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CRICKET Indian cricket team to tour Pak now from Jan 6 DEC 5: Shahryar Mohammad Khan, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman, said Monday that the Indian cricket team would now begin its tour to Pakistan from January 6 instead of January 1. “They will play 3 Tests and five one-day internationals. The tour will end on February 20.” Shahryar said Karachi would host a Test match and one-dayer but subject to the approval from the Indian Government. “The Indian board has sent the tour itinerary to their Government for the final approval,” he said.  Shahryar  also said that although Asia Cup had been postponed on the request of the Indian Cricket Board but Pakistan would host the event whenever the new dates were decided. Shahryar also said "India and Pakistan cricket teams should no more play matches. Because, this dilutes importance for the contests while 14 matches were played last year." reports Geo TV. HOCKEY Saqlain to challenge his ban DEC 5: Pakistan hockey captain Muhammad Saqlain has decided to challenge his three-match ban, imposed by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) Judicial Commission, before the International Olympic Commission (IOC) Arbitration Commission. This was announced at a press conference in Lahore addressed by Saqlain’s lawyer Mustafa Ramday and Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) secretary general Musarrat Ullah Khan at the National Hockey Stadium. Saqlain was banned for three international matches and fined 1000 euros by the FIH for causing an injury to Australian player Craig Victory with his stick during a match in the Hamburg Masters tournament last August. Ramday said the ban and fine imposed on Saqlain was an example of FIH’s discrimination and bias towards an Asian player.
CRICKET Pakistan beat England - win series LAHORE, Dec 3 - Pakistan won the third and final test against England by an innings and 100 runs on Saturday to take the series 2-0. Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar with five wickets and spinner Danish Kaneria with four, including three wickets in five balls after lunch, did the damage. England were all out for 248 after the last eight wickets fell for just 43 runs. "They put us under a lot of pressure," England captain Michael Vaughan said. "They played better cricket over the three matches in all aspects of the game,” he added. Scores: England 1st innings 288 (P. Collingwood 96, M. Vaughan 58, M.Trescothick 50), Pakistan 1st innings 636 for 8 declared (M. Yousuf 223, K. Akmal 154, Inzamam-ul-Haq 97), England 2nd innings 248 all out (I. Bell 92, P. Collingwood 80; S. Akhtar 71-5, D. Kaneria 52-4) (Reuters)
CRICKET India's Dalmiya quits as head of Asian body KOLKATA, Dec 3 (Reuters) Former International Cricket Council (ICC) president Jagmohan Dalmiya resigned as chief of the Asian cricket body on Saturday after his group was voted out in last week's Indian board elections. "In the wake of the recent changes in the Indian board, I feel it is only appropriate that I tender my resignation with immediate effect from both positions," he said in a statement.
CRICKET Indian board relents over England one-day venues MUMBAI, Dec 3 (Reuters) The Indian cricket board has switched two one-dayers during England's tour early next year to prominent venues at the request of the England Cricket Board (ECB), an Indian cricket official said on Saturday. The BCCI switched games to New Delhi and Mohali from the eastern cities of Cuttack and Visakhapatnam. Indore, Goa, Guwahati and Kochi will be retained while the other game, originally scheduled for Faridabad, may be moved within the northern Haryana state, BCCI vice-president Shashank Manohar said after a tours and fixtures committee meeting.
CRICKET Inzamam joins the 8,000 club LAHORE, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Inzamam-ul-Haq became the 14th player in test history to score more than 8,000 runs as his Pakistan side headed for victory over England on the fourth day of the third test on Friday. The Pakistani captain, who resumed batting on 35 on Friday after having retired hurt on day two with a wrist injury, was run out three runs short of his 25th test century as Pakistan ran up a huge total of 636 for eight declared.
CRICKET England fight to save third Pak Test LAHORE, Dec 2 - England, trailing by 348 runs, were 121-2 in their second innings at stumps on the penultimate day of the third and final Test against Pakistan here on Friday. Pakistan lead 1-0 in the series following their 22-run victory in the first Test at Multan. Scores: England 1st innings 288 (P. Collingwood 96, M. Vaughan 58, M. Trescothick 50), Pakistan 1st innings 636-8 declared (M. Yousuf 223, Inzamam-ul-Haq 97, K. Akmal 154), England 2nd innings 121-2 (M. Trescothick 0, M. Vaughan 13, I. Bell not out 60, P. Collingwood not out 37; S. Akhtar 34 – 2) (AFP)
Source: Khabrain, PK
CRICKET Australia beat West Indies by seven wickets in third Test ADELAIDE, Australia, Nov 29 (AFP) - Australia beat the West Indies by seven wickets in the third cricket Test to sweep the series 3-0 at Adelaide Oval on Tuesday. The Australians, set 182 runs for victory, mopped up the required runs at 182 for three just after lunch on the final day. Matthew Hayden remained unbeaten on 87 with first-innings centurion Mike Hussey not out 30. Australia won the first Brisbane Test by 379 runs and the second Hobart Test by nine wickets to clinch the series ahead of the Adelaide Test. It was Australia's 12th win in their last 13 Tests with the West Indians stretching back to 1999. The West Indies have won only three of their last 21 Tests overall and three of their last 15 Tests against Australia stretching back to 1999. Australia wrapped up their fifth straight series win in the Worrell Trophy after winning the opening two Tests. The West Indies have not won a Test series against Australia since Richie Richardson's team won here in 1992-93. Match scores: West Indies 405 and 204; Australia 428 and 182 for 3.
CRICKET Dravid helps India square ODI series MUMBAI, Nov 28: India captain Rahul Dravid inspired his team to a five-wicket victory over South Africa in the fifth and final One-day International on Monday to square the series at 2-2 with one game abandoned. Dravid struck 10 boundaries in his 106-ball 78 not out to steer the hosts to 224 for five with 15 deliveries to spare after Jacques Kallis’s valiant 91 had lifted South Africa to 221 for six in the day-night match. Dravid, elevated to captain last month, regained his touch after making just 24 in his last three innings. He shared in a 79-run stand for the fourth wicket with Yuvraj Singh (49), dashing South Africa’s hopes of a maiden one-day series victory in India. South Africa, asked to bat first, struggled against the spinners who were backed by fine fielding on a slow pitch after paceman Irfan Pathan struck early to dismiss the opening pair of Andrew Hall and skipper Graeme Smith. Kallis held the innings together with a patient knock, but missed out of a well-deserved century when he gave Pathan the charge in the 49th over to be caught in the deep.
Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan wants to have a go at star batsman Sachin Tendulkar during next month's Test series in India.
CRICKET Pollock, Hall restrict India to 188 KOLKATA, India, Nov 25 (AFP) - Shaun Pollock and Andrew Hall grabbed three wickets each to help South Africa bowl out India for 188 in the fourth one-dayer at the jam-packed Eden Gardens here on Friday. Pollock struck thrice in his first four overs as India, sent in to bat on a seamer-friendly wicket, collapsed to 23-3 and later 71-5. Yuvraj Singh (53) and Mohammad Kaif (46) kept the 90,000-strong crowd entertained by adding 81 for the sixth wicket. Hall, however, bowled superbly to ensure South Africa were left chasing less than four runs an over in the crucial day-night game. Sachin Tendulkar managed just two runs in his record 357th one-day appearance - surpassing Pakistani Wasim Akram's tally of 356 - as Pollock forced him to edge an outswinger to wicket-keeper Mark Boucher. CRICKET Tendulkar sets record for most ODIs KOLKATA, India, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar became the most capped one-day player on Friday after making his 357th appearance in the fourth ODI against South Africa. Tendulkar, 32, surpassed former Pakistan all rounder Wasim Akram. He has also scored most one-day runs (13,877) and hundreds (38). South African captain Graeme Smith won the toss and chose to bowl first. CRICKET Inzi sets new record for most centuries by Pak FAISALABAD, Nov 24 Inzamam-ul-Haq on Thursday scored his 24th test hundred on the final day of the second test against England to set a new record for most test centuries by a Pakistani batsman. He has now scored 7,955 runs in 104 tests and has also got 10,971 runs in 347 one-dayers. Inzamam's scores of 109 and 100 not out in the test is also only the second instance of a Pakistani scoring two centuries in the same match against England and the fifth time overall by a Pakistani batsman. Hanif Mohammad in 1961/62 scored 111 and 104 against England at Dhaka. The match however ended in a draw when bad light ended play 16 overs short.
CRICKET Pakistan leads 1 - 0 Faisalabad, Nov 24: England's tail enders endured an aggressive onslaught from Pakistan pace bowlers Shoaib Akhtar Rana Naved on Thursday to force a dramatic draw on the fifth and final day of the second cricket Test. Pakistan was boosted early in the day by Inzamam-ul-Haq's 24th Test hundred, which dashed England's chance of a victory. For Inzamam, the match was a coup. He was named man of the match after hitting two centuries in the same test for the first time in his career. Not only did he become the fifth Pakistani batsman to score a century in each innings of a Test, his second innings has him heading the Pakistan list of century makers with 24 hundreds! England – which needed 285 runs in a minimum 64 overs to level the three-match series – was 164 for six in 48 overs when Geraint Jones (30) and Ashley Giles (13) accepted the umpires' offer of poor light. Pakistan leads the three-match series 1-0 after its 22-run win in the first Test at Multan last week. The third Test begins in Lahore from Nov 29. CRICKET Pathan gives anxious moments to security Kolkata, Nov. 24: Indian speedster Irfan Pathan, gave some anxious moments to the city police when he went out of the team's hotel at a late hour to meet a friend in a city suburb ignoring security precautions. Pathan, who checked in at the hotel with the Indian team at around 7:30 pm yesterday, went out of the hotel at around 9 pm to meet his friend in Kasba area, a south-eastern suburb, despite being cautioned by a senior police officer. Indian team manager Wing Commander Baladitya, however, said today that Pathan had informed him about his trip and "he had not done anything wrong." "There is no security embargo on us and any team member can go anywhere. Pathan had gone to meet a friend and he had informed me before going," Baladitya said. But Kolkata Police, which is already under intense pressure to avoid any untoward incident during South Africa-India one-dayer here tomorrow, feel that Pathan's move was not proper from the security point of view. "If players behave in such a manner then we should not be held responsible for any incident," a senior police officer in charge of security of the team's hotel said. Sources at the hotel said when Pathan was leaving the hotel, a senior police officer posted there had advised him not to venture out at that hour. But the young all-rounder ignored his words of caution and sped away in a car. The police this time has made extraordinary security arrangement in view of the possibility of protests by different organizations for non-inclusion of Sourav Ganguly in the team for the one-day series. The deposed Indian skipper, however, has been included in the Test team against Sri Lanka. GOLF Irina Brar wrestles leads from Vaishavi NEW DELHI, Nov 24: Defending champion Irina Brar wrestled the lead from 14-year-old challenger Vaishavi Sinha on the penultimate day of the 38th Ladies Northern India Golf Championship played at the Delhi Golf Club in the Indian Capital. Chandigarh-based Irina Brar carded a mediocre three over par 75. Mediocre, because the young lady holds a record of five under par 67 on this course! But, in a tournament, which has so far produced pedestrian scores from the leading Indian women golfers of whom 15 play off handicaps of -5 and below, the three over par card was enough to place her atop the scoreboard. Vaishavi, who had brought in a sub-par round of one under par 71 to take a five stroke advantage over Irina yesterday, today carded an appalling 13 over par 85 to plummet down to third spot, five strokes behind the leader.

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