Umar Akmal ... U Da Man

Pakistan 1st innings		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	Khurram Manzoor	b Martin	6	15	1	0	40.00
	3.6 big inside edge, bowls it outside off and Manzoor shapes to slap it square of the wicket on the off side, doesn't get his bat beside the line properly and he ends up chopping it onto the off stump 11/1
	Imran Farhat	lbw b Martin	22	48	3	0	45.83
	16.3 we have a review here, Martin bowls from round the wicket, lands it on a good length outside the off stump and gets it to angle towards middle and leg, Farhat shuffles, plays down the wrong line and the ball hits him below the knee roll in front of the leg stump, you could see his leg stump at the point of contact and that convinced Doctrove, Farhat calls for the review but Virtual Eye also says that would have hit the stumps 43/2
	Fawad Alam	c †McCullum b Bond	29	66	4	0	43.93
	30.1 Bond's breathing fire here, he hits the deck hard from over the wicket, lands it short of a length on middle and Fawad barely had time to react and fend it off, he fails to drop his gloves down and the ball shaves his glove before landing safely in McCullum's hands 79/4
	Mohammad Yousuf*	c & b Bond	17	48	3	0	35.41
	28.5 terrific reflexes on the follow through! Bond fires this one full and induces the drive, Yousuf awkwardly pushes it through the line and ends up spooning it low back to Bond who dives forward and cups it just inches off the pitch 74/3
	Umar Akmal	c Fulton b Bond	129	160	21	2	80.62
	84.1 he finds Two-meter Peter in the deep! He bends his knee and chases a pitched up delivery outside off, the ball flies off the top half of the bat and lands down Fulton's throat at deep backward point 293/7
	Shoaib Malik	b Bond	2	7	0	0	28.57
	32.2 Bond's in the middle of a dream spell, he cramps him for room outside off and Malik still goes for the cut, there's a thick inside edge which clips the leg stump, this is great pace bowling folks 85/5
	Kamran Akmal†	c Taylor b Vettori	82	136	11	1	60.29
	75.1 he chips down the track to take him downtown but he fails to get to the pitch of the ball and ends up getting a thick outside edge to first slip, that ends a superb partnership between these two 261/6
	Mohammad Aamer	not out	12	48	1	0	25.00
	Umar Gul	lbw b Vettori	6	11	1	0	54.54
	87.4 Gul asks for a review, Vettori tosses it up on middle and off and the ball straightens and clips his front pad, Taufel raises the finger, replays don't reveal any inside edge and Virtual Eye says the ball would have just missed the stumps, it appeared at first that the ball was hitting the stumps so fair call from the umpires 302/8
	Mohammad Asif	not out	0	3	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(nb 2)	2
	Total	(8 wickets; 90 overs)	307	(3.41 runs per over)

Happy Birthday Captain !!!

1952
Few would dispute that Imran Khan, who was born today, was the finest cricketer Pakistan has produced, or the biggest heartthrob. Thousands, if not millions, who had never dreamt of bowling fast on heartless baked mud suddenly wanted to emulate Imran and his lithe bounding run, his leap and his reverse-swinging yorker. His averages (37.69 with the bat, 22.81 with the ball) put him at the top of the quartet of allrounders (Ian Botham, Richard Hadlee and Kapil Dev being the others) who dominated Test cricket in the 1980s: in his last 10 years of international cricket he played 51 Tests, averaging a sensational 50 with the bat and 19 with the ball. His one-day exploits also drew envy, over 3700 runs at 33.41 and 182 wickets at 22.61. He captained Pakistan as well as anyone, rounding off his career with the 1992 World Cup. He played hardly any domestic cricket in Pakistan: instead he just flew in for home series from Worcestershire or Sussex, or rather from the more fashionable London salons. After retirement, he embarked on a career in politics.

Welcome JF-17 Thunder

long live Pakistan - China friendship !!!

List of Shame ...

ISLAMABAD: A total of 7,793 people in Sindh benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), Minister of State for Law and Justice Afzal Sindhu said.

Thirty-four prominent politicians benefited from the NRO, Sindhu said.

Some of the names include: Altaf Hussain, Asif Ali Zardari, Rehman Malik, Hussain Haqqani, Babar Ghauri, Dr Farooq Sattar, Saleem Shahzad, Nusrat Bhutto, Nawaz Khokar, Anwar Saifullah, Jahangir Badar, Mian Mohammad Rasheed, Tariq Rasheed, Ahmed Mukhtar, Tariq Mahmood, Sardar Maqsood Laghari, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, Ghaniur Rehman, Mir Baz Khan Khaitran, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, A. R. Siddiqui , Javed Ahmed Qureshi and Saeed Mehdi.

The list of beneficiaries presented Saturday showed 72 cases against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain.

Earlier on Saturday, Afzal Sindhu formally presented the list of NRO beneficiaries to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and the PM directed the minister to present the list to reporters.

PM directed the minister to present the list to the media in order to remove ambiguity and speculation. — DawnNews/APP

Happy Birthday - Waqar Younus

The king of swing - The man who took reverse swing to a new level

1971
Birth of the Burewala Bombshell. There have been few more scintillating sights in cricket history than Waqar Younis in his pomp. With batsmen hopping and stumps flying, he and Wasim Akram took reverse swing to a new level in the early 1990s with their toe-crushing yorkers. He was at his best in the early 1990s - after bursting onto the scene against New Zealand in 1990-91, Waqar took 109 wickets over a three-year period at an average of 18.07, at the incredible strike rate of 33.55 balls per wicket. He later became captain of Pakistan, and took 7 for 36 - the second-best figures in ODI history - against England at Headingley in 2001. He was also a huge success in county cricket, first for Surrey and then Glamorgan, for whom he took a career-best 8 for 17 against Sussex at Swansea in 1997. He retired in 2004 and is now a television commentator.

T20 ... it was made for us ... piece of cake !!!

WORLD CHAMPS ... continue to dominate ...

Team	Opposition	Span	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	NR	%

Pakistan	v Australia	2007-2009	2	2	0	0	0	100.00
	v Bangladesh	2007-2008	3	3	0	0	0	100.00
	v Canada	2008-2008	1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	v England	2006-2009	2	1	1	0	0	50.00
	v India	2007-2007	2	0	1	1	0	25.00
	v Ireland	2009-2009	1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	v Kenya	2007-2007	1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	v Netherlands	2009-2009	1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	v New Zealand	2007-2009	4	4	0	0	0	100.00
	v Scotland	2007-2007	1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	v South Africa	2007-2009	2	1	1	0	0	50.00
	v Sri Lanka	2007-2009	6	4	2	0	0	66.66
	v Zimbabwe	2008-2008	1	1	0	0	0	100.00

M Aamer ... future Wasim Akram ... it is true !!!

Proved today that this guy is no muck with the bat too... when the in fighting of the team had left us in a pit, it was the young man who was characterized by many to be the future Wasim Akram due to left arm bowling ... he proved that he can bat under pressure and against the best of them, although Pakistan lost, we still got a big big positive ... M Aamir ... the future of Pakistan cricket.

WORLD RECORED ... TOP SCORE BATTING FROM NO. 10

Innings by innings list

Player	Runs	Mins	BF	4s	6s	SR	Inns		Opposition	Ground	Start Date
Mohammad Aamer (Pak)	73*	-	81	7	3	90.12	2		v New Zealand	Abu Dhabi	9 Nov 2009
DA Marillier (Zim)	56*	30	24	10	1	233.33	2		v India	Faridabad	7 Mar 2002
IK Pathan (India)	50	92	61	3	1	81.96	2		v New Zealand	Bulawayo	26 Aug 2005
DBL Powell (WI)	48*	46	36	2	3	133.33	2		v South Africa	St George's	10 Apr 2007
Abdul Razzaq (Pak)	46*	64	49	6	0	93.87	2		v South Africa	Durban	3 Apr 1998