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Japan on Tuesday tried to impress a visiting FIFA delegation with cutting-edge technology and an environmentally friendly stadium to strengthen its position as a candidate to host the 2022 football World Cup.
The five-man FIFA inspection group led by Chilean Football Federation president Harold Mayne-Nicholls arrived in Osaka, western Japan, Monday and viewed a planned [...]
Director General Pakistan Cricket Board Javed Miandad on Thursday met with President Asif Ali Zardari and discussed problems being faced by the Pakistani cricket.
According to President House sources, the meeting took place on the request of Javed Miandad. During the meeting views were exchanged on matters related to the Pakistan Cricket Board administration and the [...]
Paying glowing tribute to retiring Muttiah Muralitharan, former Pakistani star Saqlain Mushtaq on Friday said the Sri Lankan spinner was the best of his era and world cricket may not see a bowler like him in next 100 years.
According to PTI, Murali, as he is called fondly, will call it quits after playing the first [...]
The World Cup inaugural hosts and twice winners Uruguay take on double runners-up Netherlands in Cape Town on Tuesday fighting it out for a place in the final.
Not just Uruguayan soccer but the country’s whole national identity draws heavily on their victories of 1930 and 1950.
Semi-finals in 1954 and 1970 showed that those early successes [...]
Last World Cup winners, Italy facing Paraguay later Monday evening in Cape Town.
Paraguay has been billed as the holders’ toughest test in Group F and if Italy drop points here, the pressure will mount on them. The game will kick off at 20:30 (local time).
Italy is expected to sail through the group and make it [...]
England skipper Andrew Strauss has insisted that he wants to continue in his role of being the captain until after the World Cup in the Indian subcontinent next year.
Strauss` comment came after national selector Geoff Miller claimed that the management “will think long and hard” about his position.
“It`s absolutely my intention to be captain at [...]
Pakistan Cricket Board’s appeal tribunal Saturday lifted the one-year ban on former captain Shoaib Malik.
Malik’s lawyer told the media that the one-man tribunal partially accepted his client’s appeal and that Malik’s ban was lifted and his fine of Rs.2 million halved. The decision was taken by Irfan Qadir, a retired judge, during a [...]
Pakistan’s Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi is all set to take over the reins of the ODI and Test side as well for the upcoming Asia Cup and the tour of England.
Butt further said that the names of the 30 players for the England tour will be announced after the upcoming meeting.
Announcing the decision, Pakistan Cricket [...]
The 2010 Champions League Twenty20 will be contested by ten teams, as opposed to the 12 that participated in the inaugural edition in 2009, after the ECB said its domestic sides could not compete because the competition clashed with the end of the English domestic season. The tournament will feature 23 matches (the same number [...]
All-rounder and Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi has ended a self-imposed exile from test cricket and made himself available for this year’s tour to England.
Afridi, 30, who has not played a test since 2006, said on Saturday he was available for the full England tour because Pakistan cricket was going through a difficult time.
“It has a [...]
