday. Karachi-Hyderabad Region, batting first, were all out on ...

KARACHI  - All-rounder Shahid Afridi has made an emotional appeal to the cricketing world to end Pakistan's four-year isolation over terror attacks.No international cricket has been played in Pakistan, which suffers near daily Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked violence, since gunmen attacked the Sri ...

KARACHI  - Dashing Pakistan opener Imran Nazir has advised all-rounder Shahid Afridi to take a break from international cricket to recover his confidence and form."There is no doubt that Shahid bhai is going through a bad patch and his luck is also not good. I have not seen such a long bad ...

KARACHI  - There was a time when Shahid Afridi's name would have been the first on Pakistan's one-day international teamsheet, but the allrounder's future looks uncertain after he was dropped for this month's series against arch-rivals India.The 32-year-old has endured a dreadful run of form, ...

LAHORE – The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday announced Pakistan cricket team for the upcoming tour of India which will be played at various venues of India from December to January. PCB chief selector Iqbal Qasim announced the team here at the Gaddafi Stadium. All-rounder Shahid Afridi ...

KARACHI - Shahid Afridi lent his support Friday to millions of people suffering from consecutive years of flooding, promising to continue to raise funds and awareness for their plight. He visited the Basic Human Rights (BHR) charity's one-room shelter projects in various villages in southern ...

KARACHI  - All-rounder Shahid Afridi has ended his contract with Australian Big Bash side Sydney Thunder despite being cleared to play in the Twenty20 league by Pakistan.The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had earlier refused the former captain, along with star spinner Saeed Ajmal and batsman ...

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has stopped Shahid Afridi and Mohammad Yousuf from playing domestic cricket.According to media reports, Afridi and Yousuf were barred because their teams did not submit their names in the list of 20 players to the PCB.According to PCB rules, teams competing on the ...

KARACHI - In a bid to get back into form for the upcoming tours to India and South Africa, Pakistan's flamboyant all-rounder, Shahid Afridi has decided to end a two-year break from first class cricket and appear in the country's premier first class tournament.A senior official of Habib Bank for ...

LONDON  - Geoffrey Boycott, the former England opener, has slammed Shahid Afridi’s approach as a batsman and expressed that the former Pakistan captain is no more than a tail-ender now.Afridi, who is known as ‘Boom Boom’ in the cricketing world, burst into the scene of ...

KARACHI  - Pakistan's flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi has hit out at disgraced former captain Salman Butt for criticising his performance in the World Twenty20 in a TV show, saying that a player who "tainted the name of the country" should not have been hired as an expert."I think the ...

LONDON  - Discarded Pakistani all-rounder, Azhar Mahmood, believes that Shahid Khan Afridi can still be extremely dangerous with the bat if he shows a little more application.Afridi, 32, burst into the international scene in 1996, with history’s fastest One Day International ton, against ...

COLOMBO Pakistan all rounder Shahid Afridi, who missed the T20 series against Australia due to a thumb injury, has said he is desperate to perform for his country in the Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka, starting from September 18. “I am looking to regain my form,” he said. Afridi, as ...

DUBAI - Flamboyant allrounder Shahid Afridi has called on the Pakistanis to support and pray for the success of the national team in the ICC T20 World Cup, to be held later this month in Sri Lanka.Afridi's appeal came after Australia swamped Pakistan in the third and final T20 International on ...

HAMBANTOTA - Shahid Afridi’s superb all-round performance helped Pakistan post an easy 23-run victory over Sri Lanka in the second and final Twenty20 international and level the series 1-1.Hosts Sri Lanka were shot out for 99 as they collapsed, their lowest T20 total against Pakistan, after ...

MIRPUR  - Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi on Sunday completed 7,000 runs in One-Day Internationals (ODI) during the fifth ODI if Asia Cup 2012 against India at Mirpur. The 31-year-old all-rounder became the sixth Pakistani batsman and 30th in the world to have achieved this feat.Afridi ...

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Office on Friday said the state law would take its course over the issue of Shakeel Afridi. “He is being dealt according to our law. We expect all to respect our legal process, and refrain from making groundless insinuations and drawing premature conclusions,” ...

SHARJAH  - All-rounder Shahid Afridi took five wickets while Younus Khan and Imran Farhat both hit half-centuries as Pakistan beat Afghanistan by seven wickets in the day-night international here on Friday.Afridi claimed 5-36 as Afghanistan were bowled out for 195 in 48.3 overs before Younus ...

KARACHI - Former Captain Shahid Khan Afridi is delighted to see Pakistan team developing winning habit under Misbah-ul-Haq and their 3-0 whitewash against England is a historic accomplishments."It will go down in the history books as Pakistan's greatest victories and Misbah's name will be there as ...

M HAROON SIDDIQUILAHORE - Pakistan included all-rounders Shahid Afridi and Hammad Azam in its one-day and Twenty20 squads and dropped Taufeeq Umar from the squads for the One-day and Twenty20 international matches being commenced from February 13 against England in United Arab Emirates.Shoaib Malik ...

LAHORE – As the political leadership in Pakistan is shamefully silent with no visible efforts to rescue country’s daughter – Dr Aafia Siddiqui, languishing in a US prison, Washington is pressing Islamabad hard to release Dr Shakil Afridi, a CIA-informant, facing treason charges ...