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ICC want urgent solution on suspended trio
Nov 10th
DUBAI: The chief executive of cricket’s governing body on Wednesday said an urgent solution would be sought in resolving the case of three Pakistani players who have been suspended for suspected spot-fixing. Test captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer were provisionally suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) last month following [...]
ICC urges player co-operation after Zulqarnain drama
Nov 10th
DUBAI: Cricket’s governing body on Tuesday called for more co-operation from international cricketers after Pakistan wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider fled the team hotel here claiming he had received death threats. The 24-year-old Haider, who was here with the Pakistan team to play South Africa, Monday fled to London without telling the team management and Anti-corruption and [...]
ICC offers support and assistance to Zulqarnain, PCB
Nov 10th
ICC says it will assist PCB in its probe into wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider’s flight to Britain.
Mystery surrounds Kamran’s exclusion: Pakistan include Adnan, Hafeez in Test squad
Nov 10th
DUBAI, Nov 9: Pakistan on Tuesday included uncapped wicket-keeper Adnan Akmal and Mohammad Hafeez in their squad for the two Test matches against South Africa starting later this week. Pakistan were forced to make the changes after their regular keeper Zulqarnain Haider fled the team hotel in Dubai on Monday and flew to London after [...]
Pakistani fans stay loyal to scandal-plagued team
Nov 9th
DUBAI: Waving the country’s green-and-white flags and dancing in the aisles, the Pakistani fans wildly celebrated yet another well-timed boundary from batsman Mohammed Hafeez against South Africa. The news of the team’s latest troubles – the disappearance of Pakistani wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider, who has sought political asylum in England – was already making the rounds [...]
Zulqarnain quits international cricket, seeks UK asylum
Nov 9th
LONDON: Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider has retired from international cricket and is reportedly seeking political asylum in Britain amid alleged threats from match-fixers. Haider left the Pakistan team in Dubai on Monday and flew to London after claiming he had been offered money to lose matches against South Africa, the latest twist in the fixing [...]
Pakistan wicketkeeper skips ODI, lands in England
Nov 8th
LONDON: Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider arrived in London on Monday after skipping his team’s one-day match against South Africa in Dubai. Haider flew to Heathrow Airport aboard a flight from the United Arab Emirates, where he had been scheduled to play in the deciding one-day international in the series against South Africa. Team officials had [...]
PCB stops Kaneria joining test squad in Dubai
Nov 8th
KARACHI: Pakistan leg spinner Danish Kaneria has been refused clearance from the country’s cricket board to join the squad in Dubai for the test series against South Africa. “He has not been cleared and we have nothing more to say,” Zakir Khan, Pakistan’s director of international operations, told reporters. Kaneria was due to leave with [...]
PCB sends legal notice to Mickey Arthur
Nov 8th
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday warned former South Africa coach Mickey Arthur not to repeat his controversial allegations of match fixing against the Pakistan cricket team in his upcoming biography. The PCB sent a three-page legal notice to Arthur through its lawyer Tafazzul Rizvi warning Arthur against publishing the claims. “Give your written [...]
Pakistan fine three cricketers on discipline violation
Nov 8th
DUBAI: Pakistan team manager Intikhab Alam on Sunday revealed three cricketers were fined for disciplinary reasons, saying there remains no tolerance on the rules implemented in the new code of conduct. Opener Shahzaib Hasan, spinner Abdul Rehman and wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider were fined 500 dirham (136 dollars) for breaking curfew timings during the ongoing one-day [...]
