KARACHI: Pakistan would prefer to play their 2011 World Cup matches in Sri Lanka if their team is not relations between the sub-continental neighbours. According to sources, Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ejaz Butt had indicated it to the ICC President David Morgan in their recent meeting in Dubai. India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are the [...]
Pakistan will want to take the Premadasa Stadium with them wherever they go. After groping in the dark for the better part of the tour, they finally struck gold when they landed here for the last two one-dayers and tonight they signed off in style with a comprehensive 52-run win in the one-off Twenty20 game. [...]
The Sri Lankans will be fired up for today’s T-20 International against Pakistan at R. Premadasa Stadium, with their defeat at the hands of the tourists in the final of the T-20 World Cup tournament at Lord’s a few week ago providing them the extra motivation. Sri Lanka dominated that tournament but faulted in the [...]
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has said there is “no substance” to claims that Pakistan players came into contact with bookmakers in Sri Lanka. Pakistan players had complained to team manager Yawar Saeed that “suspicious people” attempted to make contact with them in the team hotel in Colombo. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) passed the [...]
Skipper Younus Khan led the way as Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by 132 runs in the fifth and final one-day international here on Sunday. Younus top-scored with 76 and Misbah-ul Haq hit an unbeaten 73 to steer Pakistan to 279-8 after they won the toss and elected to bat in the day-night match at the [...]
fthikar Anjum claimed five wickets as Pakistan turned in a clinical performance to secure a 146-run victory in the fourth one-day international against Sri Lanka in Colombo. Ifthikar claimed the key wickets of opener Upul Tharanga, Kumar Sangakkara and Thilan Samaraweera, adding Thilan Thushara and Lasith Malinga in the final overs to complete the haul. [...]
The spectre of match-fixing has allegedly raised its ugly head once again. And it involves Indian bookies. Salman Ahmad, an agent of Pakistan players, has lodged a complaint with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) stating that Indian bookies approached Pakistani players for match-fixing in Sri Lanka during the first two Test matches in the ongoing tour. [...]
Match-fixing has returned to haunt the game of cricket and this time it is the Pakistani cricketers who are facing the heat after a disastrous tour of Sri Lanka Former Pakistan chief selector Abdul Qadir made startling allegations, saying Pakistani players are linked to Indian bookies. It came to light during the tour of Sri [...]
Former players Tuesday called for a major shake-up in Pakistani cricket after the national side lost the five-match one-day series against Sri Lanka 3-0. Sri Lanka, who won the preceding three-Test series 2-0 to post their first home series win against Pakistan, crushed Pakistan by six wickets on Monday to secure the limited-overs contest as [...]
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will investigate claims that bookmakers tried to approach Pakistan players during the current tour of Sri Lanka. “The ICC is aware of the media reports on attempted match-fixing allegations,” ICC communications officer James Fitzgerald told BBC Sinhala service. “Appropriate action will be taken by the ICC on this regard,” he [...]
Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials have demanded an inquiry over reports of presence of some alleged bookies in the Colombo hotel where the Pakistani team stayed during the Test series last month. Former PCB chief Tauqir Zia asked the board to carry out an independent inquiry into the issue. “I think it is best [...]
Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 36 runs in Dambulla in a thriller where Pakistan’s lower order batsmen did things that the top order were supposed to do. Eventually Pakistan was bundled out for 196 in 44.4 overs. Earlier, Sri Lanka recovered from a top-order failure to post a competitive 232-9 in the first one-day international [...]
On a green-tinged pitch that was slow as well, Pakistan made best use of winning the toss, reducing Sri Lanka to 105 for 3 by the halfway stage of their innings. At a venue where teams batting first have traditionally struggled, Sri Lanka struggled to establish any momentum, and Kumar Sangakkara’s loss, after a sprightly [...]
Pakistan on Wednesday appointed Shahid Afridi captain for its Twenty20 against Sri Lanka after Younus Khan held firm to his decision to retire from the shortest form of the game. The 29-year-old Afridi, a dashing all-rounder, has never led Pakistan at international level and was chosen ahead of vice-captain Misbah-ul-Haq. National skipper Younus announced his [...]
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