The Pakistan Cricket Board s stringent disciplinary action against erring players including indefinite bans on former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younus

New Delhi: After an unprecedented clean-up of the cricket team and with none of the Pakistani players featuring in the IPL

Karachi: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt has done a volte-face on the life ban imposed on former captain Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has handed life bans to Younus Khan and Mohammad Yousuf, also banning Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan for a year and fining three other players

Karachi: Pakistan cricket fraternity on Wednesday reacted with surprise, anger and content to severe punishment handed out by the Board to half-a-dozen current players on disciplinary counts.

Defending Waqar Younis' appointment as Pakistan coach despite allegations of match fixing against him, PCB chairman Ejaz Butt said all those fined on the basis of Justice Malik Qayyum's inquiry report 10 years ago have been cleared for national duties now.

Karachi: His chances of returning to the national team might be bleak but Pakistan's controversial pacer Shoaib Akhtar maintains that his international cricket career is far from over.

Karachi: Denied captaincy of his domestic team, Pakistan's temperamental all-rounder Shahid Afridi is on warpath with the Karachi City Cricket Association and has threatened to quit the side.

Karachi: The match-fixing slur on Kamran Akmal and Rana Naved might just be a conspiracy to discredit them by none other then some of their own fellow players, feels former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram.

Karachi: Pakistan s new chief selector Mohsin Hasan Khan believes they will have to keep the national Test and one-day squads away from Twenty20 cricket to improve in the longer formats of the game.