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Wellington, Mar.16 (ANI): The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has decided to shift Pakistan’s next Davis Cup tie to New Zealand citing security reasons.
The Davis Cup committee of the ITF informed both nations that the Asia-Oceania Group II semifinal will be played in New Zealand from July 9-11 rather than in Pakistan or at a neutral [...]

Karachi, Sep.10 (ANI): Indo-Pak cricket ties seem to be heading on the right track, after the soured relationship between both countries following the 26/11 carnage saw both teams refusing to play home series against each other.

According to well placed PCB sources, the Pakistan Cricket Board received some ‘positive signals’ from the Board of Control for [...]

Karachi, Sep.8 (ANI): The newly appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Wasim Bari has vowed to bring back international cricket to Pakistan as soon as possible.

“What we need is to break the ice. Pakistan desperately wants to stage international games and we will work on several options to ensure that [...]

Wellington, July 7 (ANI): Pakistan will play three ‘home’ Test matches against New Zealand in New Zealand during a series scheduled to be held in November and December.

Both teams will also feature in a four match one-day series and two Twenty20 games to [...]

London, July 5 (ANI): England skipper Andrew Strauss is unhappy over selection of Cardiff as venue for the first Ashes Test, as he wants to capitalize on the home advantage during the series.

Strauss last played a first-class game at Cardiff in 2002, and the ground was known as Sophia Gardens. It has undergone several changes [...]

Lahore, July 3 (ANI): Pakistan would host New Zealand for three Tests and five one-day internationals on a neutral venue, after all efforts by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to relocate the ‘home’ series against Kiwis to New Zealand failed.

Sources said the PCB proposed hosting the series in New Zealand itself , but issues regarding [...]

London, June 26 (ANI): The International Cricket Council (ICC) has rejected the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) request to stage its share of 2011 World Cup matches at neutral venues such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The ICC has decided that the 14 matches, which were allotted to Pakistan earlier, would now be shared between the [...]

Lahore, May 23 (ANI): A four year audit report of the Pakistan Cricket Board’s financial accounts has revealed that the board has suffered a whopping financial loss of about 43,036,361 rupees because of its laid back attitude in arranging the insurance cover for the cancelled home series against Australia in 2008.

The audit was completed two [...]

Karachi, May 23 (ANI): The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is mulling to propose neutral venues for the 2011 World Cup matches that the International Cricket Council (ICC) denied hosting in Pakistan due to precarious security conditions.

The PCB chairman Ijaz Butt said that the board is trying to hard to host the matches [...]

London – The 28-time Davis Cup champion Australia were fined 10,000 dollars Friday but will not be banned for failing to play a Davis Cup tie this month in Chennai, India.
The visitors had refused to compete in what Tennis Australia considered an unsafe environment after the November, 2008, terror attacks in the city and had [...]

Sydney – Multiple Davis Cup champion Australia faces unprecedented sanctions including a temporary ban from the competition after refusing Saturday to send a team into what it considers a danger zone. Australia declared Saturday it would boycott next month’s Davis Cup tie against India in Chennai over security concerns after the London-based International Tennis Federation [...]

Melbourne, Apr.22 (ANI): Davis Cup legend Todd Woodbridge has condemned the International Tennis Federation for insisting that Australia play their Cup tie against India in Chennai.

Australia wants a neutral venue for the Asia-Oceania Group I playoff while Australian No.1 Lleyton Hewitt will not play if the tournament stays in India, reports The Age.

Tennis Australia’s concerns [...]

London – Father-of-two Lleyton Hewitt has gone to ground in Europe as Tennis Australia and the ITF row over whether a May 8-10 Davis Cup Asian zonal tie should be staged in the Indian city of Chennai.
Last November, up to 150 people died when Islamic extremists attacked luxury hotels and government building in what [...]

Dubai, Apr.20 (ANI): Australia’s stand-in captain for the UAE one-day international series against Pakistan, Michael Clarke, has said that his team is desperate to take the field against Pakistan, whom they have not played much in the recent past.

“We are playing Pakistan after all, after a long time, so we want to make the most [...]

Wellington (New Zealand), Apr.2 (ANI): International Cricket Council (ICC) President David Morgan on Thursday ruled out the possibility of international cricket’s immediate return to Pakistan, but insisted that the trouble-torn country should not be isolated.

In the wake of the [...]

Islamabad, Mar 13 (ANI): Pakistan has vowed to resist any attempt to shift their Davis Cup tennis home tie against Philippines to a neutral venue or Manila over security concerns.

The Philippine Lawn Tennis Association reportedly made the request in a letter to the International Tennis Federation (ITF) citing the March 3 militant attack on the [...]

Lahore, Feb.28 (ANI): The itinerary of the Australia-Pakistan one-day international series has been revised again.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced that the series, which is to be played at a neutral venue, United Arab Emirates (UAE), will be played from April 22 to May 7.

“Now the series will be played from April 22 to [...]

Karachi, Feb 13 (ANI): Pakistan cricket received a further blow on Friday with the cancellation of a tri-series in Dubai scheduled for late March due to the unavailability of Sri Lankan team.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chief Operating Officer Salim Altaf said that the event would be scrapped.

“We have been told by organisers that the tri-series [...]

Melbourne, Feb.3 (ANI): Australian all rounder Andrew Symonds has been dropped from the team that is to tour South Africa this month, and told to undergo further rehabilitation and counselling before he can be considered eligible for national selection.

A Fox Sports reports said that the Cricket Australia board met in Melbourne on Tuesday to make [...]

Karachi, Feb.1 (ANI): Pakistan will be playing a three nation one-day international series in Dubai in April 2009.ri Lanka and Bangladesh will be the other two teams taking part in the tournament, The Nations reports.

According to the Pakistan Cricket coach Intikhab Alam, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) [...]