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‘No room for friendliness in this contest’: Ramiz Raja slams Salman Ali Agha’s controversial run out by Bangladesh | Cricket News

‘No room for friendliness in this contest’: Ramiz Raja slams Salman Ali Agha’s controversial run out by Bangladesh | Cricket News

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4 min readUpdated: Mar 13, 2026 06:50 PM IST Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja slammed the Bangladesh team for the controversial run out of Salman Ali Agha on 64 in the second ODI at Mirpur’s Shere Bangla Stadium on Friday. The incident happened in the 39th over when Bangladesh captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz was bowling. What was the Agha run out controversy in the Pakistan vs Bangladesh game? On the fourth ball of the 39th over, Mohd Rizwan defended the ball which rolled towards Agha at the non-striker’s end. Miraz moved sideways and stopped the ball which landed at Agha’s feet. The Pakistan batter tried to stoop and pick up the ball, but Miraz was quicker, snatching the ball and then throwing it at the stumps at the non-striker’s end. The Pakistan cricketer was shocked to see Miraz and the other Bangladesh fielders appealing for a run out. The decision was sent upstairs to the third umpire and while he was taking a look, cameras caught a livid Agha throwing his gloves and bat on …

‘Shoot the man who gave that gameplan’ — Pakistan bowled out for 114, Bangladesh win by 8 wickets in 15 overs | Cricket News

‘Shoot the man who gave that gameplan’ — Pakistan bowled out for 114, Bangladesh win by 8 wickets in 15 overs | Cricket News

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3 min readMar 12, 2026 12:03 PM IST Bangladesh beat Pakistan by eight wickets in the first ODI, bowling out the visitors for 114 in 30.4 overs before chasing the target in just 15 overs. Basit Ali did not spare the team management. “First, shoot the man who told them to score a minimum of 60 runs in the ten powerplay overs,” he said. “He never played cricket on a ground. He just hands over a piece of paper. Did he not see what conditions are like here? Did he not know that even India have lost in Bangladesh?” Former Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal said he was left embarrassed by the performance. “It felt like one team was international and the other was a club side playing a practice match before a World Cup,” he said. “I called Basit and couldn’t find words to describe what kind of cricket we were playing.” He did not stop there. “I swear to God, batting like this doesn’t even happen in club cricket. Club cricketers don’t play this …

Salman Ali Agha responds to ‘dummy captain’ jibe after Pakistan’s exit

Salman Ali Agha responds to ‘dummy captain’ jibe after Pakistan’s exit

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6 min readMar 1, 2026 02:19 PM IST Pakistan cricket team captain Salman Ali Agha was grilled by journalists from his home country in a testy press conference after the team was eliminated from the running in the Super 8 stage, which meant that for the fourth time in as many years, Pakistan had failed to qualify for the semi-finals of an ICC event. In the aftermath, Agha faced a firing squad of journalists from his country, who asked him questions like whether he was ‘dummy captain for coach Mike Hesson’ and ‘if he would step down himself or wait for the Pakistan Cricket Board to sack him’. Despite the provocative tone of the questions, Agha navigated the choppy waters of the press conference with remarkable restraint. Here’s a look at the two confrontational questions (and Agha’s measured responses to them): Question: “It is very disappointing that the Pakistan team has been knocked out. You showed great intent playing at number three during the Sri Lanka and Australia series, but this entire tournament hasn’t gone …

‘Yashaswi Jaiswal, I really like his batting and would want to see him play…’

‘Yashaswi Jaiswal, I really like his batting and would want to see him play…’

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Written by: Express News Service 3 min readFeb 16, 2026 10:41 AM IST Waqar Younis couldn’t stop marveling at India’s batting riches and the quality of its batsmen, some of whom didn’t even play as India registered their biggest margin victory over Pakistan by 61 runs in a routine T20 World Cup game at Colombo. While the batsmen kept up the tempo starting with pocket rocket Ishan Kishan right down to the “long levered Shivam Dube”, Younis said India were a formidable batting unit as is. “But what’s great is the quality of some of the guys they left out. Someone like Yashasvi Jaiswal, I really like his batting. And will want to see him come in and bat some day. But overall it’s a very strong team and theres the bench and others outside,” he said post the match, flanked by presenter Mayanti Langer, Sunil Gavaskar and Abhishek Nayar. ALSO READ | ‘Time up for Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi’: Pakistan legends slam senior stars after T20 World Cup flop show against India He was …

‘Baaki batsman chanafali bech rahe the kya?’: Basit Ali, Kamran Akmal rip into Pakistan after Netherlands escape | Cricket News

‘Baaki batsman chanafali bech rahe the kya?’: Basit Ali, Kamran Akmal rip into Pakistan after Netherlands escape | Cricket News

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3 min readFeb 9, 2026 12:26 AM IST Former Pakistan cricketers Basit Ali and Kamran Akmal have slammed the way the team almost lost their T20 World Cup opener to the Netherlands before Faheem Ashraf rescued them and helped them to a three-wicket victory with three balls to spare. “Pakistan bach gaya bhai! (Pakistan just about survived). When Shaheen Shah Afridi is called in to bat, you can imagine what Pakistan batting did in that game. Bad batsmanship by the middle order, especially Babar Azam, Nawaz and Shadab Khan. These are experienced players. They have played not just in leagues across the world, but also in the Pakistan Super League. Today, they did not become heroes for Pakistan, they ended up being zeroes,” former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali said. “Who is a match changer in the Pakistan team? What are you going to say to a country’s fans that get happy when a wicket falls just because it means that Babar Azam will come to bat. But then Babar comes and goes. Today’s star for …

NZ vs PAK 2nd ODI: Ben Sears takes 5 wickets as New Zealand defeat Pakistan by 84 runs, take unassailable 2-0 lead | Cricket News

NZ vs PAK 2nd ODI: Ben Sears takes 5 wickets as New Zealand defeat Pakistan by 84 runs, take unassailable 2-0 lead | Cricket News

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Pakistan’s woes in the ODI format continued on Tuesday when the Mohammad Rizwan-captained side fell to New Zealand by 84 runs in the second ODI match, leading to the hosts taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in the 3-match ODI series. This was the Men in Green’s 4th straight ODI loss since the Champions Trophy where they were eliminated after losing back to back matches against New Zealand and India. The Kiwis’ Ben Sears took 5 wickets to break the back of Pakistan’s batting lineup with only Faheem Ashraf and Naseem Shah putting up some sort of resistance with 73 runs and 51 runs respectively. The duo, who both scored their maiden ODI half centuries, put on a 60-run partnership for the 9th wicket before Pakistan were bundled out in 41.2 overs. Rizwan and Babar Azam both failed to fire while Pakistan’s top order suffered a familiar collapse with the first 5 batters scoring in single digits. If you look at the whole Pakistan batting lineup, 8 batters scored in single digits which paints a not …

IND vs PAK ICC Champions Trophy: Five key pointers that signified the gulf in class between the teams | Cricket News

IND vs PAK ICC Champions Trophy: Five key pointers that signified the gulf in class between the teams | Cricket News

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– Pakistan were off to a decent start, but lost two wickets just before the end of the first Powerplay. Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel immediately went into a shell. On the other hand, India, despite losing Rohit Sharma relatively early, didn’t hit the brakes too hard. Between overs 11-20, Pakistan scored just 27 runs and faced 36 dots (60%) while India scored 45 runs and played 25 dots (41.7%) – While Pakistan were able to gradually build in the middle overs, India triggered a collapse soon after. Set batters Rizwan and Shakeel were dismissed in back-to-back overs, just after the second drinks break. Pakistan went from 151/2 in the 34th over to 200/7 in the 43rd over. India, after Rohit’s cameo, had two match-defining partnerships that never allowed Pakistan a footing in the game. – Axar Patel’s direct hit to dismiss Imam-ul-haq was the highlight of India’s solid fielding effort. There were a couple of tough chances dropped but those didn’t prove costly, and India’s catching and ground fielding was in general of a …

Ind vs Pak Emotional Rollercoaster: Dot balls impede Pakistan, Hardik entraps Saud Shakeel & Axar direct throws apply brakes as Pak reach 241 | Cricket News

Ind vs Pak Emotional Rollercoaster: Dot balls impede Pakistan, Hardik entraps Saud Shakeel & Axar direct throws apply brakes as Pak reach 241 | Cricket News

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Mohammed Shami, at his best, is at it from the word go. When he is in rhythm, he hardly wastes any time in hitting the right lines and lengths. But it wasn’t the case on Sunday as he struggled to get his radar right. In an over that would have given flashbacks to 90s kids of the stat to the 2003 World Cup final, Shami had to bowl 11 deliveries to complete a legal 6-ball over. It wasn’t quite like the 15 runs that Zaheer Khan conceded that forgettable day in Johannesburg, but it was the first sign that something was off with Shami in Dubai. He then went off the field, pointing to his shoes. By the time he got close to finishing his third over, the physio was out, massaging his right calf. Shami then slow-walked into the dressing room. A couple of days after his 5-for, it was a worrying start to the big day for India’s ICC hero. Somewhere in Dubai, Sunil Gavaskar must have muttered to himself that cricket is …

Champions Trophy, India vs Pakistan: How Hardik Pandya plotted Saud Shakeel’s exit | Cricket News

Champions Trophy, India vs Pakistan: How Hardik Pandya plotted Saud Shakeel’s exit | Cricket News

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Middle overs, slumberous surface, batsmen in mood for building the innings forward rather than blazing boundaries, a medium pacer needs to plough deep into his cricketing wisdom to poach a wicket. Hardik Pandya, his knack of setting-up batsmen less celebrated, psychoanalysed Saud Shakeel and hung a clever ruse. Saud is an instinctive puller of the ball and backs himself to take on the fielder. Unlike some of his Asian brethren, he goes really back in the crease and swivels his body to get the control and placement. So when Hardik went short, the third ball of the 33rd over, he imperiously pulled him towards the fence. The next ball was slow, short of length and outside the off-stump which he thudded to point for no runs. The next though was the heavier short ball, not on his body as last time, but outside the off-stump. So far used to the un-distressing pace of Hardik, he pulled him without any hesitation. The ball came quicker, got a tad big on him, and he mistimed the ball …

IND vs PAK: Inzy to Imam…Run-outs go retro and run in the family | Cricket News

IND vs PAK: Inzy to Imam…Run-outs go retro and run in the family | Cricket News

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While commentator Wasim Akram was asked about Pakistan opener Imam-ul-Haq’s run out in the tenth over with an Axar Patel throw striking similarly to his former team-mate and Haq’s uncle Inzamam-ul-Haq run-outs in his career, Akram and Sunil Gavaskar were bantering over the run-out tendency running in the ul Haq family. The trend goes back to the 90s. Notable was Pakistan’s group match against Australia at Headingley, Leeds in the 1999 ODI World Cup. A yorker from Damien Fleming in the 47th over of Pakistan’s innings had seen Inzy stuttering and falling over just outside the crease. Non-striker Wasim Akram ran towards the striker’s end with Haq being run out by Fleming. Akram had shared the incident multiple times in the past and recalled Haq’s words to him. “Wasim bhai, aap yahan kahan (Wasim,where are you here)?” Akram had told the media earlier. A day prior to the Champions Trophy face-off, when asked by Navjot Singh Sidhu about the incident and Akram’s take on the incident, Inzy was quick to answer, ‘We decided that we …