Sussex have signed Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan for the 2010 Friends Provident t20.Dilshan, 33 years old, has an abundance of talent with the bat, Fielder is electric, and can keep wicket and bowls useful away from the rotation.
And handed bat signed by the Delhi Daredevils capillaries opening in 2008 and more recently known...
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`Pakistan eyes billions in foreign investment : ISLAMABAD: Pakistan aims to attract foreign investment worth five billion dollars this year, but needs to tackle reform, maximise anaemic growth and stem rampant violence to clinch its ambitious target.
Last fiscal year, Pakistan recorded its worst economic growth in more than a decade, at two percent, and...
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PERTH: In a bid to avoid the humiliation of a five-match whitewash by Australia, Pakistan will take the field with three changes in the team for the final One-day International here at the WACA ground on Sunday.
Surprisingly, Shahid Afridi is leading Pakistan in place of Mohammad Yousuf, who pulled out with an injured knee.
Afridi,...
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PERTH: Australia Set 278 Target Vs Pakistan, Pakistan were set a difficult target of 278 runs by Australia in the fourth One-day International here at the WACA ground on Friday.
Winning the toss, Australian captain Ricky Ponting decided to bat first and his team made 277-8 in the allotted 50 overs.
Pakistan were looking a beeter...
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HOBART : Hapless Pakistan’s tour-long selection dramas have flared again with Test captain Mohammad Yousuf blasting the failure to send his predecessor, Younis Khan, to Australia earlier.
Younis will return to national colours after being named in a 17-man squad for the five-match one-day series against Australia, starting on Friday in Brisbane.
But after watching his...
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PAKISTAN is deeply divided over the immediate future of besieged wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal. He insists he will have a chance to redeem himself in the Hobart Test, while the coach last night insisted he would not, revealing he is one of four players on the chopping block following the SCG implosion.
Kamran claims he has...
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Winning feeling: Dale Steyn celebrates on day five in Newlands Photo: GETTY IMAGES
England lost two morning wickets as they continued their battle to save the third Test in Cape Town.
Nightwatchman James Anderson went for nine and No 3 Jonathan Trott, clearly relishing such an attritional fight, was undone by a spectacular ball from Dale...
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Australian Australian ……… Australian pitched from the masses of kangaroos during the year where Australia dominated the better part of 2009. After losing the Ashes series 2-1, with Ricky Ponting won the men wore on the hosts England 6-1 in [Addis. They followed it up by retaining the Champions Cup in South Africa to...
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KARACHI: Fourth seed Farhan Zaman of the Navy survived a scare when he whipped second seeded Waqas Mehboob (NWFP) in five games to retain boys U-19 crown in the second PST Roshan Khan Junior Open squash championship at the PN Roshan-Jahangir Squash Complex on Thursday.
Farhan, 18, who stunned top seed Shaikh Saquib (Punjab) in...
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KARACHI: Pakistan will play two Twenty20 matches against England in Dubai next year before defending their title at the next World Twenty20, an official said Thursday.
Pakistan won the second edition of the World Twenty20 in England in June, sparking jubilation in a nation where international cricket has been hit hard by security fears and...
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