Cricket: PCB has announced national squad for Srilanka tour

LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced the national squad for imminent tour against Srilanka leaving Misbah-ul-Haq as a captain of the team.

Muhammad Hafeez will not play in Test while Wahab Riaz makes his resugence.

Test Squad:
 1. Ahmed Shehzad
2. Khurram Manzoor
3. Shan Masood
4. Azhar Ali
5. Younis Khan
6. Misbah-ul-Haq - Captain
7. Asad Shafiq
8. Umar Akmal
9. Sarfraz Ahmed - WK
10. Saeed Ajmal
11. Abdur Rehman
12. Mohammad Talha
13. Junaid Khan
14. Rahat Ali
15. Wahab Riaz


ODI Squad:
1. Ahmed Shehzad
2. Sharjeel Khan
3. Mohammad Hafeez
4. Misbah-ul-Haq - (Captain)
5. Younis Khan
6. Umar Akmal
7. Fawad Alam
8. Sohaib Maqsood
9. Shahid Afridi
10. Anwar Ali
11. Saeed Ajmal  (read more....)

Football World Cup 2014: Germany's klose eclipsed Ronaldo of Brazil with his 16th goal in World Cup

BELO HORIZONTE: Germany striker Miroslav Klose became the World Cup's all-time record scorer with his 16th goal during their semi-final against Brazil, transcending Brazil's striker Ronaldo's record with his 23rd minute strike


Klose made level records of 15 in their first round match against Ghana, the goal was his first in a World Cup semi-final and chiefly most important for Germany.


"I don't think I can really measure what it all means just yet," said Klose, who said that he is playing his game just "I'm a striker and strikers want to score goals. And naturally I want to stay on top of the scorers list as long as possible."

 Klose was asked " why he didn't do the mid-air flip on Tuesday?", he replied (read more....)

Football World Cup 2014: Host Brazil hand over match to Germany by getting worse defeat

BELO HORIZONTE: Germany obliterated host Brazil with 7-1, at Belo Horizonte Tuesday to become finalist in the World Cup final.


Brazil, completely disappointed with defense giving five goals in the first 29 minutes and unbelievable thing happened to them was no score in 90th minute. Brazilian captain Thiago Silva was been outside because of yellow card suspension, but that wasn't the reason for most exhaustive defeat of whole team.


If taking records in the story, Brazil have never got such big defeat in any International tournament since 1935 and never put on such a shambolic defensive performance as during an 18 minute first half period when Germany got four goals, three of them in just 179 seconds.

Thomas Mueller scored in the 11th minute, Klose after 23 to take his World Cup total to 16, Toni Kroos in the 24th and 26th minutes, Sami Khedira after 29 and substitute Andre Schuerrle in the 69th and 79th minutes but after all disappointments Brazil (read more...)

Football World Cup 2014: "Argentina vs Nether land" crucial match for nations

 SAO PAULO: After the stunning victory of Germany over hosts Brazil with 7-1, Argentina is going to meet 2010's runner-up in second semi-final in Sao Paulo at Wednesday's night for the first time since 1990.


Netherlands front line of Robin Van Persie and Arjen Robben can be critical for Argentina while Robben has been on fire so far in the tournament.

But Argentina is not behind others, having a great forward with Lionel Messi and Auegero, both can score at any time so match will be unpredictable.


 Netherlands has bewildered many of their fans by reaching the last four with a squad of which 
very little was expected. Whereas the team depends on a large number of Eredivisie-based players was thought to be a weakness, the brunt of many of the lesser names has been a real strength in the run to the semifinals.

The dutch has been wonderful since start of their tournament as they defeated Spain with great score of 5-1 and Dutch side will expecting much from (read more.....)

Cricket: Bngladesh's former captain banned for six month by BCB

Dhaka: Bangladesh former captain and allrounder Shakib-ul-Hassan has been banned for six months from all cricket activities due to his ''severe attitude problem''.

Reports tell that he has been banned from all cricket for six months and will not be granted an NOC to play in overseas competitions until the end of 2015. The accord was taken at a board of directors meeting in Dhaka on Monday.

BCB president Nazmul Hassan said the sanction, which was dropped down at a board of directors meeting, emanated from Shakib's recent behavioral issues.    

Hassan said Shakib has a ''severe attitude problem,'' worse than any of attitude seen before in the team.
''If he was a player who played just once and nobody knew him, that would (read more....)

Football World Cup 2014: Argentina vs Netherland, Di Maria out of the Argentina's squad

BELO HORIZONTE: Argentina's midfielder Angel Di Maria will miss his semi-final match against Dutch but his place has been recovered by Sergio Aguero, who has revived from muscle strain, and will play in forward position.

Di Maria was hobbled off the field in first half of quarter-final against Belgium getting his right thigh back muscle strained, while Argentina also claimed victory in that match.

It was "first deal" strain said team doctor Daniel Martinez on Sunday — the mildest kind but added that Di Maria wouldn't be fit to play in Wednesday's semifinal.

Martinez also informed of the Aguero, who had also suffered from similar problem 10 days ago, he has recovered and is able to play on Wednesday.

 Di Maria abscent could have more effect on the result for Argentina in their semis match against Netherland , and he was going to play his first semi-final match since 1990. Besides Lionel Messi, he's been the team's most persuasive player in Brazil.

But the squad has been seen relaxed, laughing and joking with their coach Alejandro Sabella in practise

"The group as a whole is very happy, except for (read more.....)

 

Cricket: Hosts Srilankan team made to face defeat

COLOMBO: Hashim Amla, once again, inspired with his clinical batting and scored century to make Southafrica taking 75 runs victory over Srilanka in first One-day International , Sunday.

Amla struck eight fours and a six in his 130-ball knock of 109 to guide South Africa to a total of 304 for five wickets after they won the toss and opted to bat first in Colombo.

The opening batsman and skipper AB de Villiers (75) put on 151 off 140 balls after Sri Lanka had struck twice in four balls to dismiss Quinton de Kock for 27 and Jacques Kallis for a two-ball duck.
Sri Lanka began their reply well, making 122-2 in the 23rd over, but with bad light set to become a factor, they lost wickets cheaply making to keep up with the Duckworth-Lewis method run rate and were dismissed for 229 in 40.3 overs.
Kumar Sangakkara also responded with a fine 88 off just 84 balls and (read more....)