Former skipper Afridi Returns home

Karachi: Shahid Afridi returned home to an exciting welcome from thousands of fans and said the huge turnout was a justification of his stance against the PCB.
The 31-year-old all-rounder and former captain of Pakistan cricket team was given a warm welcome at the Karachi airport, and when he reached his residence, a bigger crowd had [...]

Afridi’s legal counsel looks to resolve dispute

Pakistan: A legal firm acting on behalf of Shahid Afridi has sent the Pakistan Cricket Board a letter to resolve the ongoing dispute between the two parties, sparked by his removal from the ODI captaincy, and his subsequent announcement of a “conditional” retirement.
“The letter has gone into some depth in explaining the history of Afridi [...]

PCB show-cause Afridi on retirement

Karachi: A day after Afridi announced his retirement and cited PCB’s treatment towards him as the reason for his decision, the board has issued him a show-cause notice.
Afridi, who is already in England to join Hampshire, has not been allowed to play for them in a Twenty20 tournament. He will also have to stay away [...]

Pakistan thrash West Indies out of the tournament.

Pakistan took on West Indies on Wednesday at the ShereBangla National Stadium in Mirpur. The match was first of the quarterfinal fixtures of the ICC World Cup tournament.

Shoaib Akhtar caught on camera tampering with the ball

There seems no respite for the Pakistan cricket team, as after facing spot-fixing allegations, temperamental fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has now landed the scandal-hit side in the middle of a ball-tampering controversy.

Pakistan-Australia Test at Lord’s fixed, says report

With reports on Tuesday claiming that the scandal-stricken Pakistan team’s 150-run loss against Australia at Lord’s in July is under investigation by the ICC, their alleged involvement in match-fixing only seems to be getting bigger in proportion.

ICC issues chargesheets to Butt, Akmal

Test captain Salman Butt and stumper batsman Kamran Akmal have been chargesheeted by the International Cricket Council (ICC), after it received unsatisfactory replies on the show-cause notices served to the players last month.

Fresh suspicion over Pakistan-Australia Test match

Pakistan sure is going through a rough patch right now; with the country’s economy in shambles, the floods having left thousands devastated and now, their cricket team being labeled cheats and fixers. And if that wasn’t enough, the Pakistani cricket team has come under fresh suspicion for their January Test defeat to Australia, after pictures of an agent, who is at the centre of a ’spot-fixing’ scandal, along with the players were uncovered.

Hameed denies tabloid revelations

Categorically denying the startling match-fixing allegations he had previously made against his Pakistan teammates in a conversation with an undercover reporter from ‘the News of the World’, opener Yasir Hameed has claimed that the he was tricked by the tabloid into giving the statements and was later offered money and a British passport for not denying the story.

Pakistan win against Somerset, but down to 11

Pakistan were stretched in their only warm-up match before the Twenty20 and One-Day International (ODI) series against England, and the first match since the team was engulfed in the betting scandal, but managed to register an eight-run victory against southwest county Somerset at the County Ground in Taunton.

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