Rashid Khan puts a positive spin on Afghan World Cup bid
KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan are making steady progress as a young cricketing nation and can boast a true star in Rashid Khan, whom they hope will to take them to the next level. Afghanistan can also boast 18-year-old spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman in their ranks but Rashid is regarded as the most important bowler in Test, one-day international and ...
No 'panic' for Tendulkar as India slump before World Cup
NEW DELHI (AFP) - India must not press the panic button despite losing badly to New Zealand in their first warm-up game for the World Cup, the country?s batting legend Sachin Tendulkar said. New Zealand thrashed India, one of the World Cup favourites, by six wickets at the Oval on Sunday with only Ravindra Jadeja and Hardik Pandya scoring ...
Fasting is a great mental exercise: Amla
?Whenever we are playing cricket at the time especially during training sessions, physically yes you do feel hungry and thirsty but for me it?s a great mental exercise. But most importantly it?s a great spiritual exercise as well.? The right-handed batsman also stated that it was ?lovely? to finally arrive in England and start their World Cup campaign. ?In England ...
World Cup organisers confident event will pass safely amid concern over recent terror attacks
(Web Desk) ? World Cup organisers are confident the event will pass safely despite concerns over recent terror attacks in cricket-playing nations, Daily Mail reported. According to the tabloid, March saw mosque shootings in New Zealand, Sri Lanka was hit by a spate of bombings on Easter Sunday and earlier this year the Board of Control for Cricket in ...
Milestones beckons for Malinga in World Cup swansong
LONDON (Reuters) - Lasith Malinga?s once-express pace has dropped as Father Time has caught up with the right-arm quick, but his guile should propel him to a few individual milestones at his fourth and final Cricket World Cup. Malinga, who turns 36 in August, is on the cusp of breaking into the all-time top-10 one-day international wicket takers, with ...
No 'panic' for Tendulkar as India slump before World Cup
NEW DELHI (AFP) ? India must not press the panic button despite losing badly to New Zealand in their first warm-up game for the World Cup, the country?s batting legend Sachin Tendulkar said. New Zealand thrashed India, one of the World Cup favourites, by six wickets at the Oval on Sunday with only Ravindra Jadeja and Hardik Pandya scoring ...
‘Operation clean-up’ likely after next six weeks: Latif
?I feel like I made a wrong call by backing the team all along.? ? Speaking about Pakistan team?s shocking loss against Afghanistan, during their first warm-up game, Latif was disappointed with the way batsmen threw away their wickets. ?It is important to note that when you are bowling to hard-hitters, a bowler is better off adopting a fuller line ...
No 'panic' for Tendulkar as India slump before World Cup
India must not press the panic button despite losing badly to New Zealand in their first warm-up game for the World Cup, the country's batting legend Sachin Tendulkar said. New Zealand thrashed India, one of the World Cup favourites, by six wickets at the Oval on Sunday with only Ravindra Jadeja and Hardik Pandya scoring more than 20 in ...
Akhtar names Pakistan’s ‘ideal’ new ball bowling pair
Former Pakistan fast-bowler Shoaib Akhtar has revealed his ideal, Men in Green, new ball bowling pair, with the 2019 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup in England and Wales fast approaching. While sharing his thoughts on his official YouTube channel, Akhtar said that pacers Mohammad Amir and Hasan Ali are ideally suited to bowl with the new ball, bearing in ...
Fakhar Zaman: Pakistan's World Cup weapon
Fakhar Zaman was still establishing himself in the Pakistan team when Jasprit Bumrah's no-ball in the Champions Trophy final triggered his unlikely rise from navy sailor to World Cup talisman. However, the Indian fast bowler had overstepped the crease and Zaman, who had scored just three at the time, was given a reprieve that he made the most of, ...
Afridi ready to learn on the job ahead of first World Cup
CARDIFF (Web Desk) ? Being branded the next Wasim Akram, compared to Mitchell Starc by your coach and given the reins to Pakistan?s bowling attack would daunt most 19-year-olds. But as the ICC Men?s Cricket World Cup approaches, teenage pace sensation Shaheen Afridi is reassured by the weight of experience in his side?s ranks. "It?s good for me, as ...
Leg-spin crucial to World Cup success – Shadab Khan
CARDIFF (Web Desk) ? In the modern age of uber-talented batsmen relentlessly unfurling scoops, sweeps and slogs to pepper boundaries, there is one rare art that still proves a bowling attack?s great equaliser in one-day international cricket. Their ability to operate at multiple stages of an innings, easing the burden on seamers tasked with facing ever-more-skilled batsmen armed only ...
Ten best ODI players never to have won a World Cup
Winning a World Cup is never easy, just ask Sachin Tendulkar ? it took the great man until his sixth and final attempt to get his hands on that coveted piece of silverware. And when you consider the tournament?s relatively short history and the pre-eminence of certain sides in that period ? most notably the West Indies at the ...
Fakhar Zaman: Pakistan's World Cup weapon
KARACHI (AFP) - Fakhar Zaman was still establishing himself in the Pakistan team when Jasprit Bumrah?s no-ball in the Champions Trophy final triggered his unlikely rise from navy sailor to World Cup talisman. However, the Indian fast bowler had overstepped the crease and Zaman, who had scored just three at the time, was given a reprieve that he made ...
Rashid Khan puts a positive spin on Afghan World Cup bid
KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan are making steady progress as a young cricketing nation and can boast a true star in Rashid Khan, whom they hope will to take them to the next level. Afghanistan can also boast 18-year-old spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman in their ranks but Rashid is regarded as the most important bowler in Test, one-day international and ...
Australia expected 'ruthless' England fans, says Lyon
LONDON (AFP) - Australia spinner Nathan Lyon insists his team were prepared for the "ruthless" reaction from England fans to Steve Smith and David Warner. Australia duo Smith and Warner were given a torrid time by the Southampton crowd during their World Cup warm-up victory over England on Saturday. It was the shamed pair?s first appearance against the English ...
Sri Lanka U19 beat Pakistan by 26 runs in opening match
LAHORE (APP) ? Sri Lanka U19 beat Pakistan U19 by 26 runs in the first of the five-match 50-over cricket series at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium in Hambantota, Sri Lanka on Sunday. Duvindu Tillakaratne took three for 48 in his 10 overs as the tourists were bowled out for 208 in 47.3 overs, said the information made ...
PCB Level-2 Coach Education Course commences at NCA
LAHORE, May 26 (APP):A four-day Level-2 Coach Education Course-2019 commenced at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) here on Sunday with 15 cricketers, including 13 former Test players, featuring on the opening day. Mentioning bio-mechanics as one of the main features of the course, Mudassar said: ?If you don?t understand the mechanics of bowling actions, you can?t guide players which ...
Reverse swing will play a major role in World Cup: Wahab Riaz
Pakistan left-arm pacer Wahab Riaz is confident Pakistan team will generate reverse swing with the help of dry pitches in the International Cricket Council (ICC) 2019 World Cup. ?The pitches can be good for batting, but at the same time it?s also useful for the bowlers with the dry conditions, which can help in reverse swing. These are the ...
Shaheen Afridi excited by inclusion of Riaz, Amir in World Cup squad
Pakistan Pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi is happy with the inclusion of left-arm pacers Wahab Riaz and Mohammad Amir in Pakistan?s squad for the International Cricket Council (ICC) 2019 World Cup. The 19-year-old feels the five-match one-day international (ODI) series against England has adequately prepared him and the Pakistan team for the upcoming World Cup.
