Category: Cricket

  • Doping Scadal Comes to a Close

    Considering all the hoopla surrounding the doping scandal surrounding Shoaib Akhtar and Mohd Asif in the past few months here here here here here & here Cricinfo reports: The Court of Arbitration for Sports has been forced to dismiss an appeal by the World Anti Doping Agency over the reprieves for the Pakistan fast bowlers,…

  • The Woolmer Murdering Circus & Nasim Ashraf

    Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan: After over three months of investigation the Jamaican Police announced the closure of Bob Woolmer’s death as having died of natural causes. For Pakistanis it was a definite relief, the Pakistan team were definitely suspects in the investigation and it comes as a relief to one and all that none of…

  • Pakistan Cricket News SMS’d to your Cell Phone

    Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan: For some days I have been fascinated by the easy and utility of Twitter, this is without doubt a step closer to interconnecting the entire world via the mobile phone. The best portion of twitter which I have grown to love is the ability to deliver instant news right to my…

  • Twitter in Pakistan

    There are so many web products being launched on a daily basis that it becomes mind boggling to filter through the good and the bad. Twitter is most definitely not a new name to the internet and has literally captured the imagination of millions of mobile and internet users around the globe. Quite surprisingly it…

  • Miandad & Alam Refuse PCB Coaching Job

    Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan: Just two days back the PCB issued a advertisement on its website asking for people to apply for a coaching job in Pakistan. The salient features of the memo were as follows (PDF) NATIONAL COACH Pakistan Cricket Board seeks applications from interested Cricket Coaches for the position of National Coach. The…

  • Overdosage of Religiosity !!!!

    Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan: Seriously will PJ Mir in cahoots with Naseem Ashraf shut up and stop accusing the team for overdosage of religiosity blaming it as the sole reason which lead to the devastation in West Indies. I remain a moderate Muslim, but was definitely proud to see a good side emerge from within…

  • Nasim Ashraf & his Resignation Bull Shit

    PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ME THE BULL SHIT ABOUT NASIM ASHRAF RESIGNING!! Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan: Nasim Ashraf offered to resign, trying to follow the footsteps of Inzamam-ul-Haq who can be considered valiant enough to have accepted responsibility for the World Cup disaster. Nasim Ashraf, the supposed leader of the Pakistan Cricket Board literally ran…

  • Cricket Crazy Nation

    I posted this yesterday on Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan but simply love this commercial which was produced by Nike (India) probably a tribute to the people of the cricket crazy sub-continent area. Both India and Pakistan have been knocked out of the world cup but the passion must definitely live of wounds will heal and…

  • WC-2007 Ex-Theme Song for Pakistan

    There is no doubt the people of Pakistan were shattered when the Pakistan Cricket Team made an early exit from the World Cup after loosing to a minnow Ireland. The dreams of lifting the trophy vanished into thin air for many leaving a broken heart including a major dent into the pockets of companies who…

  • Nasim Ashraf Resigns – Bluff ?

    Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan : Geo.tv has just started displaying of a news report that Nasim Ashraf has handed in his resignation as Chairman of PCB following the miserable debacle at the World Cup. His reign of 5 months at the helm of cricketing affairs in Pakistan were far from smooth and attracted some unnecessary…

  • Bob Woolmer (1948-2007)

    After the tragic loss by Pakistan to Ireland which actually resulted in an assured early exit for Pakistan in the World Cup, it has just in through a number of news outlets that Bob Woolmer collapsed in his hotel room overnight and was found unconscious in the morning he was rushed to the hospital where…

  • Kneel over Pakistan – 1st ODI Report

    Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan– Pak vs SA 1st ODI – Centurion Park: Kneel over Pakistan could literally have been the one more last thing that the South Africans could have asked while they ransacked the Pakistan cricket team. The batting performance but almost every South African was par excellence, they beat, they raped and they…

  • Supreme Court questions Malik’s Ban

    Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has questioned the life-ban imposed by Pakistan Cricket Board on Saleem Malik back in 2000. The court has for now delayed the hearing for a week upon the request of the PCB lawyer as he would need a little time to provide sufficient proof as to…

  • Shoaib, The Spit Bull

    Cricket Blogger of Pakistan: The Shoaib Akhar saga continues, it seems the most probable reason for his return to Pakistan is the heated discussion he had with Bob Woolmer during the second day of the Second Test Match between South Africa and Pakistan. TV coverage just saw a heated discussion between the two, it then…

  • Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan

    I would like to announce the creation of Cricket Bloggers of Pakistan, it is just a blog created out of necessity since we felt an apparent absence of one concise place where bloggers from Pakistan can come and write about the Pakistani perspective on the world of cricket. There is little doubt that this blog…