IPL 2016:Warner put Sunrisers Hyderabad back to Track

After disappointing start little Aussie dynamite David Warner produce three sublime batting performances in three back to back victories for the Sunrisers.
Warner who is also captaining the side, brought his team back into the top team's mix after they started off their campaign with two consecutive losses in the opening matches.
The 29 years old scored 90 not out off just 59 balls against Mumbai Indians, an unbeaten 74 off 48 balls against Gujrat Lions and 59 off 31 balls against Kings XI Punjab to help his side overcome a slow start in the event.
With a top heavy batting line up, Sunrisers will be hoping that their captain will carry his form in the rest of the tournament as well. 

KP out of IPL 2016

English Batsman Kevin Pieterson has been out from the rest of Indian Premier League after being carried off the field with calf injury.
Pieterson faced a single delivery during his side Rising Pune Supergiants fourth match on friday before hurting his right calf while attempting a run.
"Over & out,India! injuries are all part of the job!Horrible tear in my calf!sad to be leaving a really great bunch of boys but looking forward to being back with my family! London bound for a summer off! Vacations till November!Bye for now! lots of love KP," Pieterson wrote on his Instagram Account. 

PAKISTAN CUP:Zohaib Khan made victory easy for KPK

Yesterday was Zohaib Khan's day first with the bat where he scored 82 runs to set a good total on board and then he helped KP to win a 74 runs victory with his outstanding figures 18/4 in 9.1 overs.
 Zohaib khan come out to bat when two batsmen of KPK were gone at the total of 44/2,then he put a very crucial partnership  with Ahmed Shehzad of 75 runs.Further Ahmed Shehzad gone out at the total of 119 from where Zohaib took his team to a sound total of 246 runs.
In 2nd innings, he also shown his talent with ball and helped his team to a easy win with a good margin. Zohaib Khan was announced as the player of the match and put his team to the top of the points table.

ARVC forced JAMES TAYLOR to Retire from International Cricket

The 26 year oldNotthingamshire middle-order shot maker announced his retirement from cricket last week after being diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), a condition that stops the right side of the heart pumping blood properly and may lead to sudden death.Taylor spends two weeks in hospital but at the time of release he tweeted that:: "Well that has been one hell of experience! What a beautiful Day"Meanwhile a statement on Nottinghamshire's website on friday said:"James Taylor, the Nothingamshire and England  batsman who was recently forced to retire from cricket through illness,is continuing his reovery at home.

India Is Ready To Host A Day Night Test Match against New Zealand

India is ready to host a day night test match later this year against New Zealand.
The BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur said that "we would use the Pink Kookaburra ball for the day and night test.He further said that we will play one test match as day night test,Before that Duleep Trophy will act as a dress rehearsal for the day night test match".
It will take few things to be checked for this test.Things like dew factor, how the spinners will bowl with the Pink Kookaburra on Indian Pitches,these things will be checked during Duleep Trophy.

Pakistan Cup

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) introduced a new Domestic One day tournament which had replaced Pentagular Cup.This tournament will be played between five teams that are named by provinces and capital of the country.
Pakistan Cup format will remain same as Pentagular Cup but the selection procedure has replaced by drafting, it will allow the announced captain and coach to pick their 15 men squad from a list of 150 cricketers.
ODI Captain Azhar Ali will lead Balochistan,Test Captain Misbah ul Haq will lead Islamabad,Younis Khan will lead Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,Shoaib Malik for Punjab and T20 Captain Sarfaraz Ahmed for Sindh. List of announced team are as under. 
Islamabad: Sharjeel Khan,Nasir Jamshed,Iftikhar Ahmed, Misbah ul Haq (Capt),Asif zakir, Hammad Azam,Sarmad Bhatti,Arsal Sheikh,Imran Khalid,Zafar Gohar,Mohammad Sami, Mohammad Irfan,Hassan Ali, Mohammad Abbas.
Punjab: Salman Butt,Shan Masood,Asad Shafiq,Asif Ali,Akbar ur Rehaman,Mohammad Rizwan, Saad Nasim,Amir Yameen,Shoaib Malik (Capt),Ehsan Adil,Amad Butt,Adnan Ghous,Zulfiqar Babar,Saif Badar.
Sindh: Khuram Manzoor,Sami Aslam,Mohammad Waqas,Sohaib Maqsood, Khalid Latif, Fawad Alam,Saad Ali, Sarfaraz Ahmed (Capt),Imad Wasim,Anwar Ali,Bilal Asif,Mohammad Amir,Sohail Khan, Ruman Raees,Hassan Khan.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa:Ahmed Shahzad,Fakhar Zaman,Younis Khan (Capt),Ramiz Aziz,Naveed Yasin,Musadiq Ahmed,Bismillah Khan,Faheem Ashraf,Rahat Ali,Azharullah,Sadaif Mehdi,Yasir Shah,Mohammad Asghar,Zhaib Khan,Hayatullah.
Balochistan:Azhar Ali (Capt),Owais Zia,Ramiz Raja(Jr),Babar Azam,Umar Akmal,Shahid Yousaf,Mohammad Hassan,Mohammad Nawaz,Sohail Tanvir,Junaid Khan,Bilawal Bhatti,Umar Gul,Imran Khan,Usama Mir,Saeed Ajaml.

INZAMAM UL HAQ is the new Chief Selector for Pakistan Cricket Team

PCB has announced Inzamam ul Haq (the former Pakistan Captain) the Chief Selector of Pakistan Cricket team.

Further,Chief said: I came here to serve my country and I will serve at any place where may services are required for Pakistan.I'm thankful to PCB who has applaud my recommendations for Selection Panel.My team members will be Tauseef Ahmed, Wajahatullah Wasti and Waseem Hyder. 

He also said that I have not any wand that I can fix all the problems in one go,it will take time but we will do better as we can.

"I'll try and also hope that I will be allowed to work independently," Inzamam said.My role is different,when I was Captain I used to give my suggestions.Now,I will listen to them (captains) too about what is their suggestion.The captain is the main man.Like how I used to give my point,I will give importance to what captain and coach will say because they are the ones who matter inside the ground."

We wish all the changes that have been made in Pakistan Cricket will serve it and we will have better results.We wish Inzi and his team best of luck for future. 

Inzamam appointed as Chief Selector and Mushtaq Ahmed as NCA Coach

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has appointed Inzamam ul Haq (former Pakistan Captain) as Chief Selector of Pakistan Cricket team and PCB also allowed him to select members of Selection Commitee.
Secondly, PCB has also appointed Mushtaq ahmed as National Cricket Academy Coach, PCB Chairman Sheryar Khan said that Cricket team coach name will be announced later when we finalize any name.

PCB disappointed with West Indies refusal to play in Pakistan

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is disappointed at  refusal to play a limited over series in Pakistan between September and October this year.
West Indies who recently crowned WorldT20 championship,turn the request from PCB to play few matches of the full series in Pakistan, the billateral series have two Test, 5 ODI's and two T20's that are scheduled in UAE later this year.
The West Indies Board informed PCB that they prefer to play full series in UAE because of Security reasons.

   10 Biggest Sixes In Cricket History

Cricket has come along way in the last 2-3 decades from colour kits to Twenty matches and extensive broadcasting with so many different camera angles. The introduction of T20 which is a fast paced cricket format players are more eager to take the aerial route now compared 90’s era combine that with new bat technologies and batting paradise wickets around the world we often see fastest fifties, centuries and even double hundreds in ODI cricket.

Cricket has evolved and there is no better sight than a batsman getting under the ball and hitting it out of the park, today we take a look at some of the longest sixes hit in international cricket. Of course the footage below only contain sixes hit in what I like to call modern day broadcasting era starting from late 90s to date.

10. MS Dhoni (112 meters)

India needing 12 runs of last 4 balls against Australia, MS Dhoni produced one of his trademark shots which sailed over not only the long boundry at Adelaide Oval but also quite a few rows back. As far as distance is concerned it was recorded at around 112 meters.

9. Ijaz Ahmad  (110m to 115m)

Former Pakistan batsman Ijaz Ahmad was a batsman who only had two gears in him while batting regardless of the pitch or team he is playing against. He could either just keep the scoreboard ticking with singles or go into beast mode every now and than and in 1999 match against India at Mohali he hit two sixes one of which sailed over the stadium. The distance is not recorded however but looking at the footage it was around 110 to 115 meters atleast.

8. Corey Anderson (122m)

Corey Anderson broke Shahid Afridi’s long standings fastest 100 in ODI record last year and its evident that he can hit the ball long way with rather ease. Playing against India at Napier he hit four sixes in the game and couple of the shots went out of the stadium. Again distance is not recorded but it was huge sixes which could have kept going had it not for the roof tops.

7. Chris Gayle (120m)

Chris Gayle produced a moment of magic when he hit Brett Lee (one of the fastest bowlers in world cricket) for a massive six which went out of the stadium

6. Shahid Afridi (110m to 115m)

You can’t talk about sixes with out mentioning Shahid Afridi name, the guy was in T20 mode even 10-12 years before the actual berth of twenty20 cricket. Afridi has the record of most number of sixes hit in ODI and overall combined in test, odi and t20. He has recorded some of the biggest hits in world cricket and one of them came on tour against Australia.

5. Mark Waugh (distance not recorded)

Many experts believe this six of Vettori’s bowling by Mark Waugh is the longest six ever hit. Well its certainly one of the biggest but only before the T20 era. regardless of the distance it was one clean shot by one of the most elegant batsman of all times.

4. Yuvraj Singh (119 m)

Fresh of hitting 6 sixes in an over against Chris Broad of England in the quarter finals of T20 world cup 2007, Yuvraj produced another starling performance against Australia in the semifinals as he hit 70 of just 30 balls helping India to reach the final. He hit a massive six of Brett Lee bowling with just the flick of the wrist and it sailed over the

3. Brett Lee (143m)

Brett Lee was often at the wrong end of big sixes but he himself could clear the ropes when in form. Brett Lee had a natural swing with the bat and West Indies bowler felt the real meat of Brett Lee bat back in 2005 when he produced this monster shot

2. Shahid Afridi (almost 158m)Pakistan were chasing a lost cause of 350 runs against South Africa in the 3rd match of ODI series. Ryan McLaren had just bowled Afridi but it was called a no-ball meant a free hit for one of the biggest hitters in world cricket. What does Afridi do he connects the next ball so good it went over the roof with ease and here is a video Alex Stewart and paul Collingwood discussing Afridis six and other big hits.

We leave you with what probably is the

1. Zard Ali (173m)

We leave you with what probably is the biggest sixes in history of cricket, this came in the Australian Domestic Big Bash event when left handed Zard Ali connects and it goes beyond the stadium roof into the near by parking lot.

2016 can be called The W.Indies Year

Well as we all know WorldT20 reached to its end with an impressive victory endorsed by the Carribeans, first they nailed India in semis and then they post a win against England in finals. T20 cricket is some thing for which we can't predict and W.Indies proved that, what a final it was, Ben stokes's last over will always remain a dark dream for him for rest of his life in which The Giant "Carlos Braithwaite" hit 4 massive sixes on 4 balls and the W.indies registered their win with 2 balls remaining and became the first team to win ICC WorldT20 twice.Some highlights of celebration.

I have titled my post that "2016 can be called The W.Indies Year" not because they win ICC Men's WorldT20 but they have also won ICC Women's WorldT20 against Australia and in the month of Feb they also won the ICC U-19 World Cup where they beat India in finals.We should have to thanks ICC that they haven't any more tournament this year if they have I believe that they will have that one as well.

Distances between Players and Carribean board are huge, that we have seen from their skipper Darren Sammy's Media talk but they don't give up and became the Champions in all three tournaments that ICC have this year. They have three this year and we hope that they will have many more because they have cricket floating in their blood and all we want to see is good cricket as we have watched in WorldT20 2016 final.

Turmoil in Pakistan Cricket

Pakistan Cricket was facing a huge turmoil after having defeats in Asia Cup and WorldT20, PCB had formed an inquiry committee to find the facts of such a disastrous defeat,during this period Coach Waqar Younis resigned from his job and Captain Shahid Afridi from Captaincy but he hasn't taken retirement from International Cricket, he will be be available for selection and he will continue his career as he himself won't feel himself burden on team. PCB has also given an advertisement for new Coach and announced Sarfaraz Ahmed as T20 Captain who was serving as Vice Captain in all three formats,Pakistan former Captain Ramiz Raja advised to made him Captain in all three formats, more voices are coming in favor of Sarfaraz who has known as k "dhoka nhn dega" . Now, We have to wait and see what Sarfaraz have for his team. He has proved himself as Wicket Keeper and Batsman,but Captaincy is something different.Many difficulties are ready to welcome him in face of Senior players, teams disunion and also to put team on winning track. All we have to do is to wait that how he manage all these problems. We wish him best of luck and give him support for his career and captaincy.

Indian Premier League 2016

Another Season of thrilling cricket has been started in the face of Indian Premier League 2016, the contest was started by defending champions Mumbai Indians and the new comer Pune Supergiants with the former Captain Of CSK which has not been part of this season.The Defending champions were thrashed by Giants,they got victorious with 9 wickets. This is all about T20 Cricket,yesterday Champions were failed today. Tournament is going on & we expect more exciting & thrilling matches in coming days.Hope not only people of India but World will enjoy this contest.