Former Pakistan captains' Shahid Afridi and Javed Miandad may have resolved their differences after an ugly spat, but now reports reveal that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim threatened Afridi to call truce with Miandad. According to a report in siasat.com, Dawood had called up Afridi on October 12 and threatened him with death. Dawood's daughter is married to Miandad's son and reports suggest that the gangster intervened to take side of his relative after Afridi had threatened Miandad with legal over 'match-fixing allegations'.
Former Pakistani cricketer Javed Miandad, on Monday, rejected PCB'S offer to coach the Pak cricket team citing domestic commitments.
Miandad featured in Pakistan's 100th Test match as a player, then captained the side in their 200th and now as a coach in their 300th Test.
Despite being sacked last month, Miandad said that he wanted Pakistan cricket to move ahead.
Disappointed by the ugly tiff between Shahid Afridi and Javed Miandad, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is likely to take measures to stop former cricketers from levelling match-fixing allegations against each other to settle `personal scores`. A verbal altercation has been going on between Afridi and Miandad after both of them accused each other of being 'money-centric'.
Former Pakistan Test captain, Javed Miandad has tendered his resignation to the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board.
The long-serving coach pointed out that Indian bowlers were still learning and were not unplayable. "In contrast, our bowlers are match-winners and that gives us the edge in this series."
Javed Miandad has dismissed concerns about player burnout caused by the increasingly busy international calendar
Inzamam-ul-Haq equalled the record for the number of Test centuries by a Pakistani when he scored his 23rd hundred during the second Test against England.
The former Pakistan captain and coach blamed the team management for the poor showing Down Under.
The former Pakistan captain has confirmed the marriage plans between his eldest son and daughter of Dawood Ibrahim
Kohli broke the record of Pakistan's Javed Miandad and became the leading run-scorer against West Indies in ODIs.
The PCB said Miandad wanted to be released from his job as team coach.
Javed Miandad is hurt by comments made by the PCB chairman which Miandad feels has badly tarnished his image.
Reacting to Javed Miandad's tirade against India, BCCI president Anurag Thakur on Tuesday said the former captain was still in a state of shock over Pakistan's win-less record in both the battlefield and cricket field. After India's surgical strike across the Line of Control, Miandad had said that Pakistan was ready for an all out war against India.
Former Pakistan Test captain Javed Miandad advised the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the Pakistan Cricket Board to work together for the resumption of bilateral series between the two neighbouring countries.
After Abdul Qadir and Zaheer Abbas, another former great Javed Miandad also announced his intention to contest for the post of chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board in the forthcoming elections.
Unhappy about Shoaib Malik's sacking as captain, Javed Miandad resigned as Director-General of the Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday. Sources in the PCB confirmed that Miandad resigned but it was not clear if his resignation was accepted by the Board, as PCB chairman Ejaz Butt left for Perth on Wednesday morning to attend ICC's Executive Board meeting, starting Saturday.
The Pakistan coach said he was surprised with the defensive tactics New Zealand captain employed during the first Test.
'We can win against any team and that includes Australia,' the Pakistan coach said.
Pakistan's batting great Javed Miandad is not happy with the present ranking system of the International Cricket Council even though the team has just become the number one ranked side. Miandad said while he was happy that Pakistan, despite the many problems it was facing as a cricket nation, had topped the test ranking table, the ICC needed to come out with a better system. "The present system is not satisfactory as there is not a proper system to rank a team on the matches it plays on home and away basis," he told PTI.
Former Pakistan captain and coach Javed Miandad has been appointed director-general of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). Miandad appeared in 124 Tests and 233 one-day internationals and is Pakistan's leading Test run getter with 8832 runs.
Ijaz Butt's departure as Pakistan Cricket Board chairman has led to the return of former Test captain Javed Miandad to the PCB offices.
'The lenient stand taken by top officials has led to this situation today,' said the former Pakistan captain.
Former Pakistan skipper Javed Miandad has refused to attend meetings of the fact-finding committee of the Cricket Board to probe into the national team's poor performance in the Asia Cup and World T20. "Every time we do badly in a big tournament, the board carries out this charade of appointing a probe committee," Miandad told PTI. "Why should I go running to attend their meetings on a call from a secretary. I have already said what I had to say in the media. First and foremost the top people in the board should step down," he added. Miandad, who has been extremely critical of the state of affairs in Pakistan cricket and the team's dismal show, said nothing comes out of such inquiries.
In an interview to Pakistani channel Samaa TV, Miandad said every Pakistani was ready for martyrdom in the war against India, and also made some rather unpleasant comments about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In an interview to Pakistani channel Samaa TV, Miandad said every Pakistani was ready for martyrdom in the war against India, and also made some rather unpleasant comments about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
'Shocked and hurt' by Shahid Afridi's comments that Pakistan's cricketers are loved more by Indians than the fans in their own country, former captain Javed Miandad said players making such statements should be 'ashamed' of themselves.
Former Pakistan captain and top batsman Javed Miandad has accepted an offer from the Pakistan Cricket Board to work as a batting and fielding consultant with the national team before the 2011 World Cup.
Former Test captain Javed Miandad has been appointed as batting consultant to prepare Pakistan for next month's ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Thursday. Pakistan's batting repeatedly collapsed on the recent tour of Sri Lanka, where they lost the Test and one-day series, prompting the PCB to call on former national coach Miandad.
Dawood's daughter, Miandad's son wedded
Former captain Javed Miandad on Monday expressed his desire to coach the Pakistan cricket team once again if the PCB decides to replace the accused players and the management in England in the wake of the match-fixing scandal.
Pakistan cricket captain Younis Khan has backed the team's batting advisor, Javed Miandad's proposal of preparing bouncy practice tracks for the ICC Champions Trophy preparations.
Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi has hit back over legendary batsman Javed Miandad's recent comments that the former T20 skipper "wanted the farewell game only for money". Speaking during the book launch ceremony of sports journalist Saleem Khaliq, the 36-year-old all-rounder said that money has always been an issue for Miandad rather than him. Afridi further went on to say that it doesn't suit the legendary cricketer like Miandad to pass such kind of "irresponsible" comments.
After sounding a number of potential candidates, including Dav Whatmore, Michael Slater and Bob Woolmer, PCB has decided to retain Javed Miandad.
Saqlain had verbally abused Miandad on the phone after being dropped from the Pakistan team for the Test series against South Africa.
Javed Miandad, whose son is married to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's daughter, has cancelled his visit to Delhi in the wake of a raging controversy over India over giving him a visa for the trip.
Pakistan's former captain and senior Pakistan Cricket Board official Javed Miandad has offered to help the national team in getting out of its current poor form.
Two months after resigning as Pakistan Cricket Board's Director-General, Javed Miandad on Monday returned to the post with more powers and the backing of PCB patron-in-chief and the country's President Asif Ali Zardari.
The former Pakistan ace says the PCB has put a question mark on his integrity and credibility as coach.
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