PCB mulls legal action against British tabloid

Staff Report

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board is mulling over a plan to initiate legal action against British tabloid The Sun for leveling baseless allegations against Pakistani cricketers in a new report.

The tabloid had claimed the bookies were aware of a certain scoring pattern of the Oval match between Pakistan and England on September 17.

After holding an investigation into the claims, the ICC concluded that the match was ‘no compelling evidence of any wrongdoing’ in the match.

Pakistan had won the Oval contest 22 runs.

Pakistan ODI skipper Shahid Afridi termed the allegations are “rubbish” while PCB chairman Ijaz Butt said the England cricketers had thrown the match, after claiming it was “a conspiracy to defraud Pakistan cricket”.

According to sources, the PCB is in consultation with its British lawyer Elizabeth Robertson

Former Essex player charged with fraud

LONDON: Former Essex county cricketer Mervyn Westfield has been charged with fraud over allegations that he deliberately bowled badly in a domestic match last year, British prosecutors said on Thursday.

“I have advised that Mervyn Westfield should be charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud for intentionally playing other than to the best of his ability, contrary to his contractual obligations,” Crown Prosecution Service lawyer Antony Swift said in a statement.

“It is alleged that he dishonestly agreed to bowl his first over to allow the scoring of a certain number of runs at a match between Durham and Essex on 5 September 2009,” he added.

Cricket is facing a crisis over allegations of spot-fixing of incidents in the international game.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) this month suspended Pakistan’s Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and

Pakistan make good start in Youth Olympics

Pakistan won first match against Ghana by 6-3 on Tuesday in Boys Hockey Event of Youth Olympics.
The first hockey match between Pakistan and Ghana started at 1:00pm. Forward Arsalan Qadir scored hat-trick. National Junior Team is representing Asia in Hockey at the event. Teams of Australia, Belgium and Chile are also participating in the tournament.

Defending champs Italy to take on Kiwis today

JOHANNESBURG: Three matches will be played in Fifa World Cup 2010 today.

Portugal will take on Slovakia while defending champions Italy will face New Zealand from group F matches.

Another match between Brazil and Ivory Cost teams will be played from group G.

Malaysia deports 10 foreign terror suspects

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has arrested and deported 10 foreigners suspected of trying to recruit university students to revive a regional terrorist network, police said Tuesday.

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Asian stocks post tepid gains amid Europe anxiety

TOKYO: Asian shares rose Tuesday but gains were tepid after Wall Street succumbed to anxiety about Europe’s economy.

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Asia Cup begins today with Pakistan, Sri Lanka match

DAMBULLA: The 10th Asia Cup will open with a match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka here today.

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WWE Extreme Rules 2010 Live Stream

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See WWE Extreme Rules 2010 Live Stream Online. It’s been a month now since the last WWE Pay-per-view event, and this April 25, 2010, we offer a new set of entertainment in Extreme Rules.

There are many great fight card at this WWE Extreme Rules as street battles Triple H and Sheamus, Hair Match between CM Punk and Rey Mysterio and Extreme Rules match between Randy Orton and Jack Swagger. Of course, the last man standing match John Cena and Dave Batista.

New Zealand Clean Sweeps Against Bangladesh

New Zealand won by 3 wickets (with 31 balls remaining).
Guptill, 91
Vettori, 34
New Zealand beat Bangladesh winning the third ODI today in Christchurch.
After winning the toss, New Zealand invited the host team to bat first. Bangladesh has set a target of 242 for the Kiwis. Imrul Kayes made a gutsy century while Shakib Al Hasan gave his best performance of the tour with 36 runs and Muhammad Ashraful 31 scores, but it was still not enough to prevent New Zealand from sweeping the series.

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TJ Southee and DL Vettori each took 3 wickets. Chasing the target, Kiwis made 244 at a loss of 7 wickets in just 45th overs. Martin Guptill played a remarkable innings of 91. The only Test match between the two countries would be held in Hamilton on February 15.

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New Zealand Clean Sweeps Against Bangladesh was first posted on February 11, 2010 at 5:19 pm.

T20 match against Australia on Friday

Australia vs Pakistan T20 match against Australia Live Streaming on Friday :- Pakistan will enter into the one off T20 match against Australia on Friday under stand-in captain Shoaib Malik after its regular captain Shahid Afridi was banned for two match for his ball-tempering in the last ODI of the five-match series.

This would be the only chance for Pakistan to have some consolation after their humiliation at the hands of the Aussies. It would also be providing Shoaib Malik an opportunity to come among the runs and strike claim to regain captaincy of the team which he lost to Younus Khan last year.

However, it would all depend how the team would fare under him after a bundle of on and off the field controversies with Afridi’s ball biting saga of the late.
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It would be a real test for struggling Malik, who has his place in doubt to show some extra effort in the night match at the MCG on Friday. The national side is the T20 champion and would be favourite to win the match while the Australia are yet to come up to terms of this version of the game. However, the Pakistan team has this type of game a regular feature in its domestic cricket.

Apart from this, Malik has won his Sialkot Stallions the National T20 Championship title twice and for the national team the return of Imran Nazir, who is also considered the games specialist would bolster the line up.

With Umer Akmal and his elder Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Aamer, Mohammad Asif in the line-up the chances are the team would come up to the expectations.
On the other side, the injury worries to the home side might provide fast bowlers Shaun Tait and Dirk Nannes an opportunity to settle in the team. Who would get the chance of Friday in the Australian side would be seen on the day but Mitchell Johnson and their sensation Ryan Harris make their side a fighting unit that would entertain the Melbourne Cricket Ground attendants a rightful time to entertain.

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T20 match against Australia on Friday was first posted on February 4, 2010 at 2:17 pm.

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