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Ajmal Out of Top Ten Bowlers
On the other hand, the magician Saeed Ajmal is out of Top Twenty Test Bowlers Ranking. Saeed Ajmal was banned by ICC in September 2014 after been reported in a test match against Sri Lanka in Galle. He is now eying to make a comeback in World Cup 2015. However, in a recent underwent unofficial tests at ICC-accredited testing centre Dr. Mark King noted some improvements in his bowling action but still his elbow is exceeding to 15 degree. Ajmal is confident to make a comeback before the world cup starts.
Moreover, rising leg spinner of Pakistan Yasir Shah is improving rapidly and now he has left his ideal leg spinner Shane Warne behind. This milestone was accomplished by Shah in the second test match against New Zealand after getting rid of Ross Taylor who made a ton. Yasir Shah was quite interesting against Australia and continued his dominationg performance against New Zealand. He managed 23 wickets in just his first 4 matches unlike legendary Shane Warne who took 22 wickets in his first four matches.
Kamran Akmal re called for World Cup 2014
1) M Hafeez (Captain) 2) Shahid Afridi 3) Imran Nazir 4) Ahmad Shahzad 5) Kamran Akmal 6) Sohaib Maqsood 7) Haris Sohail 8.) Shoaib Malik 9) Abdur Razzaq 10) Umar Akmal 11) Umar Amin 12) Nasir Jamshed 13) Sharjeel Khan 14) Asad Shafiq 15) Shan Masood 16) M Rizwan (wk) 17) M Irfan 18) Junaid Khan 19) Saeed Ajmal 20) Abdur Rehman 21) Sohail Tanvir 22) Anwar Ali 23) Usman Khan 24) Bilawal Bhatti 25) Zulfiqar Babar 26) Rahat Ali 27) Yasir Arafat 28) Imran Khan 29) Wahab Riaz 30) Umar Gul
South Africa may play without Steyn and Amla
South Africa failed to pass 250 runs in either innings at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium and new coach Russell Domingo called it "a soft performance from the batting side".
Pakistani coach Dav Whatmore said he was not surprised by the win despite an upset loss to Zimbabwe last month.
"I knew that we could be competitive in different conditions and with a slight change of personnel. We gave a good competitive effort over the four days," Whatmore told reporters.
No Place for Younis in ODIs
Younis Khan delivered his assessment on the selection of the ODI squad with a smile on his face and no malice in his voice and he seemed to be making his statements out of curiosity over his exclusion and not criticism. He went on to clarify he is not targeting the 2015 World Cup but will be happy if he makes his place
Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal and seamer Wahab Riaz have been recalled to the One Day squad for the 5 matches ODI series against South Africa in the UAE. Sohaib Maqsood, the right handed batsman who played two T20s in Zimbabwe recently, has also been included in the 16 member squad.
Pakistan ODI squad
Misbah-ul-Haq (capt) Ahmed Shehzad, Nasir Jamshed, Mohammad Hafeez, Umar Amin, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Abdur Rehman, Mohammad Irfan, Junaid Khan, Sohail Tanvir, Wahab Riaz, Sohaib Maqsood, Asad Shafiq, Sarfraz Ahmed
In - Umar Akmal, Sohaib Maqsood, Sohail Tanvir, Wahab Riaz
Out - Anwar Ali, Asad Ali, Haris Sohail
TM Dilshan Set to Quit Tests
"I have taken this decision to allow Sri Lanka Cricket to groom another youngster in my place," Dilshan, 36, said on Wednesday.
"I was to announce my retirement after the Zimbabwe Test series but unfortunately the tour was postponed."
Sri Lanka was to bout Zimbabwe from October and the bout beat included two Tests. The advancing opener fabricated his Test admission in 1999 adjoin Zimbabwe at Bulawayo and denticulate 163 in his additional match. In a Test career spanning 14 years, Dilshan played 87 Tests and denticulate 5492 runs at an boilerplate of 40.98.
His 16 Test centuries included a career-best 193 adjoin England at Lord's in 2011 as captain.
Dilshan, however, will abide to play in the beneath formats for his country.
"I will altercate my approaching with the civic selectors and if they charge me I will play till the 2015 World Cup," Dilshan said.
Dilshan's endure Test actualization was adjoin Bangladesh in March in Colombo, area he denticulate 0 and 57.
Faisalabad Set to Play in CL T20
Faisalabad Set to Play in CL T20 Faisalabad Wolves, Pakistan's domestic Twenty20 champions, will travel to India to take part in the Champions League T20 after the Indian Embassy in Pakistan granted the players their visas following days of uncertainty.
The Faisalabad players had dispersed on Thursday evening from their training camp and went home assuming they would need time to pack if the visas were issued. The PCB had also told that the visas had neither been issued nor denied. On Friday, the PCB asked the players to report at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore because the visas had been obtained, a Faisalabad player told.
Faisalabad will be only the second Pakistan team to take part in the Champions League and the first in India - Sialkot Stallions competed in the 2012 tournament in South Africa. They play their first match on September 17 in Mohali against Otago Volts.
A team from Pakistan had been invited for the first edition in 2008 but that tournament was postponed because of the terror attacks in Mumbai and no further invitation was issued to Pakistan until 2012.
Faisalabad will be only the second Pakistan team to take part in the Champions League and the first in India - Sialkot Stallions competed in the 2012 tournament in South Africa. They play their first match on September 17 in Mohali against Otago Volts.
A team from Pakistan had been invited for the first edition in 2008 but that tournament was postponed because of the terror attacks in Mumbai and no further invitation was issued to Pakistan until 2012.
India refuses visa to Faisalabad Wolves for CLT20
India has refused visa to Pakistani team, Faisalabad Wolves, to participate in Champions League Twenty20 tournament scheduled to begin from September 17 in view of abundance precautionThe government's decision not to give visas to the Pakistani team to participate in the limited over cricket tournament comes in the backdrop of recent ceasefire violations along the Line of Control (LOC) creating tension between the two countries.
As a matter of abundance precaution and caution in terms of safety and security, the government did not give green signal for the cricket team's visit," government sources said.
The Faisalabad team, led by national team skipper Misbah-ul-Haq, was invited to play in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League T20 in India, starting on September 17. The Faisalabad team's participation in the CLT20 was confirmed until the LoC issues arose and that led to tensions between the two countries.
Last year, the BCCI had invited Pakistan to send its domestic T20 champions -- Sialkot Stallions -- for the Champions League which was held in South Africa. The Sialkot Stallions, however, failed to qualify for the main round. This year Faisalabad Wolves, by virtue of emerging as the national T20 champions, had earned the honour of representing Pakistan in the Champions League.
Last month, India had not granted visa to a Pakistani religious group to attend Urs here and suggested that they defer their visit in view of their safety and security.
The Faisalabad team, led by national team skipper Misbah-ul-Haq, was invited to play in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League T20 in India, starting on September 17. The Faisalabad team's participation in the CLT20 was confirmed until the LoC issues arose and that led to tensions between the two countries.
Last year, the BCCI had invited Pakistan to send its domestic T20 champions -- Sialkot Stallions -- for the Champions League which was held in South Africa. The Sialkot Stallions, however, failed to qualify for the main round. This year Faisalabad Wolves, by virtue of emerging as the national T20 champions, had earned the honour of representing Pakistan in the Champions League.
Last month, India had not granted visa to a Pakistani religious group to attend Urs here and suggested that they defer their visit in view of their safety and security.
Batsmen Cheating Hotspot in Ashes 2013
The advancing five-test alternation amid England and Australia has been riddled with altercation over the aberration of the Decision Analysis Arrangement (DRS), allotment of which is the Hotspot thermal imaging technology. Hotspot uses infra red cameras to actuate whether the brawl has addled the batsman, bat or pad, with any acquaintance declared to appearance up as a ablaze atom on the image.
Cricket Australia endure anniversary requested an annual from the ICC over the adjournment of Usman Khawaja during the third analysis at Old Trafford. The batsman was accustomed out bent admitting a analysis of the television pictures and Hotspot which showed no acceptable affirmation of a nick off the bat. Later in the aforementioned match, England batsman Kevin Pietersen was aswell accustomed out, bent behind, but afresh the Hotspot bootless to aces annihilation up.
Hotspot's Australian inventor, Warren Brennan, was appear in the British media to be advancing a annual on the technology for absolution on Wednesday.
A Tweet acquaint on Tuesday from an counterfeit Twitter annual beneath his name and advantaged @HotSpotInventor read: “We will accomplish a annual tomorrow about hotspot in attention to the butt of the Ashes series.” Another, in acknowledgment to above England captain and media auger Michael Vaughan acquaint on Aug 5 read: “Michael, its time you investigate why players are application fibreglass band on the edges of their bats.”
The ICC beneath to animadversion if Reuters contacted a agent on Wednesday but Pietersen was far added accessible with his assessment on the amount in a alternation of affronted tweets. “Horrible journalism yet again! My name brought up in hotspot crisis suggesting I use silicon(e) to anticipate nicks showing! Such aching lies,” Pieterson wrote. “I am never abashed of accepting out! If I nick it, I'll walk..To advance I bluff by accoutrement my bat with silicon(e) infuriates me,” he added. “How brainless would I be to try & adumbrate a nick if it could save me on an LBW appeal, like in 1st innings area hotspot showed I aching it.”
England drillmaster Andy Flower aswell alleged for improvements in the DRS arrangement afterwards the third analysis was drawn, ensuring the hosts, who won the aboriginal two test, would absorb the Ashes.
Pakistan Squad for Zimbabwe Tour 2013
Test squad: Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Farhat, Asad Shafiq, Khurram Manzoor, Adnan Akmal(wk), Faisal Iqbal, Younis Khan, Azhar Ali, Junaid Khan, Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal, Abdul Rehman, Rahat Ali, Ehsan Adil
ODI squad: Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Mohammad Hafeez, Nasir Jamshed, Ahmed Shahzad, Asad Shafiq, Umar Amin, Umar Akmal (wk), Shahid Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Irfan, Junaid Khan, Abdul Rehman, Asad Ali, Anwar Ali, Haris Sohail
T20 squad: Mohammad Hafeez (capt), Nasir Jamshed, Ahmed Shahzad, Umar Amin, Umar Akmal, Sohaib Maqsood, Shahid Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Sohail Tanvir, Mohammad Irfan, Junaid Khan, Zulfiqar Babar, Asad Ali, Anwar Ali, Haris Sohail
PCB Rejects Fixing Claims
The West Indies, chasing 230, tied the third match after needing 24 in the last two overs with the last pair of Kemar Roach and Jason Holder at the crease.
The probe will also look at betting patterns in the final game, in which West Indies scored just one run from the first 18 balls, according to the report.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) interim chairman Najam Sethi hit out at the allegations. "These are outrageous claims and we have been in touch with the ICC and insist on investigation," Sethi told Pakistan's Geo TV. "I can't talk much on this but we did contact the team manager and he told us that a couple of days ago the newspaper people were phoning people to get the information," said Sethi. "The manager confirmed that the ICC's ACSU team was there in the Caribbean. How much truth is there in this, only time will tell but at the moment this is not more than a story by The Mail."
A board spokesman added: "The PCB is obviously extremely concerned at the allegations of fixing reported in the media with regard to recently concluded one-day series between Pakistan and West Indies."
Pakistan won the one-day series 3-1 before clinching the two-match Twenty20 series 2-0 on Sunday.
Pakistan has been badly hit by match-fixing scandals in the past with three of its top players -- Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer -- serving bans in a spot-fixing case that surfaced on team's tour of England in 2010.
Pakistan had to ban former captain Salim Malik and paceman Ata-ur Rehman in 2000 after a two-year long judicial inquiry conducted by Lahore high court judge Malik Mohammad Qayyum.
The inquiry also fined six other players, including former captains Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Inzamam-ul Haq.
The bans came after Australian trio of Shane Warne, Tim May and Mark Waugh alleged Malik offered them bribes to under-perform on the team's tour to Pakistan in 1994.
An ICC spokesman told AFP it does not comment on any ACSU activities.
Sethi said PCB has taken noted quotes from an England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) official in the newspaper report.
ECB's information manager Chris Watts told The Mail the events in the Pakistan-West Indies series warrants investigation. "If I was presented with this level of information, I would want this series investigated," Watts, who is responsible for anti-corruption in domestic cricket in England, was quoted in the report. "There are some classic signs (of wrong doing)." "We have written (protested) to the ICC as to how an ECB official gave comments on the report and what right he had to say that," Sethi protested. (AFP)
Moin Khan named Chief Selector of Pakistan
The 41-year-old takes over from Iqbal Qasim, who stepped aside earlier this month in a move seen as a reaction to the team's miserable performance in the Champions Trophy in England.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said Khan held discussion with interim chairman Najam Sethi and accepted the role.
Qasim had resigned from his post after Pakistan lost all three of their group matches at last month's Champions Trophy in England and Wales.
Qasim cited personal and health reasons for his decision to step down but was known to be unhappy with interference from the team management in selection affairs.
"I have accepted this as a challenge and I am glad that PCB and my own vision corresponds in terms of preparing a pool of talented cricketers who can mount an effective challenge in the 2015 World Cup," said Moin, a member of the Pakistan squads that won the World Cup in 1992 and reached the final seven years later.
Pakistan registered a resounding 126 run win over the West Indies in their opening tour match in Guyana on Sunday.
ICC Allows M.Amir to Play Domestic Cricket
It has been learnt that the ICC has officially informed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) about permitting Amir to play domestic cricket. Amir has been allowed to play domestic cricket for one year and after that, the ICC will assess his performance and attitude to decide his future. The Pakistan bowler had been considered a great addition in the team it was expected that he would shine more with passage of time but suddenly everything changed with spot-fixing swindle.
A British court awarded jail to three top Pakistani cricketers including Salman Butt, Muhammad Asif and M Amir in spot-fixing case. Later on, the court showed generosity to Amir and sent him to rehabilitation jail for being youngster and new in the cricket.
Asif and Salman Butt completed their jail term and filed petitions against their bans from the ICC but failed to get any relaxation. Being young and immature at time of scam, Muhammad Amir had been punished less and all veteran cricketers and PCB showed sympathy for him and his career.
Now luck has smiled towards him again briefly and he has got permission to play cricket domestically by the ICC. It is expected that after completion of this one year, Muhammad Amir will be allowed to play international cricket again.
Mathews Suspended for 2 ODIs
Meanwhile, the rest of the Sri Lankan team members were fined 40 per cent of their match fees, the ICC said in a release.
Match Referee David Boon imposed the suspension on Sri Lanka after they were ruled to be three overs short of their target at the end of the match.
The decision means Mathews will not be playing in the first two One-dayers of the five-match ODI home series against South Africa on July 20 and 23, respectively, at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
Mathews pleaded guilty to the offence and accepted the proposed sanction.
According to the ICC Code of Conduct, which deals with serious over-rate offences, the captain receives two suspension points while the players are fined 10-per-cent of their match fees for each of the first two overs short and 20-per-cent for every additional over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time.
Two suspension points in the Code equates to a suspension from one Test or two ODIs, to be applied to the subsequent international matches.
Afridi, Umar Akmal Back in Team
Pakistan were let down by their senior batsmen in the Champions Trophy in England as the side failed to pass 200 in their three games - the third match against India was rain-affected - only to be eliminated from the group stage. Malik managed just 25 runs in three matches, Kamran 23 and Farhat four in two. With the pitches in the West Indies expected to be slower, the selectors have gone with one less seamer, dropping Ehsan Adil.
ODI squad: Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Nasir Jamshed, Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Asad Shafiq, Umar Akmal (wk), Shahid Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Wahab Riaz, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan, Asad Ali, Umar Amin, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Abdur Rehman, Haris Sohail
T20 squad: Mohammad Hafeez (capt), Nasir Jamshed, Ahmed Shehzad, Haris Sohail, Umar Akmal (wk), Hammad Azam, Shahid Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Sohail Tanvir, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Irfan, Asad Ali, Umar Amin, Zulfiqar Babar, Junaid Khan
Match to Be start at 4 pm
The rain stayed away on the morning of the final, but the toss was crucial because of the amount of rain Edgbaston has taken in the lead-up to the match. Alastair Cook won it, and on the greenest Edgbaston pitch of the tournament, they did what was expected: bowl first. Both the semi-finals had begun in similar conditions, and were decided by early wickets from which the side batting first did not recover.
England were against the best batting side of the tournament, but also a side that has not had its middle order tested at all. India were expectedly unchanged, retaining the XI that has won four matches in the tournament comprehensively.
Indoa Won the Dead Rubber
Rain played a analytical allotment in the innings. Pakistan were convalescent from the aboriginal wicket of Nasir Jamshed through Mohammad Hafeez and Kamran Akmal if the aboriginal battery kept the players off for 16 minutes. Hafeez came out and got out aboriginal ball, absent by a falling anhydrate to the larboard of the afterimage screen. He didn't cull out of the shot, though. Kamran Akmal approved an brash drive adjoin Ashwin soon, and by the time a bigger rain breach accustomed Pakistan were 70 for 3 afterwards 19 overs. The accident of three wickets at that breach meant their 40-over account wouldn't be adapted by abundant beneath the Duckworth-Lewis calculations.
The rest, Jadeja took affliction of. Misbah-ul-Haq and Asad Shafiq looked chatty in a 54-run partnership, but Jadeja's certain accurateness put paid to their plans. His aboriginal over went for three, the additional for one if the three antecedent overs had gone for seven, four and seven after a attempt hit in anger. In Jadeja's third, Misbah gave himself too abundant room. He backs himself on that attempt and generally the spinner loses his rhythm, but Jadeja remained collapsed and straight, and exhausted Misbah - who was not beat - on the central bend to hit the top of the leg stump.
Ishant Sharma, acutely not at his best, got advantageous if he got an bend from Asad Shafiq to a leg-side half-volley. However, after the DRS claiming that he went for, this luck wouldn't accept counted for much. In the next over, Jadeja trapped Shoaib Malik with a quick arm ball, and Pakistan had gone from 110 for 3 to 139 for 6.
With a continued appendage in tow, Pakistan were now a bit directionless, and India superb in the field. A low catch, a baking absolute hit, and some appropriate endure overs later, Pakistan were bowled out for 165 in 39.4 overs, a absolute that was adapted to 167.
Pakistan Announced Squad for Champions Trophy
The PCB also named Trent Woodhill, a former assistant coach of New Zealand, as their batting coach for three weeks during the tournament in England.
Pakistan is in Group B of the Champions Trophy alongside West Indies, South Africa and fierce rival India. Group A comprises defending champion Australia, England, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
"Our team is good but our opponents are tough as compared to the other group," Qasim said. "But our team has the ability if it plays to its potential. Whatever best resources were available we have picked."
Trend Woodhill of Australia, who coaches Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League, was appointed Pakistan's batting coach for the Champions Trophy.
He has coached New Zealand for four years and will join the Pakistan team in England after it plays two one-day internationals in both Scotland and Ireland next month.
Squad:
Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Nasir Jamshed, Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Farhat, Shoaib Malik, Asad Shafiq, Umar Amin, Kamran Akmal, Abdul Rehman, Saeed Ajmal, Ehsan Adil, Asad Ali, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan, Wahab Riaz.
Umar Akmal and Sohail Tanvir Left Out of Champions Trophy
Pakistan's selectors met in Lahore on Monday to trim the 29 probables - Umar Gul was unavailable because of injury - down to 15 for the Champions Trophy, as well as the ODIs in Ireland and Scotland. The announcement of a Pakistan squad is usually made before 7pm (PKT) but the selection committee did not emerge until at 10.45pm after getting the approval Zaka Ashraf, the PCB chairman, at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore.
The squad includes six specialist batsmen, with experienced captain Misbah-ul-Haq forming the nucleus of the middle order. Offspinner Mohammad Hafeez and Shoaib Malik are the allrounders, while Saeed Ajmal and Abdul Rehman are the specialist spinners.
Shahid Afridi to Miss ICC Champions Trophy
Shahid Afridi was left out of Pakistan's squad for the Champions Trophy on Monday after the allrounder's poor one-day international form during the past year.
Chief selector Iqbal Qasim believes Afridi could still make a comeback to international cricket if the veteran of 354 ODIs lifts his game.
Pakistan's selectors met in Lahore on Monday to trim the 29 probables - Umar Gul was unavailable because of injury - down to 15 for the Champions Trophy, as well as the ODIs in Ireland and Scotland. The announcement of a Pakistan squad is usually made before 7pm (PKT) but the selection committee did not emerge until at 10.45pm after getting the approval Zaka Ashraf, the PCB chairman, at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore.
Gayle 175 Runs Against PWI
The fastest hundred in T20 history was built on the misery of others, most notably a struggling franchise whose owners - they spent US$370 million to buy it - watched shell-shocked at their team's bowlers being taken apart with a ruthlessness only a game of Cricket '97 powered with cheat codes could have matched. The result was a foregone conclusion when four wickets fell inside the first six overs of the Warriors chase. Their defeat was the second-biggest in terms of runs in the IPL's six-year history.
The destruction inflicted on the Warriors bowlers broke a series of records. Gayle smashed the fastest century in the format, brought off 30 balls; made the highest individual T20 score (175 not out); struck the most sixes by a batsman in a T20 innings (17); helped Royal Challengers Bangalore hit the most sixes for a team in a T20 innings (21) and reach the highest total in T20 cricket (263).
