DUBAI - Legendary batsman Zaheer Abbas feels that Pakistan’s chances of winning the Champions Trophy, to be held in England and Wales next month, will solely depend on their batting performance.Abbas, who played for the English County team Gloucestershire for 13 years, scoring over 1000 runs ...

KARACHI- Chief selector Iqbal Qasim has dispelled the impression by experts and pundits of the game that Pakistan squad named for Champions Trophy was lacking in batting. National selection committee named eight batsmen including a wicket-keeper and seven bowlers for the event to be played in ...

  ABBOTTABAD- ThePakistansquad for Champions trophy spent the second day of their conditioning camp in Abbottabad focusing on their batting. The players had a full-fledged session under the guidance of former players Javed Miandad and Wasim Akram, while the regular coaches, Dav Whatmore and M ...

KARACHIPakistan's appointment of Trent Woodhill as batting coach for next month's Champions Trophy has been met with bafflement, with former greats saying they had never even heard of the Australian.The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Monday appointed the 42-year-old Woodhill for three weeks after the ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has appointed Australian coach Trent Woodhill to help them shore up their batting performance during the ICC Champions Trophy to be played in England in June. PCB director of international cricket Intikhab Alam on Tuesday said that Woodhill brought rich ...

LAHORE - Pakistan former cricketer Sarfaraz Nawaz has said that the hiring of a new batting coach is nothing but to show-off the cricket world that Pakistan have a batting coach. Talking to this scribe Tuesday, Sarfaraz said: “How can a coach improve the batting of Pakistan players in just ...

  KARACHI     Former skipper Rashid Latif has suggested to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for appointing legendary batsman and Captain Javed Miandad as the batting coach of thePakistanteam. The PCB has been in-search of a batting coach for the national team for some time and, in ...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is looking to appoint former Australian cricketer Darren Lehmann as a batting consultant for Pakistan's tour of England, later this year. "Lehmann should join the team in late May after the Indian Premier League. He will join the team when they are playing ...

ISLAMABAD Former Pakistan captain Zaheer Abbas believes the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) must have hired a batting coach instead of bringing in former captain Wasim Akram for supervising a camp for fast bowlers. Talking to APP, the former captain said what miracle it would make to the bowlers in a ...

KARACHI – Pakistan are considering Grant Flower for the position of batting coach. While Flower is currently fulfilling a similar role with the Zimbabwe team, ESPNcricinfo understands that he is out of contract in August and Zimbabwe Cricket are prevaricating over a new deal. The PCB has ...

LAHORE – Pakistan former Test cricket Younas Ahmad said batting coach must be Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) top priority if they wanted to get desired and satisfactory results in the upcoming events. Talking with The Nation here on Wednesday, Younas said: “The main reason ...

DURBAN  - A lot of attention coming into the fourth South Africa-Pakistan ODI in Durban was centred around the pitch and subcontinental-like conditions the venue often proffers. While both captains agreed that the track was a bit slow, South Africa's AB de Villiers said the conditions weren't ...

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has finally decided not to appoint coach for the Pakistan-India bilateral series and deferred the matter till South Africa tour being commenced in the last week of January 2013, it has been learnt. The board has postponed the appointment of batting coach ...

LAHORE - Pakistan's Test and one-day captain, Misbah-ul-Haq has praised the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)'s decision to appoint a batting coach for the national team.Misbah, 38, who came back in form with a fine 110 runs knock at right time in the Grade-I President’s Trophy, said the ...

LAHORE – Salim Malik’s dream of becoming national team batting coach in doubt as he has no coaching badges and did not fulfil the conditions and requirements that stipulated by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in its advertisement placed at its website, it has been learnt. The PCB ...

Pakistani players batted sensibly after losing three quick wickets as they were tottering at 33/3 while chasing a modest victory target of 188 runs.Pakistan outclassed Sri Lanka in all the departments of the game to win the match by six wickets. It looked that the coach had done homework with the ...

ST JOHN'S (AFP) - West Indies have been able to persuade Desmond Haynes, one of their legends, to become a batting consultant for the current side. The West Indies Cricket Board announced on Monday that Haynes will work with Darren Sammy's side for the duration of the home series against Pakistan ...

COLOMBO (Agencies) - Former captain Marvan Atapattu will be Sri Lanka's batting coach on the upcoming tour of England. The appointment on Tuesday signalled public forgiveness from Sri Lanka Cricket for Atapattu, who retired in 2007 following a spat with the national selectors and dropped most ...

KARACHI (Agencies) - Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi is desperate to improve his batting after even his daughter started joking about his poor form with the bat. "I will focus on improving my batting during the tour. It has become really weak," Afridi told reporters. "Even my daughter has started ...

Pakistan's opening batsmen are struggling in the ongoing World Cup because they are not sure whether to play their positive game or just try to survive early overs, captain Shahid Afridi has said. "At the moment, openers are thinking let's play 15 overs, but don't lose wickets and another way they ...

SYDNEY (Agencies) Pakistan shot themselves in the foot with irresponsible shots as they hold a lead of 204 runs in this match, enough to kick Australia out of the second Test should their bowlers emulate the day-one massacre today. In the first Test in Melbourne, it was Australia holding a lead of ...

Pakistan appointed former captain and batting legend Javed Miandad as batting adviser to the national team following recent heavy defeats to Sri Lanka, an official said Thursday. The appointment of the 51-year-old came after Pakistan's humiliating 2-0 defeat in Tests and 3-2 loss in the one-day ...

After Thilan Samaraweera made an assured hundred in Lahore to follow up his double-century in the first Test, his team-mate Kumar Sangakkara hailed him as the player "batting best" in the Sri Lankan side. The pair had combined to put on 204 runs which bailed the visitors out of trouble after they ...

ST JOHN'S (AFP) - A few years ago when Brian Lara ruled the world of batting, West Indies were accused of being a one-man show and now Kevin Pietersen has done the same for England. Following Saturday's capitulation for their third-lowest total of 51, and subsequent defeat to West Indies by an ...

GALLE (Sri Lanka) (AFP) - India's batting reputation will be at stake when they attempt to solve Sri Lanka's spin puzzle in the second Test starting here on Thursday. The tourists collapsed twice in the opening match of the three-Test series in Colombo, losing by an innings and 239 runs on ...

NORTHAMPTON (AFP) - New Zealand chose batting practice ahead of the chance for a morale-boosting win as they settled for a draw against Northamptonshire on Sunday. The Kiwis were already 328 ahead at lunch on the final day but opted to bat on so Ross Taylor, who was six short of his hundred, ...