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Lancs cannot keep Yousuf

2008-06-04T15:07:00.000-07:00

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has rejected a request from English county team Lancashire to allow Mohammed Yousuf to miss this month's tri-series against India and hosts Bangladesh, a Lancashire spokeswoman confirmed on Monday.

The club signed Yousuf, 33, last month to cover for their Australian overseas player Brad Hodge who belatedly agreed to play in an Indian domestic Twenty20 event.

Yousuf's stay was extended when Hodge was required by Australia on their West Indies tour, to cover for Michael Clarke who was on compassionate leave due to the failing health of his fiancee's father.

"The PCB have been brilliant and very helpful in allowing Mohammed to extend his contract with us after Brad was needed in the Caribbean," the spokeswoman said.

"We just hoped that they may allow us to keep him a little bit longer and we asked the question but they indicated that they wanted to take a full-strength squad to Bangladesh so he will be heading back to Pakistan on Tuesday."

Yousuf is the third highest-scoring batsman in Pakistan's test match history with 6,770 runs from 79 games.

Warne rules out dramatic return

2008-06-04T15:06:00.000-07:00

The manager of Australian bowling great Shane Warne Tuesday ruled out a dramatic return to action for the player in next year's Ashes clash against England.

Spinner Stuart MacGill's sudden announcement this week that he would play no more Tests has prompted widespread speculation in Australia that Warne could again don the baggy green cap to terrorise the old enemy.

Warne, who retired from international cricket in January 2007 with a then world record 708 Test wickets, raised the prospect himself last month when he said he would consider an Ashes return if MacGill was injured.

But his manager James Erskine on Tuesday said the 38-year-old was happily retired.

"Warnie's position is he's not going back, he's not playing Test cricket again," Erskine told Australian Associated Press.

"He went out on a fairytale and him coming back would be advantageous to no one. He's got no plans to play Test cricket."

Erskine said Warne had a full calendar and had no time to pursue a Test return.

"This year alone he has commitments on 198 days," the manager said.

PCB wants Wasim Akram to take over as the National Bowling Coach

2008-05-30T15:03:00.000-07:00

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) wants former Test captain and legendary pacer Wasim Akram to take over as the national bowling coach.

PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf said Akram was offered the job last year but he refused citing his commitments as a commentator.

"He said due to his commitments he wouldn't be able to take up the bowling coach position on long term basis," Ashraf said.

"But he still took out time to hold a coaching camp for young bowlers last year where he spotted Sohail Tanvir and recommended him to us," he added.

Akram, who is currently holding a specialised camp for young fast bowlers in Lahore, has said that if the board made him a proper offer he would give it a serious thought as he wanted to give back something to Pakistan cricket.

Akram also denied reports that Indian Premier League outfit Kolkata Knight Riders had offered him a coaching job.

"Neither has any offer come nor have I approached anyone for this," he stated.

Meanwhile, Ashraf said he would meet Akram soon to personally offer him the national bowling coach's job yet again.

"His feedback is very valuable to us," he said.

Stuart Clark cut down West Indies top-order batting

2008-05-25T15:00:00.000-07:00

Stuart Clark cut down West Indies' top-order batting with his steady, accurate fast-medium bowling to tighten Australia's grip on the opening Test on Friday.

Clark has so far collected three wickets for 18 runs from eight overs, as West Indies, replying to Australia's first innings total of 431, reached 115 for three when stumps were drawn on the second day at Sabina Park.

Clark removed Devon Smith, Ramnaresh Sarwan, and Brenton Parchment in a tidy opening spell which left the home team wobbling on 68 for three.

But Shivnarine Chanderpaul, not out on 25, joined Runako Morton, not out on 23, and they carried West Indies through to the close with little or no incident.

Australia captain Ricky Ponting had turned to Clark, after the new-ball pair of Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson failed to make an early breakthrough, and West Indies started confidently to reach 47 without loss.

Clark, bowling with typical metronomic consistency, bowled Smith for 32, when the left-handed opener inside-edged a well-pitched delivery on to his stumps, after he played forward defensively.

He then had Sarwan caught behind for seven, when the West Indies captain essayed a reckless upper-cut at a short, wide, rising delivery.

Clark added to the West Indies' woes, when he drew Parchment on to the front foot with a well-pitched out-swinger and had the West Indies opener caught behind for nine after batting for close to two hours.

Australia had failed to make an early breakthrough before tea.

Lee and Johnson extracted pace and bounce, but little sideways movement from the Sabina Park pitch, and the two West Indies openers navigated safely through the 40 minutes before tea.

Whenever the Australian bowlers strayed however, they were punished. Smith may have settled the butterflies with a searing cut through backward point for four off Johnson, although Parchment survived a stern examination from Lee.

But the Australians were fortunate to mount such a significant total, after Andrew Symonds battered the West Indies bowling in the latter stages of their innings to finish unbeaten on 70.

Fidel Edwards was the most successful West Indies bowler with five wickets for 104 runs from 26.5 overs, and Darren Sammy supported with two for 78 off 29 overs.

Symonds reached his 50 in the fortuitous circumstances, when he swung Sammy to long-on and West Indies captain Sarwan muffed a chance inside the line, and the ball spilled over the boundary rope for six.

Symonds was also fortunate that umpire Russell Tiffin did not adjudge him lbw to Edwards with the first ball after lunch, as television replays suggested.

He remained and farmed the bowling with the tail to extend Australia's innings deep into the afternoon period, after West Indies snared the scalps of Lee and Clark cheaply after lunch.

Lee was adjudged lbw to Edwards for four, when he sought to take evasive action from a shortish delivery and was trapped in front when the ball did not bounce as much as he anticipated.

Clark frustrated West Indies for almost half-hour before he was caught at mid-off for three, when he mistimed a drive at a slower delivery from Daren Powell and Dwayne Bravo flew through the air to hold a priceless catch.

Stuart MacGill came to the wicket and he spent half-hour at the crease to continue to frustrate West Indies and added 32 for the last wicket with Symonds before he was bowled with a well-pitched yorker from Edwards for two to formalise the West Indies fast bowler's sixth haul of five wickets or more in Tests.

Before lunch, three wickets, two to Sammy, and purposeful bowling from West Indies slowed Australia down.

At the interval, Australia had reached 372 for seven, after they continued from their bedtime of 301 for four, looking to mount a formidable first innings total.

But the West Indies' bowlers, making full use of the variable bounce of the pitch, shattered the visitors' plans with accurate bowling.

The pressure mounted and Brad Hodge cracked, when he tried to guide a delivery from Edwards to third man and was caught behind for 67 in the first half-hour of the morning to leave Australia 326 for five.

Australia were so hemmed-in by the miserly bowling from West Indies that they could only add 24 runs in close to an hour in between the time that Hodge and Johnson were dismissed.

Johnson spent another 1-1/4 hours at the crease frustrating West Indies before Sammy made the breakthrough, when he was caught at mid-on for 22 driving at a slower delivery.

With lunch approaching, Brad Haddin, playing his first innings as Australia's 400th Test player, tried to loose the bonds placed on the Aussies and paid a hefty price.

The Australia wicketkeeper-batsman was caught behind for 11.

India Vs Pakistan

2007-11-17T09:31:00.000-08:00

India won the ODI series

so its time for pakistan to prove something during the Test series

Cricket series

2007-11-10T17:42:00.001-08:00

INDIA VS PAKISTAN

SRILANKA VS AUSTRALIA

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2007-10-11T05:38:00.000-07:00

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