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Pakistan continued the trend for one-sided matches in the opening week of the ICC Champions’ Trophy by completing an emphatic victory over unfancied Kenya between the showers here. Underlining their claims as potential champions, Pakistan completed a quickfire seven-wicket victory after dismissing Kenya for a lowly 94 – the fifth lowest total in the brief [...]

With the last round of the English County Cricket Championship coming up on Thursday (September 16), and Warwickshire already having been declared the 2004 summer’s winners, Pakistan’s veteran leg-break and googly bowler Mushtaq Ahmed leads the table of top wicket-takers in first-class matches during the current season. His tally from 16 appearances is 81 wickets, [...]

Five Pakistan born players including vice captain Nasir Javed were named in the 14 member squad announced by the United States of America Cricket Association (USACA) for the forthcoming Champions Trophy Cricket Tournament scheduled to be played in England from September 10. Team USA, making its maiden appearance in the big time cricket, though, would [...]

You can’t talk about Pakistan at the moment without lingering a moment on Bob Woolmer, the newly-appointed coach. Throughout their history in international cricket, Pakistan have had the talent and drive to shock the best teams on any given day. The flip side is that their day comes infrequently, and discipline, unity and planning is [...]

Bob Woolmer enters the Champions Trophy in remarkably buoyant mood. He will tell anyone who listens that his Pakistan players are “absolute gentlemen” and the day that he can utter the phrase without any sniggering at the back is the day that he will have turned them into the finest team in the world. The [...]

The sound of Pakistani music was punctuated by the crack of a bat and the cheers of the players on the field. The men in green were on the Brass City Cricket Club out of Waterbury, Conn., while the men in the red, black and white uniforms were the Spring Valley Cricket Club. The teams [...]

The platinum jubilee one-day international cricket match between India and Pakistan has been advanced by a day and it would now be held on November 13 at the Eden Gardens here. Announcing this here today, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya said the change has been made after Kolkata police [...]

The rains deprived cricket-lovers of a crackerjack series. The three teams that participated in the tournament have a massive following not just in their countries, but all over the world, and it was unfortunate that they spent more time off the field than on it. The Australians will be happy that they got to play [...]

Indian cricket took a leaf out of their Olympic colleagues. Flat, uninspiring and hopelessly outclassed, they lost the opening Videocon Cup game to Pakistan by a mile. India bowled like misers for 30 overs and like millionaires for three overs. Then they batted like millionaires for three overs and miserably for the rest. It was [...]

Do not underestimate the importance of this match. Assuming that India and Pakistan don’t meet again in the final of this event, the next time they take each other on will be on September 19, in what will virtually be the quarter-final of the ICC Champions Trophy. Inzamam will then go into that game with [...]