Former Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Shahryar Khan has been passed away.
According to family sources, he was ill for a long time and died today in Lahore in the age of 89 years. Shahryar Khan will be cremated in Karachi, his dead body will be taken to Karachi today.
Shahryar Khan was the Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board twice. He was a former diplomat and he also held the post of Foreign Secretary.
Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Mohsin Naqvi expressed his grief over the death of former PCB Chairman Shahryar Khan and expressed his heartfelt sympathy and condolences to the bereaved family.
Former cricket captain Shahid Khan Afridi has called YouTuber Imran Riaz Khan a “troll”.
Imran Riaz had criticized Afridi in the context of the current political situation, on which the former all-rounder lashed out at him.
Shahid Afridi wrote on X (formerly Twitter) “In the cycle of likes, retweets, views, etc., it has become very difficult to differentiate between truth and lies and the difference between a journalist and a troll is that a journalist does research.”
He wrote, “Slander is the easiest thing, I still stand by my word that Imran bhai (Imran Khan) was my role model after seeing whom I started cricket otherwise I would not have become a cricketer. Because of lies and propaganda my position will change and neither will serve Tehreek-e-Insaaf or Imran Khan.”
Earlier, journalist Imran Riaz Khan had said in his tweet, “Shahid Afridi congratulated those who stole the country’s mandate. When Afridi started openly criticizing Pakistan’s greatest public leader, people’s patience ran out.”
“In Pakistan, there are many stars like Shahid Afridi, inferior to him and better than him, who are still connecting themselves with the people in different ways, all of them have their own political thoughts, none of them have won the hearts of the people. Shahid Afridi’s eyes are probably focused on another target.”
He said, “Risking honor to get positions does not beautify a hero. If he had to speak, Shahid Afridi should have spoken against oppression so that the people who loved him would repay their love. However, Lala always kept the tradition of getting himself out by playing the wrong shot, Afridi once again made the wrong shot selection.”
Shahid Afridi addressed the fake accounts and post makers in a statement in the past and said, “You should invest your energies in something positive that would be beneficial for yourself if not for anyone else. If I have to talk or make a statement, I have the media and my X (formerly Twitter) handle.”
Brazilian ex-footballer Robinho has been arrested on allegations of gang rape.
According to foreign media reports, Robinho was arrested from his flat in Santo. The footballer who plays for Brazil and Italian club AC Milan, was accused of gang-raping a Lebanese woman in a Milan nightclub in 2013, for which he was sentenced to nine years in prison two years ago.
A Brazilian court has upheld the verdict and ordered that Robinho serve his sentence behind bars instead of being under house arrest, after which he was arrested.
Robinho maintains that everything happened with the woman was by mutual consent.
French midfielder Mahamadou Diawara has quit the country’s under-19 squad due to new implemented regulations prohibiting Muslim players from fasting during Ramadan while working with the national team.
According to ESPN sources the new regulations, which apply to all teams from the U16 level up to the senior squad, did not sit well with Diawara, and he made the decision to quit the squad, heading back to his hometown.
Nantes player Dehmaine Tabibou Assoumani has been called up by the French Football Federation (FFF) to replace Diawara.
In an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro on Wednesday FFF president Philippe Diallo said, “I have put in place new rules regarding players fasting for Ramadan while on national duty, a ‘principle of neutrality’ is written into the organisation’s founding statutes and that the measures ensure that religion does not interfere with an athlete.”
The new FFF rules say, “Players picked for French national teams can’t fast during Ramadan. They must follow the regular schedule of the team’s activities.”
An agent who was representing a number of players of France’s youth and senior sides told ESPN. “Some players are not happy with this decision. They believe that their religion is not respected and that they are not respected either. Some don’t want to cause a fuss but Mahamadou was not happy with it so he left.”
Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has resigned from the captaincy on Thursday.
IPL 2024 is going to start from today, March 22. Just a day before the start of the tournament, Dhoni fans got the bad news that he has quit the captaincy of the Super Kings.
CSK have announced the new team captain for IPL 2024, Ruturaj Gaikwad.
Dhoni has captained Kings since the first season of IPL starting in 2008. CSK became five times IPL champions under the captaincy of MS Dhoni.
In the FIFA World Cup Qualifier Round 2, Jordan defeated Pakistan by 0-3 goals.
The match between Pakistan and Jordan at the Jinnah Stadium in Islamabad started at lightning speed. In the second minute, Jordan’s Musa Al-Tmari gave his team the lead.
In the ninth minute, Jordan received a penalty kick due to a foul by a Pakistani defender and Ali Alwan made Jordan’s lead two zero and the first half ended with the same score.
In the second half, the defense of the Pakistan team was relatively better, the strikers also attacked to equalize the goal but did not succeed.
However, in the 86th minute, Jordan’s Musa al-Tmari got a chance and scored his second goal and the team’s third goal, and Jordan won the match by three goals to zero.
In the World Cup Qualifier Round Two, Pakistan played one match each against Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Jordan and faced defeat in all of them.
The national team will play an away match against Jordan on March 26.
Former captain of the national women’s cricket team, Javeria Khan, has announced her retirement from international cricket.
“There is a time for everything and this is the time to announce my retirement, however I will remain available for league cricket. I am grateful for the support I have received throughout my career.”
“I would like to thank my family, teammates, Pakistan Cricket Board, my institution for their support and guidance at every step.”
Javeria started her 15-year ODI career on 6 May 2008 against Sri Lanka in the Women’s Asia Cup and T20I career against Ireland in Dublin in 2009, representing the Pakistan Women’s team in 228 international matches and scored 4,903 runs including 2 centuries and 25 fifties. She also took 28 international wickets.
Javeria is currently the second highest run-scorer for Pakistan in ODIs and T20Is. She’s also the only female cricketer from Pakistan to score more than 2,000 runs in each format apart from Bisma Maruf.
The schedule of the West Indies women’s cricket team tour of Pakistan for the series of five T20 and three ODI matches has been announced.
The West Indian women’s cricket team will arrive in Karachi on April 14 to play three one-day internationals and five T20Is.
For the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s Championship 2022-25, three ODIs will be played on April 18, 21 and 23 while a series of five T20 matches will be playd on April 26, 28, 30, May 2 and 3.
Pakistan Women’s team is currently at the third position in the ICC Women’s Championship ranking with 16 points while the West Indies team is at the ninth position with eight points.
In the ICC Women T20 Ranking, Pakistan is eighth while West Indies is sixth.
Pakistani fast bowler Naseem Shah is now among the most expensive players in England’s Cricket ‘The Hundred’ Players Draft.
Birmingham Phoenix acquired Naseem Shah for £125,000, making him the first Pakistani to come in the most expensive category of GBP 125,000. His remuneration in Pakistani currency will be around 4.5 crore rupees.
Pakistan’s Imad Wasim and Shaheen Shah Afridi have also been selected for The Hundred.
Imad Wasim was acquired by Trent Rockets for £100,000 while Welsh Fire have signed Shaheen Shah Afridi for the second season in a row for £100,000.
Haris Rauf was retained in the squad by Welsh Fire and Usama Mir by Manchester Original.
Pakistan’s former legendary batsman Javed Miandad has revealed that who he thinks is the greatest batsman in cricket history till now.
In a recent interview on YouTube with Ajmal Jami, Miandad was asked by the host, “Virat Kohli, Babar Azam, Sachin Tendulkar, or Sunil Gavaskar, who is the greatest batsman ever in cricket?”
In response, Javed Miandad said, “See, Sunil Gavaskar is class, look at his height and the point is if you have to make a comparison, then you will make a comparison in such a way that who you have faced. Whom you have faced then, and whom am I facing today? If you will judge, you will know that the old player was better, he has performed so much.”
The host asked again, “It means you saying that Sunil Gavaskar was greater than, Babar, Virat, Sachin, Richard?”
Javed replied, ” Yes, of course, he is one of the greatest batsmen ever.”
Former Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar is known as one of the greatest opening batsman of all times, with particular talent against fast bowling. He was named Little Master by commentators in the 1970s.
