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Ponting achieves Test milestone as Australian cricket captai...

Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting entered the record books on Wednesday when the Australia team beat Pakistan by 170 runs in the first Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Ponting has now captained more wins (42) in Test cricket th [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Virender Sehwag powers India to record ODI score against Sri...

Opener Virender Sehwag's career-best 146 helped India post their highest ever total in a limited-overs international on Tuesday, scoring 414 for seven in the opening one-dayer against Sri Lanka. Sehwag hit six sixes and 17 fours in his domi [...]

Posted On : Dec, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

We expected a better response from India - Afridi

Shahid Afridi has said Pakistan's players were expecting a favourable response from the IPL organisers with respect to their participation. In next year's tournament but their exclusion from the tournament will help their prepartions for t [...]

Posted On : Dec, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

Liposuction rules Shoaib out of tour

Shoaib Akhtar's dramatic attempt to lose weight through liposuction has cost the Pakistan fast bowler any chance he had of playing cricket against Australia this summer. Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has ruled out the return of [...]

Posted On : Nov, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

Pakistan cricket captain wants more responsibility

Pakistan captain Younus Khan said Monday he was ready to shoulder more responsibility after withdrawing his resignation over match-fixing allegations. In his first public appearance since resuming the captaincy last month following overwhe [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Rameez blames politicians for damaging cricket in wake of Yo...

Disappointed over the recent developments surrounding Pakistan cricket where match-fixing allegations. Against captain Younis Khan and coach Intikhab Alam ultimately saw Khan resigning from captaincy, former captain Rameez Raja has said th [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Positive change in Pakistan cricket

The Pakistan cricket team’s victory over India in the ICC Champions Trophy on Saturday has sent waves of jubilation across the country. Pakistani public so used to raising their hopes and seeing them dashed in the past were pleasan [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Champions Trophy an important event for my cricket future - ...

Pakistan Twenty20 Captain Shahid Khan Afridi said on Thursday evening that forthcoming ICC Champions Trophy is an important and crucial event for the future of his cricket.“A lot depends on my performance in. The Champions Trophy in [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2009 | Comments : 0

Ponting quits Twenty20 cricket

He will remain skipper of Australia's Test and one-day sides, but is stepping away from the shortest form of the game."The last 10 or 12 days for me have been a lot about reflection, looking back to the Ashes and looking forward to my [...]

Posted On : Sep, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

ECB coy over Flintoff surgery report

English cricket chiefs refused to comment Friday on a newspaper report that all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will undergo knee surgery immediately after the end of the fifth Test against Australia. The 31-year-old, who is retiring from Test cri [...]

Posted On : Aug, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Kevin Pietersen injury exposes Englands Achilles heel

Who would be an England selector this week? Just about everyone has an opinion on who should be summoned to stiffen the England batting line-up that crumpled in such abject fashion at Headingley Carnegie, but the debate being so open betray [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2009 | Comments : 0

Ponting on verge of cricket history

Australia charged to 1-126 with Ponting unbeaten on 17 and needing just eight more runs to break Allan Border's longstanding Australian record of 11,174 Test runs. New opener Shane Watson - coming into the side for the sacked Phil Hughes - [...]

Posted On : Jul, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Ricky Ponting missing in cricket honour list

WA cricketing greats Adam Gilchrist and Dennis Lillee have been named in influential website Cricinfo's Australian all-time XI - but current captain Ricky Ponting has missed out. Selected by a prominent panel of cricket historians, and pri [...]

Posted On : Jul, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Ponting's Ashes outburst is not cricket

Ricky Ponting, the Australian cricket captain, was less than impressed by the tactics of Andrew Strauss, his England opposite number, in the latter stages of Sunday's nail-biting conclusion to the first Test in Cardiff. With time running [...]