He, however, did not agree that such a dead wicket was prepared mainly because the home team was under pressure.\n\n
The BCCI president said the Asian Test playing countries would jointly bid for the 2011 or 2015 World Cup.
A team official denied that Sourav Ganguly was included in the playing eleven due to pressure from the BCCI top brass
India Under-19 beat their Pakistan counterparts by 82 runs.
Cricket teams have previously abandoned tours amid outbreaks of violence.
Half centuries from Ashwell Prince and Jacques Kallis guided South Africa to 259 for 6 wickets against Pakistan on the first day of the second Test.
Pakistan Science and Technology Minister Fawad Hussain claimed that Sri Lankan cricket players opted out from the upcoming tour of Pakistan after India threatened them that they will be ousted from the Indian Premier League if they failed to do so.
Two bomb blasts in Lahore have led to a change of venue of a one-day match between the A teams of Pakistan and Australia
The former South African batsman said that Pakistan were very talented but lacked commitment and dedication.
PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan assured the Pakistan captain that he will captain the team on the upcoming tour.
The 19-year-old's parents are among a long list of BCCI's special guests for the Lahore Test.
India has retained the same side that levelled the series 2-2. Pakistan has replace Afridi with Taufeeq Umar.
Pakistan won the third ODI to take an unbeatable 3-0 lead against Bangladesh.
PCB chief executive Ramiz Raja said the wicket will have bounce for the first two days and then will settle down.
They were beaten by Pakistan 'A' in one-day warm-up match by six wickets.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has bought four bulletproof buses as it tries to convince other teams to shed their security apprehensions and visit the country. Pakistan has largely been shunned by teams since 2009 when gunmen attacked a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers, injuring six players and killing six security personnel and two civilians. The incident has forced Pakistan to play their 'home' matches at the United Arab Emirates and the country has since remained starved of international cricket at home, barring Zimbabwe's limited-overs tour in 2015.
Robin Uthappa scored a solid 88 as India beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the final.
A fine all-round performance by Irfan Pathan helped India clinch a narrow 10-run victory against Pakistan in the Asian Under-19 cricket championship.
As Pakistan gets ready to host Zimbabwe in its first proper home series in six years, the Federation of International Cricketers' Association warned against international teams touring the country, stating its security experts have said the "risk is unmanageable".
Sri Lanka registered a 35-run victory over Pakistan in the second T20I
Pakistan won 24 of its 53 Test matches under Misbah and, for the first time, occupied the top Test rankings last year before a dip in form set in.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has returned an amount of seven million rupees to Shoaib Akhtar which it had deducted from the former fast bowler's earnings as part of a fine imposed on him years ago. An official of the board said that during a meeting between Chairman of the executive committee, Najam Sethi and Akhtar, the matter was amicably resolved.
The Pakistan Cricket Board said on Friday that Zimbabwe would tour the country after earlier calling off the series due to security apprehensions after an attack on the minority Ismaili community members in Karachi.
Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, on Friday led Eid prayers at the famous Gaddafi stadium in Lahore, hours after Jamat-ud-Dawah chief tweeted that "time is near when those oppressed in Kashmir, Palestine and Burma will celebrate Eid in the air of Freedom".
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) moved quickly on Tuesday to distance itself from a "sons of pigs" reference to India, England and Australia made by former chairman Ijaz Butt.
Sri Lanka trounced top-ranked Pakistan 3-0 after a 13-run victory in the third and final Twenty20, in front of 27,000 fans at the Gaddafi Stadium, in Lahore, on Wednesday. Needing 54 runs off the last five overs, with eight wickets in hand, Pakistan again stumbled in its run-chase for the third successive time in the series and were restricted to 134-6.
Zimbabwe, chasing a target of 297 to win, were 62-0 at the end of the eighth over when a power failure in a floodlight tower and a heavy sandstorm forced the players to walk off the field at Gaddafi Stadium.
Shoaib Malik hit his first century in six years to help Pakistan beat Zimbabwe in the first One-dayer by 41 runs in Lahore on Tuesday, taking a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has expressed apprehensions about the prospect of Indian cricketers touring Pakistan in near future.
'I would like to take our government's OK, take their view'
Just as they were about a kilometre away from the stadium, Taufel says, he heard something that sounded like firecrackers.
Pakistan's Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi was saved of much embarrassment when a fan stepped in to pay for his meal at a fast food joint in Auckland, after the flamboyant cricketer realised that he was not carrying local currency.
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