A heartbreak

I had planned to celebrate an anticipated win with a post here but I was jolted to the reality that wishes aren’t horses and that it takes the nerves of steal, discipline on the field and a Captain who leads by an example to prevail in tough matches like the Champions Trophy Semifinal.
There were a [...]

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The Glory Is Just One Step Away ..

We are bruised by internal strifes. We are down with the nuisance of militancy. But we are rising somewhere else, on the horizon of World Cricket. The world is looking at us with awe, with wonder. We are about to dazzle their eyes with the flashes of our talent. We’re about to lift the coveted [...]

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Pakistan’s Campaign In World T20

They were beaten badly by the South Africans in their first warm up game of the tournament but worst was to come later when they were trounced by the Indians in front of a packed Lords stadium, a match that was more than a warm up, a precursor to their further troubles against a desperate [...]

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We Are Sorry, Sri Lankans!

No one ever imagined that calamity of such magnitude would strike Pakistan and Pakistan’s cricket right in the heart of its cricket headquarters and that too at the expense of its guests; the Sri Lankan cricket team who braved the international concerns to visit Pakistan when no one was prepared to visit. The visitors’ bus [...]

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My sources of pleasure!

This ‘tagging’ thing is very much ‘In’ in the blogsphere these days. Our fellow blogger Ayesha was tagged to describe at least three things that please her. After an impressive description of hers, she handed me the task to reveal mine.
While I do like gadgets for serving the purpose of our necessity, it can’t match [...]

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Aur bijli chali gayee!

The last year or so has seen Pakistan running out of its energy resources thanks to our ever increasing energy consumption against the stagnant energy production resources.It is an obvious fact that we haven’t been able to produce energy in par with the requirements of our increased population over the years plus the expanding manufacturing [...]

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A current of fresh air, at last!

It’s been quite some time since we last heard something of a happy news from Pakistan cricket, their triumph over Sri Lanka at Abu Dhabi back in May, to be precise. Since then there’s has been nothing but the incidents of disciplinary violations on part of national players, selection controversies, and last but not [...]

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The show is about to begin

The first cricket test between Pakistan and South Africa is about to start in a few moments of time. Pakistan arrived at South Africa on 6th January and have played a warm up game against the South African cricket board 11 which ended in a draw. Pakistan looked good in the toor opener as both [...]

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Shoaib Akhter and M. Asif are back

A new twist of the story..

 

Well, the story regarding the use of banned substances on part of Muhammad Asif and Shoaib Akhter and their subsequent punishment in the shape of a ban from taking part in international cricket for a period of one and two years respectively took a new twist as their bans have [...]

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Mo Yo Going Great Guns

 

Its heartening to see how Mohammad Yousaf is transforming himself into a batting genius, a far cry from the shaky and inconsisstent Yousaf Youhana which he used to be. His recent achievements of breaking three world batting records is a manifestation of the mental and tactical composure he has gained in the last one and [...]

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