Source: express cricket
Former skipper Zaheer Abbas has blamed the country’s cricket board for making Pakistan a laughing stock before international fraternity by picking up a squad for now cancelled tour of Bangladesh even before the hosts cleared the fixture.
Zaheer, known as the ‘Asian Bradman’ for his scoring feats, said he was amazed that before the […]

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Source: AFP
DHAKA (AFP) — Pakistan’s 16-day cricket tour of Bangladesh starting next weekend will go ahead despite last week’s mutiny in Dhaka, when scores of senior army officers were gunned down, an official said on Monday.
Bangladesh Cricket Board spokesman Jalal Ahmed told AFP the Pakistani team would arrive in Dhaka on March 7 as planned.
“As […]

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Source: Cricket Next
Karachi: Pakistan’s hasty home series against Sri Lanka has fallen into scheduling problems because of Indian cricket board’s interference, according to media reports here.
A report in the daily Jang claimed Thursday that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has forced the Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC) to make tough demands regarding […]

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Source: Times of India
COLOMBO: India is not happy with Sri Lanka’s cricket tour to Pakistan, media reports said on Sunday.
The tour was hastily arranged by Pakistan after India refused to go ahead with the scheduled visit following last month’s terror attacks in Mumbai. The then interim committee of the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) headed by […]

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Source: Reuters
Nov 24 (Reuters) - Sports news in brief from around the world.
Cricket - Former Pakistan captain and coach Javed Miandad is hopeful next year’s Pakistan-India series will take place, despite teams shunning his country because of security fears.
“India has always supported us and they will be behind us,” Miandad, the new director-general of Pakistan’s […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captains Ramiz Raja and Intikhab Alam have urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) to review its rules to make sure countries do not pick and choose tours.
Their demand follows Australia’s decision on government advice to go ahead with their tour of India despite last week’s bomb blasts in New […]

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Source: NDTV
Indian batsman Virender Sehwag who is a resident of Delhi, has urged the Australians to go ahead with the tour.
“Delhi is not like Pakistan. For us it is back to normal routine today. There is no place in the world that is completely safe, not even the US. I think the Aussies should tour […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Indian cricket team will not tour Pakistan for a three-match limited-overs series next month because of its busy schedule, the Pakistan Cricket Board said Monday.
Pakistan was planning to host three one-day internationals against India in mid-March after Australia deferred its scheduled tour to Pakistan until later that month due […]

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Source: AFP
ADELAIDE, Australia (AFP) — Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds said Wednesday he was almost certain to make himself unavailable if the scheduled tour of troubled Pakistan goes ahead.
The tour has been in doubt for some time due to security concerns, with tensions again heightened in Pakistan for this week’s elections.
There have been reports in the […]

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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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