Cricket
Shabbir Cleared of Bowling Action
Each passing day it seems that the bowling prospects for the Pakistan Cricket Team to the forthcoming World Cup seems to be getting better and better as a number of impressive contenders vie for the four or five bowling slots in the team. Starting with Shoaib Akhtar & Mohd Asif being cleared of the drug [...]
Shoaib & Asif Acquitted…. Justice Served?
In a very surprising decision served by the appellate committee today which was reviewing the decision of banning Shoaib Akhtar and Mohd Asif for substance abuse. The three-man committee, headed by Justice Fakhruddin Ebrahim, voted two to one in favour of the acquittal. Haseeb Ahsan, former Test cricketer, and Ebrahim were in favour of the [...]
ICC praise Hair before showing him the Finger
A few days back cricket governing body ICC met in Delhi and had voted to expel Darrell Hair from the ranks of the ICC elite umpiring panel, a decision which has been lauded by a number of nations across the world except for the English & the Australians who continue to deny that there was [...]
Saleem Malik, Appeals Life-Ban
A few days back during the ICC meeting in Delhi, the ICC decided to lift Ata-ur-Rehman’s life-ban, Ata-ur-Rehman 30, may find some young legs still around to be able to bowl at least in First Class cricket if not appear in some county series if he is able to regain form. But what interests [...]
Shoaib - Woolmer Rift Surfaces
To add another twist to the woes of the Pakistan Cricket Team. NDTV has just released an exclusive interview with a retired Indian Army officer attached to the Pakistani team during the Champions Trophy where he has revealed that Shoaib Akhtar had slapped coach Bob Woolmer on the team bus, in a tussle over which [...]
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
All cricketing fans across the world must have finally reached some closure after the ball tampering fiasco at The Oval a few months back. Strong rumors reports to the extent that Cricinfo, a leading website on cricketing news, have announced that the ICC is seriously contemplating on removing Darell Hair from adjudicating any international [...]
Shoaib & Asif Banned
Shoaib Akhtar and Mohd Asif who had been sent home from India after their urine tests turned up positive have now been banned from cricket. Shoaib Akhtar will be on the sidelines for two years, while Mohd Asif has been banned for one year by the Pakistan Doping Tribunal.
Pakistan asked to keep Religion Private
The new chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board has actually told his players to curb the public display of practicing their religion.
“There is no doubt their religious faith is a motivating factor in the team,” Ashraf told Reuters. “It binds them together. But there should be balance between religion and cricket.” …. “I have [...]
Drug Nandrolone Haunts PCB
Nandrolone is the drug which has been found in the urine samples taken from Shoaib Akhtar and Mohd Asif. Nandrolone is similar to testosterone which is also banned by the International Olympic Committee if found in alarming quantity (Floyd Landis). Nandrolone is used my athletes as performance enhancing drug, as it contributes to [...]
Pakistani Cricketers Fail Dope Test
In an embarrassing development of events in the ICC Champions Trophy in India, it has just been revealed that Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammed Asif both have failed an internal Pakistan Cricket Board performance enhancing drug test just prior to their match against Sri Lanka on Tuesday. Both the cricketers are being immediately sent back [...]
Inzi and the Pakistani team Acquitted of Ball Tampering
Its great news to hear that the Pakistan team has been cleared of any wrong doings in the cricketing fiasco which occurred a few weeks back during the Pakistan vs England 4th test match at The Oval. The ICC match referee Ranjan Madugalle did not find credible evidence to push for any ball tampering [...]
Hockey World Cup - Germany
I have been a very serious Hockey fan and generally follow all the matches whenever Pakistan has played around the world. This sport was once considered to have an avid fan base almost along the lines of cricket, but with an inconsistent performance of the past few years, people have lost touch of this [...]
Hair Caught with his Hand in the Cookie Jar
A few hours ago a stunning press conference in London literally shook the cricketing world, this developing hot story resulted in a post on this blog moments later titled Hair offers $500,000 to quit. Malcolm Speed made a startling revelation of an exchange of emails between ICC and Darrell Hair. The actual copy [...]
Hair offers $500,000 to quit
Malcome Speed the Chief Executive of ICC while addressing a press conference has said that Darrell Hair maybe offered $500,000 to quit as an umpire.
Speed told reporters that he had received a copy of a letter from Hair to Doug Cowie, the ICC’s umpire manager, on Tuesday in which he asked for “a one-off payment [...]
ICC a White Commonwealth
Article written in the Guardian by Stephen Moss talks about the ongoing controversy in the corridors of cricket in the past few days, the actual issue has been beaten to death by many but Stephen talks about about another genuine problem that has continued to create hurdles in this game that we call cricket.
The sport [...]
