Source: The Hindu
Legendary leg-spinner Abdul Qadir was Thursday appointed the new chief selector of Pakistan.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt said the former Test player has been chosen to head the new national selection committee, whose first task would be to pick a strong and balanced squad for the important home series against India […]

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Source: AFP
Pakistan’s former cricket chief said India must tour the country early next year as planned or it could see Pakistani cricket “pushed to hell”.
India are scheduled to play three tests, five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 match from January 13 to February 19, but the tour has been thrown into doubt amid fears over […]

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Source: Hindustan Times
 The financial crisis in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) seems to have deepened to the extent that it is yet to pay the match fees and bonuses to the players who featured in last month’s four-nation Twenty20 tournament in Canada.
Sources in the PCB said that the board will take some more time […]

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Source: The Canadian Press
Former Test captain Salim Malik said Tuesday he has accepted an offer from the Pakistan Cricket Board to become chief coach at the National Cricket Academy.
“The chairman (of the PCB) has offered me the post and I have accepted it,” Malik told reporters in the eastern city of Lahore , where he […]

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Source: Reuters

Pakistan’s new cricket boss has turned the heat on the team’s Australian coach Geoff Lawson, saying he favoured having a home-grown player in charge.
Ejaz Butt, who took over as chief of the Pakistan cricket Board last week, said there were plenty of former Pakistan players capable of coaching the national side.
“I would like to […]

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Source: Buzz Vines

Pakistan will launch its edition of an international Twenty20 competition in 2009 featuring foreign players and six franchised teams.
After Indian Cricket League and Indian Premier League, Pakistan Cricket Board has gone on to start their own premier league starting from next year, and have asked for franchises from the city and regional teams.
But […]

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Source: Herald Tribune

A former head of the Pakistan Cricket Board says he expects India to pull out of next year’s tour due to security concerns.
“I don’t think India will come because the (security) conditions are not good for international cricket (in Pakistan),” Tauqir Zia said Friday on private Geo Television.
“It will be a big […]

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Source: The Statesman

Upset over Australia’s “double standards”, Pakistan Cricket Board is considering legal action against Cricket Australia if it goes ahead with the India tour in spite of a series of bomb blasts in Delhi last week, though it pulled out of a tour to Pakistan earlier.
The PCB officials are fully convinced that the […]

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Source: radio Australia

The International Cricket Council has indicated it could pull September’s Champions Trophy out of Pakistan because of safety concerns.
A suicide blast killed 19 people in the capital Islamabad yesterday, and players from Australia, New Zealand and England have expressed concerns about the tournament.
Sri Lanka is the designated alternative venue but is also […]

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Source: Cricinfo

The Pakistan Cricket Board is hoping to bring Mohammad Asif back to Pakistan as soon as possible from Dubai where he is detained, though they admit they are still in the dark about the case.
Asif was detained by officials at the airport Sunday morning, according to Nadeem Akram, a senior PCB official, for possessing […]

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Source: Telegraph
After speculation that the England and Wales Cricket Board might investigate the possibility of setting up a league to rival the money-spinning Indian Premier League, it has emerged that the Pakistan Cricket Board are also hoping to climb aboard the Twenty20 league bandwagon.
Taking a cue from the IPL, the Pakistan Cricket Board met yesterday […]

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Source: Herald Tribune
Shoaib Akhtar apologized to the Pakistan cricket board and the general public at a hearing Monday to appeal his five-year ban from domestic and international matches.
The fast bowler filed an appeal with the PCB earlier this month after being found guilty of repeatedly breaching its code of conduct.
The PCB subsequently formed a […]

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Source: Rediff News
The Pakistan Cricket Board will launch a new look Twenty20 domestic tournament next year on the lines of the Indian Premier League, offering franchises of city-based teams to sponsors and companies.
A senior official of the board said that this year’s Twenty20 competition, which has been delayed until August 10, would be the last […]

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Source: The Hindu
Karachi: The Pakistan cricket authorities have increased the financial rewards for the players in the new central contracts by linking good performances with special bonus.
Under the new central contract, if a senior player like Mohammad Yousuf plays in a one-day international against India and any of the top three teams in the ICC […]

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Source: Baggy Green
The chances of Australia going to Pakistan next month grow slimmer by the day with the Australian reporting senior players would pull out of the trip if it goes ahead. The visit is dependent on a security inspection, which is currently due to occur after the country’s elections on Monday, but Cricket Australia […]

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Source: Reuters
KARACHI - The Pakistan cricket board has insured all its future tour program (FTP) series amidst the prospect of touring teams, particularly Australia, backing out due to security concerns and political unrest.
A senior board official told Reuters on Monday the insured series included the Australian tour in March-April.
“We have got all our FTP series […]

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