Hamid Hassan came away with mixed memories from the ICC Combined XI match, claiming two key wickets but also needing a trip to hospital ‘My body is now pretty spectacular as I have some interesting coloured bruises, some of which are green, yellow and blue’
(RTTNews) – Pope Benedict XVI on Monday praised an assassinated Christian Pakistani Minister, and called for greater religious tolerance around the world. In his traditional beginning-of-the-year …
Pervez Musharraf President of Pakistan attends the second day of the World Economic Forum January 24, 2008 in Davos, Switzerland. Musharraf would resign in August under impeachment pressure after …
England in the UAE will only give them “a slight edge” when they take on the world's No 1 Test team. Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah have become Pakistan's “home” venues …
It isn’t widely known that the combination of alcohol, sun and cricket makes a person smarter than George Bush at a world environment forum
A former political detainee and a Palestinian researcher specialized in detainees affairs, published a report revealing that as the world marks 2012, and despite the fact that Israel released 1027 detainees as part of the prisoner-swap deal, at least 4500 Palestinian detainees, and dozens of Arab detainees, are still imprisoned in several Israeli interrogation facilities, prisons and detention centers.
England may be the top Test side in the world, but it is a different story in the one-day game, where they are somewhat less than proficient. There was the 6-1 drubbing by Australia after the Ashes and the 5-0 whitewash in India later in the year. But no one expected them to lose to Ireland in the World Cup after they racked up 327 for 8. Not even Kevin O’Brien, who took matters into his own hands with a blistering hundred. In the Telegraph, Jonathan Liew recaps one of…
New Zealand’s best bowler since Richard Hadlee, Shane Bond, had a career tarnished by injury that probably fell into the category of unfulfilled, rather than great
Around the world, cricket is learned in the street, on the savannah, in schools, at clubs, on the beach. But regardless of the backdrop, the common denominator is youth. The first exposure to cricket is usually the province of the young, the pre-teens and teens. As ever, things can be a little different in the New World. Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club has a long history of cricket stretching back well over a century. But a different angle now emerges. As the name implies, TCSCC is more than just…
In an interview to the Sunday Island, Dr Ali Bacher, the former South Africa captain and one of the country’s most recognisable cricket administrators, talks about the pain of isolation from the 1970s, the 2003 World Cup, Hansie Cronje, the dangers of IPL excess and more. I think more players out of the sub-continent will be attracted to India because of the money. The responsibility of playing for the country could become a problem. In addition, I am very happy that the seniors and the best players of the world…