Qadir’s boy the latest sensation in Pak cricket

October 12th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian middle-order batsman Callum Ferguson, who was injured during the Champions Trophy final against New Zealand has been ruled out of the Australian summer after a report confirmed that he had ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament. Ferguson had twisted his right knee while fielding during the game in South Africa.

October 11th, 2009 WELLINGTON - New Zealand all rounder Jacob Oram will reportedly announce his retirement from international Test and one-day cricket in the coming few days. Oram, who missed the final stages of the recent Champions Trophy held in South Africa due to a hamstring complaint, has been assessing his future since arriving home.

October 9th, 2009 BANGALORE - Eminent cricket writer Natarajan Balasubramaniam, better known as Rajan Bala in the sports fraternity, passed away here Friday. He was 63. He had suffered a stroke and was admitted to hospital a fortnight back and was in coma since then.

October 9th, 2009 BANGALORE - Eminent sports journalist Natarajan Balasubramaniam, more popularly known in the sports fraternity as Rajan Bala, died this morning in a Bangalore hospital. He was 63. One of the finest and a much revered cricket writer in this country, Rajan was the former Sports Editor of Deccan Herald and served in a similar position in the Statesman and several other publications across the country.

September 15th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan cricket team's batting advisor Javed Miandad is determined to see the team win the ICC Champions Trophy and is thus making the players toil hard during the ongoing training camp. "A 50-over match means you have to be on the field for at least seven hours and the way I am training these players is to prepare them for the conditions in South Africa," The Daily Times quoted Miandad, as saying.

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - England cricket hero Andrew Flintoff is suffering from deep vein thrombosis in his right calf after knee surgery. The 31-year-old all-rounder underwent an operation following the conclusion of this summer's Ashes tournament.

September 5th, 2009 MELBOURNE - England skipper Andrew Strauss has warned that banishing 50-over cricket from the country's domestic schedule could have dire consequences for the team's World Cup campaigns. The England and Wales cricket board decided to axe 50-over cricket for a shortened 40-over format from next season.

August 18th, 2009 WELLINGTON - Former New Zealand fast bowler, Sir Richard Hadlee, has warned that Twenty20 cricket events like the BCCI-sponsored Indian Premier League (IPL), pose a very grave danger to the future of Test cricket, and adds that the game's decision makers are betraying the sport in their quest to maximise profits. Hadlee, one of the game's great all rounders, said he feared the spread of Twenty20, and particularly the Indian Premier League (IPL).

August 15th, 2009 DUBAI - ICC President David Morgan and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ijaz Butt will meet in Dubai on August 27 with a view to reaching a resolution to the ongoing dispute between the two sides over the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. The confirmation of a date for the meeting followed a telephone conversation between the two men on Friday, part of the continuing process to resolve the disagreement over the location of the 14 matches originally scheduled to be played in Pakistan, as well as the venue for the tournament secretariat, which was set to be in Lahore, an ICCpress release said.

August 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Zahid has urged selectors, captain and coach to handle young pace sensation Mohammad Aamer with care. "I'm very impressed with Aamer, he is a very talented cricketer, but I worry a lot about him," the Daily Times quoted Zahid, as saying.

June 27th, 2009 LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has awarded mid-term central contracts to all rounder Abdul Razzaq and middle order batsman Mohammed Yousuf, both of whom had terminated their respective contracts with the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) earlier. While, Razzaq made a dream come back in the Pakistan team through his balanced all round performance in the ICC Twenty20 Championship, Yousuf still has to prove a point.

June 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram has commended new teenage pace sensation, Mohammad Aamir, for his brilliant show in the ICC Twenty 20 Championship, but said that the young speedster needs to put on some weight to survive the tough world of international cricket. "For someone who can consistently bowl at 90 miles an hour, Aamir is definitely cut out for pace bowling.

June 15th, 2009 LONDON - The Pakistan cricket coach, Intikhab Alam, has rejected former chief selector Abdul Qadir's allegations that he was not given enough room in the team's selection procedures. Alam said he was disappointed, as well as shocked by Qadir's statements, as the team for the ICC Twenty20 World Championship was finalized only after he had given his consent.

June 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Cricket Australia have withdrawn their contract offer to troubled all-rounder Andrew Symonds and added injury-prone speedster Shaun Tait to their 25-man list. Cricket Australia chief operations manager Michael Brown on Friday confirmed he had informed Symonds that his contract offer had been pulled following his latest alcohol-related indiscretion this month in England.

June 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Sagoon today announced release of its cricket site (http://cricket.sagoon.com/) introducing a new user interface that helps users the opportunity to browse by subject from the multiple angles. Sagoon is using sophisticated algorithm that organize and categorize the information in a multi-dimensional snapshot - all from one page, from the very first click.