Cricket

[Gin ka Pakistan]

Shahid Khan Afridi should be made Permanent captain for one days and 20 twenty cricket and Younis Khan for test cricket.

 

[Super Falcon]

younis khan still should be captain i think what we have probleum we judge players on single macth

 

[Al-zakir]

Rahim, Mahmud pace Bangladesh to 4-1 cricket series victory over Zimbabwe

By Enock Muchinjo (CP) – 2 days ago

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe — Mushfiqur Rahim scored 98 and paceman Dolar Mahmud took five wickets Tuesday to guide Bangladesh to a six-wicket victory over Zimbabwe and clinch the cricket series 4-1.

Rahim started cautiously before opening up, smashing 11 boundaries in 121 balls as Bangladesh romped home with 13 balls to spare at the Queen Sports Club.

The wicketkeeper-batsman was out in the 45th over, leaving his crease to hit through the covers but ending up being stumped by Charles Coventry, who had replaced Brendan Taylor.

Chasing a small total in good batting conditions, Rahim and Tamim Iqbal put on 48 for the first wicket before Iqbal on 4 missed to be clean-bowled by veteran spinner Ray Price.

Bangladesh added just five runs before spectacular one-handed catch by Vusi Sibanda at point removed Mohammad Ashraful for 4 off Elton Chigumbura.

Raqibul Hassan added 24 before Chigumbura induced a wild swing for Malcolm Waller to take the running catch at mid off.

Rahim and captain Shakib Al Hasan put Bangladesh firmly on top with a 70-run partnership. Al Hasan played a supporting role to score 30 before giving Hamilton Masakadza an easy catch on the boundary off legspinner Graeme Cremer.

Earlier, Bangladesh had been put on course by Mahmud's career-best 4-2. The right-arm seam bowler, playing his first match of the tour, utilized the swinging conditions well.

Taylor top-scored for Zimbabwe with 61 in 86 balls, hitting three boundaries and a six.

Zimbabwe lost its first wicket when out-of-form Vusi Sibanda exposed his wicket and lost his leg stump to Mahmud. Charles Coventry, who hit an unbeaten 194 on Sunday to tie the highest one-day international score in history, was out for a duck after getting a thick edge from Mahmud to be caught by wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim.

Hamilton Masakadza, another Zimbabwean centurion in this series, made 25 before being run out by Ashraful following a mix-up with Waller, who himself didn't stay for long before Mahmud bowled him.

Syed Rasel then trapped Sean Williams in front for 12 before Chigumbura went for 12 the same way to Rasel to leave the score on 65-5.

Captain Prosper Utseya, under-fire to step down following criticism over his leadership qualities, added 54 with Ray Price for the seventh wicket off 86 balls before being bowled on 21 by Mahmudullah.

Price hit four boundaries over long on to reach 46 off 59 balls. He and Taylor put on 53 for an eight-wicket stand before Taylor was given lbw to a delivery from Mehraib Hossain that appeared to be missing off stump.

Price was out lbw to Rasel, then Graeme Cremer charged down the track to be stumped by Rahim off Naeem Islam for 10.

The Canadian Press: Rahim, Mahmud pace Bangladesh to 4-1 cricket series victory over Zimbabwe

 

[DaRk WaVe]

Rahim, Mahmud pace Bangladesh to 4-1 cricket series victory over Zimbabwe

By Enock Muchinjo (CP) – 2 days ago

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe — Mushfiqur Rahim scored 98 and paceman Dolar Mahmud took five wickets Tuesday to guide Bangladesh to a six-wicket victory over Zimbabwe and clinch the cricket series 4-1.

Rahim started cautiously before opening up, smashing 11 boundaries in 121 balls as Bangladesh romped home with 13 balls to spare at the Queen Sports Club.

The wicketkeeper-batsman was out in the 45th over, leaving his crease to hit through the covers but ending up being stumped by Charles Coventry, who had replaced Brendan Taylor.

Chasing a small total in good batting conditions, Rahim and Tamim Iqbal put on 48 for the first wicket before Iqbal on 4 missed to be clean-bowled by veteran spinner Ray Price.

Bangladesh added just five runs before spectacular one-handed catch by Vusi Sibanda at point removed Mohammad Ashraful for 4 off Elton Chigumbura.

Raqibul Hassan added 24 before Chigumbura induced a wild swing for Malcolm Waller to take the running catch at mid off.

Rahim and captain Shakib Al Hasan put Bangladesh firmly on top with a 70-run partnership. Al Hasan played a supporting role to score 30 before giving Hamilton Masakadza an easy catch on the boundary off legspinner Graeme Cremer.

Earlier, Bangladesh had been put on course by Mahmud's career-best 4-2. The right-arm seam bowler, playing his first match of the tour, utilized the swinging conditions well.

Taylor top-scored for Zimbabwe with 61 in 86 balls, hitting three boundaries and a six.

Zimbabwe lost its first wicket when out-of-form Vusi Sibanda exposed his wicket and lost his leg stump to Mahmud. Charles Coventry, who hit an unbeaten 194 on Sunday to tie the highest one-day international score in history, was out for a duck after getting a thick edge from Mahmud to be caught by wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim.

Hamilton Masakadza, another Zimbabwean centurion in this series, made 25 before being run out by Ashraful following a mix-up with Waller, who himself didn't stay for long before Mahmud bowled him.

Syed Rasel then trapped Sean Williams in front for 12 before Chigumbura went for 12 the same way to Rasel to leave the score on 65-5.

Captain Prosper Utseya, under-fire to step down following criticism over his leadership qualities, added 54 with Ray Price for the seventh wicket off 86 balls before being bowled on 21 by Mahmudullah.

Price hit four boundaries over long on to reach 46 off 59 balls. He and Taylor put on 53 for an eight-wicket stand before Taylor was given lbw to a delivery from Mehraib Hossain that appeared to be missing off stump.

Price was out lbw to Rasel, then Graeme Cremer charged down the track to be stumped by Rahim off Naeem Islam for 10.

The Canadian Press: Rahim, Mahmud pace Bangladesh to 4-1 cricket series victory over Zimbabwe

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[Al-zakir]

Bengali flag

That would be bangladeshi flag sis.......

 

[U-571]

tommorrow is the day of pakistani CT selection, lets hope committee does well

my 15 squad

nazir/ nasir
fawad
sarfaraz ahmed
kamran akmal
malik
yunus
umer akmal
shahid afridi
aamir
razzaq
saaed ajmal
asif
rana
umer gul
muhammad yusuf

 

[Super Falcon]

i hearfe that PCB might not go for yousuf which will be bigmistake

 

[Moin91]

Aaqib Javed dumped as Pakistan's assistant coach
Saturday, August 22, 2009
By our correspondent

KARACHI: Under pressure after a disastrous tour of Sri Lanka, the Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday carried out a few minor changes in the national team management for the ICC Champions Trophy.

Critics have been calling for the sacking of Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam and manager Yawar Saeed following the Test and one-day series defeat in Sri Lanka this summer but the PCB decided to retain the duo for the elite eight-nation tournament that gets underway from September 22 at Centurion.

However, assistant coach Aaqib Javed was not that lucky as he suffered the axe along with assistant manager Mohammad Ahmed.

A former Pakistan Test pacer, Aaqib has been replacement in the team management by Mohtashim Rasheed, a former first-class cricketer from Karachi who has served as a fielding coach of the national team in the past.

Mohtashim, 40, is a younger brother of Haroon Rasheed, a former Pakistan Test batsman, currently serving as PCB's Director Game Development.

Aaqib, 37, took 54 wickets from 22 Tests but was a more prolific bowlers in one-dayers in which he collected 182 wickets from 163 appearances.

Ijaz Butt, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, tried to make it clear that Aaqib was not sacked but has been picked for some other assignment.

"May be we have something more important for him," Butt told reporters in Lahore.

Butt was also asked about the future of Yawar Saeed, the national team's 74-year-old manager, who was criticised bitterly by the media over his handling of reports of bookies contacting the Pakistani players in Sri Lanka.

Butt, however, declared that he will not take decisions just to please the media. "We cannot fire our people just because the media wants us to," said Butt, a former Pakistan Test cricketer.

The PCB chief said that Yawar had himself asked to be relieved from the post of team manager before the tour of Sri Lanka. He said that it has been decided to appoint the experienced Shafqat Rana as the team's assistant coach for the tour of South Africa.

"We want to see whether he (Shafqat) will be a good choice to be the team's manager in the future," said Butt.

Aaqib Javed dumped as Pakistan's assistant coach

 

[Moin91]

Asif recalled, Razzaq axed
Shahid Afridi named as new Pakistan vice-captain ahead of Champions Trophy

Saturday, August 22, 2009
By Khalid Hussain

KARACHI: Mohammad Asif may still have a month to go before his one-year doping bans ends on September 22 but the fast bowler still made the cut for Pakistan's 15-man squad for the ICC Champions Trophy on Friday.

Asif, 26, comes in the touring party at the expense of senior all-rounder Abdul Razzaq and will be spearheading Pakistan's pace battery in the eight-nation tournament that will swing into action at Centurion from September 22.

The lanky pacer last played for Pakistan in Karachi on April 19, 2008 when he picked up 3-35 against Bangladesh but has since been out of international action after testing positive banned anabolic steroid nandrolone while featuring in the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) last summer.

"Asif is fully fit and has been selected in what is the best Pakistan team," said chief selector Iqbal Qasim, a former Pakistan Test leg-spinner.

Asif has been training for the last several weeks and recently passed a strenuous fitness test held under the supervision of Rashid Latif, a former Pakistan captain.

However, he could be rusty after a long absence from competitive cricket and might find it tough to make a successful comeback as he cannot attend a Pakistan team training camp that will kick off in Lahore from September 1 because he is still serving the one-year ban.

"In accordance with directives from the ICC, Mohammad Asif cannot take part in the training camp for national team for Champions Trophy until the complete expiry of his ban," a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) spokesman said on Friday.

Qasim, meanwhile, said that Pakistan had no option but to look towards their experienced players for a tough event like the Champions Trophy.

"The Champions Trophy has the world's best eight teams," said Qasim, who took over as the chief selector early this month. "We will need all the experience we have to do well in it as there are top teams like Australia and India in our group."

Pakistan made an embarrassing first round exit from the previous edition of the Champions Trophy in India after suffering defeats at the hands of New Zealand and South Africa.

For this year's tournament, Pakistan have selected five fast bowlers and Qasim said that the decision has been taken considering the pace-friendly conditions in South Africa.

"The wickets in South Africa are generally bouncy. There is also movement and swing so we believe the team will need pacers there."

Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar Anjam, Rana Naved and Mohammad Aamer are the other pacers in the side.

Qasim said that Pakistan decided against inducting many youngsters in the team as there was no need for experimentation. "You shouldn't expose your youngsters in an event like the Champions Trophy," he said.

Qasim defended the decision to drop the seasoned Razzaq, saying that the selectors instead voted in favour of Rana Naved. "There was a tie between Razzaq and Rana," he said. "Rana has been doing well as a bowler and has the support of the team management."

Razzaq, a former Indian Cricket League (ICL) rebel who made a successful international return at June's World Twenty20 in England, struggled with his fitness during the tour of Sri Lanka.

Pakistan also decided to promote their in-form all-rounder Shahid Afridi to the post of vice-captain after he made a successful debut as the country's Twenty20 skipper in Sri Lanka earlier this month.

Afridi, 29, takes over from middle-order batsman Misbah-ul-Haq, who had to pay for his below-par showing in Sri Lanka where Pakistan lost both in the Test and one-day series for the first time.

Misbah, however, was lucky to retain his place in the Pakistan squad as the national selectors showed faith in experience rather than youth for the Champions Trophy.

The experienced Mohammad Yousuf also got the selectors' nod in spite of an indifferent form in the one-day series against Sri Lanka.

As expected, youngster Umar Akmal found a place in the squad after a series of impressive knocks in the limited-over games in Sri Lanka.

The selector have decided against keeping two specialist openers which means that wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal is expected to open the batting with big-hitter Imran Nazir.

The 15 team members will assemble at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on September 1 for a ten-day camp that will be held under floodlights because of the fasting month of Ramadan.

Pakistan are penciled in to play their Champions Trophy opener against West Indies on September 23 followed by their other Group A games against old-rivals India (September 26) and Australia (September 30).

Pakistan squad: Younis Khan (captain), Imran Nazir, Kamran Akmal (wicketkeeper), Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Fawad Alam, Shahid Afridi (vice-captain), Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Umar Gul, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer, Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Saeed Ajmal.

Reserves: Sarfraz Ahmed, Wahab Riaz, Muhammad Talha, Shaharyar Ghani, Khalid Latif.

Officials: Intikhab Alam (coach), Yawar Saeed (manager), Shafqat Rana (associate manager), Mohtashim Rasheed (fielding coach), David Dwyer (trainer).


Asif recalled, Razzaq axed

 

[EagleEyes]

PCB chief’s arbitrary decisions rub Younus the wrong way

LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman appears to be on a collision course with national team captain Younus Khan and the Governing Board (GB) members after he bypassed them in taking some key decisions arbitrarily.

Well-informed sources told Dawn that Younus had suggested to the chairman not to appoint any deputy for him as there appeared no genuine need for it.

However, the chairman disagreed with the skipper on the point and went ahead with the nomination of Shahid Afridi as the new vice-captain in place of Misbah-ul-Haq for the forthcoming ICC Champions Trophy, to be held in South Africa from Sept 22.

It may be mentioned here that the PCB, in nearly all of its press releases since the appointment of Younus as captain, had not been mentioning Misbah as his deputy.

Prior to that, however, Misbah was regularly mentioned as the vice-captain under then skipper Shoaib Malik.

Moreover, the second proposal of Younus to appoint former captain Rashid Latif as first choice coach of the senior cricket team was not accepted for various reasons.

But the chairman did accept the captain’s second choice Mohtashim Rasheed as the fielding coach.

Sources further said that the current team management comprising coach Intikhab Alam and manager Yawar Saeed is closer to Afridi than Younus and that could create some communication problems during the forthcoming Champions Trophy.

As far as the possible confrontation with the Governing Board is concerned, sources said that its members had suggested to the chairman to appoint Mian Munir Ahmad as the manager of the team for the ICC Champions Trophy in its last meeting held in Karachi.

The recommendation was made when the chairman informed that Yawar was reluctant to continue as manager. However, the PCB chairman himself requested Yawar to continue till the Champions Trophy with ex-Test cricketer and selector Shafqat Rana named as the associate manager.

A number of Rana brothers are already holding various posts in the cricket board. While Sultan Rana is currently serving as director domestic cricket, his younger brother Azmat Rana is the NCA talent hunt official while nephew Mansoor Rana is the official coach of the Pakistan women’s cricket team.

The other family enjoying a similar status is that of Haroon Rasheed, whose two brothers — Omar and Mohtashim — are currently attached with the PCB.

A Governing Board member on the condition of anonymity told Dawn that reputable organisations throughout the world avoided the practice of hiring two or more members of a family, especially brothers, but ironically it is the other way round in the PCB and he would soon be requesting the Human Resource committee to prepare a clear policy in this regard.

DAWN.COM | Cricket | PCB chief?s arbitrary decisions rub Younus the wrong way

 

[Super Falcon]

why they pick fawad he cant hit the bowl well he will not place bowl in the gaps i think razzak should be picked for fawad alam

 

[Mig-29]

Bangladesh no longer whipping boys: Siddons


DHAKA: Cricketing minnows Bangladesh have taken a major step forward with recent wins over Zimbabwe and the West Indies, the team’s coach said on Wednesday, adding they should no longer be taken lightly.

Australian-born Jamie Siddons said Bangladesh’s 4-1 One Day International series victory over Zimbabwe and a historic Test and one-day series clean-sweep in the Caribbean showed the team was on track ‘for big things in the future’.

‘We all know that we have a long way to go to be classed as a real threat to the top four teams but they will no longer take us lightly,’ Siddons said.

‘I hope that all of those who saw fit to criticise this team of young cricketers can now admit that there is definite signs of us improving.’

Questions have been raised about Bangladesh’s Test status since it joined the circuit in 2000 because of the weakness of the side.

In June this year, the team failed to get past the first round at the World Twenty20 Championships after losing a crucial match against Ireland – prompting Siddons to brand the batting ‘ridiculous’.

In September last year, more than a dozen players quit the national team to play for the rebel Twenty20 Indian Cricket League but Siddons said recent success showed the side had moved on.

‘I believe that the players, though still very young and on the whole very inexperienced, have just shown the wisdom and improvement that comes with time,’ he said.

‘This group is gaining more and more confidence at this level and will continue to improve as time goes on.’

He praised Shakib Al Hasan, who led the team to victory after captain Mashrafe Mortaza hurt his right knee while bowling in the first Test match against the West Indies at Kingstown, St Vincent, last month.

The 25-year-old fast bowler Mortaza missed the rest of the tour – during which the West Indies fielded a weakened side due to a wage strike – and has recently had knee surgery in Australia.

‘Shakib’s captaincy was successful although at times his youth was tested and his patience with others of lesser ability in his team tested,’ Siddons said.

‘He led magnificently with his own performance throughout the tour, and I think won three or four man of the match awards and man of the series as well.’

Siddons said Bangladesh would return to Zimbabwe in October and would play Sri Lanka, India and England at home in the New Year. A tour to New Zealand in early 2010 had also been scheduled. —AFP

DAWN.COM | Cricket | Bangladesh no longer whipping boys: Siddons

 

[Gin ka Pakistan]

[Prior to that, however, Misbah was regularly mentioned as the vice-captain under then skipper Shoaib Malik.

Shoaib or Misbah both have no leadership qualities like Shahid Afridi when it comes to 20 Twenty or one day cricket and Shahid is much senior to them in that game.
Younus Khan has one or two more years in him form One day cricket so
Shahid Afridi should be captain for 20 twenty and vice captain for one days.

 

[abiab]

Hasan Raza decides to leave ICL

KARACHI: Test cricketer Hasan Raza said that the Indian Cricket League so far did not pay him his dues of Rs1.5 million and he is reneging the contract with the controversial League for his better career.

Talking with Geo News in Karachi, Hasan Raza said that the future of the ICL is uncertain and the cricketers from Pakistan, Australia and others have not so far been paid their dues.

Hasan Raza said that he has finally decided to resign from the ICL after which he would submit NOC to the Pakistan Cricket Board.

He said that he has still enough cricket in him and expects that the Pakistani selectors would once again give him an opportunity of representing Pakistan national team.


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[manzar]

A shameful defeat, they've showed us the mirror, inzi's reply after the defeat.

Why Pakistan always loose its plot straight away before world cup.

Dude there is only going to be a competition between 2 teams Australia and South africa, India and Newzealand can give tough times. I easily exclude Pakistan, Srilanka, England and Westindies out of WC campain. Dont need to talk about other remaining teams.

man!australia's on a contineous decline..in the recent T20.AUSTRALIA ddnt make it to the super 8s...!!!and pakistan emerged victorious..its all about professional teamwork!