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Pakistan has scheduled a cricket match against Afghanistan in the town of Abbottabad where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. raid.

The prime ministers of nuclear-armed foes India and Pakistan sat side by side and clapped together as the home side won a historic World Cup cricket match packed with symbolic gestures aimed at rebuilding ties shattered by the Mumbai attacks.

The prime ministers of nuclear-armed foes India and Pakistan stood side by side on Wednesday at a World Cup cricket match and clapped to each other’s national anthems in a symbolic gesture aimed at rebuilding ties shattered by the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Home secretaries of India and Pakistan were meeting in New Delhi Monday as prime ministers of the two countries prepared to watch a World Cup cricket match between the South Asian rivals together this week as part of efforts to rebuild ties broken off by the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

A beating with a stick? Comes free with the privilege of being able to scrap for tickets to cricket’s biggest event

We’ve all heard of teams losing wickets in a heap, but four wickets in two balls is stretching things a bit, right? Well, that’s what happened in a premier club cricket match in Napier on Saturday, when Napier Old Boys’ Marist claimed four wickets off two legal deliveries against Napier Technical Old Boys – and no run-out off no balls. The drama began in the 48th over of the Napier Technical Old Boys innings. Offspinner Indika Senarathne had No. 7 Stevie Smidt stumped off an ‘unplayable wide’ and then re-bowled…

South Canterbury cricket fans will be able to watch the domestic one-day cricket match between Canterbury and Otago for free at Aorangi Oval next Wednesday.

WHAT could be more Australian than a community social cricket match on Australia Day? Answer: A community social cricket match to raise money for the local hall committee.

Shane Warne and Darren Gough have been discussing the possibility of a “legends” Twenty20 Ashes game to help raise funds for the Queensland flood disaster victims. Gough approached Warne via Twitter on Tuesday, saying: “why don’t we play a masters England v Australia cricket match at mcg like tsunami game ? Raise lots give me a bell.” According to the West Australian newspaper, Michael Clarke, Matthew Hoggard and Michael Vaughan are among the players, past and present, to have expressed an interest, with the match already being billed as a…

Shailaja Bajpai writes in the Indian Express that the most striking part of the IPL auction telecast was how bad it was. As it was, at no stage did we get the big picture. It was like watching a cricket match between teams you had never heard of and that too without a scorecard. A good telecast would have done the following: clearly identified team owners at each table instead of making us squint to read the ID cards on the table; given us the names of the bidders with…