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PCB aims for Sixcessrashid
There’s a saying in cricket for batsmen, and that is that “when in doubt, hit out.” It of course was not much listened to by our batsmen in Bangladesh, but it seems that whoever formed the selection...
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Considering we must surely have annihilated the Guinness world record for any one city setting the most Guinness world records, why shouldn’t the city of Lahore expand its reach into other areas...
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Is PCB heading towards a hostile takeover?PCB-1
Are we headed for a judicial law in PCB? I don’t see the day very far when the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the Islamabad High Court will deem it unmanageable by the numerous petitioners and send the...
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The good, the bad and the uglyOMAIR-PAK
It seems like a scene from a Hollywood Western… a stranger from nowhere walks into a crowded bar, sits down in front of the bartender and orders a drink. No one knows his true intentions or even his...
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Maneuvering the changesports 5
They say it isn’t over until the fat lady sings. When it comes to messing with the PCB, she has been backstage ever since the ad-hoc years and despite every sign and promises to the audience she still...
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Wise, old man with a planphoto suhail rafiq 05sep14
It had been a hectic day for Shaharyar M. Khan. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, on his first visit to Karachi after beginning his second stint at the helm of PCB, carried out a series of...
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The chairman’s challengeCRICKET-PAK-AJMAL-FILES
Did the PCB see it coming? Perhaps they did; only it was too late by the time they began to realise they had slept over the threat. In last week’s interview in this newspaper, Shaharyar Khan, had let...
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Selecting for the futureYounis Khan
Commentating for the Haier Cup Twenty20 I kept running into Moin Khan and Waqar Younis last week at the National Stadium. They had meetings with Misbah-ul-Haq and other selectors, Salim Yousuf and Ijaz...
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So what’s the ICC angle?SOHAIB-Ajmal and Hafeez
What the International Cricket Council (ICC) is doing today reminds me of the Laffer Curve we studied in economics back in business school. This curve shows the relationship between tax rates and tax...
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Mr Chairman, no leniency on match-fixing please!Accused Pakistan Cricketers...
It was a fine morning of June 2006, and my article criticising selection of England-bound team had appeared only a day ago in the sports section of ‘The News on Sunday’. I rang up the PCB headquarters...
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Managerial challenges to PCBSOHAIB-Moin Khan
It was a strange decision in the first place albeit a radical one. But by management theory it was one that always went against the grain: the Chief Selector also wearing the Manager’s suit. Many...
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PCB chief jumps ship on Khan
When Younis Khan refused to acknowledge or thank the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) during the presentation ceremony despite being prompted by Ramiz Raja, it must have sent chills down the spine of...
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Is the force with you Mr Chairman?CRICKET-PAK-MISBAH-AFRIDI
To fulfill great responsibility you need great power. A vastly experienced man like Shaharyar Khan must know that. His is certainly a great responsibility. As chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board...
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The modest lynchpinAMIR-Subhan ahmed
Having risen through the ranks, Subhan Ahmad has gone on to serve in such critical roles in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) as the General Manager for international cricket, acting director of human...
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The day when ‘cricket’ was not a...
The date 16/12/14 would always be etched in the memory of the whole Pakistani nation for all the wrong reasons. Around 150 souls, mainly young children, were brutally massacred in a school in Peshawar....
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Search for first XI goes onSOHAIB-Pak-NZ
It was a game that in my opinion, and of many others I talked to, should not have been played at all. The country was in a three-day mourning after a calamitous day for all Pakistanis. That the PCB...
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Gaddafi has a new faceNimrah 1
The Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore is famous not only for being a beautiful sports complex but also because of the food street that surrounds it. The Lahoris are often seen relaxing and enjoying food in the...
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Cricket and our societal developmentcricketmain
John Sackville, the 3rd Duke of Dorset and one of cricket’s earliest patrons, once in a rather lyrical mood stated: “What is human life but a game of cricket”. Then onwards, we find cricket history and...
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Pakistan still doing lab testsCricket WCup India Pakistan
What could have been worse than Pakistan losing to India in the manner that they did? Well, the fact that they deviated from a planned (or so we thought) strategy of playing specialists like Sarfraz...
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An open letter to PCB Chairmanduring the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup match...
Dear Sir I know this is not the best of times to write a letter to you but the state of Pakistan cricket has compelled me to contact you since you seem to be the only sane person with power in the...
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