Butt, Asif demand outstanding dues from PCB

Staff Report

LAHORE: Suspended duo Salman Butt and pacer Mohammad Asif asked the Pakistan Cricket Board to release their outstanding match fees and bonuses since the Twenty20 World Cup earlier this year.

Butt and Asif have written to the Pakistan Cricket Board to release the money.

Butt, who along with pacers Asif and Mohammad Aamer were suspended on suspicion of spot fixing, confirmed he had written to the PCB for release of an amount of approximately Rs 8.7 million ($101,000).

“I am facing a lot of difficulties now because of not having received any of my outstanding amount from the board, this amount goes back to the Twenty20 World Cup and includes match fees, win bonuses and shares from logo sponsorships,” Butt said.

Zakir Khan, the director of PCB’s international cricket operations, confirmed receiving emails for release of

Pietersen looks set to be dropped from England T20 squad

LONDON: Kevin Pietersen is set to be dropped from England’s Twenty20 squad, according to media reports on Tuesday.

Pietersen, part of the Twenty20 World Cup-winning side earlier this year and player of that tournament, wrote briefly on his Twitter account that he was “Done for rest of summer. Man of the World Cup T20 and dropped from the T20 side too.”

The 30-year-old batsman added he had been signed by county club Surrey after leaving Hampshire.

The Twitter message was quickly deleted, with England due to announce later in the day their squads for the Twenty20 internationals against Pakistan which start on Sunday and the five one-dayers that follow.

A spokesman for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) was not immediately available. A Surrey spokesman had no comment.

If confirmed, it would be the first time Pietersen has been dropped

Thailand King Sees Influence Fade as Crisis Intensifies

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Chile judge frees Pakistani arrested at US Embassy

SANTIAGO: His defense attorney says a Pakistani man detained with suspicious chemical residues at the U.

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Qayyum Jatoi resigns after election defeat

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Defence Production Abdul Qayyum Jatoi has tendered his resignation over defeat of Samiullah Laghari in by-polls.

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Australia, England lock horns for T20 crown today

BRIDGETOWN: Australia seek a world title treble while England will be chasing a first global one-day trophy when the old enemies meet for Twenty20 World Cup final in Barbados today.

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McGlashan sets up New Zealand-Australia final

GROS ISLET: Sara McGlashan saw New Zealand into the final of the women”s World Twenty20 against arch-rivals Australia as her superb innings of 84 set up a 56-run over the West Indies here on Friday.

McGlashan”s innings was the cornerstone of the White Ferns” 180 for five, the highest total of this tournament so far.

In reply, the West Indies chased gamely but were held to 124 for eight.

Now New Zealand, last year”s losing finalists against England at Lord”s will face Australia – a side they”ve beaten six times in a row – in Sunday”s final at Barbados”s Kensington Oval.

The destiny of the match was far from certain when New Zealand were 49 for two but a strand of 93 at nearly 11 an over between McGlashan and Sophie Devine took the game away from the home side.

McGlashan, whose brother Peter has played for the New Zealand men”s team, faced just 55 balls with two superb straight sixes and six fours.

“West Indies are a strong team and they have some explosive batters, so we knew we had to put on a big score,” McGlashan told media.

Reflecting on her own innings, the 28-year-old added: “When you”ve been in the team as long as I have, you are expected to perform.”

Looking ahead to the final, McGlashan said: “We”ve got to take each game as it comes. What we”ve done in the past doesn”t matter too much but we will take a lot of confidence into the game.”

Meanwhile New Zealand captain Aimee Watkins was delighted to have another chance at World Twenty20 glory so soon after last year”s disappointment.

“We are lucky we”ve got two bites of the cherry, to have another crack at the Twenty20 World Cup,” she said.

“It”s not often you”ll have another one within 12 months of the last one.

“The girls have worked really, really hard, so to win on Sunday would be massive for us. Arch-rivals Australia: it”s going to be a good game.”

Suicide car bomb kills 10 in north Iraq

BAGHDAD: A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb on Friday outside a sports stadium in a predominantly Shiite town in northern Iraq, killing at least 10 people and wounding another 120, police and hospital officials said.

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Clijsters, Davydenko pull out of French Open

PARIS: The French Tennis Federation says Kim Clijsters has pulled out of the French Open because of a foot injury that has failed to heal, and Nikolay Davydenko has been ruled out by a wrist injury.

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Pakistan set Australia huge victory target of 192

ST LUCIA: The Akmal brothers, Kamran and Umar, struck half-centuries as Pakistan amassed a huge 191 for six in the Twenty20 World Cup semi-final against Australia on Friday.

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