Stephen Brenkley, writing in the Independent, says Pakistan have rebuilt considerably since the scandal-marred England tour in 2010, ensuring consistency in team selection under Misbah-ul-Haq. But the behaviour of both teams, he says, will be closely scrutinized for signs of friction. Pakistan seem, in short, to have got their act together. But that will not prevent an air of suspicion and intrigue around the Dubai International Cricket Stadium tomorrow. Misbah and Mohsin are trying desperately to move on. They have convinced their colleagues to forget the past and England too…
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Pervez Musharraf will visit Saudi Arabia this month to shore up international support for his eventual return, his spokesman confirmed. Chaudry Fawad told The News in Pakistan Musharraf would take …
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TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court on genocide charges, said on Saturday he has offered to help Libya integrate its dozens of …
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“Six successive defeats abroad, the imminent departure of three giants, the crumbling of the Test team: Indian cricket faces its most existential interrogation since the match-fixing scandal. But all it seems to bother with is Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th international century. Strange priority,” writes Ashok Malik in the Pioneer. Ever in denial, there are those in India who say MS Dhoni’s team is paying for the pressure of awaiting Tendulkar’s 100th. The pressure, if any, should be on him. Why should it bother the rest of the team, all 10 of…
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Remember Gavin Robertson, the Australia offspinner who made his Test debut against India in Chennai in 1998, and then fell off the international circuit after a few months? In the Sydney Morning Herald, Daniel Lane narrates what happened to Robertson after his Australia and New South Wales career. Not all of it is pretty, but Robertson’s story turns out okay. Dropped from the national team and axed by NSW, off-spinner Gavin Robertson fell from being a respected athlete to a 31-year-old father who depended on social welfare payments to feed…
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By Stuart John, Australia Can Ed Cowan make more out of his international career than his English namesake?
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Convicted Pakistani pace bowler Muhammad Asif has filed an appeal against his International Cricket Council (ICC) ban in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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United States may bring it international isolation on the economic front, Pakistan's finance minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh on Friday told the parliamentary committee tasked by the government to …
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SYDNEY: Sachin Tendulkar again fell short of his 100th international century when he was dismissed for 80 in India
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A Pakistani employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) gestures next to the vehicle of British employee Khalil Ahmad Dale in Quetta on January 5, 2012. Unidentified gunmen …
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