SHAHID AFRIDI live on geo super

ISLMABAD: Shahid Afidi is live on geo super's famous programme "Bolain Kya Bat Hai" he was invited by geo super team on their 4th anniversry. Geo Super was lauched on june 2006 becoming pakistan first and only sports channel and This episode of "Bolain Kya Bat Hai" is 565th and more than 1000 hours of live transmisson.

China to appear at Hong Kong Sixes this edition

China are to appear at the Hong Kong Cricket Sixes in November as they plot their rise to international prominence, organisers of the annual tournament announced on Wednesday.

The mainland’s Asian Games squad will play an exhibition match against a Hong Kong development team, to be screened live and broadcast worldwide.china are also going to participate in asian games which are going to be held in china this year. Khan, who has been with the china team with past two years , said he was hopeful that China would one day be able to take full part in the Hong Kong Sixes.
Australia, England, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, New Zealand and Hong Kong vie for total prize money of 150,000$ in the November 6-7 contest at Kowloon Cricket Club.

No problem with any senior player or selector: Waqar Younis

pakistan cricket team head coach said he has no problem with any senior player or any member of slection commete.
The former pakistani captain said that he has come sydney to his family after long time and would submit the report to the Pakistan Cricket Board on his team’s tour of England just after returning pakistan
He said that he could not do anything if the selection committee meets in his absence.reports emerged in last few days that selection commete will not invite waqar younas for selection of players for U.A.E tour
he said said that he wanted an improvement in Pakistan cricket team and he has no problem with anybody because he believes in working in a pleasant atmosphere.
waqar said the player how much senior he is has right to play if he is fit.

Altered Laws come into force

Batsmen will no longer be 'offered the light’ from tomorrow in one of eight amendments or clarifications to the Laws of Cricket.
Marylebone Cricket Club, the guardian of the Laws of Cricket, has produced a fourth edition of the 2000 code and has introduced changes aimed at providing more fairness to both sides and reducing the amount of playing time lost.
Umpires will now be the sole arbiters of whether play should continue in poor light. The batting side will no longer have any say in the decision, which was often made for tactical reasons.                                       
At least one umpire will also now be required to attend the toss and the winning captain must notify his counterpart of his decision to bat or field immediately.
Previously, captains could wait until 10 minutes before the start of the game, but in some cases this was being exploited to the losing side’s disadvantage – and therefore contravened the Spirit of Cricket.
Other Law changes are aimed at achieving more fairness between the teams. They include:
* Giving batsmen who damage the pitch just one warning before penalty runs are issued, rather than two – to mirror the punishment for fielders.
* Preventing bowlers from delivering the ball with their front foot having crossed an imaginary line between the middle stumps e.g. declaring they were bowling over the wicket but releasing the ball as if they were bowling round the wicket.

* Forbidding bowlers bowling the ball into the ground to a team-mate, which damages the ball and may waste time.
* Fielders will no longer be able to practise with a 12th man or coach outside the boundary during a game, as this affords them an opportunity to prepare that is not granted to the batsmen in the middle.
Twenty20 cricket has contributed to increasingly athletic fielding standards, and MCC has striven to ensure the Laws deal with the challenges posed by the modern game.
Now, a fielder’s first contact with the ball must be within the boundary or, if he is airborne, when his last contact with the ground was within the field of play.
He may subsequently step outside the rope, but a four or six will be scored if he makes further contact with the ball whilst grounded outside the boundary.
The two final Law changes deal with very rare forms of dismissal.
Law 28.1 has been amended so, if a batsman’s bat breaks in the act of playing a shot and the broken part of the bat hits the stumps, he will now be out.
A new sub-section has been added to Law 29.1 to protect a batsman who is well in his ground – for example a sprinting batsman who has run past his stumps – but whose feet and bat happen to be in the air as the bails are removed. He will now be deemed to be in.

Mohammad Talha promises a bright future - Pakistan cricket

The Pakistani cricket due the recent controversial match-fixing scandal might just lose key players for the near cricketing future. Four visiting Asian players were accused of spot-fixing during the test series against England, out of which 3 have been suspended namely test skipper Salman Butt, and pace bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir. Losing Butt wouldn’t hurt the unpredictables as losing the newly-discovered talents of Amir and Asif would do.

As he might not be able to recover these allegations based on his past controversial experience with drugs, the small town boy Amir who is just 18 years of age just might have killed any chances of becoming an international superstar. Before the entire controversies had taken place, Amir’s bowling capabilities were being praised by senior and former captains such as Rameez Raja and Wasim Akram. The left-arm veteran Pakistani bowler Akram believed that young Amir had more developed cricketing sense than he had at 18 years of age.
Nevertheless, the recent remarks by senior players, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials and billions of Pakistani cricket fans were to safeguard the talent of Amir, as he must have come under pair-pressure and gotten involved in this illegal fiasco pulled off by senior teammates. The fact that Amir’s talent couldn’t be replaced is undenialbe; the thought of it has had many voices going louder by the day.
The harsh reality is that the land of Pakistan is filled with outstanding, amazingly talented and untamed fast bowlers. And the fear that losing Amir would mean an unparalleled replacement to the likes of Akram and Waqar Younis, however, countering all odds you find someone like Mohammad Talha, who is yet another blooming talent discovered by domestic cricket.
Talha is a tall slim right-arm fast bowler, who was born on 15^th of October, 1988, in Faisalabad, Pakistan. And just at the age of 21 he has gained an increasing repute of being a quicker bowler, who will eventually make it to the national squad of Pakistan.
However, Talha is relatively inexperienced at the moment, he was first noticed in the 2005 Afro-Asia Cup for Pakistani Under 19 team, but several injuries limited his continuity in the next domestic cricket season. His performance in the 2008-9 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy helped him regain his repute, as he was able to extract extra bounce and bowl at a sharp bursting speed. In his recent domestic season, he had taken 34 wickets in just 6 matches.
For some time now, Talha has been working with former Pakistani fast bowler Aaqib Javed at the National Cricket Academy in Karachi. Aaqib has re-modified the youngster bowling action, and believes that Talha can be a future prospect for the national team.  After Shoaib Akhtar, he is definitely the fastest bowler present in the country. The youngster’s recent interview revealed his desire to become a world class bowler with genuine fast bowling capabilities.
Talha says, “I want to be a 145kp/h + bowler. I don’t want to get slower, I just want to get faster and faster.”
Based on his impressive first-class cricket record the young talent was selected in the home series against Sri Lanka in 2009, but was overlooked for pace men Sohail Khan and all-rounder Yasir Arafat in the first test, as the second test never happened because of the attacks that followed the Sri Lankan team.  
His first-class record up till now is an outstanding of 115 wickets from 29 domestic matches. With an average of 28.13, he has 8 five wickets haul and one 10 wickets in match haul to his name. Not to forget his best of 6 for 59.
While looking at Talha’s performance, the fear of losing young Amir somehow lessens for Pakistani cricket, as the undiscovered talent is so much in Pakistan that every now and then a gem of a bowler is discovered. In likes of young promising talent of Talha, Pakistani cricket is the last international full member of ICC, which should fear lacking talent and should look forward to a promising future.

Sacking of Aaqib Javed, Aijaz Ahmed likely

LAHORE: According to sources at Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Assistant coaches Aijaz Ahmed and Aaqib Javed will not be part of the Pakistan cricket team to UAE on its next tour.
PCB Chairman will make a formal announcement in this regard on his return from England.
Meanwhile, it appears that the selection committee, just like senior cricketers, is also unhappy with the attitude of the team’s coach Waqar Younis.
Distance between senior cricketers and coach became visible during one-day series in England.
According to the sources close to Pakistan team management, the coach Waqar Younis deliberately dropped all-rounder Abdul Razzq during one-day matches against England.
On the other hand, the coach had aired reservations about the team selected for the one-day series.
In view this, the Selection Committee has now decided not to invite Waqar Younis to its meeting for selecting team for the upcoming series against South Africa and that only his opinion will be sought.

Latif picked as Pakistan captain for Asian Games Twenty20 cricket

ISLAMABAD — Khalid Latif will lead Pakistan's cricket team at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China in November.
Cricket will make its debut in the games from Nov. 12-27, when 10 teams will compete in Twenty20.
The second-string 15-man team announced by the Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday includes six — Sharjeel Khan, Azeem Ghumman, Usman Qadir, Sarmad Bhatti, Raza Hasan and Bilawal Bhatti — who were part of the Under-19 World Cup-winning squad.
Latif, 24, has played five one-day internationals and scored 147 runs. In five Twenty20 internationals, the batsman has made only 30 runs.
Pakistan: Khalid Latif (captain), Sharjeel Khan, Sheharyar Ghani, Azeem Ghumman, Akbarur Rehman, Naeem-ud-din, Naeem Anjum, Usman Qadir, Sarmad Bhatti, Aizaz Cheema, Lal Kumar, Muhammad Irshad, Raza Hassan, Bilawal Bhatti, Jalat Khan

Ijaz Butt withdraws fixing claims against England

LONDON: Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has withdrawn his statements linking England's team with throwing a one-day international earlier this month.
Butt had said he had heard from bookmakers that England's players were paid to lose the third one-day international to Pakistan on Sept. 17.
The England cricket board had threatened Butt with legal action if he didn't withdraw the accusation.
The board released a statement Wednesday quoting Butt as saying: ''I never intended to question the behavior and integrity of the England players nor the ECB nor to suggest that any of them were involved in any corrupt practices or in a conspiracy against Pakistan cricket.''
The board says it now regards the matter as closed.