PAKISTAN GET WIN OVER RIVAL WEST INDIES

June 3, 2017
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Pakistan edged out victors in the game against West Indies at Kensington Oval. Both sides have a volatile history in the game and it predictably ended with Pakistan winning by just six wickets.


Eighteen-year old talented Pakistani legspinnerShadab Khan was a dominant force during the duel. He forced the opponents to slump 49 for 6 with his three wickets with the first eight balls in an international match. He had such a wonderful debutuntil the duo of Kieorn Pollard and Carlos Brathwaitecame into the picture. The heavy hitters managed to get some momentum for Indies but they barely reached three figures.

Kamran Akmal and Ahmed Shehzad – who have been absent – were not able to stop the attacks but the spirited display from West Indies never rose above six.

Shoaib Malik and Babar Azamwere consistent in their game, chasing with risk-free cricket. They did the hard work, so Pakistan needed just 18 runs off five overs to seal victory.

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ARTHUR, PAKISTAN’S COACH PLOTS AUSTRALIA’S DOWNFALL

January 22, 2017
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The coach of the Pakistan cricket team, Arthur was once the head coach of the Australia Cricket team.


However, he was sacked three years ago in a dismissal that was alleged to have been acrimonious and in which the South African laid a claim for a high profile severance from his employers.

Less than two years into his tenure as the coach, his post began t0 unravel especially during the 2013 tour of India where his team led by Michael Clarke were whitewashed 4-0.

And during the infamous ‘homework-gate’ scandal, four of their players were stood down for a test. The Champions Trophy tournament held in London a few months later, saw England’s Joe Root being punched by opening batsman, David Warner on a boozy night out at a bar.

With the discipline of the team appearing to be in complete disarray, Arthur was thus dismissed just three weeks before the Ashes and replaced with Darren Lehmann, who currently is the coach of the Australian Team.

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Pakistan knocked out from Asia Cup

August 4, 2016
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India, after a run of 8 successive wins, finally saw a defeat at the hands of South Africa in the practice game played in Mumbai yesterday.

Regardless of it being a practice game, the stadium was full and the proceedings took place in full intensity.


There were runs written all over the wicket which was bare and flat and the short boundaries were only adding to the excitement of the batsmen.

It was the making of a run fest and it panned out to be exactly that with the batsmen from both the teams swinging their willows as hard as they could.

India, however, couldn’t land that last killer punch as their skipper MS failed to smash the boundary needed off the last ball.

India, actually, could have had a better chance of winning the game if their think tank had let the two settled batsmen Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina continue batting.

But, with the view of giving the big hitters the ideal situation to have a test of their skills, both those players were made to retire and Yuvraj and MS took the matter in their hands in the 16th over.

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Rohit Sharma confident on Krunal Pandya for IPL

June 7, 2016
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In a twenty 20 game, you have to be a gambler as a captain and not be afraid of making any move.


Rohit Sharma, the Mumbai captain, had Krunal Pandya, one of his rookies, batting three ahead of all his specialist batsmen against Delhi Daredevils on Sunday.

Krunal’s primary trade is his left arm spin bowling and not his batting, but, he was the man for the captain that night as there were three spinners in the opposition’s XI who would be spinning the ball into him.

Krunal went mad at the spinners thumping them at every little chance they offered just because he was going with the spin and had a nice, free swing of the bat and that put Mumbai so much ahead in the game.

Someone, who was right handed even though he was more of a batsman, he might not have directed the game towards Mumbai like Krunal did.

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England Cricket team was beaten by Pakistan in the third test match

November 30, 2015
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The England Cricket team was beaten by Pakistan in the third test match at Sharjah earlier today and with that, the latter was able to win the series as well.

Needing 238 more runs to win the game and square the series up, the English batsmen couldn’t rise to the occasion and despite, the resilience shown by the captain Alastair Cook, they fell short by some distance.

For Pakistan, the spinners delivered the goods as they were expected to with Yasir Shah having another belter of a test match.

England would be pretty disappointed with this loss especially after where they were in the context of the match at the closure of the opening day.

They had been able to send Pakistan packing at not a big score on a surface which was decent for batting and thereafter, they had the opportunity to take a big first innings lead which they failed to do.

Mohammed Hafeez, who is in the Pakistani team only as a batsman these days after being banned from bowling by the International Cricket Council, then played one of the innings of his life in the third innings and took the game away from England almost on his own.

A few people were still backing England to hunt down 284 to win the test match, but, with the surface getting more and more abrasive and Ben Stokes being injured and not expected to contribute in his full capacity, it was a bit too many to score.

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Tharindu Kaushal has been banned from delivering his Doosra

October 4, 2015
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Tharindu Kaushal, the young spinner of Sri Lanka, has been banned from delivering his Doosra.

Kaushal’s action had been reported by the on and off field umpires who were in charge of the action in the recent test series between India and Sri Lanka.

An assessment was done on the action of the 22-year old in India thereafter in which it was found that there’s no breaking of the rules as far as his off spinners are concerned, but, in case of his Doosra, he goes past the arm bending limit that has been set for the bowlers by the governing body of the game. So, he can’t be permitted to bowl that anymore.

Kaushal has so far played just 4 test matches for his national team and has taken 19 wickets at an average of almost 36.

He is tipped to be the next ‘Muralitharan’. But, he has had a setback very early in his career.

If he continues bowling Doosra in future, he might be reported again.

Kaushal is not the first bowler to have his Doosra coming under the scrutiny in the recent times.

There have been plenty of spinners, especially the off spinners, from different countries who have had his Doosra being assessed by ICC of late and most of them have had to stop bowling it.

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2015 World Cup was the most predictable of all the World Cups

May 10, 2015
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The 2015 World Cup was the most predictable of all the World Cups. Everyone knew which four teams were going to make it to the semis and there were no upsets whatsoever.

The same four teams qualified.

Australia and New Zealand being the hosts were always the strong contenders and South Africa, because of the fact that they play in similar sorts of conditions, was also tipped to be there in the final 4.

Another one had to be India because despite of being a subcontinent team, they had been there Down Under for the last 4 months playing test matches and 50-over Cricket.

Also, if you see the squads of all the subcontinent teams at present, India has got the best batting line up technique wise and on bouncy tracks of Australia and New Zealand, it’s all about how technically sound you are.

The prediction of the final match was also too easy to make. The venue was the Melbourne Cricket Ground and it was always hard for the Blackcaps to topple Australia there and when they lost Brendan McCullum early, it was curtains then and there.

If the venue had been Auckland or Hamilton, then, things would have been different because the kind of attack New Zealand had, it needed swinging conditions.

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ICC clears about disallowing Bouncers after Hughes Incident

February 13, 2015
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The International Cricket Council has made it clear that the Phil Hughes’ incident would not lead to the bouncers being disallowed in international cricket or in any form of cricket.

According to David Richardson who is the CEO of ICC at the moment, this is of course a huge tragedy, but, there have been a few cases of people dying in cricket before as well. So, one should not overreact.

Richardson, however, said that this issue has not come up for discussion in any of the ICC meetings as yet.

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Graeme Smith recokns that a change to WC format is required

January 21, 2015
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The former South Africa skipper Graeme Smith reckons that there is a need to change the format of the Cricket World Cup as the current format is not the best and it makes the tournament slightly boring.

According to Smith, the tournament certainly gets electrified when the knockout fixtures come along, but, in the middle of the pull chase, the intensity dies down a little bit which is not a great thing given the fact that this is the biggest tournament in the game of Cricket.

Smith played in the Previous two World Cups and not only did he play, he captained his team as well. According to him, there is big gap between the two pool matches. At times, you find it hard to look forward to the next game because it’s just so far away. You tend to lose your focus.

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