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Gul shrugs off ball-tampering murmurs
Umar Gul, the leading wicket-taker of the World Twenty20, shrugged off Daniel Vettori's questioning of the early reverse-swing he achieved in the tournament, and said that since the team management had responded to Vettori's veiled references to ball
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I'd decided to quit if we won - Younis
Younis Khan has said that he had decided even before the World Cup started that he would retire from Twenty20 cricket if Pakistan won the tournament. He also said his statement about Twenty20 cricket being a fun game was part of his plan to ease the
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Tight security cuts off Pakistan heroes from fans
The victorious Pakistan team arrived in Lahore in the early hours of Tuesday amid security so tight that hundreds of fans who had gathered at the airport failed to catch a glimpse of them. The champions of the ICC World Twenty20 in England
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Afridi fifty seals title for Pakistan
It wasn't the edge-of-the-seat final that would have signed off the ICC World Twenty20 in style, but that won't matter to Pakistan who gave their nation a something to savour amid troubled times. From the moment Tillakaratne
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Yousuf returns to Test fold
Mohammad Yousuf has returned to the Pakistan Test team barely a month after cutting ties with the unofficial ICL, and Abdul Razzaq has also been included in a 15-man squad for the tour to Sri Lanka which starts later this month. Yousuf had signed up
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This is bigger than '92 - Ramiz Raja
Following Pakistan's eight-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the ICC World Twenty20 final at Lord's, former national captains praised the side as thousands of fans took to the streets across the country. Javed Miandad and Inzamam-ul-Haq paid tribute to
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Younis retires from Twenty20 with a plea
Younis Khan used cricket's grandest stage to announce his retirement from Twenty20 internationals, and make an impassioned plea for teams to once again tour his country. The Pakistan captain, speaking after Sunday's emphatic eight-wicket World Twenty20
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PCB to continue legal battle with ICC
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) says it will continue its legal battle against the ICC on the issue of hosting the 2011 World Cup after high-level talks at Lord's today proved inconclusive. The four host nations of the 2011 World Cup met for the second
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