Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad has revealed the reason of his controversial decision to step down as the national team coach ahead of the 1999 World Cup due to the “menace of fixing” that “weakened the roots of Pakistan cricket”. “I told the then Chairman of the cricket board, Khalid Mehmood to take action or Pakistan […]
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Kevin Pietersen's exclusion helped England cricket – Andrew Strauss
Kevin Pietersen last featured for England across any form of the game in January last year. Since then, the maverick middle order batsman has been on an exile, imposed by the ECB. Every time, the key members within the ECB come up with unapologetically vague reasons to defend the exclusion of Pietersen from the England […]
Stats: List of cricketers who were declared out for obstructing the field in ODI cricket
Ben Stokes’ dismissal for obstructing the field, which itself a controversial rule, during the second ODI between England and Australia generated huge controversy. While England is complaining it is not out, Australia, who are just one match away from the ODI series win after a 3-2 Ashes loss, is saying they followed the rule. But, […]
Pakistan secured a eight wicket victory over Afghanistan: Disabled Cricket
An unbeaten half-century by one-handed Matloob Qureshi on Friday guided Pakistan Disable Cricket Team to their first eight-wicket victory over Afghanistan in the second match of ICRC International T20 Cricket Tournament at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka. Chasing a target of 119, Pakistan achieved the target inside 16 overs losing just 2 wickets. Matloob scored […]
Ten well known cricketers who are living a shabby post retirement life
Ten well-known cricketers who are living a shabby post-retirement life Recently, a facebook user Ganesh Birle of India was visiting Sydney. He found that former Pakistan off-spinner Arshad Khan drives Uber taxi in Sydney to live his life. The world was surprised by this news. It is hard to believe that one former international cricketer […]
WACA to shift international matches to new Perth Stadium
WACA to shift international matches to new Perth Stadium West Australia Cricket Association has unveiled a plan for a boutique stadium at Burswood, Perth to shift all types of cricket matches from WACA Stadium. The name of the new stadium will be Perth Stadium under the Association’s Vision 2030 blueprint. With this development, the old […]
Cricketers and celebrations: When things got weird
With the India vs Sri Lanka series going on, besides the beautiful game what we saw is the weird celebration of Ishant Sharma after bagging Dinesh Chandimal. Well, talking about weird celebrations, it is not new to cricket. From batsmen tp bowlers, everyone have had their own ways to celebrate and some made it so […]
Ian Bell announces retirement from ODI Cricket
Ian Bell, England’s highest run-getter in ODIs has announced retirement from ODI Cricket but insists that he has plenty to offer in Test match Cricket. England have changed their entire look in the ODI set up after the poor run they had in the World cup. They were pretty successful against the World cup finalists […]
Cricketers are irritated with the idea of Aamir, Butt and Asif’s return in first class cricket: PCB
The Pakistan Cricket Board is not in a hurry to give two of its tainted cricketer a chance of returning to the first class cricket for Salman Butt and Muhammad Asif. It said they have to attend more anti-corruption rehabilitation programs to country’s cricket governing body’s trust, PTI reported. Najam Sethi, Chairman of the PCB’s […]
Former Liverpool legend Dietmar Hamann reveals his love for cricket
We know cricketer’s love for football. Many cricketers have their favourite football clubs. But, we are not much familiar with footballer’s love for cricket. English footballer like Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain love cricket, Columbian national Arsenal goalkeeper David Ospina found how difficult fast bowling is, he tried but fell badly on the ground. But, if the one […]