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

Pakistan's senior players Mohammad Yousuf and Abdul Razzaq are unlikely to find places even among the probables for the inaugural ICC Twenty20 World Cup to be held in South Africa in September. The national selection committee is due to submit a list of 30 players by July 7 and sources con

Less than a month before the new central contracts are put into place, differences between the Pakistan Cricket Board and players over the terms and conditions have come to the fore. After a meeting held in Lahore yesterday to discuss the new format for the contracts, PCB and captain Shoai

Pakistan team manager Talat Ali has not reported any incident of racial abuse by coach Bob Woolmer against any member of the team, including temperamental fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar during the recent tour of South Africa. A PCB official confirmed to PTI that Talat, in his tour report file