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Friday, 14 March 2014

Rawalpindi Express turns into Singing Track

Shoaib Akhtar one of the fastest bowlers of all-time and is also known as ‘Rawalpindi Express’ is now debuting as a “Singer”.

He is all set to make a debut in music industry with his first ever recorded song for upcoming Pakistani patriotic movie ‘Saya-e-Khuda e Zuljalal’.

Shoaib Akhter who is known for his deadly bouncers will now do a patriotic song. Lets see how well he sings. Wait and watch.....

Zimbabwe warms up with a win 
                      Masakadza guides team to win over Afghanistan ahead of World T20 main rounds.UAe also got a win over Nepal.
     To see full fixtures and results of ICC T20 matches click on the following link

http://icc-cricket.com/world-t20/fixtures/men
                                            
                                                              HZY

Afridi hopes to regain fitness ahead of World T20

               Pakistan allrounder Shahid Afridi said on Thursday he was hopeful of a quick recovery from injury in time for the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh next week after his exploits at the Asia Cup.
The 34-year-old hurt his groin during the recent one-day tournament, which concluded last week and was also held in Bangladesh.
As a result he will not fly out with the team early on Friday (today), and instead travel on Monday.
“I am recovering well and (will) hopefully play at least one warm-up match,” Afridi told reporters.
He is set to miss Pakistan´s first warm-up match against New Zealand on Monday. Pakistan´s second warm-up match will be against South Africa on March 19.
One of cricket´s hardest hitters, his sparkling form with the bat helped Pakistan beat arch-rivals India in the Asia Cup, sealing victory in the last over by striking successive sixes.
He followed up with a whirlwind 25-ball 59 to anchor a tough 327-run chase against hosts Bangladesh, before Pakistan stumbled in the final to eventual winners Sri Lanka.
But Afridi said Pakistan could still take heart from their victory over India, against whom they will play in their first proper match of the tournament in Dhaka on March 21.
“The Asia Cup win over India will benefit us,” said Afridi, but cautioned, “we have to be at our best to beat India who will now be with (Mahendra Singh) Dhoni.”
Afridi, who also bowls leg-spin, will be the key to Pakistan´s World Twenty20 campaign.
In 70 Twenty20 matches, Afridi has 1044 runs and 73 wickets.
Afridi was player of the tournament in the inaugural World Twenty20 held in South Africa, with Pakistan finishing runners-up to India.
He was man-of-the-match in the semi-final and final in Pakistan´s only World Twenty20 triumph in England in 2009.
“I can´t see a better (limited-overs) combination in the world than Pakistan because our bowling is good, batting is good but the only mistake we are doing that´s in fielding and fielding is the most essential thing in limited-over cricket,” Afridi said.
            HZY

Thursday, 13 March 2014

Hafeez hopes to gain momentum with India win

                          Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez on Wednesday said he hoped his team gets a much-needed lift from their match against arch-rivals India, which opens the main round of the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.
The fifth edition of the World Twenty20 with 16 teams in competition will be held from March 16 to April 6.
Bangladesh, ranked 10th in the world, have been drawn with Afghanistan, Nepal and Hong Kong in group A of the first round.
The other group comprises Zimbabwe, Ireland, the United Arab Emirates and the Netherlands. The top team from each group advances to the main tournament. They will join the eight seeded teams in the second, which opens with Indo-Pak match on March 21.
Hafeez wants his team to get the ideal start by beating India.

                                   “India-Pakistan match is always a pressure match, as a player as a captain I am very happy that our first match is against India and from there we will, Insha’Allah get a good take off and will perform better in all the matches during the tournament,”
                                                                                                         Hafeez told reporters.
The Pakistan team flies off on Thursday (today) and will play two warm-up matches, against New Zealand on March 17 and South Africa two days later.
Pakistan are placed in Group Two in the second round along with India, Australia, the West Indies and one qualifier from the first round.
Hafeez believed Pakistan had the momentum with a win over India in the Asia Cup.
“I think we will have that momentum of our win against India in the Asia Cup,” said Hafeez of the one wicket win in the Asia Cup earlier this month.
“We have advantage that where we are going (Bangladesh) we have played one-day cricket there recently. We have one week to get back into Twenty20 mould, expectations should be always positive and we all need to move in one direction.”
Hafeez said no team will be easy in the event.
“Lots of teams are playing Twenty20 now and you can´t take any team easy, you have to be positive in your thinking against all the teams. I think two things are very important in a big tournament, one is momentum which you have to carry and the second is luck and with the prayers of countrymen the luck factor will also be with us.”
Hafeez hopes Shahid Afridi will be fit in time for the World Twenty20 after the hard-hitting allrounder delayed his departure to Bangladesh.
Afridi played in the Asia Cup final on Saturday with painkillers after he hurt his hamstring with some powerful late hitting during two nail-biting victories against India and Bangladesh last week.
“As a captain I need a fit Afridi, and that´s why we have given him time to rehab,” Hafeez said.
Afridi’s fitness could be tested in the second warm-up game against South Africa next Wednesday before the 2009 winners´ first group match against India two days later.
Afridi is the most capped Twenty20 International player with 70 matches, bagging 73 wickets with his legspin bowling and scoring 1,044 runs at an impressive strike rate of 143.01.
Hafeez said fitness was one of the key issues with the team because it has been playing international cricket nonstop for five months.
“When you play back-to-back matches, the fitness of individuals counts a lot,” Hafeez said.
“Fitness is the problem of the Pakistan team, but it needs to be improved at the grassroots level.”
The dip in the form of Umar Gul, the second highest wicket-taker in T20s with 74, and Junaid Khan, worries Hafeez after both fast bowlers combined for only six wickets during the Asia Cup.
“The performance of the fast bowlers will be the key for us because they have to play their roles with both the new and old ball,” he said.
“(Bowling coach) Mohammad Akram is working hard with both of them in the nets, but in the end it´s up to them to go out and perform.”Fielding is another area of concern, as Pakistan dropped at least three catches in the Asia Cup final loss to Sri Lanka.
The Pakistan Cricket Board hired former Test opener Shoaib Mohammad as the fielding coach before the Asia Cup, but Hafeez said it will take time to implement the coach’s techniques.
“He (Mohammad) has never worked as a fielding coach with any national team,” he said. “He is giving us some new ideas and we are trying to adopt those things, but it will take some time.”
Pakistan have recalled allrounder Shoaib Malik, wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal, left-arm fast bowler Sohail Tanvir and left-arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar in the four changes made from the team which played in the Asia Cup.

                                                             HZY

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Rashid feels Younis khan and Shahid Afridi are notable options for Pakistan Odi skipper.


Rashid latif, new chief selector of pakistan says that Shahid khan Afridi and Younis khan are notable options for the new odi skipper.
shahid khan afridi and younis khan both are very senior players.Rashid thinks that its time to take advantage of their experience.

lets take a look over their profile

younis khan
Full name                  Mohammad Younis Khan
Born                          November 29, 1977, Mardan, North-West Frontier Province
Current age              36 years 103 days
Major teams            Pakistan, Habib Bank Limited, Nottinghamshire, Peshawar Cricket Association,  Rajasthan Royals, South Australia, Surrey, Warwickshire, Yorkshire
Also known as        Younus Khan
Playing role             Middle-order batsman
Batting style            Right-hand bat
Bowling style           Right-arm medium, Legbreak
                                  Batting and fielding averages

Batting and Fielding

Mat   Inns
 Runs   HS  Ave BF SR   100   50 4s   6s   Ct
Tests   89      158
 7399    313  51.38   14250   51.92   23   28   829   44   98
ODIs  253   243
7014   144  31.88   9307   75.36   6   48   560   53   131
T20Is   25        23
442     51  22.10   364 1  21.42   0   2   31   12   12












































Shahid Afridi

Full name                   Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi
Born                           March 1, 1980, Khyber Agency
Current age               34 years 11 days
Major teams             Pakistan, Asia XI, Deccan Chargers, Dhaka Gladiators, Fly Emirates XI, Griqualand West, Habib Bank Limited, Hampshire, ICC World XI, Karachi, Leicestershire, Melbourne Renegades, South Australia
Playing role              Allrounder
Batting style              Right-hand bat
Bowling style           Legbreak googly



Bowling
                 matches     wickets    econ.   
test            27                48          3.21
Odi            378            378          4.62
T20           70               73            6.48


 Batting and fielding averages

 

Mat    Inns    Runs    HS Ave BF SR 100   50  4s 6s Ct
Tests 27 48
1716   156   36.51   1973   86.97  5    8   220   52   10
ODIs 378 350
7619   124   23.44   6590   115.61  6    36   683   333   119
T20Is 70 65
1044    54*  18.98    730   143.01  0    4    85   41   20


Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Pakistan Matches


                   Green shirts are ready to encounter the hurdles between the ICC World T20 World Cup 2014 champion title and them.Pakistan team has worked very hard to achieve this title.They are very confident of wining this world cup.

          Pakistan will play their first match against their traditional opponent India.
The fixtures of Pakistani team are

1)  India           VS         Pakistan
   
 
 
  Match 13, Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur.
     March 21st 2014
     1:30pm GMT




 2)  Pakistan    VS        Australia
  
   Match 16, Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur.
     March 23rd 2014
     9:30am GMT
 
 
 
3)  Pakistan    VS      TBD (A1)
 
 
    Match 27, Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur.
     March 30th 2014
     9:30am GMT
 
 
 
4)  West Indies   VS       Pakistan
     
Match 32, Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur.
     April 1st 2014
     1:30pm GMT 
                                        
   HZY

Monday, 10 March 2014

Big Match.

PAK      VS   INDIA



Pakistan is ready to face Indian team in the ICC T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.
This would not be only the match but a great fight between the two countries.They would play for their honour.
India would try to take the revenge from the Pkistani team while Pakistan will try to maintain their victory over the Indian team.
This is going to be a wonderful and worth seeing match for all the viewers and also for the crowd.
Match will start at 1:30 GMT(6:30 PST)
 on March 21st 2014
at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium.


The squad for both the teams are as follow :

  1. India: 
  1.  Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain),    
  2. Varun Aaron,
  3.  Stuart Binny, 
  4. Shikhar Dhawan,
  5.  Ravindra Jadeja,
  6.  Virat Kohli, 
  7. Bhuvneshwar Kumar,
  8.  Amit Mishra,
  9.  Ajinkya Rahane,
  10.  Ravichandran Ashwin,
  11.  Suresh Raina,
  12.  Mohammad Shami,
  13.  Mohit Sharma,
  14.  Rohit Sharma,
  15.  Yuvraj Singh



  1. Pakistan:
  1.   Mohammad Hafeez (captain),
  2.  Ahmed Shehzad,
  3.  Bilawal Bhatti,
  4.  Junaid Khan,
  5.  Kamran Akmal, 
  6. Saeed Ajmal, 
  7. Shahid Afridi,
  8.  Sharjeel Khan,
  9.  Shoaib Malik,
  10.  Sohaib Maqsood, 
  11. Sohail Tanvir,
  12.  Mohammad Talha,
  13.  Umar Akmal,
  14.  Umar Gul,
  15.  Zulfiqar babar


    HZY