Story Still the World Champions: A Pakistan story|Average batting by Pak!

[AsadAbrar]

Overview:
Hello ?Planetcricketers?, this story is based on the Pakistani Cricket team, commonly known as ?the Greens?. The Pakistani team has many up and downs in their 58 years career. Winning the 1992 World cup, 2004 and 2006 Under-19 world cup and are also the 2009 World T20 Champions.

Pre-Series News: Click to view
Tour Preparations:Click to view
Kits, Sponsors, Squad and necessary information released:Click to view
Arrival of English team:Click to view
Rain stops first day of play:Click to view
England wins the toss, choose to bat firstClick to view
First 5 overs update:Click to view
RB & KP power England:Click to view
End of Innings:Click to view

First over of second innings (see end of the post):Click to view
Mixed batting display by Pakistan:Click to view

 

[AsadAbrar]

ECB accept Series Call of PCB

Today ECB's Chairman, Giles Clarke officially accepted PCB's request of Series in Pakistan. This request had been send few days back by PCB's chairman Ijaz Butt. We haven't got full information about the series but there will be 1 T20, 2 Tests and 5 ODIs (likely).

This would be the first home series in Pakistan after 1 year. ICC had disallowed International Cricket to be played in Pakistan after the Firing Incident on the Sri Lankan Cricket team that left Six Policemen and 2 Civilians dead.Several team members sustained minor injuries, including:

1. Thilan Samaraweera
2. Kumar Sangakkara (vice-captain)
3. Tharanga Paranavitana
4. Ajantha Mendis
5. Chaminda Vaas
6. Mahela Jayawardene (captain)
7. Suranga Lakmal

Following the successful operation against the Terrorists in Pakistan, PCB's issued a notice to ICC to come and check the security measures taken by Pakistan Cricket Board and Pakistani Government.

A five member delegation came from ICC's headquarter in Dubai, Uae. They seemed to be quite happy with the security measures. Talking to the media,they said," We are quite happy that Pakistan has excellent security measures and we are quite satisfied with it."
From our correspondent, Asad Abrar.

 

[ShamiLoverGlipGlops]

Not really liked your presentation.

 

[AsadAbrar]

^Can you tell me how to improve?

Coolboy12 added 1 Minutes and 33 Seconds later...

How about now??

 

[Gaurav_7]

I'll be more impressed by the writing quality than the presentation which is optional. You can improve if you keep going and don't worry about comments/other stuff etc. Try some different presentations in various updates and which suits you the best, stick with it. Good Luck!

 

[AsadAbrar]

Pakistanis Jump for joy as Preparations for English Tour Start

The real fans of the game!​

Today was milestone in Pakistani Cricket. Today was when they finally got the right to host their first home series in more than a year. First they were stripped of 2009 ICC Champions Trophy and then many Friendly Series. An ICC delegation visited Pakistan and finally announced that Pakistan's security measures were according to what ICC wanted. PCB thanked ICC and Pakistan's President announced a one-day holiday for all people to enjoy this news.

In the streets, this news was enjoyed by playing "Gully Cricket", a less than 10 over game which required 2 per side or more which is played on roads and parks. This is very popular in rural and underdeveloped part of Pakistan and India.

A new International Standard Stadium in the Greens' Capital Islamabad will also be completed in time of The English tour which will be held in the fourth part of 2010.

On the other side, Coach Andy Flower is saying that Tour of Pakistan will be rather hard.Talking to the media he said,"We will have to practice hard because we will play with the T20 World Champs. The players are working well and i Think KP (Kevin Pietersen) will show his World T20 form in Pakistan too."
From our correspondent, Asad Abrar.

 

[Biggy]

Good start. There is definitely some room for improvement, just keep going.

 

[AsadAbrar]

Posting Kits,Squads and more info soon

 

[Gorro_124]

Quite good now.. Why did you stop that one??

 

[AsadAbrar]

^Its the same one just posts are deleted!

 

[ShamiLoverGlipGlops]

Now this is a better presentation with excellent writing

 

[Gorro_124]

Ohh... So good luck with this one!! Hope you do good in entertaining people!!

 

[Highlander999]

Much better start this time, you actually appear to be proof reading your writting, and whilst there are still a few grammatical errors, it is looking a lot better.

Lot's of Pakistani stories at the moment lol

 

[Gorro_124]

Lot's of Pakistani stories at the moment lol

Yes and one of them is mine

 

[AsadAbrar]

Kits, Sponsors, Squad and necessary information released​

Today ECB's and PCB's officials held a meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan. PCB's Chairman Ijaz Butt headed the meeting. It was decided that there will be 3 tests, 2 T20s and 4 ODIs. Qaddafi Stadium, Lahore will host a test, a T20 and 2 ODIs. The Newly built Stadium which is known as Jinnah Stadium will host a T20 and a ODI. National Stadium, Karachi will host 2 tests and a ODI.

The main sponsors Brit Insurance, Adidas and BOOM BOOM and Pepsi officials' were also present there.They also presented the kits which both teams will use in the forthcoming series in Pakistan.

Pakistan Kit:​

English Kit:​

The Squad of both teams was also leaked. There were some major replacement in the Pakistani squad which can be seen below:

Shoaib Malik (Captain)
Shahid Afridi (Vice Captain)
Kamran Akmal (Wicket Keeper)
Umar Akmal
Faisal Iqbal
Umar Amin
Abdul Razzaq
Sarfraz Ahmed
Umar Gul
Saeed Ajmal
Mohammed Asif
Mohammed Aamer
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The English squad had no major change as we can see below:

Andrew Strauss (Test and ODI captain)
Paul Collingwood (T20 Captain)
Kevin Pietersen (Vice-Captain)
Craig Kieswetter (Wicket Keeper)
Ravi Bopara
Stuart Broad
Tim Bresnan
James Anderson
Michael Lumb
Eoin Morgan
Ajmal Shehzad
Graeme Swann
Ryan Sidebottom
Luke Wright
Micheal Yardy
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From our correspondent, Asad Abrar.