Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Pakistan in the 90s was harvesting a lot of young fast bowlers under the influence of the great Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis. These two players ignited the dream of becoming a fast bowler in the eyes of many kids in Pakistan. Mohammad Zahid was one of them.
Zahid was the first genuine fast and furious Pakistan pace bowler in the 90s. Waqar had pace, Wasim had one but Mohammad Zahid was exceptional. He was young and eager to do a lot in international cricket and he did manage to get a lot of success.
Zahid took 11 wicket sin his test debut and was ranked as one of the most lethal fast bowlers at that time in cricket. Zahid later went to Canada as part of the Pakistan team to play the Sahara cup against arch rivals India.
In one of the games he played, he Yorked the wall of India Rahul Dravid. Shoaib did the same a few years later but many of the cricket fans don’t know it was Zahid who nailed down Dravid on a beauty first up.
It was a tour crusher and Dravid did his best to defend the ball with his bat yet failed to do so. The ball went under his bat and hit the bottom of the off stump and made it fall like a dead leaf.
It was a classic piece of fast bowling from Zahid who could not prolong his international career due to injuries. But he remained one of the fastest from Pakistan.
Some nervous moments for both Pakistan and India cricket fans as both the cricket teams will clash twice in a month against Pakistan. First in the World T20 and later Asia Cup will be the two mega events in which Pakistan will face their arch rivals India in T20 format cricket. Asia Cup 2016 will feature T20 format for the first time.
Pakistan will start their campaign against India on 27 February. The second game for Pakistan will be against one of the associated members winning the qualifying rounds for Asia Cup. Pakistan will then contest Bangladesh on 2 March and Srilanka on 4 March.
24 February
19:30 (D/N) Bangladesh v India
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur
25 February
19:30 (D/N) Sri Lanka v TBC
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur
26 February
19:30 (D/N) Bangladesh v TBC
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur
27 February
19:30 (D/N) India v Pakistan
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur
28 February
19:30 (D/N)Bangladesh v Sri Lanka
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur
29 February
19:30 (D/N)Pakistan v TBC
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur
1 March
19:30 (D/N)India v Sri Lanka
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur
2 March
19:30 (D/N)
Bangladesh v Pakistan
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur
3 March
19:30 (D/N)
India v TBC
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur
4 March
19:30 (D/N)
Pakistan v Sri Lanka
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur
Final
5 March
19:30 (D/N)
TBC v TBC
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur
Monday, December 14, 2015
Opener Watson made one-day international cricket history with the highest ever score by an Australian as the visitors romped to victory against Bangladesh in Dhaka.
Chasing what had seemed a testing target of 230, Australia reached it in 26 overs, with nine wickets in hand, as the blond allrounder smashed an unbeaten 185 in 96 balls to become a one-man wrecking crew.
Watson’s innings included 15 sixes, the most by any player in a one-day match ever, with the previous record 12 by West Indian Xavier Marshall.
He also amassed the biggest proportion of runs by an individual in a team’s one-day score, with 79.7 per cent of Australia’s total, ousting West Indian master blaster Viv Richards (69.48 per cent) from the top of that tally.
Watson reached his ton in the 20th over, in just 69 balls, which left him trailing only Hayden (66 balls) and Adam Gilchrist (67) for Australia’s quickest centuries.
But he picked up the pace even further after his ton, with nine sixes to follow, including four in successive balls off Suhrawadi Shuvo and later three in an over off fellow left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak.
Shoaib Akhtar took a long vacation before returning to Pakistan’s domestic cricket. He captained the Islamabad Leopards and in his first over, he rattled Muhammad Hafeez’s stumps.
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The 23-year-old has played just two Tests for his country but he has proved he is more than capable of handling himself at the top level.
The Kiwi all-rounder pulled off an incredible feat of athleticism in his side’s fifth day victory over Sri Lanka.
New Zealand had their opponents on the ropes at 9-268 chasing 405 to win on the final day when a Doug Bracewell delivery was knocked near out of the park by No.10 batsman Suranga Lakmal.
On another day, the shot would have been an easy six runs.
Fielding in the outfield, Santner shaped to catch the ball just over the boundary, before leaping into the air and taking it with two hands.
In a fraction of a second, the youngster managed to flick the leather back over the rope with his left hand before touching the ground.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
20 Runs Off 1 Ball In T20
It seem almost impossible that someone hit 20 runs at 1 ball. But, in big bash 2011/2012 Travis Birt made this impossible to possible. He hit 4, 6, 6 at 1 ball, but It become 18 . So, how Travis Birt made 20 runs off ONE ball. See yourself in the video.
Twenty20 domestic cricket first appeared in an organized manner in the West Indies in 2006 with the privately organized Stanford 20/20. The second and last tournament of the Stanford competition was officially made part of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) calendar in 2008, after which the tournament ended when its sponsor Allen Stanford was charged with fraud and arrested in June 2009. The next organized Twenty20 competition came about with the creation of the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament by the WICB.
The Caribbean Twenty20 was created to fill the gap left by the end of the Stanford 20/20 and to coincide with the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 tournament, which started less than two months after. The top domestic team from the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament qualified for the Champions League as the sole representative of the West Indies.
The WICB first announced the plans for the Caribbean Premier League in September 2012 when it was revealed that the board was “in the advanced stages of discussions to have a commercial Twenty20 league in the region” with an unnamed investor and hoped to conclude a deal before 30 September. On 14 September, the board met to make decisions on the structure and organization of the Caribbean Twenty20 CPL Schedule in January; to discuss the governance structure of the board and also discuss the planned commercial Twenty20 league and to finalize its structure. The Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) were also to be brought in to discuss issues pertaining to players in relation to the planned T20 league.
On December 13, 2012, the WICB announced that they had finalized an agreement with Ajmal Khan founder of Verus International,a Barbados-based merchant bank, for the funding of the new franchise-based Twenty20 league to be launched in 2013. It was then expected that the new Caribbean Premier League was likely to comprise six Caribbean city-based franchises as opposed to the current territorial set-up with the majority of the players are to come from the West Indies. As part of the agreement, the WICB will receive additional funding from Verus International for additional retainer contracts for players in addition to the 20 annual retainer contracts the board currently funds.
Dates for the tournament were confirmed for the 2013 Caribbean Premier League as 29 July to 26 August. The 2014 and 2015 tournaments are planned to take place from 5 July to 10 August and 21 June to 26 July respectively.
