Pakistan 30 player squad for worldcup

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced a 30-man preliminary squad for the 2011 World Cup although the the squad for the upcoming six-match One-Day International series in New Zealand has still not been named.

Batsman Mohammad Yousuf, who missed out on selection for the tour to New Zealand due to injury, is included in the squad, as is Kamran Akmal, who has not played for Pakistan since the tour of England last year.

"We are satisfied that we have selected the best squad from amongst the available players," national selection chairman Mohsin Khan said.

"The Selection Committee met on multiple occasions and only then decided on the names. I request the whole nation to back the selected players who need all the encouragement to win the World Cup.

"There is a lot of speculation in the media regarding clearance or otherwise of players by Integrity Committee of PCB. The Integrity Committee has given its views on some players to the Selection Committee which has taken into consideration that input and has selected the 30 players for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011."

Furthermore, there is no place in the squad for all-rounder Shoaib Malik or leg-spinner Danish Kaneria and as expected, the three players set to undergo an ICC anti-corruption tribunal into allegations of spot-fixing - Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt - were also left out.

Uncapped members of the squad - which will be trimmed to 15 names by 19th January - are batsman Naved Yasin, wicket-keeper Salman Ahmed, spinners Yasir Shah and Zulfiqur Babar as well as quick bowlers Junaid Khan, Aizaz Cheema and Asad Ali.

Sarfraz Ahmed and Salman Ahmed are named as the reserve wicket-keepers in the squad, leaving no place for Kamran's brother Adnan, who has taken the gloves since the omission of Kamran and the demise of Zulqarnain Haider.

Pakistan play Kenya, Sri Lanka, Canada, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Australia once the tournament gets underway on 19th February.

The board added that the squad for the ODI series in New Zealand will be named next week.

Pakistan preliminary World Cup squad: Shahid Afridi, Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Taufeeq Umar, Nasir Jamshed, Mohammad Yousuf, Younus Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Akmal, Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq, Naved Yasin, Kamran Akmal, Sarfraz Ahmed, Salman Ahmed, Abdul Razzaq, Yasir Arafat, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Abdur Rehman, Saeed Ajmal, Yasir Shah, Zulfiqur Babar, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Sohail Tanvir, Tanvir Ahmed, Junaid Khan, Aizaz Cheema, Asad Al

Pakistan is ready for next match

New Zealand  Vs  Pakistan

After loosing first match, Pakistan is reading to take the revenge of the first match.

Match scheduled to begin at 19:00 local time (06:00 GMT)

Current time: 00:44 local, 11:44 GMT | Match begins in: 18:16

	New Zealand squad
LRPL Taylor*, DG Brownlie, IG Butler, JEC Franklin, MJ Guptill, BB McCullum, NL McCullum, PD McGlashan†, KD Mills, AF Milne, JD Ryder, TG Southee, SB Styris, LJ Woodcock

	Pakistan squad
Shahid Afridi*, Abdul Razzaq, Abdur Rehman, Adnan Akmal†, Ahmed Shehzad, Asad Shafiq, Fawad Alam, Mohammad Hafeez, Saeed Ajmal, Shoaib Akhtar, Tanvir Ahmed, Umar Akmal, Umar Gul, Wahab Riaz, Younis Khan

ARACHI: Pakistan hockey secured the gold medal after defeating Malaysia in the final of Asian Games Thursday.
PAK 2 - MALAYSIA 0
Sohail abbas *
rehan butt *

President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Sports Minister Aijaz Jakhrani, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad and Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and others have appreciated the team victory.

Pakistan has won the final event after 20 years.

The government has announced Rs 5 million for the winning team while Aijaz Jakhrani has said that all the players would be given permanent jobs.

Anderson's five put England on top

Pakistan 147 for 9 (Gul 30*, Asif 0*, Anderson 5-49) England 354 (Morgan 130, Collingwood 82, Asif 5-77, Aamer 3-41) trail by 207 runs

Mohammad Asif's five wickets made the morning session Pakistan's but on a day for the bowlers, James Anderson cut through Pakistan to leave them eight runs adrift of the follow-on target with a wicket in hand. With the ball swinging prodigiously under leaden grey skies in Nottingham, 15 wickets fell for 170 runs throughout the day, and Anderson marked the occasion of his 28th birthday with 5 for 49.

Anderson made the initial incision by removing both openers before Steven Finn took a wrecking ball to Pakistan's middle order. Finn snatched 3 for 12 in his first spell as Pakistan went into freefall at 47 for 6 before Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Aamer's stubborn 58-run rearguard.

Anderson returned to snap their resistance, having both batsmen caught in the slips in successive overs to pick up his ninth five-wicket haul in Test cricket before Umar Gul's adventurous 30 took Pakistan to within touching distance of the 155 needed to make England bat again. As the gloom set in, however, the umpires decided that play could not continue despite the use of the stadium floodlights and the players were hauled off.

After Asif had sparked an England collapse in which six wickets fell for just 23 runs in the course of the morning, Pakistan's batsmen would have been expecting a spirited riposte from England's bowlers. They appeared completely unprepared for the scale of the assault.

Salman Butt was softened up by a clanging blow to the side of the helmet before he feathered an edge through to Matt Prior, and Anderson then came round the wicket to Imran Farhat after lunch, bending the ball past the batsman's attempted nudge to leg to shatter the stumps. Finn, fresh from his strength and conditioning training, extracted bounce and movement to pick up Umar Amin with a thick edge to second slip, which left Pakistan in the perilous position of 35 for 3.

The collapse was soon in full flow, and Anderson snatched his third as Ali was turned inside out by a booming outswinger to prompt an appeal for the catch behind. Umpire Tony Hill raised the finger but despite having UDRS referrals in the bank, Ali trudged off without questioning the decision. It was a strange decision, as replays appeared to show that the ball had missed the edge and touched the batsman's trouser pocket on the way through.

Finn then bullied both Akmals out in identical fashion, shaping the ball away from the bat with a touch of extra bounce outside off stump to draw indecisive prods to second slip. Malik and Aamer survived to see out his spell and briefly protect Pakistan's dangerously long tail with a partnership that was the second-highest of the match for either team so far, and it put the game-shaping importance of Eoin Morgan and Paul Collingwood's 219-run stand into proper perspective.

Malik's vigil was ended courtesy of a juggled catch by Andrew Strauss at first slip to give Anderson his fourth wicket, and his fifth came soon after as Aamer drove at a wide one to send a thick edge to Graeme Swann.

With Pakistan floundering at 108 for 8, Umar Gul took it upon himself to chase down the 47 still needed to avoid the follow-on with an attacking cameo. In gloomy conditions that had the umpires fiddling with their light-meters, Gul's innings was equal parts skill and luck. Fortuitous boundaries were picked up from leading edges and squirts through the slips before he got going with a stylish cover drive off Anderson.

He followed that up with a pull into the stands at midwicket before Broad pitched one up to beat Danish Kaneria's aimless drive and disturb the bails. Asif safely negotiated the final ball of Broad's over, but with that the umpires finally decided that conditions had deteriorated enough to send the players off.

Anderson's efforts, and the extent of Pakistan's batting capitulation, put the other five-wicket haul of the day - Asif's 5 for 77 - firmly in the shade, but England's collapse was, if anything, even more dramatic than Pakistan's. The home side had resumed on 331 for 4 but once Collingwood was removed for 82 in the sixth over of the morning the rest of the line-up quickly followed.

Asif bowled an unbroken spell from the Radcliffe Road end, trapping Collingwood with an inswinger to create an opening and give Pakistan the lift they so dearly needed, before pinging Morgan's back pad in front of off stump to reduce England to 344 for 6.

After Graeme Swann sold Matt Prior a dummy to see him run out for 6, England's tail fell in a heap, and Asif found himself on a hat-trick after nailing both Swann and Anderson in front of the stumps with deliveries that swung in unexpected directions. He found the edge of Finn's bat with the hat-trick delivery, but the chance fell well short of the slips.

Gul made a mess of Broad's stumps to bring the innings to a close in the very next over and complete a stunning collapse, but in the context of the game, one that was overshadowed by the Pakistani surrender that followed. If the low clouds continue to hover over Trent Bridge - and they are forecast to do so - Morgan and Collingwood's innings may well prove to be the decisive difference between the teams in this match.

I still look like a chipmunk, says Katie Price

Katie Price a.k.a Jordan has compared herself with a “chipmunk”.

“Do you know, on my Hen we all had filler, Botox, lip, and I said: ”No, I”m not doing it again!” They”re like: ”Oh we did Kate”, and I”m like: ”Oh go on, I”ll have a little bit,” the Mirror quoted her as telling ITV1”s This Morning.

“But when I had it done… it looked awful but it”s all going down now. The thing is, it doesn”t last forever which is good. But no, I still look like a chipmunk.”

Asked what motivates her to undergo Botox, the star said: “It”s not permanent. Yeah, no it”s mad, but then I blame my friends and my family because we all did it.”

Katie denied she was addicted to the treatment, saying: “No, if you have the proper stuff, like I”ve seen some people who go too far… but the odd jab of Botox and that – it”s like, everyone does it.

“It”s so obvious what celebrities have had it these days, and they”re like: ”Oh no, I”m natural. It”s absolute rubbish,” she added.

Zac Efron blows $2K on booze and lap dances in NY strip club

Zac Efron and two of his pals were recently seen squandering more than 2,000 dollars on lap dancers and vodka at a top New York strip club.

The ‘High School Musical’ star showed up at Flashdancers Gentlemen”s Club on Broadway on Sunday night and stayed until 3 a.m.

“Zac came in Sunday night around midnight with Corbin and one other male friend, who paid for everything,” The New York Post quoted a spy as saying.

“They ordered one bottle of Belvedere vodka and were enthralled with the dancers. They were interacting a lot with the girls and reaching out and showering money on them.

“The girls were all slim pretty brunettes, a bit like Zac”s girlfriend, Vanessa Hudgens. They were two Americans, called Shannon and Brandi, and a gorgeous Brazilian called Raquel,” the spy added.

Hudgens was nowhere to be seen at the premiere of “Charlie St. Cloud” later that night.