Cricket

[Super Falcon]

No player wants to tour Pakistan and I think you guys need to introspect WHY ?

Yes I know its a MI6 / CIA / MOSSAD plot.

ICC is not a dictator like Gen M.

Regards

Ps : My regards and apologiesto the Good Pakistani's here and world wide like Neo, AA, MuradK, AM, Keys etc but there seem to be some short sighted people here who have never worn an uniform in their life and don't know the misery of war and my posts are aimed at them.

so you think that guys like me are bad let me tell you one thing if srilanka can play in pak why not india do srilankans dont have security concerns. people in india are thretning to pakistan why our umpire went their even after security concerns south africa india toured here befor at that time there wes bombblast was going even pcb asked bcci to play t neutral venue why they dont play do you have any answer you think yourself vry clever but let me tell you that you are not to clever

 

[roopesh]

Its big politics by BCCI. Remember BCCI contoller sharad pawar(Still he rules it)....is powerful miniser in GOI. And BCCI located in Mumbai and most powerful personalities of BCCI are from Mumbai....
Pakistan cricket board appointed miandad who expressed interst in ICL. Which is against BCCI interst. If you remember Srilanka admin Ranatunga himself declared lanka team is available. Again a politics from ranatunga as he declared ICL is legal with lanka team...

Its nothing to do with ppl...govt or terrors ..its a cheap politics between diff boards...

 

[Pk_Thunder]

Sri Lanka confirms Pak tour​

Updated at: 1222 PST, Friday, December 19, 2008
Sri Lanka confirms Pak tour LAHORE: Sri Lankan Cricket Board has confirmed on Friday its team would tour Pakistan in the third week of January.

Director media Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Asif Sohail while talking to Geo News said Sri Lankan Cricket Board chairman Arjuna Ranatunga has made it confirm that Sri Lankan team would tour Pakistan in the third week of January.

Asif Sohail said Sri Lanka would play three tests, three one-day matches and a 20twenty match during the tour.

PCB spokesman said PCB is finalizing the schedule of Sri Lankan series, which would be announced likely within couple of days.

 

[Pk_Thunder]

Indian senior cricket team cancels its tour

KARACHI, Dec. 24 (APP):- The Indian seniors cricket team have canceled their tour to Pakistan due to start on February 21, 2009, Pakistan Veterans Cricket Association (PVCA) announced on Wednesday. “The tour of Indian seniors has been put off till the tension between two countries settled down,” PVCA Chairman, Fawad Ijaz Khan said here in a statement.

Veteran Cricket Association of Pakistan and Indian, launched the tours in 2005 when Pakistan toured India.

He said future plans will be announced as per the development of the situation.

 

[Pk_Thunder]

Sri Lanka President gives go ahead for Pakistan tour​

Updated at: 1855 PST, Friday, December 26, 2008
Sri Lanka President gives go ahead for Pakistan tour COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's President has given the green light for the national team to tour Pakistan next month in place of India, who cancelled their five-week series over the Mumbai attacks.

Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama announced the decision to go ahead after talks with President Mahinda Rajapakse who sanctioned the national team's tour from January 20 to February 25, the foreign ministry said.

"Minister Bogollagama is of the view that sport is an effective means of promoting connectivity between nations and thereby enhancing friendship and mutual goodwill between countries," the ministry said in a statement.

Last week, Sri Lanka Cricket, the sport's governing body here, said they agreed to take India's place and ask the hosts to scrap two Twenty20 games and turn them into one day matches.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had said Sri Lanka agreed to tour the country in place of India after playing in Bangladesh.

Sri Lanka are likely to play Test matches in Karachi, Lahore and Multan, while Karachi would also host the two proposed one-dayers. The remaining one-dayers would likely be played in Lahore.

Pakistan last played a Test match in December last year, against India in Bangalore.

India called off their tour of Pakistan after New Delhi refused to grant the team permission to travel across the border in the wake of last month's attacks on Mumbai, which India has blamed on Pakistan-based militants.

The PCB said it was set to lose at least 25 million dollars as a result of the cancellation but would recover some of the money by hosting Sri Lanka.

 

[ejaz007]

India seeks Sri Lanka cricket tour cancellation
Source: Our Staff Reporter submitted 7 hours 12 minutes ago

An Indian satellite channel reported on Sunday that the foreign minister would try to convince the Sri Lankan authorities to cancel their cricket team’s tour in January. Sri Lanka had agreed to tour Pakistan in place of India who pulled out of the tour after Mumbai attacks.

It was learnt that Mukherjee had already talked to his Sri Lankan counterpart on phone. Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan authorities have said the government has not decided yet to cancel the tour and issue would be further discussed at the highest level.


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[EagleEyes]

^Sri Lanka has good relations with Pakistan, it would be very stupid for it to listen to India and cut off ties. Sri Lanka has a lot to gain by not being a slave to the Indian politics.

 

[Moin91]

Pak will not involve in any night Test: Miandad
28 Dec 2008, PTI

KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain and current cricket board director-general, Javed Miandad on Sunday scoffed at Cricket Australia's plans to host a day-night Test against Pakistan in Adelaide in November next year.

"No we will not go with this idea as we don't support attempts to spoil the traditional nature of Test matches which are still the heart and soul of cricket," said Miandad.

According to a report in Sunday Telegraph, CA will soon seek International Cricket Council's approval for holding the match that will have a 1400 hrs (local time) start.

"Test cricket is our premium form of the game so why (not) play it at a time when most people can watch it? There's no doubt it will happen - people can go after work and it's a cooler time of the day for spectators," CA chief executive James Sutherland was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

"The Olympics, the NRL and the AFL ... Much of it is played at night because it's a more convenient time for viewers and fans," Sutherland had said.

But Miandad sees problems galore to be faced by teams while playing under artificial and natural light.

"You can't expect teams to keep on adjusting to natural and artificial light over a period of five days. Having night matches for 50 overs and 20 overs is fine but I would advise the Australians not to tinker with the spirit of Test cricket," he said.

"Plans to have Test cricket under lights would not work. Neither will we support any such move," said Miandad, who has played top level cricket for more than 20 years.

Warning the cricket boards to be careful with their efforts to further commercialise the game, he said, "We should not get too greedy. Having Twenty20 cricket is OK and it is a money spinner but please don't try to spoil the fun and competitive nature of Test cricket," he said.

 

[Moin91]

Moin Khan puts PCB in uneasy situation
Monday, December 29, 2008
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) was left in an uneasy position on Sunday when former captain Moin Khan, now a key Indian Cricket League (ICL) representative, turned up as coach of a domestic team in the prestigious Quaid-e-Azam Trophy tournament.

Moin turned up as coach of the Pakistan international airlines (PIA) team at the National Stadium.

A PCB official said the Board had a clear cut policy on banning players who have aligned with the rebel Indian league but they were not sure how to deal with officials with ICL links.

“The board has a clear policy on the ICL players who are banned from taking part in domestic cricket. But we will have to see how to deal with the issue of officials,” the board official said.

Moin and former captain, Inzamam-ul-Haq are the main representatives for the ICL in Pakistan and Moin has also known to have close ties with a Lahore based sports management company which has signed up Pakistani players for the rebel Twenty20 league.

Moin is also the coach of the Lahore Badshahs that won the ICL title this season. “The participating teams are not required to submit names of their manager and coach to us, so we didn’t have any knowledge of Moin coming into the picture,” the board official argued.

He, however, made it clear that Moin’s presence as coach in a domestic tournament clearly had to be looked into as the International Cricket Council had a clear policy of not only discouraging players but also team officials and anyone associated with the unauthorised league.

Meanwhile, sources said the airlines had clearly taken advantage of the board regulations

remaining silent on the policy

on officials associated with the ICL.

“It seems strange that while players who have signed up with the ICL are not allowed to take part in domestic cricket, an ICL coach is doing just that,” a board official said.

The PCB Director General, Javed Miandad, when contacted said he was not aware of any ban on any ICL player coaching a domestic team.

“I think this matter has to be resolved by the Chairman and chief operating officer,” Miandad said.

Moin Khan puts PCB in uneasy situation

 

[Super Falcon]

why their is soo much pain in *** of indian parnab mukharejee and indian players if sri lanks is touring to pakistan what is your probleum and sachin showed the world that he is not a man to be respected by speaking about he favours govt decission to cancel the pak tour and he is very happy and as a player he did not have to say that and also show that he thinks that mumbai attacks has been palnned by pakistan i hope PCB should learn some lessons and lift the ban from all icl players and stop sending players to ipl untill bcci and indian mind set wont change

 

[Neo]

India unhappy with Sri Lanka's cricket tour to Pakistan: Reports​

28 Dec 2008

The tour was hastily arranged by Pakistan after India refused to go ahead with the scheduled visit following last month's terror attacks in Mumbai. The then interim committee of the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) headed by Arjuna Ranatunga, which was later dismissed by the government, accepted the invitation to fill in for India.

But now after the government cleared the tour, Indian authorities have expressed their displeasure over the next month's series.

Independent Sunday Times quoting SLC sources said that the decision by the Ranatunga administration to undertake the tour "had irked the Indian authorities" and the matter had been discussed "at the highest levels in Colombo".

"These sources said that SLC also received clear signals that Indian authorities were unhappy with the move to tour Pakistan when they were having political problems with that country. They said they treated the Sri Lankan move as a snub on the Indians mainly as a fallout from the Indian Premier League (IPL) issue," the daily said.

The report said that the Sri Lankan sports authorities were forced to go to the foreign ministry to get clearance for the national team's tour to Pakistan next month "following a nose-dive in Indo-Pak relations in recent weeks".

With sports minister Gamini Lokuge briefing President Mahinda Rajapaksa "saying that the Pakistan tour had become a diplomatic issue". Rajapaksa then referred the matter to foreign minister Rohitha Bogollagama.

Bogollagama, however, has said that there was no "diplomatic pressure applied on Sri Lanka either by India or Pakistan" with regard to the cricket tour.

He has told the newspaper that he cleared the tour considering it as a "sporting issue", and that Sri Lanka promoted "people-to-people visits" among South Asian member states.

"If indeed there were security concerns, the matter has to be determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC)," the foreign minister was been quoted as saying.

Claiming that both India and Pakistan "are important factors in Sri Lanka's military and diplomatic efforts to defeat the LTTE", the Sunday Times said that Ranatunga has sought a meeting with Rajapaksa to present his case.

 

[Jihad]

Ofcourse the Indians are unhappy, they're easily replaced.

 

[Goodperson]

Ofcourse the Indians are unhappy, they're easily replaced.

On the contrary BCCI has been biggest supporter of PCB.

 

[Moin91]

Foot injury threatens Brett Lee’s career



Tuesday, December 30, 2008
MELBOURNE: A stress fracture to woefully out-of-form Australian pacer Brett Lee has put his career in jeopardy. Lee’s injury might be have a silver lining for selectors who have stuck with the bowler despite his diminishing returns.

There had been doubts about Lee’s future before the setback as he struggled to find pace and take wickets, although there is a suggestion that an extended layoff might be what he needs following an illness in India.

Lee, 32, is likely to be ruled out of the final Test against South Africa and may also miss the tour of South Africa in late February and March. “It is on the way to being a stress fracture, it is not far off,” team physiotherapist Alex Kountouris was quoted as saying in Herald Sun.

“At the moment the crack’s not there, but it is not far away, it could be one ball away, it could be 10 balls away. “I don’t think he will be able to play the Sydney Test, we’ll wait and see if he’s got what we think he’s got and if it’s confirmed by scans then we will have to rest him, we will have to get a specialist’s opinion, but it will be four to six weeks, I think.”

Kountouris said that while the bone may break if Lee bowls in the second innings, some specialists believe the foot heals more quickly from a break than the condition it is in now. Lee has been struggling since returning to the side for the Indian series. In eight Tests he has only taken more than three wickets in a game once and has 1-200 against South Africa in the three innings of the series.

With Lee out, Mitchell Johnson, who made his debut last summer and has played only 17 Tests, will lead the attack in Sydney. It is possible the side will now take the field in Sydney without three of its most senior players. Lee is gone, Andrew Symonds is struggling with an injured knee and Matthew Hayden’s future is under a cloud.

The other possible bowlers include fast bowler Peter Siddle (three Tests), spinner Nathan Hauritz (three Tests in four years) and either Doug Bollinger or Ben Hilfenhaus, fast bowlers who have never worn the baggy green.
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[Moin91]

Malik all set to get extension as Pakistan captain



Tuesday, December 30, 2008
By Khalid Hussain

KARACHI: Shoaib Malik’s tenure as Pakistan captain ends on Wednesday (tomorrow) but the Sialkot-born all-rounder is all set to get at least a one-year extension.

Just months after being rejected as a weak and uninspiring captain by several former Test cricketers, Malik has achieved a remarkable recovery and now most experts want him to carry on as skipper.

Malik, 26, has garnered the vocal support of new Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam while chief selector Abdul Qadir is also offering relatively muted support even though he is in favour of having different captains for Tests and One-day Internationals.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt made it public last month that the PCB Governing Board will decide in January whether Malik would continue as captain after the end of his two-year tenure. But he had also declared that much will depend on how Malik performs both as captain and the team’s all-rounder in November’s three-match ODI series against the West Indies in Abu Dhabi.

Malik led Pakistan to a 3-0 triumph in the series in which he also contributed handsomely both with the bat and ball.Earlier this month, Malik spearheaded Punjab Stallions to a title-winning triumph in the Pentangular Cup One-day Championship.

According to sources in the PCB, there are strong indications that Malik’s stint as captain would be extended for one more year. On Monday, former Pakistan captain Moin Khan also joined the chorus of praise for Malik, saying that Pakistan cannot afford to have anybody else at the helm of their team at this point in time.

“Malik has transformed himself into a good captain and I believe he is now the best man to lead Pakistan,” said Moin.

Last week, Intikhab made it clear that he wants Malik to continue as captain. “I am crystal clear in my mind that Malik should continue as captain,”Intikhab, a former Pakistan captain was quoted as saying in an interview.

Intikhab’s remarks were in stark to contrast to the comments he made just weeks before taking over as the Pakistan coach when pointed out that Pakistan did not “have captaincy stuff in the present lot” and suggested Shahid Afridi as a candidate.

Malik has played 35 Tests and scored 1076 runs besides accumulating 4665 runs from 170 ODI appearances in which he has also picked up 125 wickets. He was handpicked to succeed Inzamam-ul-Haq as Pakistan captain by the former PCB chief Nasim Ashraf after Pakistan’s humiliating first round exit from the 2007 World Cup last March. Ashraf ignored more senior candidates like Mohammad Yousuf and Shahid Afridi with the belief that a young Malik will prove to be the right man to help Pakistan bounce back in the 2011 World Cup.

Under Malik, Pakistan lost back-to-back Test series against South Africa and India but reached the final of the inaugural World Twenty20 Championships in South Africa last September. He also led Pakistan to 18 wins in 21 ODI games in 2008 — a year when Pakistan did not play a single Test.
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