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Cricket: Two-ton Kevin Pietersen ensures whitewash

ALASTAIR Cook confirmed he would be staying on for the Twenty20 series after captaining England to a one-day series whitewash over Pakistan. Kevin Pietersen’s second successive century, a career-best 130 off 153 balls, led Engl [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

Cricket-Ponting's one-day international career over

SYDNEY, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Ricky Ponting, Australia's most successful one-day cricketer, accepted that his limited overs international career was over on Tuesday but said he wanted to continue in test cricket and hoped to play in the [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Cricket: Double recall for Ryder

A day after the Black Caps were put to the sword by a stocky South African opener, New Zealand's own match-winning top order bat returned to the national scene. Jesse Ryder, missing from the New Zealand set-up since the test defe [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Cricket: Spin could be the deciding factor

South African skipper AB de Villiers doesn't believe his men have any problem playing spin bowling, which is lucky considering New Zealand's Twenty20 side is full of tweakers. On the eve of the first hit-and-giggle encounter [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Cricket: Cook hits another ton in England win

England beat Pakistan by 20 runs in the second one-day international to lead 2-0 and grab at least a share of the series spoils on Wednesday. Skipper Alastair Cook scored a second successive century while Steve Finn and Ravi Bopara played [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Pak disable cricketers wrap-up T20 series 2-0

Karachi—Pakistan impaired cricketers made an impressive mark when they won the two match T20 International series 2-0 by beating England by 20 runs under lights at ICC Global Academy Ground Dubai on Sunday night. Off-break bowler [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Cricket: T20 squad unchanged for South Africa

The Black Caps who beat Zimbabwe in the first Twenty20 have been given the vote of confidence, with no changes made in the squad to play South Africa. New Zealand Cricket today announced the national selectors have retained the current 14 [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Aaqib gets UAE cricket team coaching offer

LAHORE - Former Test fast bowler Aaqib Javed has received an offer to join the United Arab Emirates Cricket team’s head coach after the resignation of Kabir Khan, who resigned from his post to take a similar role with Afghanistan. [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Pak squad humbles English cricket pride

PAKISTANI cricket team’s marvelous and historic victory against English team has rightly sent waves of joy and jubilations across the country. The 71-run win in the third and final Test against England at Dubai on Monday inflicted a [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

Pakistan cricket genuinely on top

WHETHER it was historic, fairy-tale or stunning, these would just be phraseologies. Statisticians might still rank England as number one, but let it be said in all fairness and honesty here that Monday’s 3-0 whitewash in Dubai sent [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Cricket: Mahela wears captain’s arm-band again

Dilshan, 35, was appointed after Kumar Sangakkara stepped down following this year’s World Cup and led Sri Lanka on away tours against England, Pakistan and South Africa, while also leading the team at home against Australia. & [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Cricket: White Ferns trounced in second T20 match

They might have lost narrowly in the first game but New Zealand were no match for Australia in the second Twenty20 international in Sydney today, losing by 59 runs in the five-match series. Australia managed a useful 128 for five fro [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Cricket: Pakistan lead England by 96 runs

Pakistan openers Mohammad Hafeez and Taufeeq Umar hit contrasting half-centuries to steer their team to a 96-run lead over England with three wickets in hand by stumps Wednesday on the second day of the first test. Led by Hafeez' [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Cricket: Australia win toss in Perth Test, India bats

PERTH: Australia captain Michael Clarke won the toss and chose to bowl first in the third test against India on what is expected to be a lively wicket with plenty of bounce at the WACA on Friday. Australia, who lead the four-match series [...]