Cricket Lovers - PakAlumni Worldwide: The Global Social Network 2024-03-29T14:42:16Zhttp://www.pakalumni.com/forum/categories/1119293:Category:645/listForCategory?feed=yes&xn_auth=noWhat do you see the Future of Umar Akmal in a team?tag:www.pakalumni.com,2018-04-13:1119293:Topic:1204112018-04-13T06:16:57.241ZUsmanAlihttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/UsmanAli
<p>Will Umar Akmal be selected as a T20 and ODI series of Pakistan in this season or not?</p>
<p>Will Umar Akmal be selected as a T20 and ODI series of Pakistan in this season or not?</p> Pak vs Zim Live Match Scorecard 31st Aug 2013tag:www.pakalumni.com,2013-08-30:1119293:Topic:945852013-08-30T13:13:46.670ZKhurramhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/Khurram
<p style="text-align: center;">Get Zimbabwe vs Pakistan 3rd ODI Live Scorecard. Zimbabwe will take on Pakistan in Pakistan in Zimbabwe ODI Series. Zimbabwe vs Pakistan 3rd ODI Live Streaming would play on Aug 31, 2013. 3rd ODI Match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe will be held at Harare.<br></br><br></br><a href="http://www.lahorimela.com/sports/cricket/pakistan-vs-zimbabwe-3rd-odi-match-live-score-31st-august-2013.html" target="_blank">Pakistan vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI Live Match…</a><br></br><br></br></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Get Zimbabwe vs Pakistan 3rd ODI Live Scorecard. Zimbabwe will take on Pakistan in Pakistan in Zimbabwe ODI Series. Zimbabwe vs Pakistan 3rd ODI Live Streaming would play on Aug 31, 2013. 3rd ODI Match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe will be held at Harare.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.lahorimela.com/sports/cricket/pakistan-vs-zimbabwe-3rd-odi-match-live-score-31st-august-2013.html" target="_blank">Pakistan vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI Live Match</a><br/><br/><a target="_blank" href="http://i0.wp.com/www.lahorimela.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Pakistan-vs-Zimbabwe-2011.png?zoom=1.5&resize=450%2C208"><img class="align-center" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.lahorimela.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Pakistan-vs-Zimbabwe-2011.png?zoom=1.5&resize=450%2C208"/></a><br/><br/><br/>Match: Pakistan vs Zimbabwe 3rd ODI Live Scorecard<br/>Date: 31st August 2013<br/>Time: (09:30 local | 07:30 GMT | 12:30 PKT)<br/>Venue: Harare Sports Club<br/>Umpires: RK Illingworth and TJ Matibiri<br/>TV umpire: RB Tiffin<br/>Match referee: JJ Crowe<br/>Reserve umpire: S Rwaziyeni<br/><br/><br/>Pakistan vs Zim series 2013 is going great where Pakistan won 1st Series of T20 by clean sweep and Now in ODI (One Day International) series Pakistan and Zimbabwe both are won 1,1 matches and today (Saturday) is the 3rd and last match of this current series. Best of Luck Pakistan…<br/><br/><a href="http://pkliveinfo.blogspot.com/2013/08/pak-vs-zim-live-match-score.html" target="_blank">PAK vs ZIM Live Match Score</a><br/><br/><br/>Pakistan Squad: Misbah-ul-Haq*, Abdur Rehman, Ahmed Shehzad, Anwar Ali, Asad Ali, Asad Shafiq, Haris Sohail, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Irfan, Nasir Jamshed, Saeed Ajmal, Sarfraz Ahmed†, Shahid Afridi, Umar Amin<br/><br/>Zimbabwe Squad: BRM Taylor*†, TL Chatara, E Chigumbura, MT Chinouya, T Maruma, H Masakadza, SW Masakadza, TMK Mawoyo, N Mushangwe, TC Mutombodzi, R Mutumbami, T Panyangara, V Sibanda, Sikandar Raza, P Utseya, BV Vitori, MN Waller, SC Williams<br/>Pakistan vs Zimbabwe, Pakistan,Zimbabwe, Cricket, PAK vs ZIM Live Match, Live Scorecard</p> Pakistan vs Zimbabwe 1st T20 live score 23rd Aug 2013tag:www.pakalumni.com,2013-08-23:1119293:Topic:943722013-08-23T11:50:23.937ZKhurramhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/Khurram
<p>Pakistan (PAK) vs (ZIM) Zimbabwe 1st T20 live Match will be played on Friday, August 23, 2013. According to Pakistan Standard Times the match has began at 16:30. Dont miss the match. Best of Luck Pakistan Team Here below you can see the squad/player list of both cricket teams.<a href="http://www.lahorimela.com/live-cricket" target="_blank">Pakistan vs Zimbabwe Live Score</a></p>
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<p>Pakistan: Mohammad Hafeez*, Ahmed Shehzad, Anwar Ali, Asad Ali, Haris Sohail, Junaid Khan, Mohammad…</p>
<p>Pakistan (PAK) vs (ZIM) Zimbabwe 1st T20 live Match will be played on Friday, August 23, 2013. According to Pakistan Standard Times the match has began at 16:30. Dont miss the match. Best of Luck Pakistan Team Here below you can see the squad/player list of both cricket teams.<a href="http://www.lahorimela.com/live-cricket" target="_blank">Pakistan vs Zimbabwe Live Score</a></p>
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<p>Pakistan: Mohammad Hafeez*, Ahmed Shehzad, Anwar Ali, Asad Ali, Haris Sohail, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan, Nasir Jamshed, Saeed Ajmal, Sarfraz Ahmed†, Shahid Afridi, Sohaib Maqsood, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Amin, Zulfiqar Babar</p>
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<p>Zimbabwe: BRM Taylor*†, RW Chakabva†, TL Chatara, CJ Chibhabha, E Chigumbura, MT Chinouya, AG Cremer, T Maruma, SW Masakadza, TMK Mawoyo, N Mushangwe, TC Mutombodzi, T Panyangara, V Sibanda, Sikandar Raza, P Utseya, BV Vitori, MN Waller, SC Williams. <a href="http://www.lahorimela.com/sports/cricket/pakistan-vs-zimbabwe-1st-t20-match-live-scorecard.html" target="_blank">pakistan vs Zimbabwe 1st T20 live score</a></p> T20 Cricket Wins----A Metaphor For Life in Pakistantag:www.pakalumni.com,2009-11-14:1119293:Topic:659992009-11-14T17:25:05.625ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
Pakistanis are often characterized by stories of "individual excellence" and "collective failures" on the world stage. And there is some evidence to support such a characterization in Pakistan and abroad. However, the recent string of seven T20 international cricket wins, <a href="http://www.riazhaq.com/2009/06/pakistan-crowned-t20-world-champs.html">including the 2020 world championship</a>, by Shahid Afridi's boys demonstrates the potential for collective success under competent and spirited…
Pakistanis are often characterized by stories of "individual excellence" and "collective failures" on the world stage. And there is some evidence to support such a characterization in Pakistan and abroad. However, the recent string of seven T20 international cricket wins, <a href="http://www.riazhaq.com/2009/06/pakistan-crowned-t20-world-champs.html">including the 2020 world championship</a>, by Shahid Afridi's boys demonstrates the potential for collective success under competent and spirited leadership.<br />
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Cricket in Pakistan is more than a national obsession; it is a metaphor for life. Pakistani cricket is endowed with tremendous raw talent. But the national team captains have often failed in translating it into significant success in major international events. The last time Pakistan won the Cricket World Cup was in 1992. The T20 cricket has been marked by much improved quality of Pakistani leadership recently. After the seventh straight 2020 win against New Zealand today in Dubai, the energized Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi gave credit to the good teamwork among the T20 squad. Unlike Pakistan's rulers, Afridi is not a <a href="http://www.riazhaq.com/2009/08/ode-to-feudal-prince-of-pakistan.html">feudal prince</a>. He has not inherited the cricket leadership position. He has earned it by working hard and by showing the ability to lead people to success.<br />
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Speaking from my own experience, I have seen some of the brightest and most successful individuals from Pakistan in Silicon Valley. They are top business executives, <a href="http://southasiainvestor.blogspot.com/2008/06/open-forum-2008-pakistani-american.html">entrepreneurs</a>, venture capitalists, researchers and professionals contributing to the success of Silicon Valley. Most came from Pakistan's middle class with good education but little or no money. They attended some of the best universities in America and joined some of the top companies before starting out on their own to become professionally and financially successful. Many have also demonstrated their leadership skills in an environment that promotes meritocracy.<br />
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Unfortunately, meritocracy in politics has never thrived in Pakistan, at least in part because landowning remains almost the only social base from which national leadership can emerge. In general, the educated middle class in Pakistan and the talented leaders from urban areas are largely excluded from competing for the top positions in government, and denied a chance to provide the badly needed leadership to achieve collective national success.<br />
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In spite of the current and past failures of national political leadership, I am optimistic about the future of Pakistan. With the <a href="http://www.riazhaq.com/2008/08/musharrafs-economic-legacy.html">robust economic growth</a> averaging 7 percent and availability of millions of new jobs created between 2000 and 2008, there has been increased rural to urban migration in Pakistan to fill the jobs in growing manufacturing and service sectors. The level of urbanization in Pakistan is now the highest in South Asia, and its urban population is likely to equal its rural population by 2030, according to a <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007/06/28/story_28-6-2007_pg7_9">report</a> titled ‘Life in the City: Pakistan in Focus’, released by the <a href="http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2007/presskit/pdf/sowp2007_eng.pdf">United Nations Population Fund</a>. Pakistan ranks 163 and India at 174 on a list of over 200 countries compiled by <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_urb-people-urbanization">Nationmaster</a>. The urban population now contributes about three quarters of Pakistan's gross domestic product and almost all of the government revenue. The industrial sector contributes over 27% of the GDP, higher than the 19% contributed by agriculture, with services accounting for the rest of the GDP.<br />
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With the shifting demographics over this decade and the next, the center of political power is expected to move from rural to urban Pakistan, opening up the opportunities for more competent national leaders to emerge from the educated urban middle class. Combining the considerable individual talent in Pakistan with improved leadership should pave the way for turning Pakistan's <a href="http://www.riazhaq.com/2009/11/is-pakistan-too-big-to-fail.html">collective failure</a> into collective national success.<br />
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International cricket megastars with large paychecks to match their egos, Bollywood's elite actors, big business magnates, provocatively dressed cheerleaders, the big sports media, huge worldwide audience, deep pocket sponsors all come together to put on spectacular three hour, 2020 games of the two newly formed Indian cricketing leagues.<br />
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This is a revolution in the world of cricket, a sleepy, colonial era, gentleman's game that the British brought to their colonies including India and…
International cricket megastars with large paychecks to match their egos, Bollywood's elite actors, big business magnates, provocatively dressed cheerleaders, the big sports media, huge worldwide audience, deep pocket sponsors all come together to put on spectacular three hour, 2020 games of the two newly formed Indian cricketing leagues.<br />
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This is a revolution in the world of cricket, a sleepy, colonial era, gentleman's game that the British brought to their colonies including India and Pakistan. Taking a leaf from the sports leagues in US and Europe, it represents a coming of age for the business of sports in India. According to the New York Times, the Indian billionaires are for the first time staking their prestige on sports teams. The Indian Premier League’s most expensive franchise, at nearly $111.9 million, is the Mumbai Indians, fittingly owned by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. The flamboyant liquor baron Vijay Mallya picked up the Bangalore-based Royal Challengers for $111.6 million, and the actor Shah Rukh Khan is backing the Kolkata Knight Riders for $75.09 million.<br />
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Forbes magazine reports that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), a nonprofit body controlling the game in the country, has racked up $1 billion to date from selling commercial rights to Indian cricket for the next five years. (One source: Nike paid $45 million to flash its logo on players' apparel and to sell garments to cricket fans.) "It's all about extracting the most value," said Lalit Modi, BCCI's new marketing chief, who hopes to eventually make $1.5 billion from Indian cricket, ten times what BCCI made in the last go-around.<br />
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IPL offered contracts to several Pakistani players including Shoaib Malik, Shoaib Akhtar, Muhammad Asif, Shahid Afridi, Younis Khan, Muhammad Yousaf and Inzamam ul Haq.<br />
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According to the BBC, the players were offered to the franchisees in an auction process. Australia captain Ponting is among 13 of his compatriots in a pool of international cricketers available to the franchises, which were allowed to spend a maximum of $5m (£2.565m) on eight contracted players.<br />
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The winning bids, which were selected electronically in a sealed room, offered Pakistani players as follows: Shoaib Akhtar $425,000, Younis Khan $225,000, Kamran Akmal $150,000 and Umar Gul $150,000. These amounts are several times larger than the current compensation they receive from PCB.<br />
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The top 10 auction winning auction bids in February were:<br />
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Mahendra Dhoni: $1.5m (Chennai)<br />
Andrew Symonds: $1.35m (Hyderabad)<br />
Sanath Jayasuriya: $975,000 (Mumbai)<br />
Ishant Sharma: $950,000 (Kolkata)<br />
Irfan Pathan: $925,000 (Mohali)<br />
Brett Lee : $900,000 (Mohali)<br />
Jacques Kallis: $900,000 (Bangalore)<br />
RP Singh: $875,000 (Hyderabad)<br />
Harbhajan Singh: $850,000 (Mumbai)<br />
Chris Gayle: $800,000 (Kolkata) Misbah-ul-Haq's determined fight in Pak-India Test match in Calcuttatag:www.pakalumni.com,2007-12-02:1119293:Topic:477812007-12-02T20:59:13.245ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
While Kamran Akmal finally stood up to be counted as a contributor for Pakistan in Calcutta, the person that continues to impress me with his great skill and temperament is Misbah-ul-Haq. In addition to his cool demeanor, the other key attribute that sets Misbah apart from his team-mates is his level of formal education. I have heard that he has two Masters degrees and worked and played for Khan Research Labs. Like another well-educated and successful Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan, Misbah is…
While Kamran Akmal finally stood up to be counted as a contributor for Pakistan in Calcutta, the person that continues to impress me with his great skill and temperament is Misbah-ul-Haq. In addition to his cool demeanor, the other key attribute that sets Misbah apart from his team-mates is his level of formal education. I have heard that he has two Masters degrees and worked and played for Khan Research Labs. Like another well-educated and successful Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan, Misbah is also a Niazi from Mianwali. Cricket is a game of skill and mind. It seems to me that it does help to succeed in cricket if you have had a good education. Let's hope we get better educated players selected to play for Pakistan. While it shouldn't be the only criterion for selection, education should be give significant consideration. Indian Cricket League 2020tag:www.pakalumni.com,2007-12-01:1119293:Topic:476612007-12-01T18:17:37.493ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
ICL 2020 is spectacular. I see this as a way to attract many non-cricket-playing nations such as the US and Canada to the cricketing fold. It has all the elements of speed, excitement, cheerleaders, mascots, big sports and screen stars and entertainment combined with the commercial interest of sponsors. It’s really enjoyable watching it on Zee Sports in the US. Big names from Pakistan include Inzimam ul Haq, Imran Farhat, Abdur Razzaq, Azhar Mahmood and Moin Khan.<br />
Great work by the ICL folks. I…
ICL 2020 is spectacular. I see this as a way to attract many non-cricket-playing nations such as the US and Canada to the cricketing fold. It has all the elements of speed, excitement, cheerleaders, mascots, big sports and screen stars and entertainment combined with the commercial interest of sponsors. It’s really enjoyable watching it on Zee Sports in the US. Big names from Pakistan include Inzimam ul Haq, Imran Farhat, Abdur Razzaq, Azhar Mahmood and Moin Khan.<br />
Great work by the ICL folks. I like this new competition for the ICC and its member boards. Hopefully, it'll force ICC to do better. Diappointing Start to another Pak-India Test Seriestag:www.pakalumni.com,2007-11-26:1119293:Topic:469412007-11-26T18:46:58.500ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
Pakistan's reckless batting and lackluster bowling marked the first Pak-India test in Delhi. It seems that the Pakistanis lack the winning instinct necessary to clinch a whole series by an intimidating performance from the very start. What is your prognosis here? Please comment.
Pakistan's reckless batting and lackluster bowling marked the first Pak-India test in Delhi. It seems that the Pakistanis lack the winning instinct necessary to clinch a whole series by an intimidating performance from the very start. What is your prognosis here? Please comment. Can Pakistan beat India when it really matters?tag:www.pakalumni.com,2007-11-18:1119293:Topic:455612007-11-18T16:46:42.035ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
Congratulations to Pak team for strong performance in the final ODI at Jaipur. But the question lingers: Can Pak team win when it really matters? The evidence so far suggests otherwise. We have a habit of losing to India in international tournaments such as the recent T20 final. We have also lost the current ODI series to India.<br />
Are we learning anything? Or we are going to continue repeating our past mistakes?<br />
Let's hope the Pakistanis carry their good performance in the final ODI into the…
Congratulations to Pak team for strong performance in the final ODI at Jaipur. But the question lingers: Can Pak team win when it really matters? The evidence so far suggests otherwise. We have a habit of losing to India in international tournaments such as the recent T20 final. We have also lost the current ODI series to India.<br />
Are we learning anything? Or we are going to continue repeating our past mistakes?<br />
Let's hope the Pakistanis carry their good performance in the final ODI into the upcoming Test series. Pakistan lose ODI series to India in India...A First since 1983tag:www.pakalumni.com,2007-11-15:1119293:Topic:450412007-11-15T17:50:49.523ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
India must be proud! This is the first time since 1983 that India won a home series against Pakistan. Lion's share of the credit must go to Sachin with Yuvraj and Dhoni as supporting cast. Not only did Pakistan score very slowly on a sluggish pitch but they had a worse than usual start. If it wasn't for Yousuf, Pakistan would have made it much easier for India to take the series. The absence of Asif known for troubling the Indian batting line-up was keenly felt. A stronger bowling performance…
India must be proud! This is the first time since 1983 that India won a home series against Pakistan. Lion's share of the credit must go to Sachin with Yuvraj and Dhoni as supporting cast. Not only did Pakistan score very slowly on a sluggish pitch but they had a worse than usual start. If it wasn't for Yousuf, Pakistan would have made it much easier for India to take the series. The absence of Asif known for troubling the Indian batting line-up was keenly felt. A stronger bowling performance by Pak would have the series alive for another match.