Shahid Afradi

LAHORE: All-rounder Shahid Afridi will lead the national side in Asia Cup and during England tour; thus, he will captain team in tests as well after captaincy sprint in Twenty20 and one-dayer.
Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Aijaz Butt that Afridi will lead the team in all three formats in the Asia Cup and the English tour.
He said that Afridi had the confidence of all players during the world cup and that is the reason he is made the captain now. “It is a quality of a captain that he fosters cooperation and good relations among the players while following the rules and regulations of the game. And Afridi has done all that,” said Butt.
He said that the names of the 30 players playing in the English tour will be announced in the upcoming meeting.
The training camp for the preparation for the series will start from June 1 in Lahore.
The Asia Cup will be played from 15th June to 25th June in Sri Lanka.
The series against Australia and England will be played between July and August in England. Source

Indian team is being criticized by Indian media same like they were criticized in the Twenty 20 world cup 2009. Check out the following video an Indian Channel.

Shahid Afradi

Lord’s cricket museum, the world’s oldest sporting museum commonly known as Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Museum is displaying Shahid Afridi’s shirt. Afridi who played a very vital role in Pakistan’s victory in T20 world cup in England, have many world records with his name. Afridi said “he is extremely proud that the shirt he wore in the ICC World Twenty20 final against Sri Lanka will be placed in the world-famed cricket museum at Lord’s”.
Museum contains rare article used by many great crickers including a sparrow which was killed by a stroke from the bat from Jahangir Khan, father of former Pakistan captain Majid Khan, has also been preserved in this museum. Other than this articles used by Sir Donald Bradman, Brian Lara, Shane Warne and Sachin Tendulkar have also been kept in the museum of Lord’s.

Lesson For India

Pakistan has written a new and bright chapter in the history of cricket by winning the Twenty 20 world cup 2009 at a very critical time. At time when a lot of efforts were being made to take the game of Cricket away from Pakistan. By Pakistan came back hard and destroyed all such efforts being made by the enemies of Pakistan cricket. By becoming the world champion Pakistan made its message clear to the world that no one can even pretend to deny Pakistan’s presence.

There is a great lesson to learn for each and everyone, in this Great Victory of Pakistan. Check out a very nice analysis on Pakistan’s victory by an Indian channel. And as suggested in this video Team India has a lot to learn from Pakistan Team

World Champion Pakistan

Pakistan The World Champion! This is the answer we have, for all who said  the future of cricket is dark in Pakistan. Answer to those who said there will be no sports in Pakistan. To all who tried to isolate Pakistan from the world by attacking our friendly cricket team Sri-Lanka. To the enemies of Pakistan. This is the message from us that we are here to stay, we are here to play and we are here to be The World Champions. So Stand Up For The Champions.

By the Grace of Allah Pakistan won the Twenty 20 world cup 2009 by beating Sri-Lanka in the final. We proved that we are the best throughout the tournament, by defeating the unbeaten South Africa in semi final and then today by beating the unbeaten Sri-Lanka in the final. Thumbs up for the Pakistan Cricket Team.

2 years back luckily India took the cup from Pakistan in the final but Pakistan came back hard, made his way to the final again and this time Pakistan did it. We brought the world cup this time. Indian cricket team was not able to qualify for the semi final. India could manage to defeat only Bangladash and Ire-Land in the world cup.

So if any one was thinking that there will be no cricket in Pakistan, Think again.

Image taken fro CricInfo

Pakistan and Sri-Lanka have a very friendly relationship despiste of the attack on Sri-Lankan team in Lahore, in which Pakistani bus driver saved Sri-Lankan cricket team from the terrorists.

Best of luck for Pakistan in the Final from Be Pakistan Team.

Looking at individual performances of Pakistani cricketers Umar Gul has been very impressive so far, being the top wicket taker of the world cup for Pakistan. He has taken 12 wickets so far with a world record under his belft as well by becoming the first bowler to have five wickets for just 6 runs in Twenty20.

Talking about Indian cricket team, although they qulified for super eight by defeating relativity weaker rivals (Bangladesh and Ireland), but Indian team is out from the tournment and ready to go back home after losing both of their matches in super 8 so far. It has been very disoppointed performace by the India. Although they have been playing alot cricket form last 2 years with all that IPL and ICL they have failed to deliver when required.

Umar Gul

Umar Gul captured the first five-for in a Twenty20 international to help Pakistan beat New Zealand by six wickets at The Oval. Umar Gul became the first bowler to get a Five-For in the Twenty20.

Check out the following Twenty20 best figures in an innings and see Pakistan rocks despite of playing very few international cricket from last couple of years.

Best figures in an innings

Source Cricinfo