The Pakistan cricket could up being in more trouble than before as the investigating committee over their debacle in Australia has recommended some really harsh penalties and fines for some of the players. The recommendations have been sent to the PCB chief Ejaz Butt, who has now to take decision for the same.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has appointed Waqar Younis as the coach of the Pakistani national team. This was after there were many speculations about the same for the last one week about Younis Khan being offered the contract. Younis finally accepted the contract yesterday.
The imbroglio concerning the Pakistani exclusion continues to rage on. Even as the sports minister from pakistan had urged his Indian counterpart to intervene and take action against the IPL, news has filtered in that Pakistani all-rounder Abdul Razzaq had been approached by an IPL franchise for the third edition of the tournament.
The Indian government has said that it had nothing to do with the exclusion of the Pakistani players from IPL. There were 11 players from Pakistan put up in the auction list but none of them were selected by the franchises. The sports minister has said that the tournament was a private enterprise and the government had no say in the matter and its functioning.
97 cricketers had enlisted themselves to the IPL auction’s list. These players are from various parts of the world, and there were four from Canada, Netherlands and Ireland as well. Zimbabwe had two representations, in the form of Ray Price and Murray Goodwin.
Triple centuries is rare in Test cricket, but have been achieved 23 times by 20 different cricketer around the world. This is list of test cricket triple centuries. Only three players in the Test cricket to have scored 300 or more runs in a single innings on more than one occasion:
- Donald Bradman (AUS)
- Brian Lara (WI)
- Virender Sehwag (IN)
After the test matches series and the two T20Is between India and Sri Lanka, the sides will now battle it out for the five ODIs. The first of the five games will be played at Rajkot on Tuesday, and will be followed by games on Friday, Monday, Thursday and Sunday.