Topic: Karachi

Former Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria hit out Tuesday against another court-room delay putting back his bid to revive an international career embroiled in a spot-fixing scandal.A court on Tuesday again adjourned his appeal against the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) failure to clear ...

Kaneria frustrated at Pakistan court delays

Former Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria hit out Tuesday against another court-room delay putting back his bid to revive an international career embroiled in a spot-fixing scandal.A court on Tuesday again adjourned his appeal against the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) failure to clear ...
Disappointed Pakistani cricket fans on Wednesday blamed a sluggish Misbah-ul-Haq for defeat in the World Cup semi-final thriller with arch-rival India.India defeated Pakistan by 29 runs in an action-packed match to set up a World Cup final showdown with Sri Lanka in ...
The Customs Cricket Academy (CCA), founded by former Test fast bowlerJalaluddin, can very rightly claim to be the second home to theenterprising all-rounder, Shahid Afridi, who turned out to be of thearchitects of Pakistan?s recent triumph in the ICC World Twenty 20 ...
Just a week ago, almost everybody in the world of cricket was talking about young Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Aamer. Barely out of his teens, he had already taken fifty wickets at the highest level of the game. His brilliant bowling on ...

Karachi accuses Pakistan of 'unfair selection'

Cricket officials in Karachi Thursday criticised the selections of Pakistan's team currently on tour in England, calling it an injustice to players from the country's largest city."A number of talented cricketers from Karachi have been neglected," Khalil Nanitalwala, vice-president of the Karachi ...

Tight security as Pakistan hosts international event

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan laid on heavy security on Saturday for a boxing tournament, the country's first international sporting event since militants attacked the Sri Lanka cricket team's bus last March.Spectators were barred from the Benazir Bhutto international boxing tournament and some ...

An Ordinary Man and a Nobody

If the war on terror can be likened to a storm at sea most visible in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in Mumbai last winter, its undercurrents rage in Pakistani society. Some of this Pakistani reality, relentless, treacherous and invisible to the world, ...

Sri Lanka pay price for tour nobody else wanted

Sri Lanka's cricketers paid a heavy price Tuesday for agreeing to tour a country nobody else was prepared to visit.They only stepped in after India cancelled a much-anticipated January-February series here due to simmering political tensions between the two countries over the ...

Sri Lanka to play two Tests in Pakistan

Sri Lanka will return to Pakistan next week to play two Tests as part of their split tour, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Monday.The Islanders won a three-match one-day series 2-1 on the first leg of their tour last month.Sri ...