Pakistan team announced for World Squash C’ship

Three players in the final squad are from KPK and one from Punjab. The championship is starting in Germany on August 21. Amir Atlas, Waqar Mehboob and Nasir Iqbal are from Peshawar while Yasir Butt from Lahore.

Amir Atlas, Pakistan’s No. 1, says he is attaching great importance to the championship. Yasir is ranked number 3, Waqar number 4 and Nasir is ranked number 7 in Pakistan. All the squad is hopeful of producing good results at the contest. Pakistan last played the championship in 1993.

Pakistani team will leave for Germany on August 18. The players say they all eye the trophy and would love to send home a good news for the nation.

Pakistani athletes shine in Athens Special Olympics.

The glorifying performance of Pakistani athletes continues in Athens Special Olympics.

Most successful athlete Adeel Ameer have won gold medals in 100 metre sprint after winning the gold in long jump, 100×4 race and rally race events.

Rahimullah won the silver medal in 1,500 metre race.

Misbah Tariq named silver medal in 200 metre sprint.

Abdul Nasir and Zulfiqar Ali won gold medals in Bocce double game.

Losing to India in the final of basket ball event, Pakistan have to content with the silver medal.

Pakistan Vs Indian 2nd Semi Final: Mohali Skies Clear After Rain and Thunderstorm

The biggest match of 2011 world cup Pakistan Vs Indian 2nd Semi Final is schedule today. Pakistan Vs Indian 2^nd Semi Final will be played today at Mohali. The weather of Mohali was not favorable for cricket. It was really shocking for the fans that may be bad weather could interrupt the Pakistan Vs Indian 2nd Semi Final. The good news for the fans that after thunderstorm followed by rain the weather of Mohali is now clear up.

Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 11 runs

Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 11 runs in the in group ‘A’ match of the World Cup, playing on R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo. Following the target of 278 host side can just score 266 runs. Shining once again Afridi took 4 wickets. Misbah-ul-Haq scored unbeatable 83 runs.

Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first. Both openers Ahmed Shehzad and Muhammad Hafeez were looking confident but on the total of 28, Shehzad went back to pavilion after scoring 13 runs, Sangakkara took his catch behind the wicket on the ball of Perera. New batsman Kamran Akmal played sensiable cricket along with Hafeez and added 48 runs in the second wicket partnership. In 14^th over Hafeez turned back on 31. On the total of 105, three wicket of Pakistan fell when Kamran Akmal wanted to hit a six to Herath coming out from the crease but he couldn’t play the ball and Sangakkara made not mistake in stumping.

Middle-order Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq countiuned to move the score responsibly and pick their side’s total to 213, on this spot Younis gave the catch to Jayawardene, Herath was the bowler, he scored 72 runs on 76 balls. Umar Akmal goes after adding his 10 runs to his team’s total. Boom Boom Afridi scored 16 runs on 12 balls with the help of 3 boundaries. At the end of limited number of overs the final score of green shirts was 277/7. Misbah-ul-Haq was unbeatable on 83. Rangana Herath picks 2 wickets.

Following the target, the host side took a slow but confident start. The first wicket of Eye-Landers fell on 76 when Upul Tharanga went back to pavilion after scoring 33 runs. After the gap of 12 runs Tillakaratne Dilshan bowled out by Afridi, he scored 41 runs. The danger man Mahila Jayawardene was taken by Shoaib Akhtar on just 1 run. Thailan Samaravera scored a single run. After losing 4 wickets on 96 runs Captain Kumar Sangakkara played a sensiable innings along with Chamara Silva and added 74 runs in the fifth wicket partnership. The innings of captain ended when he was one less then his fifty.

On the other end Chamara Silva continued to struggle, but his resistance finished on 57 runs. Angelo Mathews bowled out by Afridi after scoring 8.  At the end of specified number of overs the final score of Sri Lankan team was 266/9.

Shahid Afridi, who picks 5 wickets in the first match, once again giving his best performance got 4 wickets. Shoaib Akhtar was the second prominent bowler with 2 wickets.

Final ICC World Cup 2011 Squads of All Teams

Final World Cup Squads of All Teams: All of the teams going to participate in ICC World Cup 2011 have announced their final squads. On the last day of deadline given by ICC, 19 January, New Zealand, Ireland, Kenya, West Indies, Bangladesh, Netherlands and South Africa announced their squads on the final day of the deadline. Rest of the teams has already announced their squads. After the announcement of their final squads by all boards the process of selection for mega event has ended. The squads of different teams are listed below.

(1) Australia:

Ricky Ponting (Captain), Michael Clarke, Shane Watson, Brad Haddin, Michael Hussey, David Hussey,
Cameron White, Tim Paine, Steven Smith, John Hastings, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Hauritz, Brett Lee,
Shaun Tait, Doug Bollinger

(2) India:

MS Dhoni (Captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli,
Suresh Raina, Yusuf Pathan, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Munaf Patel, Ashish Nehra, Harbhajan Singh,
Ashwin Kumar, Piyush Chawla.

(3) Sri Lanka:

Kumar Sangakkara (Captain), Mahela Jayawardene (vice-captain), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga,
Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Silva, Chamara Kapugedera, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Nuwan
Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Dilhara Fernando, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Rangana Herath.

(4) South Africa:

Graeme Smith (Captain), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers , JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Colin
Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robbie Peterson, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir,
Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van

(5) England:

Andrew Strauss (captain), Matt Prior, Ian Bell, , Paul Collingwood, Tim Bresnan, Eoin Morgan, Kevin
Pietersen, James Tredwell, Luke Wright, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott, Michael Yardy, James Anderson,
Stuart Broad, Ajmal Shahzad

(6) Pakistan:

Shahid Afridi, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammad Hafeez, Kamran Akmal, Younis Khan, Asad Shafiq, Umar
Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Abdur Rehman, Saeed Ajmal, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Sohail
Tanvir, Ahmed Shehzad
The captain name is not announced yet by PCB.

(7) New Zealand:

Daniel Vettori (Captain), Hamish Bennett, James Franklin, Martin Guptill, Jamie How, Brendon
McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Kyle Mills, Jacob Oram, Jesse Ryder, Tim Southee, Scott Styris, Ross
Taylor, Kane Williamson, Luke Woodcock

(8) West Indies:

Chris Gayle (Captain), Sulieman Benn, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Narsingh Deonarine,
Andre Fletcher, Wavell Hinds, Nikita Miller, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar
Roach, Darren Sammy, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Jerome Taylor

(9) Bangladesh:

Kumar Sangakkara (Captain), Mahela Jayawardene, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Thilan
Samaraweera, Chamara Silva, Chamara Kapugedera, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekara,
Lasith Malinga, Dilhara Fernando, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Rangana Herath.

(10) Ireland:

William Porterfield (Captain), Andre Botha, Alex Cusack, Niall O’Brien (wk), Kevin O’Brien, George
Dockrell, Trent Johnston, Nigel Jones, John Mooney, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Albert van der Merwe,
Gary Wilson, Andrew White, Ed Joyce

(11) Zimbabwe:

Elton Chigumbura (Captain), Regis Chakabva, Charles Coventry, Graeme Cremer, Craig Ervine, Sean
Ervine, Greg Lamb, Shingi Masakadza, Chris Mpofu, Ray Price, Ed Rainsford, Tatenda Taibu, Brendan
Taylor, Prosper Utseya, Sean Williams

(12) Netherlands:

Peter Borren (Captain), Wesley Baressi, Mudassar Bukhari, Atse Buurman, Tom Cooper, Tom de Grooth,
Alexei Kervezee, Bradley Kruger, Bernard Loots, Adeel Raja, Pieter Seelaar, Eric Swarczynski, Ryan Ten
Doeschate, Berend Westdijk, Bas Zuiderent

(13) Kenya:

Jimmy Kamande (Captain), Seren Waters, Alex Obanda, Elijah Otieno, Rakep Patel, David Obuya, Collins
Obuya, Steve Tikolo, Tamnay Mishra, Maurice Ouma, Nehemiah Odhiambo, Thomas Odoyo, Shem
Ngoche, James Ngoche, Peter Ongondo

(14) Canada:

Ashish Bagai (Captain), Rizwan Cheema, Harvir Baidwan, Nitish Kumar, Hiral Patel, Tyson Gordon,
Henry Osinde, John Davison, Ruvindu Gunasekera, Parth Desai, Karl Whatham, Khurram Chohan, Jimmy
Hansra, Zubin Surkari, Balaji Rao, Hamza Tariq

Pakistan hockey secures gold medal in Asian Games

Staff Report

KARACHI: Pakistan hockey secured the gold medal after defeating Malaysia in the final of Asian Games Thursday.

President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Sports Minister Aijaz Jakhrani, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad and Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and others have appreciated the team victory.

Pakistan has won the final event after 20 years.

The government has announced Rs 5 million for the winning team while Aijaz Jakhrani has said that all the players would be given permanent jobs. Trend Pk

AG: Aamir Atlas Khan qualifies for the final of squash event

Pakistans no. 1 squash star Aamir Atlas Khan has qualified for the final of the squash event of 16th Asian Games 2010 here at Guangzhou, China.

Aamir Atlas defeated Malaysian squash star Ong Beng Hee in the semi final by 3-1 and he looked in prime form right from the start.

Earlier in the quarter finals, Aamir Atlas beat the compatriot Farhan Mehboob by 3-1. Amir Atlas will now face another Malaysian Azlan Sikander in the final.

Pakistan is entering transformation phase: Younis

ABU DHABI: Abdul Razzaq’s stunning knock in the second one-day international against South Africa has turned the fortunes of Pakistan cricket and given them self-belief, according to Younis Khan.

Pakistan had lost three games on the trot two Twenty20 Internationals and an ODI when Razzaq’s came up with what many have described as one of the best innings played in limited overs cricket in Abu Dhabi.He scored 63 of the final 65 runs to lead Pakistan to a stunning one-wicket win and his innings changed the complete makeover of the team, giving them a new lease of life and lifting their spirits to new heights.

Razzaq returned home after the ODIs, but Pakistan’s performances continued to climb and evidence of their new-found self-belief was could be seen in the first Test, where Younis played a stellar knock, along side captain Misbah ul-Haq, on the final day to stall South

Sloppy Imran Nazir hands Australia Super Sixes title

Staff Report

HONG KONG: Australia clinched Hong Kong Super Sixes title after beating Pakistan by two wickets in the final match here on Sunday.

Pakistan was the hot favorite to win the tournament but they lost their way in the last over, giving away 44 runs.

Batting first, Pakistan scored over 130 runs. Ahmed Shahzad scored 92 runs off 28 balls to set a formidable target.

Australian started the chase well and achieved the target with one ball to spare.

Imran Nazir was called to bowl the last over. He lost his cool and gave too many extras, thus handing Australia an unlikely win in the end. Trend Pk

ICC Took Action Against Statements Of Suspended Players

International Cricket Council took action against the statements of suspended players. According to local media reporting ICC has asked players to remain cautious in making statements. Muhammad Amir and Salman Butt had made some aggressive statement against ICC. The statements were too aggressive that ICC asks players to remain cautious.

Salman Butt and Muhammad Amir said in different interviews that ICC is biased and they wanted to corner Pakistan from cricket. They also said that they are treated like this because they are Pakistani. Amir put an allegation that the decision of their appeals was pre-decided and they are not satisfied by the treatment of ICC.

Shahid Karim is lawyer of fast bowler Muhammad Amir and he prepared and presented the case for him. He said that ICC is right to take action against the aggression of players. He added that it was their natural response and no by planning. He added that player should take care of one thing that their interviews should not affect their final hearings.

He said that they have already applied for the dates of final hearing and also hopeful to get the final dates early. He said that ICC may defer the hearing of players as it is up to them to decide about the dates.

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