Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi on Friday said that a side strain might stop him from playing even the second Test against Australia at Headingley, after which he desires to retire from the five-day version of the game.
Pakistan produced another clinical performance to crush Bangladesh by seven wickets in the fourth one-dayer on Wednesday. Opener Salman Butt made 74 and Bazid Khan hit 51 as Pakistan reached their target of 211 with 33 balls to spare to take a 4-0 lead in the five-match series.
The PCB left out fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar from a 16-member squad for the six-match one day series against India.
Some Pakistan players have reportedly asked the PCB to omit fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar from the squad for the India tour.
Both batsmen scored half-centuries as Pakistan, replying to India's first innings of 626, ended Day 3 in the third and final Test on 369 for 5.
Pakistan finished day three 212 for 5 after India had taken a narrow 45-run lead in the first innings.
India captain Mahendra Dhoni hailed his deputy Yuvraj Singh after he top-scored with 77 to help win the third ODI against Pakistan.
After restricting Delhi to 213 for 9 in 50 overs, Pakistan romped to the target in the tour match, losing only three wickets, with 7.2 overs to spare.
Pakistan were 108 for 1 at close of play on the fourth day of the second Test, chasing a victory target of 457.
Pakistan were 140 for 4 in reply to South Africa's 357 in the first innings at close of play on day two of the second Test.
The all rounder was recalled to the squad for the triangular series in the Netherlands and the ICC Champions Trophy.
Brendon McCullum smashed a century and Scott Styris picked up three wickets to lead New Zealand to a 64-run win over Pakistan in the second One-Day International on Friday. Powered on by opener McCullum's 131, New Zealand posted 303 for eight and then bowled out Pakistan for 239 runs in 47.2 overs to square the three-match series at 1-1.
Pakistan won the unofficial four-day Test by seven wickets.
Dwayne Bravo scored a quickfire 108 in the drawn two-day tour match against a PCB Patrons XI.
Pakistan have selected two uncapped teenagers in a 15-man squad for the two-Test series against Sri Lanka starting on October 20.
Irfan Pathan made history on Sunday when he became the first bowler to claim a hat-trick in the first over of a Test.
The start of play was delayed by roughly an hour due to bad light.
Pakistan were bowled out for 262 against Western Australia on Thursday in a worrying sign for the tourists ahead of next week's first Test against Australia.
Pakistan ended the third day of the first Test on 113 for 4 in the second innings after Shivnarine Chanderpaul's unbeaten 153 put the Windies in command.
Tainted left-arm pacer Muhammad Aamir was in line to make his comeback to the Pakistan team for the tour to New Zealand in January.
Tainted former Pakistan captain Saleem Malik on Wednesday pleaded with the Pakistan Cricket Board to drop his life ban for match-fixing and help fulfil his goal to take up coaching assignments. The 57-year-old Malik was found guilty of match-fixing following a judicial inquiry in 2000 in a scandal that rocked the cricket world.
Paceman Mohammad Amir has taken another step towards international re-integration following a ban for match-fixing after being included in a Pakistan training and fitness squad.
Former England cricketer Ian Pont has considered tainted player Mohammad Amir's technique as a fast swing bowler to be better than the legend Wasim Akram.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is to seek an explanation from wicketkeeper Umar Akmal after he said in a television interview that he had been approached to fix matches.
Akhtar said he was livid when he came to know that Aamir and Asif had indulged in corruption during a Test against England.
Flamboyant allrounder and former captain, Shahid Afridi believes that Pakistan cricket think-tank has erred by having too many expectations from out of favor batsmen, Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal. "I don't know but it was wrong to expect them to be like Virat Kohli or Ab de Villiers and perform like them," Afridi said on Geo News channel on Monday. Shehzad and Umar considered to be two of the country's best young batting talent have been axed for the tour to England on disciplinary grounds and were not called for the training and skills camps set up by the cricket board. PCB Chairman, Shaharyar Khan made it clear that it was the decision of the new selection committee to sideline the two youngsters. Afridi said there was no doubt that Shehzad and Umar needed to work hard on their cricket and approach. "I also agree there should be no compromise on discipline. But I think it is best if we stop expecting too much from them and just let them be and let them play the way they do. With more experience I am sure they will be much better," he added.
In a massive relief for Mohammad Amir, a Pakistan court rejected a petition against the inclusion of convicted spot-fixer in the national team.
A third man has been arrested in relation to an ongoing investigation into possible corruption in Pakistani cricket, Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) said.
Former Pakistan batsman Nasir Jamshed has been sentenced to 17 months in prison for his role in a fixing scandal, Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) said. The former Test opener was banned for 10 years by an anti-corruption tribunal in 2018 for his part in the spot-fixing scandal that engulfed the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in 2017.
The report said the use of debit cards would allow the ICC Anti-Corruption sleuths to keep trackof all financial transactions during the tournament by players, team and match officials.
Australia's batsmen made mincemeat of a listless Indian bowling attack at Jaipur in the second ODI to post a massive 359 for 5, and also set a new world record in the process with their top five compiling individual half centuries.
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Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt, who too were found guilty of spot-fixing like Kaneria, have been allowed back into the PCB fold.
After their early exit from the Asia Cup, there seems to be more bad news for Pakistan cricket fans with reports of 'infighting' within the national team. As per PTI, captain Shahid Afridi and Pakistan's national coach Waqar Younis are at loggerheads and attempts are being made by Pakistan Cricket Board to sort out the differences ahead of the crucial ICC World T20 in India. Chief selector Haroon Rasheed announced the revised World T20 squad on Monday, but insiders in the board say all is not well even as Pakistan prepares to leave for India on Tuesday night. "The board Chairman, Shaharyar Khan will be meeting with Afridi in Lahore later today while he has had a detailed meeting with Waqar," one well-informed source told PTI. "Waqar, when he met with the Chairman, expressed his displeasure over the working of the national selectors and also voiced some complaints about Afridi," the source added.
Following the footsteps of his fellow banned teammates, disgraced Pakistan pace bowler Mohammad Asif also admitted to spot fixing during a meeting with Subhan Ahmad, the Chief Operating Officer of the Pakistan Cricket Board in Lahore.
Acknowledging the receipt of Pakistan Cricket Board's request letter for tainted pacer Mohammad Amir's early return to cricket, International Cricket Council chief executive officer Dave Richardson on Monday said that the international body has taken note of the issue but the matter will take some time to get resolved.
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