Zee Waqar A.

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Islahuddin's yet another brilliant Dash

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 7:35 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Islahuddin Siddiqui was known and feared, in his playing days, for his extraordinary ability to dash that blocked the penalty-corners and frustrated the specialists who wreaked...
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Asif makes a comeback in Test cricket finally

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 2:34 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Mohammad Asif, the tall Pakistan fast bowler, has finally resumed his Test career. Although he didn’t look all that menacing on the opening day of the first Test against New ...
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The Wall getting taller and stronger

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 3:16 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Rahul Dravid of all people is a firm believer in letting his bat to do the talking. As the luck would have it he has been needed to dispel the impression once too often that he...
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MSAP offers incentives to scrabble masters

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 5:28 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood The Mind Sports Association of Pakistan (MSAP) has offered cash incentives to the three-member national team proceeding to Malaysia to participate in the upcoming World Scrabbl...
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Chief selector, PCB chairman view Misbah's indiscipline differently

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 7:10 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Misbah-ul-Haq owed an explanation to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for having absented from the ongoing Quaid-e-Azam Trophy. His decision to proceed to Bangladesh to play le...
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Sangakkara's negative tactics make India's task easier

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 6:04 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar batted skillfully in the second innings to guide India towards safety in the first Test match at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad but t...
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Shaiza Khan spearheading the cause with conviction

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 4:35 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Shaiza Khan happens to be one of the trend-setters. She has been chiefly responsible for putting Pakistan women on the cricketing map of the world. Besides being an active cric...
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Vital Five launched with great fanfare

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 3:53 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood The Customs Cricket Academy (CCA), founded by former Test fast bowler Jalaluddin in 1999, has distinguished itself by providing quality service. Currently celebrating its first...
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Qualification in World Cup celebrated like title triumph

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 2:12 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Pakistan emerged triumphant in the FIH World Cup Qualifiers in Lille, France, that has earned them the qualification for the Hero Honda FIH World Cup 2010. But the impression b...
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Younis makes himself and PCB a laughing stock

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 2:17 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood It’s certainly the bad luck of the whole nation that they have had to endure a man as inconsistent in temperament and conduct as Younis Khan to be the skipper of the cricket ...
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Countdown to mega event begins

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 4:14 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood The World Cup remains the most prestigious of all the cricket tournaments and the International Cricket Council (ICC) regards it as its flagship event. The first-ever Cricket ...
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Black Caps survive unlikely late flourish

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 10, 2009, 5:55 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood How often would you expect any team having lost its ninth wicket for 101 in the 34th over still be in the reckoning for a pursuit of a target of 213 in 50 overs with the number...
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Pakistan's participation in World Snooker Championship doubtful once more

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 6:21 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Pakistan’s participation in the upcoming IBSF Snooker Championship 2009 to be staged in the Indian town of Hyderabad has become doubtful once again, this time due to the shor...
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Customs Academy assured departmental support

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 9:55 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood The top management of Pakistan Customs has assured total support to the iconic Customs Cricket Academy (CCA), currently celebrating their 10th year of excellence. Sher Nawaz, ...
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Iqbal Qasim unwilling to take New Zealand lightly

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 6:55 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Iqbal Qasim, the greatest left-arm spinner produced by the country now heading the national selection committee, sees no point in taking the New Zealanders lightly against whom...
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Temperamental Younis desires taking Pakistan to top

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 5:23 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood The skipper of the Pakistan cricket team, Younis Khan, is a man of many moods. When he’s feeling down he can go to any limit in offending others. He presents a different look...
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Pakistan cricket captains carry Islamic Relief forward

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 12:02 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood As many as four Pakistan cricket captains are proactively involved in supporting the cause of humanity by helping the Islamic Relief (IR) raise substantial funds for the under-...
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Misbah disappointed at his omission from all formats

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 5:23 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood By the look of things Misbah-ul-Haq has been jolted with his omission from the Pakistan squads for the upcoming series of One-day Internationals, Twenty20 Internationals and Te...
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Confident Australia not to underestimate India

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 10:24 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood For a change there’s no war of words on the eve of an important series. It was becoming a tradition to say something that provoked the opposition and then a debate ensued on ...
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Pakistanis can't swallow defeat at New Zealand's hands

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 2:01 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Yes that’s the root cause of all problems. Pakistan had been playing around with the New Zealanders so often during the past couple of decades in particular that nobody is no...
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Mind sports Collegiate Programme launched at Institute of Business Management

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 3:55 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood The top officials of the Mind Sports Association of Pakistan (MSAP) have expressed satisfaction at the successful launch of their Collegiate Programme at the Institute of Busin...
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Shahid Afridi likely to be handed over captaincy sooner than later

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Oct 11, 2009, 8:12 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood If the recent statements by some of the Board officials serve as any indication then Younis Khan’s days in office appear to be numbered with the ‘establishment’ putting i...
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Younis Khan's head could be on chopping block for wrong reasons

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 5:47 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Intrigues and mismanagement have been part and parcel of Pakistan cricket for a number of years. In the absence of seasoned and committed administrators the affairs of the cont...
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Australia's young guns do the business

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 5:37 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood In the end it was in the fitness of things that the best team having entered the knockout stage of the competition went on claim the trophy. Yes the Australians were the worthy...
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New Zealand at last find a way to overcome Pakistan

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 6:10 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood It was after ages when New Zealand finally managed to overpower Pakistan in any form of the game. At times it had looked as if the Black Caps would never be able to do it becau...
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Strauss outsmarts Smith in mind games

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 4:44 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood What a funny game cricket is! How quickly the experts could be proved wrong and how amazingly the events go exactly in the opposite direction to the one envisaged. England, be...
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India missing Sehwag, Yuvraj

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 27, 2009, 3:47 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood India’s 54-run defeat at the hands of arch-rivals Pakistan at the Super Sport Park in Centurion on September 26 brought to the fore the big hole in their team caused by the i...
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South Africa get a much needed lifeline

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 25, 2009, 12:02 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Much to the relief of the organizers and the thousands of their die-hard supporters, the South African team has got a lifeline in the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy 2009 by overp...
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Hosting jinx haunts South Africa yet again

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 3:16 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood History repeated itself at the Super Sport Park in Centurion on September 22 as the hosts South Africa crashed to defeat in the opening match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2009. ...
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Twitter: Bringing You Ever Closer to the Fame Flame

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 19, 2009, 8:27 am
If you're on Twitter, you already know that it's a drug. It's like a big get-together where you can talk to hundreds of people without committing yourself too seriously and before you know...
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Facebook: Twitter is "in the rear-view mirror"

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 19, 2009, 8:25 am
Twitter may still be the media darling of the day, getting all kinds of attention amid its huge user growth earlier this year. But Facebook, once considered Twitter’s most fierce competitor because ...
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South Africa, India start as favourites

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 8:06 am
by Syed Khalid Mahmood The ICC Champions Trophy 2009 is round the corner. There have been plenty of One-day Internationals (ODIs) leading to the second most prestigious event in the sport after the W...
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Sohail Tanvir, Ahmed Shahzad banned for bringing game to disrepute

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 17, 2009, 7:59 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood What a pity that the quartet of Sohail Tanvir, Ahmed Shahzad, Javed Qadir and Nadeem Shaikh had to be banned indefinitely from playing in the cricket tournaments at the Karach...
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Twitter Goes for Broke, if Broke Means

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 16, 2009, 10:36 pm
Is Twitter a billion-dollar company? It is now, according to its investors. People familiar with the company tell me it has raised around $50 million in a funding round that values the start-up, which...
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India regroup, survive anxious moments to claim trophy

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 11:43 pm
By Syed Khalid Mahmood India, more than any country, have had to earn their win. It’s very uncommon to watch them register a triumph without hiccups. Irrespective of their own strength and the weak...
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Twitter Blog: Twitter's New Terms of Service

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 12, 2009, 8:09 am
At the start, critics often said, "Twitter is fun, but it's not useful." At one point @ev responded dryly with, "Neither is ice cream." Things have come a long way in a short time. We recognized p...
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Ehsan Mani outbursts may not help in mending fences between BCCI, PCB

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 11, 2009, 9:37 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Ehsan Mani, a former President of the International Cricket Council (ICC), has re-started blaming the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) at a time when the Pakistan C...
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Adil Rashid's shocking exclusion costing England dearly

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 10, 2009, 8:36 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Adil Rashid must be wondering what else he had to do in order to retain a place in the playing eleven. He had turned out to be England’s best player in the first One-day Inte...
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Wasim Bari faces the challenge of lifetime

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 9, 2009, 3:48 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has finally put someone in the right place.. Ijaz Butt had acquired the services of quite a few ‘greats’ after taking over the leadership o...
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IPL forces New Zealand to shorten Australian series?

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 6:25 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood It’s becoming increasingly clear now that the Indian Premier League (IPL) has attained the highest priority for the administrators of the game world over. Every cricket boar...
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Return of Bond propels New Zealand

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 11:00 pm
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Three wickets for 18 runs off four overs. These are the figures that would surely make every bowler proud in any form of the game. The analysis will be considered even better i...
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Bridge legend Masud Saleem passes away

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Sep 2, 2009, 11:13 pm
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Bridge legend Masud Saleem has passed away, after a protracted illness, in Karachi. He was 69. He was a diabetic patient for the last many years and both his legs had to be amp...
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WANTED: A representative body of sports journalists in Pakistan

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Aug 30, 2009, 11:46 pm
By Syed Khalid Mahmood The first seed of the Sports Writers’ Association (SWA) in England was sown in November 1947 with that legendary statement: "It is desirable that an association of sporting j...
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Salman Khan may or may not own an IPL team

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Aug 28, 2009, 11:11 pm
By Syed Khalid Mahmood There are contradicting reports whether the Bollywood icon, Salman Khan, is going to own a team in the future editions of the Indian Premier League (IPL) or his recent meeting w...
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Ponting may lose limited overs captaincy for good

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Aug 27, 2009, 3:44 am
By Syed Khalid Mahmood Ricky Ponting has become the first Australian captain since Billy Murdoch to have surrendered the Ashes in England two times. It was a closely fought series in 2005 and the hos...
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Mind Sports Association join hands with Chess players' body

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Aug 21, 2009, 10:12 pm
By Syed Khalid Mahmood The Mind Sports Association of Pakistan (MSAP) has moved a step forward by having signed an agreement with the Pakistan Chess Players Association (PCPA) on August 20 to carry o...
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All About Latest Sports Action: Twittering Hughes needs to learn lessons

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Jul 31, 2009, 12:18 am
There’s absolutely no harm in using the social networking sites as means of communicating thoughts to a wider audience but one has to draw a line what’s to be shared publicly and what’s to be st...
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Twitter Blog: New Front Page!

Zee Waqar A. posted an article on - Jul 28, 2009, 11:31 pm
New Front Page! Today we're trying a redesigned front page for folks who are new to Twitter.com. If you're a regular around these parts, then you won't not...
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