The Club-10K

Throughout the Cricketing history, 10,000 Test Runs mark has served as an informal certificate of greatness and legendary status for whoever crossed this mark. Still there are a few other acknowledged greats of the game who failed to reach the mark that further adds to the prestige of the accomplishment. From that eagerly...

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ICC fixing 'the India-Pakistan tie'

ICC has admitted fixing draws of 2017 ICC Champions Trophy to put India and Pakistan in the same group. Although, it had been suspected for some time but this is the first time that the governing body has admitted intentional maneuvering, publicly.  While explaining the situation, the ICC Chief Executive...

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Fawad Alam - The Latest Enigma of Pakistan Cricket

He is deemed unsuitable for ODIs and T20Is because he is more of a Test player but he has played more ODIs (38) and T2OIs (24) for Pakistan than Tests (3). He is seen as someone physically weak and fragile, bound to collapse any time, but he outperforms all contemporaries in the toughest fitness Test. In a Cricketing...

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Net Ranking of Cricketing Nations

In case of Cricket, ICC’s Rankings stands as the established and indisputable standard to ascertain the standing of any team or a player in a particular format, therefore, its safe to use the same in order to ascertain the overall status of different Cricketing Nations. ICC maintains Rankings of players and teams for each...

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Pakistan Cricket and Competence Debate

To establish a competence and excellence based environment the methods need to be uniform and fair for everyone. The administrators and facilitators should also follow the same path to prominence as the players. Players and administrators are two wheels of the same cart and the cart can fly not when either of them performs...

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WT20 2016 - Pakistan's Campaign Review

1.   Team Combination a.     In general, team selection didn’t look up to the mark. From selection of the squad to selection of playing eleven for the matches, there were many things that could have been done in a better way. b.     Going to India with no big turner of the ball was a mistake....

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Pakistan Cricket - A Nursery or Butchery?

Since 2012, in the space of 4 years, Pakistan Cricket team has crashed out before the knock out stage of an ICC event four out of four times. Before that, Pakistan had made it to the Semi Finals of all 6 ICC events between 2007 and 2012. Failure is the closest companion of any sportsman. Defeats are as much a natural and common outcome as victories....

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