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  Pak vs Aus: Smith, Warner hit 50s to guide Australia to 231-9

  Cricket | October 12, 2014 21:25 IST

  ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates: Steven Smith and David Warner hit half centuries on Sunday but Pakistan restricted Australia to 231-9 in the third and final one-day international. Smith scored a fighting 77 off 105 balls

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  Afridi gets a pay cut, Misbah gets a raise

  Cricket | September 24, 2014 7:12 IST

  ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi will be docked 25 per cent of his salary for four months for failing to reach a minimum level of fitness, while 40-year-old test and ODI skipper Misbah-ul-Haq will

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  Afridi urges team-mates to rally for World Cup

  Cricket | September 18, 2014 16:18 IST

  Karachi: Veteran Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi urged his team-mates to back one another if they were to win the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand and end the country's 23-year long wait for

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  Afridi shouldn't take captaincy for granted: Javed Miandad

  Cricket | September 17, 2014 14:56 IST

  Islamabad:  Former Pakistan batting legend Javed Miandad has supported the decision to reappoint Shahid Afridi as the Twenty20 captain but cautioned the all-rounder against taking the position for granted.Afridi was sacked from the post in

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  PCB considering Sohaib Maqsood for T20 captaincy: Sources

  Cricket | September 16, 2014 13:45 IST

  Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board is seriously considering young batsman, Sohaib Maqsood for the national T20 captaincy. Reliable sources told PTI that although Shahid Afridi was the front runner for the T20 captaincy but some

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  Shahid Afridi, Fawad Alam frontrunner's for Pakistan's T20 captain race

  Cricket | September 09, 2014 10:10 IST

  Karachi: While Shahid Afridi and Fawad Alam have emerged as frontline candidates to be named as the national Twenty20 captain this week, confusion reigns on whether Misbah-ul-Haq will be retained as skipper of the one-day

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  How Pakistan's World Cup captains performed

  Cricket | November 01, 2014 9:34 IST

  New Delhi: A captain in cricket is totally different from that of football or hockey. Here you need to develop and change your strategies time to time according to the situation. Due to the smaller

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  Afridi best man to lead Pakistan at 2015 World Cup, says Shoaib Malik

  Cricket | August 29, 2014 16:06 IST

  Karachi: Pakistan's senior batsman and former captain Shoaib Malik has said maverick all-rounder Shahid Afridi is the best person to replace Misbah-ul-Haq as skipper for next year's World Cup.Malik, 32, said that if the Pakistan

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  Defeat to India in 2011 WC semifinals still haunts: Afridi

  Cricket | July 16, 2014 20:35 IST

  Karachi: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has said that his team's defeat against arch-rivals India in the semifinals of World Cup 2011 at Mohali still haunted him and made him sad. "We had played well until

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  Misbah, Afridi among 5 awarded top PCB contracts

  Cricket | June 05, 2014 19:17 IST

  ISLAMABAD: Pakistan test and limited-overs captain Misbah-ul-Haq and flamboyant allrounder Shahid Afridi were among five players given top category A contracts by the Pakistan Cricket Board on Thursday.   Mohammad Hafeez, Saeed Ajmal and Junaid Khan

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  IPL snub to Pakistani players dented India's image: Shahid Afridi

  Cricket | May 24, 2014 13:38 IST

  Karachi: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi feels India's cricketing image has taken a hit worldwide due to the IPL organisers' decision to keep players from his country out of the T20 event.Talking to reporters in Lahore,

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  Shahid Afridi may quit ODIs after 2015 World Cup AP

  Cricket | May 23, 2014 20:56 IST

  Islamabad:  Pakistan allrounder Shahid Afridi says he might retire from one-day internationals after the World Cup next year and just concentrate on Twenty20s.Afridi quit test cricket four years ago after playing just 27 test matches,

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  Afridi blames top-order collapse for World Cup defeat

  Cricket | April 03, 2014 20:54 IST

  Islamabad: Explosive all-rounder Shahid Afridi has blamed the negative approach of Pakistan's top order batsmen for the team's heavy defeat by the West Indies and early exit from the World Twenty20.Talking to the media on

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  ICC World T20: Meet the top all-rounders

  Cricket | March 27, 2014 7:00 IST

  New Delhi: The super-10 stage of the 2014 ICC World T20 is in progress and the fans would be excited to see some great all-round performance by their favorite all-rounders.Let's have a look on the

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  Always want Afridi to be in good frame of mind: Hafeez

  Cricket | March 21, 2014 16:18 IST

  Mirpur: Pakistan's T20 captain Mohammed Hafeez is not bothered about the fact that they have never beaten India in World Twenty20 but he has a lot of expectations from Shahid Afridi as he wants the

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  With Dhoni's arrival, India will be tough to beat: Afridi

  Cricket | March 14, 2014 17:35 IST

  Lahore: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi says with Dhoni back in the team as a captain, it would be very tough to beat them in World Twent20 to be held in Bangladesh.But Afridi said Pakistan could

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  How history was repeated after 28 years in Asia Cup

  Cricket | March 08, 2014 6:32 IST

  New Delhi: India Pakistan have always been the arch rivals in cricket ground. The competition between the two has always been of something different unlike other cricket matches. Here are 10 similarities that cannot be

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  Lasith Malinga and Shahid Afridi, the two face of Fast and Furious Cricket.

  Cricket | March 08, 2014 6:35 IST

  The final of Asia Cup 2014 is going to witness the face off between raw pace and ruthless batting. On one side the Pakistani team will be hoping to defend the title of being the

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  Know Shahid Afridi, the Boom Boom Pakistan cricketer

  Cricket | March 04, 2014 6:48 IST

  New Delhi: Shahid Afridi slammed an unbeaten 18-ball 34 to give Pakistan a thrilling one-wicket win over India with two balls to spare at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium here Sunday.Chasing a target of 246, Pakistan

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  Afridi's 'boom' keeps firecrackers bursting in Kashmir Valley.

  Cricket | March 03, 2014 13:27 IST

  Srinagar:  Seventy-year old Abdul Satar, a pavement vendor in north Kashmir's Sopore town, spent his entire day's earnings bursting firecrackers to celebrate explosive Pakistani batsman Shahid Afridi's "booming" performance in the Asia Cup in Dhaka