Pakistan coach Geoff Lawson today faced the music for the Test and ODI series loss to arch rivals India with the PCB making it clear that they were not happy with the performance of the Australian. Skipper Shoaib Malik though escaped the heat as Pakistan Crikcet Board reposed fai

Captain Shoaib Malik will be grilled by the officials of Pakistan Cricket Board at a meeting in Lahore less than 24 hours after returning from India following humiliating series defeats in one-dayers as well as Tests. Malik and team manager Talat Ali Malik will attend the meeting to be

Shoaib Akhtar's erratic temperament has often come as embarrassment to Pakistan but captain Shoaib Malik and coach Geoff Lawson today threw their weight behind the enigmatic speedster and hoped the pacer to fire on all cylinders in the cricket series against India. Shoaib is just back

Pakistan is likely to push Shahid Afridi up the order in the ongoing Twenty20 cricket World Cup after drawing flak for sending the flamboyant all rounder too late in the matches so far. Chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed spoke to his colleague Shafqat Rana, who is with the team, and expressed

Pakistan cricket coach Geoff Lawson believes that the battle in the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup was open and no team was favourite to win the trophy in South Africa next month. Lawson also said any team, which wished to win the tournament would have to excel in all departments of the game

Pakistani cricketers today got first taste of working under new coach Geoff Lawson and rugby trainer David Dwyer in the conditioning camp in Lahore ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup. Dwyer, who has worked previously as a trainer with state and club rugby teams in New South Wales and Singapor

Pakistan's new coach Geoff Lawson has said experienced middle-order batsman Mohammad Yousuf's absence would be felt after he decided to join the rebel Indian Cricket League. "He (Yousuf) is a great player and his absence will surely be felt," Lawson said at his first news confere

New Pakistan coach Geoff Lawson said his enthusiasm has not been dampened by the fact that some senior players have joined the Indian Cricket League. Lawson said he felt happy for players like Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Yousuf, Abdul Razzaq and Imran Farhat who aligned with the ICL. "

Pakistan cricket authorities today announced signing up an Australian rugby trainer David Dwyer to improve the fitness and fielding standards in the national cricket team. Dwyer has been appointed on an initial two-year contract on the recommendation of chief coach Geoff Lawson which would

Pakistan's new coach Geoff Lawson has rated the team's traditional rivalry with cross-border rivals India as the mother of all cricket battles. The former Australian fast bowler said that to beat India in India is about 10 Ashes series wrapped in one. "The biggest series of the decade

Pakistan Cricket Board has advertised for the post of assistant coach of the national team despite a failed experimentation with this method while searching for the chief coach. The advertisement, placed on websites, has the same condition that interested candidates must be Test cricketers

Former Pakistan captain and coach Javed Miandad today softened his stance on newly appointed Geoff Lawson, saying he had "no ego" hassle in working with the Australian, who wants him to be a part of "coaching crew". Miandad, who had lashed out at the country's Cricket B

Pakistan's newly-appointed coach Geoff Lawson wants Javed Miandad, one of the harshest critics of foreign coaches, to be part of his support staff. "I would like to get Javed on board to be part of the coaching crew, to be part of the system and help out, because he was an outstanding p

After insisting that the Australian security delegation's visit was a routine affair, the Pakistan Cricket Board now admits that it would be hard to convince the touring teams for playing here in the wake of Red Mosque operation in Islamabad. "It would not be wrong to say we are a bit

Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson seems to have nudged ahead of compatriots Dav Whatmore and Richard Done in the race to become the Pakistan cricket coach with captain Shoaib Malik favouring him over the other two candidates. Pakistan's cricket manager Talat Ali, who met with the Chairma

Former Pakistan skipper Javed Miandad has suggested that Pakistan Cricket Board should utilise money for strengthening the grassroots level cricket rather than wasting it on hiring foreign coaches. "If your base is strong. Things will automatically improve in our cricket set-up. There

Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has come out in favour of Australian Dav hatmore who, he thinks, has the best chance of becoming the national team coach. Whatmore and two other Australians - Geoff Lawson and Richard Done - were the three shortlisted candidates for the position. The

John Buchanan's right hand man Richard McInnes was likely to take over as Bangladesh's coach, reports said here today. McInnes seemed the favourite to succeed Dav Whatmore, having coached Bangladesh at under-19 and 'A' level between 2003-05. "I know first-hand what it is like over the