The Pakistan Cricket Board suspended all players’ contracts Saturday following the country’s shocking exit from the World Cup and will replace them with performance-based arrangements, its chairman said. “All players’ contracts stand suspended,” board chairman Naseem Ashraf told a news conference in the eastern city of Lahore.
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Warne’s efforts at wooing back his estranged wife have finally paid off as she has agreed to reunite with the Aussie spin legend and move to England with their three children.
Quoting a source close to the couple, ‘The Sunday Telegraph’ reported that Warne and Simone have flown to England to start life afresh. The couple is reportedly set to settle down in Hampshire as Warne still has a couple of years left in his contract with the county side.
“Shane and Simone have been working out their differences and you can draw your own conclusions from that,” a source told the paper.
The Aussie legend was last year divorced by Simone after a string of extra-marital affairs and had been trying to win her back ever since bidding adieu to international cricket after the Ashes this year. The couple continued to live together even after divorce and enjoyed several holidays with their children before deciding to reunite.
They put their mansion in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton for sale before leaving.
Source: India Times Cricket
The Islamabad district administration has decided that it will take action against the students of Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Fareedia madrassas and the operation is likely to start after the hearing of a presidential reference against the Supreme Court chief justice on April 3.
The sources said that a meeting chaired by Islamabad Chief Commissioner Khalid Pervaiz decided that the Rawalpindi police and Rangers would be summoned for an operation against the madrassa students for trying to “Talibanise” the federal capital, adding that the administration was waiting for the Interior Ministry’s approval. Meanwhile, the police have shifted three women and a six-month-old baby freed on Thursday by the madrassa students to an undisclosed location. Muhammed Tariq, a police official said that police had registered a case against Jamia Hafsa Vice Principal Abdul Rashid Ghazi, and more than two dozen students for abducting the three women and the baby and confining them illegally. “We will definitely arrest them,” he said.
In a meeting chaired by Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Chairman, Dr Khalid Masud, and attended by Javed Ghamadi, Dr Manzoor Mughal, Rashid Ahmad Jullandhry, Justice (r) Munir Mughal, Daman Ali Shah, Abdullah Khilji and Said Bibi also expressed concern over the growing lawlessness and religious extremism in the country.
Source: Daily Times
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Mar
Inzamam lashes out!
“These match-fixing allegations are only rumours…I have been captain for last three years and no one said anything like this before. When we were winning no one said there was match-fixing or there was disunity in the team. No one said I run a one-man show in the team. I can tell you this much. We are all terribly disappointed at letting the nation down and I again apologise for that. But the way the media has written muck about me and the players it seems we are not Pakistanis. Do they realise the hurt and anguish they are causing to our families.”
Pakistan’s World Cup captain, Inzamam-ul-Haq today angrily dismissed rumours that his players might have deliberately lost their matches to the West Indies and Ireland and this had led to the death of coach Bob Woolmer.
Star Indian leg spinner, Anil Kumble has called it quits as far as his participation in one-day internationals for India is concerned. He said in a press conference yesterday that while he is retiring from one-day cricket, he hopes to keep playing on in the test arena.
“I’ve thought about this over the past few years and I’m now available only for Test matches,” said the Indian spinner with 337 wickets in 271 limited overs games.
Andrew Flintoff showed him mates how to bowl at the death, rattling the Ireland tail. This after Johnston and White gave England a mini-scare.
Flintoff trapped Langford-Smith plumb in front. Then, he uprooted Kyle McCallan’s stumps as England registered yet another not so impressive victory.
Ireland were bowled out for 218 in the 49th over. The margin of victory was a comfortable 48 runs but England will definitely have to work on quite a few aspects of their game like the top-order batting and bowling at the death if they want to do well in the future games.
England 266 for 7 / Ireland 218; England win by 48 runs
In today’s match, Australia will take on Bangladesh in their Super 8 match.
Pakistani authorities have finally shut down an illegal FM radio station set up by pro-Taleban clerics in Islamabad during growing concern about the spread of Islamist influence.
I have not watched any Bollywood movies lately, so that’s why I chose this time to write about something else than a movie (review). Divya Bharti, a legend to me, but most of us just forgot her as if she was a one day fly. Let’s not forget, that if she was alive today, she might would’ve been more famous than Aishwarya Rai. Atleast that is certainly what I believe.
Continue reading ‘The perfect woman: A tribute to Divya Bharti’
Former Australia captain Ian Chappell has suggested what millions of India fans had been dreading to hear - Sachin Tendulkar should pack up his bat and retire.
Chappell, whose younger brother Greg could be sacked as India’s coach next week after the team’s first-round exit from the World Cup in the Caribbean, said Tendulkar was past his prime and must retire.
“At the moment he looks like a player trying to eke out a career; build on a glittering array of statistics. If he really is playing for that reason and not to help win as many matches as he can for India then he is wasting his time and should retire immediately,“ the senior Chappell wrote in the Mumbai-based Mid-Day newspaper.
A suicide attacker blew himself up at a military training ground in eastern Pakistan on Thursday, killing one soldier and wounding at least six more, officials said.The bomber detonated explosives at a training ground near the city of Kharian, 130 kilometers (80 miles) southeast of the capital, Islamabad. Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said one soldier was killed and six others wounded. However, military and police officials said seven were wounded. Continue reading ‘Suicide bomb attack in kharian Cantt’
Mirror UK reported yesterday that Pakistan cricket chiefs threatened their World Cup team with severe penalties to force them to play following the death of Bob Woolmer.
It is claimed that captain Inzamam-ul-Haq had told the players the team would not play the Group D game against Zimbabwe which was held three days after Woolmer’s body was found.
“It took a late-night telephone call to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and threats of severe penalties for Inzamam and the players to finally relent. The manager, Talat Ali put his foot down and, backed by the board, told Inzamam and senior players in a meeting that they would not decide which match to play and they must fulfil their commitment against Zimbabwe. Talat told them they would not be allowed to have their way as they had done during last year’s Oval Test against England,” a source close to the team revealed.
A woman seized by female seminary students and accused of running a brothel was freed yesterday after a hard-line cleric forced her to repent in public. The episode in vigilante justice shows the boldness of Islamic extremists in Pakistan.
Students had seized the woman and several of her relatives from her home late Tuesday during an anti-vice campaign in the capital, taking the law into their own hands and embarrassing President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s military-dominated government.
The students are disciples of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, vice principal of the Jamia Hafsa seminary and a cleric at the adjoining Lal Masjid mosque. The mosque has a reputation for preaching hard-line Islam as well as links to an outlawed militant group accused in sectarian attacks on Shiites.
Continue reading ‘Hardline clerics free alleged brothel owners’
West Indies might have begun the World Cup with hopes of breaking the home-team jinx and winning the big prize, but two losses over three days in the Super Eights have dented their chances, leaving them with plenty of work to do in their remaining four games. Australia dispatched them by 103 runs, New Zealand comfortably enough by seven wickets, and the shoulders of the men in maroon drooped just a touch by the end of a tiring few days.
New Zealand 179 for 3 (Styris 80*) beat West Indies 177 (Gayle 44, Oram 3-23) by seven wickets
Today, England will take on Ireland in the super 8 match which promises to be as entertaining a battle as is between Pakistan and India. Don’t miss out on this one!
LONDON March 30: Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer’s mysterious death took a new twist with a media report linking his murder to Dawood Ibrahim and Al Qaeda.
A report in The Sun claimed a Pakistan-based bookie was thrown out of Woolmer’s room after an altercation with the coach.
The daily quoted sources claiming that the bookie, who had vanished after Woolmer’s death on March 18, is an associate of Dawood Ibrahim, who is wanted over funding Al Qaeda and also for the 1993 Mumbai blasts.
The report quoted intelligence officials as saying that the bookie was seen at the World Cup in Jamaica with Dawood’s brother Anees.
Jamaican officials, however, said they were not told by the Pakistani cricketers about any such row between the coach and the bookie.
The report claimed that two Pakistani players, in their statement to police, mentioned a furious bust-up.
“Bob Woolmer said he had thrown a bookie out of his room. He didnt give a reason,” an official said.
Deputy Commissioner of Jamaican Police Mark Shields said, “This issue has come up before but we have so far been unable to substantiate it.”
“But we are prepared to consider it further now that we have names and more details. We will be investigating.”
Woolmer was found strangled in his 12th floor room of Pegasus Hotel room on March 18, hours after Pakistan’s shock World Cup defeat against minnows Ireland.
Source : Mangalorean.com
PAKISTAN cricket coach Bob Woolmer’s killer used some sort of fabric - possibly a hotel towel - to strangle him, police said today. Such a method would explain why no marks were found on his neck.
Mark Shields, Jamaica’s Deputy Commissioner of Police, also revealed today that police now had “video grabs”, or images, of every person who entered Woolmer’s 12th-floor hotel corridor on the night he was killed.
Continue reading ‘Hotel towel was used to strangle Woolmer: police’
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