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its real no we can say we are a repablican nation its good news.now i will see what he do before he blame bord now he is bord
 
Sub Committee to draft new PCB constitution


ISLAMABAD, Nov 20 (APP): A sub‑committee will prepare the new draft constitution of Pakistan Cricket Board.

This was decided at the meeting of PCB Constitution Committee, chaired by the Federal Minister for Law and Justice, Farooq H. Naek, here on Thursday.The meeting was held to consider various amendments required in the PCB Constitution 2007 and to restructure the domestic cricket system.

“The PCB constitution will be enforced after approval by President Asif Ali Zardari who is the Patron‑in‑Chief of PCB”, Law Minister Farooq H. Naik told reporters after the Constitution Committee meeting.

The meeting, which continued for four and half hours, was attended by Federal Sports Minister Pir Aftab Shah Jilani, PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt, former PCB Chairman, Lt. Gen. ® Tauqeer Zia, Chief Operating Officer of PCB, Salim Altaf, newly‑appointed Director General Javed Miandad, national captain Shoaib Malik, vice captain Misbahul Haq, Members of Governing Board, and some former Test cricketers.

The sub‑committee will be formulated with consultation of Minister for Sports and Chairman PCB. The Committee will incorporate all the suggestions and proposals given by the participants while recommending changes in PCB constitution.

The Sub Committee will submit its recommendations based on proposals and suggestions of the participants round about in 30 days.

Naek said the officials of the board as well as former cricketers presented their proposals as to how best the weaknesses of Pakistan cricket could be corrected and it be put on the right track.

“The participants discussed how to make improvements in the national team,how to better run National Cricket Academy, how to rejuvenate junior cricket and such other matters”, the Minister said.

The Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board, Ijaz Butt, said he had pleaded that the new constitution be implemented after September 2009 in view of Indian cricket team’s tour of Pakistan starting in January and the Champions Trophy scheduled to be hosted by Pakistan in September next year.

He said during his call on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday, he was assured that the Government of Pakistan would provide all kind of security during their Pakistan tour during which they would play three Tests, five One Day Internationals and a Twenty20 fixture.

“I am now hopeful of Indians making the Pakistan tour as per schedule”, said the PCB Chairman.

While talking with media‑men, the Sports Minister, Aftab Hussain Shah Jillani, said that “we wanted to make constitution of PCB more democratic and more participatory and to remove grey areas”.

On the forthcoming Indian cricket tour of Pakistan, the Minister said thatIndia should visit Pakistan because situation is good for cricket in this country.

Also attending the meeting were Dr. Syed Muhammad Ali Shah of Sindh, Ashraf Khan Federal Secretary Sports, Tariq Baloch President Balochistan Cricket Region, Muhammad Muneer, President Multan Region, Ex‑Cricketers Majid Khan and Sadiq Muhammad.
 
PCB chairman to visit India to save tour

Staff Report

LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt will travel to India later this month in a bid to save Indian crciket team’s scheduled tour early next year. “Ijaz will meet officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) later this month and convince them to tour Pakistan,” PCB chief operating officer Salim Altaf told reporters at a news conference here on Sunday. India are scheduled play three Tests, five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 international during their January 4-February 19 tour to Pakistan. The BCCI is awaiting a security assessment from the Indian government, which earlier this month stopped a junior hockey team going to Pakistan on security grounds. Salim said an Indian security delegation would visit Pakistan, most likely early next month. “We are very much optimistic that the cricket tour will go ahead as planned,” he added. Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani also said earlier this week that he would talk to his Indian counterpart in an effort to save the tour.
 
Sehwag and Zaheer seal India's series

The Bulletin by Andrew Miller

November 23, 2008


Whether it's a contest over 50 overs, 20 overs, or - as it turned out today - 22, India's one-day cricketers are simply streets ahead of England's. They duly claimed an unassailable 4-0 lead in the seven-game series thanks to a 19-run victory in a match that was rescued from a soggy grave by some valiant work from the Bangalore groundstaff.

After nearly five hours of rain delays, the contest was minutes away from an abandonment when the umpires decreed that the conditions were fit for play, and as things turned out, their decision proved to be worthwhile. For eight hard-hitting overs, while Owais Shah and Andrew Flintoff were together at the crease, adding 82 for the fourth wicket, England put up the best fight they have shown all series. But in the final analysis, the unbridled flamboyance of India's batsmen, coupled with the nerveless short-form skills that India's bowlers have learnt from their time in the IPL, proved decisive.

In every respect, India's approach to the game was superior to that of their opponents. Virender Sehwag epitomised the difference in mindset - the bulk of his 69 from 57 balls came when he was batting with a view to lasting for 50 overs, but in the final analysis you would hardly be able to tell the difference. He started the match by belting James Anderson's first ball over the covers for four, as India cruised a healthy 106 for 1 after 17 overs. Then, nearly seven hours later, he clobbered Samit Patel's first ball of the resumption for six, as India reappeared to help themselves to 60 more runs in the remaining five overs of their reduced allocation.

India's ability to switch tempo at will was astonishing and, to England's rigid mentality, unthinkable. Yuvraj Singh belted three more sixes to continue his extraordinary run of form with 25 not out from 11 balls, while both Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Yusuf Pathan - from the final ball of the innings - also launched the first balls they faced into the stands. Their final total of 166 for 4 was rightly adjusted under the Duckworth-Lewis method to an imposing target of 198, a prospect that looked stillborn when England began their chase.

The contrast between Sehwag's onslaught and the cautious dirge chosen by England's openers was stark. Only 21 runs came from England's first six Powerplay overs, and though Zaheer Khan, who finished with 2 for 20 from five overs, was exceptional - both for his own bowling and the way in which he guided his younger team-mates - England's stifling orthodoxy was bewildering and self-defeating. Playing with a pendulum-straight bat, Ravi Bopara played out four dot balls in the first over, before being caught by a flying Ishant Sharma in the second, while Ian Bell managed a gravity defying seven runs in seven overs.

With every straight-batted push that England produced, the run-rate leapt another notch or ten. Bell was eventually bowled for 12 while attempting a sweep against Harbhajan Singh, and though Kevin Pietersen clipped his first ball effortlessly through midwicket for four, he had arrived at the crease approximately eight overs too late. In his haste to make up for lost time, he inside-edged a massive swipe across the line, and was bowled for 5 by a gleeful Sharma.

India's dominance at this stage was so total that Yuvraj was able to burst out laughing after a blunder from Suresh Raina on the square leg rope gifted Shah an extra boundary. Slowly but surely, however, England found their feet. Shah brought up his half-century in flamboyant style - and from an unexpectedly brisk 35 deliveries - with a pull through midwicket off Sharma, then creamed a huge six into the stands with a fetched slog-sweep off Yuvraj. Flintoff, meanwhile, ran a clever four off an open-faced bat after noticing that third man was up in the circle, and then made Harbhajan pay for one full-toss too many by swiping him fiercely through cow corner.

That single blow gave Flintoff the confidence he needed, because he followed up with arguably the biggest blow of the series so far, a gargantuan swipe that might have ended up in Chennai had it not rebounded off the top of the stadium roof. It meant that England had added 61 in five overs, at the required rate of two a ball, and for the first time in four matches they were matching India's strokeplay shot for shot.

Shah continued in the same vein, greeting Munaf Patel's return with another flick into the midwicket stands to bring the requirement down to 73 runs from 43 balls. But back came Zaheer for the final Powerplay, and after conceding three runs from his first four balls, he beat Shah with a low full toss that flew off the leading edge to Sachin Tendulkar at point to end a fantastic innings of 72 from 48 balls. In the very next over, Flintoff drove a slower ball from Sharma to extra cover, and England's two big guns had gone in the space of five balls.

That was effectively that. Samit Patel drove his first ball through long-on for four as he and Collingwood kept England in contention until the penultimate over. But Zaheer, kept bowling full and fast, removed Patel via a butterfingered catch in the covers from Gambhir, and Munaf was given the honour of sealing the contest as he successfully defended the 27 runs England still needed in the final over. For the fourth match in a row, England had shown an improvement on their earlier efforts in the series, and yet the gulf between the sides appeared as wide as ever before. The prospect of a 7-0 clean sweep looms ever larger.

Andrew Miller is UK editor of Cricinfo


Cricinfo - Sehwag and Zaheer seal India's series

What a series this has been for India. I hope the form continues. Hoping for a 7-0 whitewash.
 
who are better hitters in the pakistan present team like imran nazir.

do pakistani players who played in icl can be return to pakistan team for next T20 championship. i mean can imran nazir be back we desprately need him in our T20 squad and nasir jamshed too salman butt should be dropped
 
rana again made icl pakistan loose against underdogs indians.

three *** hole players in icl pakistani.

Humayun farhat, rana, and bad bad bad captiancy inzi he seems to be not lernaing from his mistakes rana always kept doing rubbish when pakistan in good position and made us lose

where is saqlain, why inzi dont go for yousuf why inzi is lack luster to make simple choices why he kept playing players who dosent deserve to play even on the streets

rana will always remain pain for pakistani team keep bowling rubbish even a school kid can hit him for 6 sixes why he dont bowl yorkers why
 
i heared that PCB might rethink about banning Icl players javes miancdad said and

wasim today said PCB has to make a choice weather they have to run PCB or BCCI if they go for Bcci they have to keep ban on its players which will be a bad impact on pakistan cricket
 
Miandad questions rationale of ICL ban

Osman Samiuddin

November 21, 2008


Case against Yousuf put on hold

In a further indicator of a shift in the PCB's thinking on the ICL, the legal case it developed against Mohammad Yousuf, the latest Pakistan player to join the ICL, has been put on hold.


Yousuf joined the Lahore Badshahs earlier this month, without having told the PCB about his decision. The board responded by tearing up his central contract; they also initiated legal proceedings against him for breach of contract and to claim legal costs the PCB incurred while trying to resolve the earlier mess Yousuf had created by signing for the ICL before turning his back on them in the hope of an IPL contract.


"We've put the case on hold for now," a board official told Cricinfo. "The thinking is that if we pursue the case against Yousuf, then what about the other Pakistan players in the ICL who had contracts with us?"


A number of players, such as Imran Farhat, Abdul Razzaq and Mohammad Sami had central contracts with the board before they signed up for the ICL in September 2007.




Javed Miandad, the former Pakistan captain and newly appointed director-general of the PCB, has joined a steadily growing chorus of concern against the ban on ICL players and the marginalisation of the unrecognised Twenty20 league. Miandad believes there is immense "public pressure" on the PCB to bring ICL players back into the Pakistan fold and "past decisions by past [PCB] administrations" have "nothing to do with the new set-up".

The PCB banned all players contracted by the ICL but Miandad said it's a policy the new board administration must reconsider, keeping in mind the "best interests" of Pakistan cricket.

Pakistan has suffered badly from the ban on ICL players imposed by boards around the world, essentially to back the BCCI in its dispute with the league and its owners. As many as 19 Pakistan players - a mix of current and former internationals - are currently appearing in the ICL and the bans on them have severely depleted Pakistan's reserves.

"There is a lot of public pressure on the PCB to bring these players back from the ICL," Miandad told Cricinfo. "The [ICL] players themselves are ready to represent Pakistan. The IPL, the ICL and all boards need to sit down and really sort this issue out," Miandad said, joining former captains-turned-administrators Arjuna Ranatunga and Clive Lloyd in expressing the need for a resolution to the issue.

Miandad's comments do not yet indicate a wholesale change in the board's policy on the issue. The previous PCB administration, under the chairmanship of Nasim Ashraf, banned players readily, in swift appeasement of the BCCI. But it is believed the current board is open to rethinking, or at least questioning, the stance.

"Past decisions were taken by past administrations," Miandad said. "They have nothing to do with this new set-up. It is something we must look at and discuss, and find out whether that policy [of the ban] had any benefit to it. We have to look at our best interests."

Miandad placed the current bans in the context of past actions, such as the bans on players who traveled to apartheid-era South Africa. "Those bans were based on an intelligent policy. What was happening there was abhorrent. What is the intent behind this ban?"

Ultimately, this is not an issue of nations but of cricket itself, Miandad said. "Even Indian players are suffering. It isn't just Pakistan players. This is a loss for cricket and cricketers and a resolution has to be brought in, in a respectful way."

With a number of ex-cricketers now in prominent positions in the board, the matter has been discussed informally inside, though it has yet to be done so as part of an official agenda. Statements, such as those given by Miandad, might be part of a new strategy to shake up the BCCI-enforced status quo.

But Miandad's employers are keen to examine the issue pragmatically as well, which means essentially they will be guided by a number of legal considerations. "The ICL is still not recognised by the ICC but the ICC believes that if the matter goes to litigation, they are not too optimistic about the case," an official said. "It is about restraint of trade essentially. And what is happening in Sri Lanka where domestic bans have been lifted and in the UK through the Kolpak ruling, that will also have an effect. If you can have one private Twenty20 league why not two?

"We will wait and see and be guided by our legal advice for our view on the matter but these factors will play a role."

Osman Samiuddin is Pakistan editor of Cricinfo

© Cricinfo
 
England have been officially MURDERED by India!! They should go back to England and hide their faces in Queen Elizabeth's skirts!!

5 - 0
 
England have been officially MURDERED by India!! They should go back to England and hide their faces in Queen Elizabeth's skirts!!

5 - 0

MURDERED is not the word used in cricket, still need to beat England for complete Whitewash.

Shewag dismissal was questionable depriving him of a Century.
 
MURDERED is not the word used in cricket, still need to beat England for complete Whitewash.

Shewag dismissal was questionable depriving him of a Century.

I think its high time lbw decisions were referred to third unpire, like run out decisions. it is a pity to see a batsman wrongly deprived of a century (sehwag) or a bowler being deprived of a wicket (pathan).
 
England have been officially MURDERED by India!! They should go back to England and hide their faces in Queen Elizabeth's skirts!!

5 - 0

Dayum mate, thats too harsh..relax mate, it's just a game. Although 5-0 is a killer!!!
 
unfortunate - cricket is the loser in all this chaos!
 
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