Pakistan's leg-spinner, Danish Kaneria has been released by the Essex police without any charges levied against him. Kaneria had been arrested by the Essex police on charges of spot-fixing, and was questioned by them. He was not the only cricketer to be arrested though, as his Essex team-mate,

England will play Pakistan in the second Test match that starts from 6 August at Birmingham. England leads the series 1-0, a result that they had achieved by winning the first Test match at Trent Bridge by a whopping margin of 350 plus runs. Pakistan has had many issues with their batting. For

After losing their second successive Test match against the Australian side and going down 0-2 in the series, Pakistan could be in for a few changes to their playing eleven. There are two players who could be facing an axe and could be gone from the team for a long time, based on their replace

The second test match between Australia and Pakistan will be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground from the 3rd of January next year. Australia had easily disposed off the Pakistanis in the first game at Melbourne and will look to win the series at Sydney itself, whereas the visitors would need

The first Test match between Australia and Pakistan will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from the 26th of this month. And after the Aussies won a rather close series against West Indies, it remains to be seen how the hosts perform against a side which has a natural tendency of blowin

Pakistan and Sri Lanka will renew their battle in the first test match that both teams will play after that unfortunate, terror-afflicted, abandoned game in Lahore. The first of the three test match series will be played at the Galle from Saturday. Pakistan will go into the series on a high

The Pakistan cricket Board has made it clear it would not give a free hand to players to sign county contracts in the near future. A senior board official said that recently the board had not permitted pacer Rao Iftikhar to accept a contract offered by Gloucestershire for 2008. "We kno

After failing to make much impact in the ODI series, flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi was today left out of the 14-member Pakistan cricket squad for the three-match Test series against India starting November 22. Apart from Afridi, three others -- Fawad Alam, Rao Iftikhar and Imran Nazir

Pakistan vice-captain Salman Butt has got a dressing down from the team management for criticising the bowlers at a press conference during the second cricket Test against South Africa here last week. Sources in the team said that Butt was forced to apologise to the bowlers and other teamm

Fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif, who returned positive for banned substance nandrolone last year, have cleared the dope tests held last week, the Pakistan Cricket Board said today. The tests were conducted on 26 players during the training camp and practice matches held here i

The Pakistan Cricket Board has started conducting dope tests on the probables for the Twenty20 World Cup including fast bowlers, Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif who last year had tested positive for a banned substance. "The tests are nearly completed and we have a doctor and a local repre

South Africa closed day two of the second Test with Pakistan still 26 runs behind at 115-3. Pakistan added 130 with their remaining four wickets, skipper Inzamam playing a masterful knock and shielding the tail. Makhaya Ntini notched his 300th Test victim, but Inzamam moved to 9