LAHORE - The reports of shadowy Indian gambling mafia wafting its way towards Pakistan cricketers during the ongoing Sri Lanka series had Pakistan team management on its heels.
Team manager Yawar ...
PAKISTAN lost, and lost badly. That too from a position of strength - with eight wickets in hand and 97 runs to get, our middle order only needed to apply itself for a win that was there for the ...
TEN years ago on this very ground, the Lord's, Pakistan had been humiliated by Australia in a World Cup final. Last night, Pakistan, again powered by Shahid Afridi, gave such a sure-footed ...
Somehow, despite having been a very able stand-in for Inzamamul Haq for considerable time, Younus Khan has mostly been a reluctant skipper. And he has resigned once too often from the job, starting ...
This is now quite obvious. This Pakistan team is wrapped in multiple layers of rust. Despite two weeks in England and four games including the warm-up matches prior to this one, this Pakistan team ...
THANKS to its rank insipid display against England, the task for Younis Khan-led Pakistan squad against the Netherlands has been spelt out: the margin of victory has to be 25 runs or three overs to ...
ABU DHABI - Of late, victories in one-day series have been rare for Australia, and their last came in September 2008 against bottom-of-the-line Bangladesh. But courtesy a most insipid display by the ...
ABU DHABI - Uncoached about the laws and the Code of Conduct, of both the ICC and the PCB, the Pakistani cricketers so often find a way of landing themselves in trouble. The latest such instance is ...
ABU DHABI- There may be some truth in the insinuation that the Aussies may be behind Saeed Ajmal's being reported for suspect action, for the three other exponents of the 'doosra' - Muthiah ...
ABU DHABI -From a position of total domination to tame surrender in less 20 overs, this was Pakistan's woeful story here Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium. For the best part of the game, about three ...
DUBAI - The ICC has, through its chief executive Haroon Lorgat, reassured Pakistan's federal sports minister Pir Aftab Hussain Shah Jilani that the world body fully understood "the disappointment ...
DUBAI - There cannot be any two opinions about this: Pakistan has let the advantage slip, and handed it to the Aussies on a platter.
That this Pakistan side is not used to winning, indeed not even ...
DUBAI - Andrew Symonds showed his intrinsic value to Australia with an all-round performance that earned his team a most timely win, bringing things to even keel in this five-match rubber - by a ...
DUBAI - For the cricketing nomads that this Pakistan team has been forced to become, this gulf emirate is supposed to be home away from home. Not a bad place to be, even if you are forced across the ...
THIS is sad because Pakistan Cricketing Board had under its chairman Shaharyar M. Khan played the lead role
in securing the World Cup 2011 for the sub-continent. And now it has been stripped of the ...
LAHORE - The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) - the fief at the top of federal sporting establishment and rather well-known for its inefficiency in the circles outside its bureaucratic web - took yet ...
LAHORE - On arrival back home in England, Chris Broad, the ICC referee supervising the split rubber between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, has roundly castigated the security - or to be more precise the ...
LAHORE - The well-planned deadly ambush apparently was on the Sri Lankan cricketers. Though the Lankan cricketers - heeding to Pakistan Cricket Board's SOS to be the first frontline nation to visit ...
LAHORE - Pakistan has been at the receiving end of the decisions in the latest ICC meeting Down Under, and it is safe to surmise that more whipping is in store for us.
The Champions Trophy, already ...
TWO sackings in two prime jobs in two days - this is rather rapid, even by Pakistan cricket's standards where such mayhem has been known to happen, indeed many times over. And make no mistake about ...
LAHORE - Pakistan has never truly been anywhere close to being a sporting power nor can we expect to become one in the foreseeable future. This was the message coming loud and clear from the lips of ...
LAHORE - In a three and a half fold jump over what it earned in the last five years (around $42 million for 2004-08) from television rights, despite going through turbulent times, the PCB stands to ...
Zakir Khan has generally been very trustworthy but on this occasion his defence of the current dispensation in the board seems to go well beyond the call of duty. And the reason is obvious. The ...
LAHORE - The vibes coming from the power corridors suggest that former ICC president Ehsan Mani is at the moment leading the pack of many contenders to take over the vacant position of chairman of ...
BEIJING - The curtain on the 29th Olympic Games of the modern era - said to be the best of all in what is known as the greatest spectacle on this planet - came down in a splendid ceremony rounded off ...
BEIJING - When it is Germany against Spain in the Olympic Games, you can almost always take a wager on the former and expect a windfall. Four years ago at Athens, Spain was not allowed a podium spot ...
BEIJING - The pundits were predicting that two teams from one pool would reach the hockey final in this Games, by that though they hinting at pool B and Australia and the Netherlands and not pool A's ...
BEIJING - Pakistan ended its Olympic campaign here just as it had commenced it: with defeat at the hands of a lowly-rated squad. Then it was Great Britain upstaging us for the first time at the ...
BEIJING - As far as hockey is concerned, not an iota has changed in its hierarchy since Athens 2004. The same quartet - Australia, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain - that fought for honours at ...
Pakistan to contest for No 7 slot: Out of Champions Trophy reckoning
BEIJING - With the so far invincible Aussies playing out a draw against Great Britain, the four finalists stand ...
Tuesday, 21 May, 2013
May 14, 2013, 3:44 pmECP announces results of 254 National Assembly seats
May 18, 2013PML-N warns PM Khoso crossing limits
May 14, 2013, 4:03 pmSherry Rehman quits as Ambassador to US
May 15, 2013, 6:10 pmUK police to take action on Altaf's speech: Thomson
May 16, 2013PTI-led KPK coalition govt worked out
May 19, 2013, 7:37 pmAltaf Hussain slams PTI leader's murder
May 20, 2013, 12:14 pmPTI will hold protest demo in Karachi on Monday: Imran
