Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pakistan. Show all posts

Monday, January 25, 2010

Pakistan qualify for finals of the Under 19 Cricket World Cup




LINCOLN: Pak U-19 Qualify For Cricket WC U-19 Final, Pakistan youth team beat West Indies by four wickets in the first semifinal of the Under-19 World Cup on Monday. Pakistan under-19 team completed the chase with loss of six wickets at Bert Stucliffe Oval in Lincoln. Pakistan won the toss and elected to field in the first semifinal of the youth world cup. KC Brathwaite scored 85 and SD Bowrich 55 for West Indies to set a competitive target of 212 runs. Hammad Azam 92 remains unbeaten and he does it again for Pakistan. He came in under pressure and played sensibly to get Pakistan over the line. Rameez Aziz 39, Mohammed Waqas 29 and Ahsan Ali 28 added useful contributions in Pakistan total to reach the victory target.


Sunday, December 20, 2009

Happy Birthday ... original Little Master


1934
The Little Master was born. Hanif Mohammad firmly believed in occupation of the crease. He spent over 16 hours compiling his famous 337 in Bridgetown in 1957-58 to save a Test in which Pakistan had followed on 473 behind - and his innings of 499 for Karachi v Bahawalpur in Karachi in 1958-59, the first-class record until Brian Lara's 501 in 1994, would have been even higher if he hadn't been run out going for the 500th. According to the Wisden Almanack, "the scoreboard scarcely moved" during the last of Hanif's 12 Test hundreds, at Lord's in 1967 - but he frustrated the England bowlers to the tune of 187 not out. He played Test cricket alongside his brothers Wazir, Mushtaq and Sadiq (his last Test was Sadiq's first).

he was inducted in the Cricket Hall of Fame, the other 2 Pakistanis being Imran Khan & Javed Mianded.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

looking good ... All the best !!!

Pakistanis 1st innings R M B 4s 6s SR

Imran Farhat c †Paine b Macdonald 32 143 100 2 0 32.00

Salman Butt c †Paine b Geeves 153 376 266 23 0 57.51

Faisal Iqbal c Bailey b Drew 17 45 27 2 1 62.96

Misbah-ul-Haq c Bailey b Macdonald 43 131 90 0 2 47.77

Umar Akmal c Wells b Drew 27 128 84 2 1 32.14

Fawad Alam lbw b Krejza 33 117 79 3 1 41.77

Kamran Akmal*† c Cowan b Krejza 109 113 81 17 3 134.56

Mohammad Aamer b Maher 0 12 7 0 0 0.00

Umar Gul lbw b Maher 5 21 21 1 0 23.80

Abdur Rauf c Drew b Krejza 0 17 10 0 0 0.00

Saeed Ajmal not out 0 21 7 0 0 0.00

Extras (b 2, lb 8, w 2, nb 6) 18











Total (all out; 127.4 overs) 437 (3.42 runs per over)
Fall of wickets1-69 (Imran Farhat, 33.2 ov), 2-103 (Faisal Iqbal, 42.5 ov), 3-216 (Misbah-ul-Haq, 73.2 ov), 4-267 (Salman Butt, 86.2 ov), 5-314 (Umar Akmal, 102.3 ov), 6-350 (Fawad Alam, 111.4 ov), 7-365 (Mohammad Aamer, 114.1 ov), 8-374 (Umar Gul, 118.6 ov), 9-399 (Abdur Rauf, 123.5 ov), 10-437 (Kamran Akmal, 127.4 ov)

Friday, December 18, 2009

Well Done NAB !!!


ISLAMABAD: A NAB court has issued arrest warrants against Interior Minister Rehman Malik, DawnNews reported.

These warrants are likely in connection with two previous references against Malik.

One of the references was for alleged misuse of authority and the other for the alleged receipt of two cars from Toyota Motors as illegal gratification to expedite the purchase of official vehicles.

A NAB prosecutor told DawnNews that all these cases against Malik and others have been revived following the Supreme Court’s verdict. The move came after the verdict against the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) sent shockwaves through the present set up, with many prominent ministers placed on the Exit Control List. — DawnNews

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Pakistan kicks some indian @#$ again ... Hockey to be precise


Pakistan crushed archrivals India 6-3 to enter the final of the Champions Challenge hockey tournament in Salta, Argentina, on Saturday.

They will meet New Zealand , who beat Argentina 3-2 in the other semi-final, played earlier.

In a thrilling encounter, marred by frayed tempers, it was Pakistan who forged ahead when Rehan Butt beat India goalkeeper Adrian D'Souza with a deft touch in the second minute.

Two minutes later, Prabhjot Singh and Muhammad Irfan were sent off after a midfield skirmish.

India forced a penalty-corner in the eighth minute and Dhananjay Mahadik found the mark to restore parity.

The goal spurred the Indian attack and Pakistan goalkeeper Akbar India was under pressure but defended well.

Goalkeper D'Souza too brought off a brilliant save at the other end soon after off Butt, but was left helpless in the 29th minute by the dashing forward who scored with a crisp shot from the top of the circle to regain the lead for Pakistan.

Suddenly the pressure was on India and Pakistan added another goal, this time through their comeback penalty-corner ace Sohail Abbas, three minutes from the breather.

Down 1-3, India, with a mountain to climb in the second period, went on all-out attack and could have pulled a goal back soon after the restart but Rajpal Singh had the mortification of seeing his deflection going just past the far post.

But the Indians' adventurism upfront left yawning gaps in defence, which the Pakistanis did well to exploit and make it 4-1 in the 58th minute when Haseem Khan found the mark with a neat piece of opportunism

The last ten minutes provided high action from end-to-end, resulting in four goals in eight minutes.

Next the final against new zealand...

Friday, December 4, 2009

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Umar Akmal ... U Da Man


Pakistan 1st innings R B 4s 6s SR
View dismissal Khurram Manzoor b Martin 6 15 1 0 40.00
View dismissal Imran Farhat lbw b Martin 22 48 3 0 45.83
View dismissal Fawad Alam c †McCullum b Bond 29 66 4 0 43.93
View dismissal Mohammad Yousuf* c & b Bond 17 48 3 0 35.41
View dismissal Umar Akmal c Fulton b Bond 129 160 21 2 80.62
View dismissal Shoaib Malik b Bond 2 7 0 0 28.57
View dismissal Kamran Akmal c Taylor b Vettori 82 136 11 1 60.29

Mohammad Aamer not out 12 48 1 0 25.00
View dismissal Umar Gul lbw b Vettori 6 11 1 0 54.54

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)


Sunday, November 22, 2009

Welcome JF-17 Thunder

long live Pakistan - China friendship !!!

Saturday, November 21, 2009

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

Sunday, November 15, 2009

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.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

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


WORLD CHAMPS ... continue to dominate ...

TeamOppositionSpanMatWonLostTiedNR%
Pakistanv Australia2007-200922000100.00
v Bangladesh2007-200833000100.00
v Canada2008-200811000100.00
v England2006-20092110050.00
v India2007-20072011025.00
v Ireland2009-200911000100.00
v Kenya2007-200711000100.00
v Netherlands2009-200911000100.00
v New Zealand2007-200944000100.00
v Scotland2007-200711000100.00
v South Africa2007-20092110050.00
v Sri Lanka2007-20096420066.66
v Zimbabwe2008-200811000100.00