Sydney, Jan 4 (ANI): Mohammad Asif is delighted five years after making a forgettable debut here at the Sydney Cricket Ground, with a career-best haul that has put Pakistan in a commanding position against Australia in their second Test.
Back in 2005, Asif finished wicket-less and Pakistan [...]
Sydney, Jan 3(ANI): Pakistan fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Sami exploited the seaming conditions of the SCG to rip through the Australian batting line up and bundled them out for 127 runs on the first day of the Sydney Test.
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting’s decision to bat first on a hard, well-grassed pitch and overcast [...]
Sydney, Jan.2 (ANI): The second Test match between Pakistan and Australia starting Sunday (January 3) here would see two players from both the teams returning to the place where they had made their Test debuts five years ago.
Both Australian all-rounder Shane Watson and Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif [...]
Melbourne, Dec.27 (ANI): Disappointed by the way the MCG wicket played on the first day of the first Test match, Pakistan speedster Mohammad Asif has said that the unhelpful strip reminded him of lifeless tracks of Faisalabad.
“(The pitch is) not really good. Actually the pitch was a real batting track and really slow. I just [...]
Melbourne, Dec 26 (IANS) Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif said that one day he will lift the lid on his darkest days that saw him tossed out of international cricket after testing positive for drugs in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Asif was banned for a year after he tested positive for banned substance Nandrolone while [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 26 (ANI): Australian openers Shane Watson and Simon Katich fell agonisingly short of centuries, but their side was in a commanding position against Pakistan on the first day of the first Test of the series at the MCG here.
Australia were 3-305 at stumps on the first day after Watson [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 26 (ANI): Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif has said he was unfairly treated for testing positive to steroids.
The controversial quick has vowed to “tell everything” about his drug dramas.
Banned for a year for testing positive to the steroid nandrolone during the inaugural Indian Premier League in 2008, Asif has only [...]
Melbourne, Dec. 25 (ANI): Pakistan cricket captain Mohammad Yousuf will remind his team that brilliance alone won’t be enough to beat Australia in the first Test at the MCG, starting on Saturday.
Yousuf said he was happy with the way his young side [...]
Karachi, Dec. 25 (ANI): Temperamental Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar’s dreams of making a ’shock’ comeback to the international cricketing scene has been shattered, as the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) selection committee has ignored him for an important first class domestic tournament.
Akhtar’s name was not in the final list of the players picked for the Rest [...]
Sydney, Dec. 22 (ANI) : Australian captain Ricky Ponting is worried about the forthcoming Test series against Pakistan, as he believes that the visitors could give tough competition to the hosts during the series.
Ponting, who is likely to miss the Boxing Day Test due to an elbow injury, is more concerned about [...]
Hobart, Dec 21(ANI): Pakistan skipper Mohammad Yousuf reckons that his bowling attack will play a crucial role in the upcoming three-Test series against Australia.
Yousuf described his bowlers as the strength of the team after the three-day warm-up match against Tasmania.
He also said that leg-spinner Danish [...]
Hobart, Dec 17(ANI): Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf reckons that his bowling attack can put the team into winning positions in the upcoming three-Test series against Australia.
Yousuf described his bowlers as the strength of the team after arriving in Hobart to play a three-day warm-up [...]
Napier (New Zealand), Dec.15 (ANI): The third and final cricket test between New Zealand and Pakistan ended in a draw after rain washed out the final session of play at McLean Park today, leaving the series drawn 1-1.
Set 208 for victory, New Zealand were 90 without loss and scoring freely when the players were [...]
Dubai, Dec 9 (IANS) Riding on his match-winning 293 in the third Test against Sri Lanka, Virender Sewhag stormed into the top-five while his opening partner Gautam Gambhir continued to lead the charts in the International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings for Test batsmen.
It is the first time since October 2006 that Sehwag has returned to [...]
Karachi, Dec 7 (IANS) An emphatic victory against New Zealand in the second cricket Test has boosted the confidence of new Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf but the senior batsman wants a massive improvement in his team’s fielding.
Yousuf said Pakistan will have to show a marked improvement in fielding to be able to win the series [...]
Karachi, Dec 7 (IANS) Controversy seems to have struck Pakistan cricket again following sensational reports that pacers Umar Gul and Mohammad Aamer got engaged in a scuffle after the second Test against New Zealand ended in Wellington Sunday.
According to TV reports, the Pakistan team management found both Gul and Aamer guilty of breaching the code [...]
Wellington (New Zealand), Dec. 6 (ANI): Pakistan has beaten New Zealand by 141 runs in the second test on day four at the Basin Reserve today to level their three-match series one all.
Needing 405 for victory, New Zealand were dismissed for 263 during the middle session.
Middle-order [...]
Karachi, Nov 30 (IANS) A fit-again Pakistan pacer Sohail Tanvir is hoping to overcome stiff competition and find a place in the side for the series against Australia that will start with the first Test in Melbourne on Boxing Day.
Tanvir said he has regained his fitness and is now eyeing a place in the Pakistan [...]
Lahore, Nov. 23 (ANI): Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif is looking at the brighter side of his absence from international cricket for two years, saying that he got time to recover from a crucial elbow injury which could have doomed his cricketing career prematurely.
“In fact it was a blessing for me as I was suffering [...]
Karachi, Nov 22 (IANS) Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif is hoping to make an emphatic showing in the three-match Test series against New Zealand starting in Dunedin from Tuesday.
Asif, who returned to international cricket in the ICC Champions Trophy after serving a one-year ban for doping, said that the break has proved a blessing in [...]
Karachi, Nov 16 (ANI): Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Asif has said that he wants to help the team win in New Zealand and prove the bad times are behind after his career suffered due to injury and drug scandals.
The 26-year-old is part of Pakistan’s Test squad for the three-match [...]
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) Butchers and meat traders here continued their strike for the fourth day Monday. They are protesting the shifting of the capital’s slaughterhouse from the heart of the city to an edge.
The traders said they would continue their strike till the authorities revoke the decision. Chicken and fish sellers may join [...]
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) Butchers and meat traders of Delhi continued their strike for the fourth day Monday, officials said. They are protesting the shifting of the capital’s slaughterhouse from the heart of the city to an edge.
The traders said they would continue their strike till the authorities revoke the decision. Chicken and fish [...]
Islamabad, Oct.24 (ANI): The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) unprofessionalism was once again highlighted when it failed to convince the United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities to allow tainted fast bowler Mohammad Asif to take part in the one-day series against New Zealand starting November 3 in Abu Dhabi.
According to sources, the PCB officials did virtually nothing [...]
Lahore, Oct.23 (ANI): Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Ijaz Butt has said that the board has every right to sack the coach of the national squad if he is not liked by the captain and the highest governing body of the game in the country.
Interacting with mediapersons during a press conference here, Butt said he [...]
Karachi, Oct.22 (ANI) : The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) selection committee is awaiting captain Younis Khan’s inputs before naming the squad for the one-day series against New Zealand which is scheduled to start on November 3 in Abu Dhabi.
Chief selector Iqbal Qasim said the committee has already consulted coach Intikhab Alam and vice-captain Shahid Afridi [...]
Karachi, Oct 19 (IANS) Pakistan will not be able to take their key strike bowler Mohammad Asif to UAE for a limited-overs series against New Zealand next month because of the pacer’s detention in Dubai last year over possession of a banned substance.
Ijaz Butt, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, said Monday that Asif cannot [...]
Lahore, Oct. 19 (ANI): Uncertainty still looms over fast bowler Mohammad Asif’s inclusion in Pakistani squad for next month’s ODI series against New Zealand, as the Pakistan Cricket Board is awaiting the International Cricket Council’s clearance to let the pacer enter the UAE, where he was detained last year over drugs possession charges.
The series includes [...]
Mewat, Oct 12 (IANS) Jobless youngsters can be seen sitting and chatting at tea stalls, women washing clothes in dirty ponds, naked children playing in the dust with flies all around. Welcome to Mewat district in Haryana, just 30 km from Gurgaon, the country’s IT and MNC hub, which seeks basic amenities and not big [...]
Johannesburg, Oct 2 (IANS) Pakistan will be the favourites on the bouncy Wanderers track when they take on New Zealand in the second semi-final of the Champions Trophy here Saturday.
The strip at the Wanderers with its pace and bounce has favoured the bowlers and it will not be surprising if Friday’s clash turns out to [...]
