Illegal object to be lodged in opposition to Warne: statement

NEW DELHI: A limited cricket relationship is set to lodge a criminal complaint beside Australian bowling legend Shane Warne for his part in a bust-up with an official, reports said on Sunday.

Warne, skipper of the Rajasthan Royals team in the Indian Premier League, was involved in an angry exchange with Sanjay Dixit, secretary of the Rajasthan state cricket association, following his team’s defeat at home on Wednesday.


Leg-spinner Warne lying on Saturday apologized for the incident but the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) supposed they would still lodge the complaint, the Press conviction of India (PTI) news agency statement.


“It is an goaded offence and it needs to be dealt with like that. Some kind of disciplinary action is to be taken,” PTI quoted Dixit as saying.
Rajasthan Royals chief executive Sean Morris on Saturday said in an email to Dixit that the franchise had taken action against Warne.
“The player has conventional the action that we have taken and apologized for any distress caused,” Morris whispered, without elaborating more.


Dixit said the apology letter sent by Morris be deficient in details.
Accordingly, the officially permitted committee of the RCA decided to file a criminal protest against Warne, the agency added.


“I don’t recognize what class of penal action has been taken. A mere statement was made and nothing more has been done, just (the) proverbial red herring,” Dixit believed.


The debate kicked off after Warne expressed displeasure over the playing surface chosen for Rajasthan’s last two matches against Chennai and Bangalore — equally of which the habitat side mislaid.

Safety forces capture elder al Qaeda functioning

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistani defense forces have arrested elder al Qaeda operational Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, alias Abu Sohaib Al Makki, in the southern port city of Karachi, the military said Tuesday.


“According to first round investigations, Al Makki is a Yemeni general and has been effective directly below Al-Qaeda leaders along Pak-Afghan borders,” the military’s media wing alleged.


“The capture of Al Makki is a major progress in unravelling the al Qaeda network operating in the region,” it said.


The detain follows a US covert maneuver in the fort city of Abbottabad near Islamabad on May 2 that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and comes a day after US senator John Kerry visited Pakistan to horizontal a damaging row caused by the raid.


Pakistan’s civilian and military privileged were left angry and embarrassed after the independent US assault that killed the Al-Qaeda chief, who had been living, possibly for years, two hours drive from the capital.
The forced entry rocked the country’s powerful defense institution, with its intelligence services and military widely accused of incompetence or collusion over the presence of bin Laden in a uptown house in Abbottabad.


Al Makki is it appears that not on the list of globally most wanted Al-Qaeda operatives but the military’s statement mentioned his network was operating in the district.
His capture came a day after a Saudi Arabian diplomat was killed in a hail of shot on his way to the Saudi consulate in Karachi.


heart Minister Rehman Malik blamed al Qaeda for the attack which was the second on Saudi interests in Pakistan’s biggest city in a lesser amount of than a week, media news believed.

Asian sports meeting: Women cricketers honored

KARACHI: fairly a lot of respected and remarkable sports personalities belonging to Sindh came together to honour Pakistan team’s women cricketers from the county at a reception hosted by the Department of Sports, Sindh Government in group effort with the Karachi Sports Forum at the Karachi Gymkhana on Saturday.


performing arts consistently since their Asian Games victory in Guangzhou, China, Pakistan’s women cricketers also won both the Twenty20 and the One-day International editions of the recently-concluded Women’s Quadrangular Series in Sri Lanka without losing a single contest to Ireland, Holland and the hosts. The series also saw wicket-keeper Batool Fatima equalling her earlier world confirmation of six dismissals in one match whilst she took four catches and puzzled two Sri Lankans.



Six women cricketers in the Pakistan team, namely former vice-captain Nain Abidi, current vice-captain Javeria Khan, wicket-keeper Batool Fatima, Masooma Junaid, Kainat Imtiaz and Rabbia Shah hail from Sindh.





Paying rich tributes to the girls, Dr Shah also praised Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Women’s Wing Karachi delegate Mrs Naz Alam Sherazi for her able contribution in sports, especially women’s cricket. “The girls have proven quite a bit through their performance on the field and we recognize that they have potential for doing even better,” said Dr Shah.



Meanwhile, Test leg-spinner Danish Kaneria said he was very happy to be there to support the women cricketers. “It is a matter of pride for me to see as many like six girls from my city playing and doing so well in the national team,” he said.



Batool said it felt good to be getting so little respect and support for their efforts from the Government of Sindh, too, after getting the same kind of recognition from the Punjab government soon after the Asian Games success.





Nain Abidi, who had to miss the event in Sri Lanka due to a fracture in her right hand, is now recovering very well. “My hand is almost healed now and the doctors have acceptable me to play. So you will see me in action again when I represent my province in the Pentangular Cup to be apprehended in Islamabad at the end of this month,” she learned.



Also near on the occasion were former Test cricketer Shoaib Mohammad, Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Sindh Shoaib Siddiqui, Mrs Naz Alam Sherazi, former cricketer Sagheer Abbas and cricket reporter Munir Hussain. Team vice-captain Javeria Khan couldn’t attend as she was out of city.

Former Pakistan spinner under arrest over IPL bets

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LAHORE, Pakistan: Former Pakistan Test spinner Akram Raza, fined in a match-fixing inquiry eleven years ago, was arrested more than betting on lucrative Indian league matches, police said Sunday.

The 46-year-old Raza, who played nine Tests and 49 one-day internationals for Pakistan, was one of seven men arrested from a hard Lahore shopping area when police raided a bunch of hooligans of bookmakers who were taking illegal bets on Indian Premier League (IPL) games.

“Seven men were in detention after a tip-off that they were taking bets on IPL matches, and one of them has been identified as Raza, a former Pakistan player,” a control officer at Gulberg police post, who did not want to be named, told AFP.

Police thought they recovered cell phone sets, computers, televisions and a large amount of money in the raid, and will charge the arrested men later Sunday.

Raza, who currently stands as umpire in Pakistan’s household matches, was one of six Pakistan players fined in a match-fixing inquiry conducted by Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum in 2000.

The former off-spinner was regarded as a close friend of former Pakistan captain Salim Malik, who was expelled for life by the Qayyum inquiry. Former paceman Ata-ur-Rehman was also handed a life ban.

Pakistan’s administration ordered the post-mortem after Australian players Shane Warne, Mark Waugh and Tim May accused Malik of offering them bribes during Australia’s tour to Pakistan in 1995.

Raza, who made his introduction in the same chain in which Indian master batsman Sachin Tendulkar started his Test profession in 1989 in Pakistan, was also piece of the team in that series against Australia.

Match-fixing has rocked Pakistan cricket since the accusations by the Australian trio.

Three Pakistani players — Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer — were handed lengthy bans by the International Cricket Council in February this year over claims of spot-fixing in last year’s Lord’s Test against England.

The trio also faces criminal charges in United Kingdom, a hearing for which is scheduled for May 20.

Commonwealth Games to push for Twenty20 cricket inclusion

KUALA LUMPUR: the Commonwealth Games coalition (CGF) is to come near the International Cricket Council (ICC) again to push for Twenty20 cricket’s inclusion in future Games, the CGF said on Tuesday.

“It is basic that our sports programmed continues to change in such a way as to sustain the Commonwealth Games as one of the world’s leading multi-sport events,” CGF games review committee chairman Tunku Imran said in a report.

“Given cricket’s brawny association with the Commonwealth, the CGF will have further dialogue with the ICC as to the possibility of 20/20 cricket being incorporated as an option for future editions of the Games,” the CGF vice-president whispered.

Organizers of last year’s Delhi Commonwealth Games were keen to include Twenty20 cricket but the powerful Indian cricket board rejected the idea, saying it did not want to further persuade this format of the sport.

India had sent a second-string squad when cricket featured in the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Games.

The CGF said it would also ask its 71 member countries to vote on whether to take account of beach volleyball from the 2018 Games.

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CHENNAI: India’s World Cup-winning captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, batting ace Sachin Tendulkar and pace man Zaheer Khan were rested lying on Friday for subsequently month’s Twenty20 and one-day chain in the West Indies.

Left-handed opener Gautam Gambhir will direct the 16-member squad with Suresh Raina as his deputy, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a speech.

“Dhoni, Tendulkar and Zaheer have been rested. They will be existing for the Test chain,” BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan said in the statement.

India have been playing virtually non-stop cricket since October most recent time when Australia played Test and one-day series in the country.

Hard-hitting opener Virender Sehwag, suffering from a shoulder injury, has already been ruled out of the series that opens with a one-off Twenty20 international in Trinidad on June 4.

It will be followed by five one-day and three Tests. The Test team will be named later.

Tendulkar is the world’s leading scorer with 18,111 runs in 453 one-day internationals with 40 centuries, while Dhoni led the country to the World Cup success previous month.

Zaheer, who emerged as the leading fast bowler in the World Cup with 21 wickets, has so far taken 273 scalps in 191 one-dyers.

Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla, pace man Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and offended fast bowler Ashish Nehra, all part of the 15-man World Cup-winning team, were dropped.

Praveen Kumar and Ishant Sharma returned to the team after gone the World Cup to bolster the pace attack.

Rohit Sharma, Subramaniam Badrinath, Parthiv Patel, Vinay Kumar, Amit Mishra and Wriddhiman Saha also made comebacks following their striking shows in the ongoing Indian Premier League.

The West Indies have won 54 of their 96 one-day internationals touching India.

India’s T20 and one-day squad: Gautam Gambhir (capt), Suresh Raina (vice-capt), Parthiv Patel, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Subramaniam Badrinath, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Ravichandran Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Vinay Kumar, Yusuf Pathan, Amit Mishra, Wriddhiman Saha.

Pak vs Srilanka ???

KARACHI: Pakistan IS scheduled to host England for a Test and one-day international series early next year but with the precarious safety condition in the country, the series is likely to be hosted at a impartial venue and Srilanka has emerged as one of the ideal hosts.

 

“I have spoken to the cricket boards of both England and Pakistan and they have been very activist about playing the series in Sri Lanka,” Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) Secretary Nishantha Ranatuga told cricket website Chicano.

While PCB’s Chief Operating administrator Subhan Ahmed said the UAE and SriLanka are likely venues, he did not confirm where the series could host.

SriLanka’s confidence as emanates from the victorious hosting of Pakistan’s group matches during the World Cup, which attracted a large number of Pakistani and narrow fans.

 

The two South Asian neighbors enjoy friendly kindred and Pakistan’s cricket team receives generous support from local Sri Lankan fans.

The other factor favouring Sri Lanka over the UAE may be the finances involved, as the cost of hosting series in the gulf country has hit the PCB in its pockets.

The series, comprising three Tests, five ODIs and a Twenty20, is programmed for January and February 2012.