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Cricket has drawn Pakistani society together but now shows apparently disparate elements are more similar than people think, writes Osman Samiuddin for the Observer. Cricketers have come from places much smaller than Asif and Amir, from poorer backgrounds, and gone through entire lives – let alone a career – without a scandal to stain them. Pakistan’s players do not get paid as much as counterparts around the world, it is being said. This is true. They have also missed out on the life-changing riches of the Indian Premier League. But…

A top New Zealand cricket official denies that his team offered to play in Pakistan to raise funds for flood victims. Pakistan Cricket Board spokesman Nadeem Sarwar told The Associated Press on Sunday his organization had received an e-mail from New Zealand Cricket offering to play a benefit match in Pakistan.

The controversial administration of the PCB under Ijaz Butt has prompted one of Pakistan’s leading sports broadcaster, Zakir Hussain Syed, to propose a doctorate degree for cricket system demolition and team disintegration. In his column in the Daily Times, Syed lists out the various blunders and inexplicable decisions taken by the Butt administration. The first requirement after this tragedy should have been to go to Sri Lanka and express public sorrow over this tragedy with some compensation for players but this is beyond the PCB officials who are more interested…

Former Pakistan captain and senior batsman Mohammad Yousuf has been summoned out of retirement to join the team for the rest of their series in England, the Pakistan Cricket Board said on Sunday.

Mohammad Aamer’s swing and zip at Leeds on the opening day was brilliant from cricket’s perspective and the upshot was two fold. Firstly, it is evident that the Pakistan trio could test England as much, if not more. Secondly, though, it rammed home just how important Pakistan cricket is to the wellbeing of the game, writes Mike Selvey in the Guardian. There is no shying away from the fact that Pakistan’s cricket has had its own self-generated problems over the past couple of decades, but the situation in which they…

Salman Butt will captain Pakistan for the remaining test matches on their tour of England following the resignation of Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Saturday.

Shahid Afridi slogged his fourth ball to midwicket

The ICC has appointed former England captain Mike Brearley and former Australia skipper Greg Chappell as ambassadors to support Pakistan cricket and the Pakistan Cricket Board.

In an in-depth interview with Abdul Habib from cricistan.com, David Dwyer, Pakistan’s fitness trainer, talks about the lack of a properly structured and competitive junior programme in Pakistan cricket and the need for consistency in personnel; discusses the work he has put in with various players and highlights his three golden fitness rules for the Pakistan team. The only thing preventing this country from taking over world cricket is the lack of a properly structured and competitive junior program. A program that instills the basics from an early age. There…

Karachi, Jul 14 (PTI) The Pakistan Cricket Board has returned the money it had deducted from the funds of four players after they were fined heavily earlier this year for indiscipline during the disastrous tour of Australia.