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When Misbah ul haq decided to bend his arm; Misbah’s bowling video

If one goes overs Misbah’s profile, you will often come across his bowling stats in international cricket. 24 balls 30 runs, those are his bowling stats. You always wonder when did Pakistan’s most successful captain ever bowl?  It takes a couple of searches on YouTube or Google to find a very grainy video in which a “young” Misbah bowling against Zimbabwe. The video starts with the ball going towards long on, and Misbah receiving it back to bowl another. Misbah co mes in running in a typical Punjabi Pehlwan fashion, with his heavy upper body, even his bowling run up and action has a very sedated outlook. Nevertheless, he does get an edge on the ball, but due to his bad luck the keeper is Kamran Akmal Misbah bowling legspin This is the not only occasion where he bowled. In a recent Norway premier league (NPL), Misbah wa s thrown to ball. In a much-cleared video , we see a bearded Misbah run in as a Punjabi pehlwan while throwing in his leg spin but with a much pacey version as his

3 Best ODI innings of Sachin Tendulkar

When it comes to ODI cricket, no player could match what Tendulkar has achieved in this format. He had always been far ahead from the rest. The master blaster made many records on the field, and it makes you wonder that whether those records would ever be broken. Usually, the record innings are the ones that gets boosted the most, but we feel the best innings are those which have a much bigger impact on your career. Thus, we will be picking the best 3 ODI innings of Tendulkar that had an impact on his career. 3.       98 off 78 balls Vs Pakistan at Centurion in 2003 World Cup India vs Pakistan rivalry always made cricket more fun to watch. These encounters could make anyone a hero. When Javed Miandad would struck Chetan Sharma for a six in 1986 on the last ball to win the Sharjah cup for his team, Pakistan would end up remembering that for the rest of their lives. Akhtar had promised to knock one at Tendulkar's head before this match and he had crossed the 100 mph bar

Things Cricket Fans can do during this Lock Down

Corona virus has put the world on hold and has taken a lot of lives in such conditions we should stay home and protect each other and hope that things get better as soon as possible. We know such conditions are very difficult for the cricket fans as the cricket has completely taken away which is certainly difficult for them to adjust so there are few things which our cricket fans can do during this lock down situation. ·         There are multiple cricket games which are easy to download so as a cricket fan you will love to play these games during this situation. ·         You can watch many cricket related videos, previous matches which will bring back a lot of memories. ·         You can play cricket with family inside your homes. ·         You can watch “The test” on amazon which is worth watching for cricket fans and you can sign up free for amazon prime videos and enjoy the series. ·         You can read articles and blogs on different cricket leg

Akmal's career; An end or a fresh start

Umar Akmal is one of the most controversial personality in the Pakistan cricket team and he knows how to keep his name in hotlines in cricket world. Recently Pakistan Cricket Board banned Umar Akmal for being approached by a spot fixer and not informing the respective cricket board. Some people are criticizing him for his behavior but some are targeting Pakistan Cricket Board for always treating its players in such a way. they say that PCB needs to start owning its players. Even former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar aka Rawalpindi Express also showed some anger towards PCB's behavior saying that PCB needs to improve itself in order to avoid such spot fixing incidents. Now the main question is that whether Umar Akmal's career in cricket has finished or he will learn from his mistakes and take a fresh start?  He may not be banned for complete 3 years, according to a report in India Today Uamr Akmal may have to serve only a part of the ban instead of complete 3 years A cl

My meeting with ex-cricketer Saeed Ahmed

From the Archives Originally posted by Shah Rukh on Pakpassion It was a hot sunny Thursday, as we met up with a friend of ours who lived at the Red house. We parked our car outside red house, and rested by the side of the car while discussing whether to go play some Call of duty at the local gaming lounge. As we wasted time and whined about petty stuff, we noticed a flock of molvis going house by house and preaching their ideas to every household member whose door bell they rang. They were still quite away from us. We didn’t want to be approached by the preachers, especially today, when we just wanted to waste some time here and there and go home. We thought by the time they had approached towards red house, we would be long gone. It was a Thursday anyways, so we had to kill time somehow, so phone browsing started. The preachers were pacing up, and were almost near us, but there were still 1 or 2 more houses whose door bells had to be ringed before we were targeted. I

What happened to/in HBL PSL V?

Pakistan Super League is a big hit now a days but unfortunately its season v never had its final match. So, let’s start from the bottom about PSL V. The Pakistan Super League season 5 was scheduled to happen on 20 February 2020 till 22 March 2020. There were 34 matches scheduled among the 6 teams of the tournament. The matches continued amazingly till an unwanted situation took place and organizers decided to stop the tournament. Here is the schedule of PSL V and what has happened so far: Match no. Teams Venue Winner 1 IU vs QG Karachi QG won by3 wickets 2 KK vs PZ Karachi KK won by 10 runs 3 LQ vs MS Lahore MS won by 5 wickets 4 QG vs PZ Karachi PZ won by 6 wickets 5 MS vs IU Lahore IU won by 8 wickets 6 KK vs QG Karachi QG won by 5 wickets 7 LQ vs IU Lahore IU won by 1 wicket 8