Category: Legal & Sports

FA delegation of Pakistan Soccer Futsal Federation led by Chairman Islamabad Soccer Futsal Association, Chaudhry Saleem Zia, visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry and held a meeting with Muhammad Shakeel Munir, President ICCI, to discuss the promotion of futsal.

Jamshaid Akhtar Sheikh, Senior Vice President, Muhammad Faheem Khan, Vice President ICCI, Baser Daud, former President, Ch. Muhammad Ali, Executive Member ICCI, Adnan Malik, Secretary General Pakistan Soccer Futsal Federation, Asia Aslam, President (Women’s Wing) Islamabad Soccer Futsal Association, Rana Tanveer Ahmed, President Islamabad Soccer Futsal Association and Moin ud Din, Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Soccer Futsal Association, were present in the meeting.

During the meeting, the delegation briefed the President ICCI Muhammad Shakeel Munir about the Pak-US Futsal series. They informed that the USA’s Futsal team would visit Pakistan from December 1 to 7, 2021 to play a three-match series, one each at Islamabad, Lahore, and Sargodha.

Speaking at the occasion, Shakeel Munir, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, assured the delegation of his full support to make the series successful. He appointed Muhammad Faheem Khan, Vice President, ICCI as Coordinator. He vowed that ICCI would continue to play its positive role in the promotion of sports activities.

Source: Pro Pakistani

India’s 66-run victory over Afghanistan in the 2021 T20 World Cup has sparked a debate in the cricketing fraternity as many fans believe that the outcome of the match was pre-determined. Fans took to social media to voice their opinion with ‘#fixed’ and ‘#WellPaidIndia’ becoming some of the top trends on the popular social media platform, Twitter.

One of the talking points on social media was the video of the toss. Many people have pointed out that Indian captain, Virat Kohli, told Afghanistan captain, Mohammad Nabi, to bowl first after the latter won the toss.

While it is clearly heard that there was a brief conversation between the two captains regarding the decision after the toss, many people believe it is Kohli who addressed Nabi and told him to bowl first.

It is actually Mohammad Nabi who told Kohli about his decision to bowl first after winning the toss. This is a common practice in cricket where the toss-winning captain tells the other captain about his decision before announcing it on the microphone.

By listening closely, it is clear that Nabi had informed Kholi that he “will bowl first” to which the Indian skipper replied “okay” and not the other way around.

There have been similar incidents in previous matches held in this particular T20 World Cup as well and this tradition has been in cricket for ages. Even during Pakistan’s encounter against Afghanistan, Babar had asked Nabi about his decision right after the toss.

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Pakistan’s explosive middle-order batter, Asif Ali has been nominated for October’s player of the month award for his match-winning knocks in the 2021 T20 World Cup.

Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan and Namibia’s David Wiese are the other two players nominated for October’s accolade, with all three players enjoying fine starts to the tournament in UAE and Oman.

Asif Ali’s T20 World Cup fireworks in Pakistan’s lower order have earned him a nomination, with a blitz of 27* from 12 balls in a win over New Zealand followed up by an extraordinary performance against Afghanistan, hitting four sixes in the 19th over to seal an important third victory at the tournament.

Shakib Al Hasan was vital in Bangladesh’s negotiation of the first round, also playing three Super 12 matches before succumbing to an injury that ruled him out for the rest of the tournament. Across six T20Is, Shakib scored 131 runs at 21.83, though it was perhaps with the ball where the left-arm spinner was more lethal, taking 11 wickets at just 11.18, with an economy of a miserly 5.59.

Namibian all-rounder, David Wiese, rounds out this month’s nominees, after playing a pivotal role with both bat and ball in the Eagles’ progress to the T20 World Cup’s Super 12 stage. Scoring 162 runs at an average of 27, with a strike rate of 132.78, Wiese has made an immediate impact in Namibia’s middle order, with knocks of 66* and 28* against the Netherlands and Ireland crucial in his team’s historic run through the first round. With the ball, Wiese has taken seven wickets at an economy of 7.23, making a case as one of the tournament’s premier all-rounders.

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India’s chances of making it to the semifinals of the T20 World Cup appear slim as they lost their opening two matches of the Super 12s stage of the tournament and sit at fourth spot in Group 2.

Despite the rivalry, cricket fans want India to do better and progress to the next stage of the tournament. Of course, the Men in Blue can still advance to the semifinals but they need nothing short of a miracle to move to the last four.

However, India’s progress doesn’t lie in their hands now. In fact, their hopes now rest with others performing extraordinarily poorly in a couple of scenarios.

In this regard, Federal Information Minister, Fawad Chaudhry, took to Twitter earlier today and suggested another scenario to India for qualifying for the next round.

The Minister shared an image that read:

India can still reach the semifinals if they send fake emails and New Zealand leaves UAE due to security issues.

The state-level jibe is connected to the incident in which New Zealand pulled out of the Pakistan tour just 20 minutes before the start of the first ODI due to an alleged security threat.

Once the dust settled after the incident, the Information Minister revealed that the threat emails that led to the cancelation of the New Zealand tour to Pakistan were in fact sent from India.

The emails were sent from an associated device in India using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that showed the IP address located in Singapore.

The device used to send the emails had 13 other email addresses. The email ID linked with these particular emails used the name ‘Hamza Afridi’ which was purposefully used to malign Pakistan.

The Information Minister had said that the whole saga hinted at the involvement of Indian agencies.

India had a dreadful start to their T20 World Cup campaign. They lost their first match to Pakistan by 10 wickets and then lost the second match to New Zealand by 8 wickets. They won the third match against Afghanistan by 66 runs in a controversial manner.

India currently sit at the fourth spot in Group 2 with two points and a net run rate of +0.073. Afghanistan and New Zealand sit at third and fourth spot with four points each and run rates of +1.481 and +0.816 respectively.

Since Pakistan have already qualified for the semifinals of the tournament, the second spot is up for grabs as the top two teams from each group will play in the semifinals.

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Former Pakistan captain and star all-rounder, Shahid Afridi, has said that his daughters do not have any presence on social media.

Taking to Twitter, Afridi said that none of his daughters have social media accounts.

“I would like to clarify that none of my daughters have any social media accounts; please disregard any ‘accounts’ or ‘news’ that are associated with my daughters,” Afridi said on Twitter.

He also attached a screenshot of a fake Twitter account created in the name of his daughter, Ansha Afridi. The clarification was due as several social media accounts and pages had been created in Ansha’s name over the past week.

Born on 3rd December 2005, Ansha is Afridi’s second child after Aqsa Afridi, who is going to be engaged to Pakistan fast bowler, Shaheen Shah Afridi.

Ansha is very active in social work and is often spotted alongside his father in welfare works.

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Pakistan wicket-keeper batter, Mohammad Rizwan, played yet another exceptional knock as he helped Pakistan to a 45-run victory over Namibia in the 2021 T20 World Cup. While Rizwan earned much-earned plaudits from around the world for his gritty innings, some people in the cricketing fraternity were not impressed with his batting display.

Former New Zealand fast bowler and current cricket commentator, Simon Doull, claimed that Rizwan’s approach in the first phase of the innings was strange and it could have cost Pakistan the match. Doull said that Rizwan did manage to recover and score big in the latter phase of the innings but this strategy could have backfired against a top international side.

“In a situation like this, you could say that it ended up really well. Would it be the same against a top-quality side? That’s the question you got to ask. Can he afford to do that against a top-quality bowling lineup? That time will tell,” Doull remarked.

Former pacer said that Rizwan’s approach was conservative from the start and had he failed to kick on, it would have cost Pakistan in a huge way. He added that Rizwan did manage to convert his timid start into good innings against Namibia but this strategy will not work every time.

Rizwan has scored two half-centuries in the tournament so far and is the second-highest run-scorer in the competition. His magnificent innings against India and Namibia helped Pakistan become the first team to qualify for the semi-finals of the 2021 T20 World Cup.

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Pakistan’s all-format captain, Babar Azam, has reclaimed his number one spot in the ICC T20I batter rankings after a sublime start to the 2021 T20 World Cup campaign. Babar has scored three half-centuries in the first four matches of the T20 World Cup and is currently the third-highest run-scorer in the tournament with 198 runs.

Babar overtook England’s Dawid Malan who had replaced Babar as the number one batter late last year. While Babar has scored heavily in the previous few weeks, Malan has been in torrid form over the past few months. He hasn’t registered a big score in England’s first four matches in the 2021 T20 World Cup as well.

Pakistan’s captain has been in marvelous form over the past few years. He is already ranked as the number one ODI batter in the world while he has also improved his Test numbers over the past few series. He is ranked as the number 7th batter in the longest format of the game.

Babar’s opening partner, Mohammad Rizwan, is currently ranked as the number four batter and is only two points away from the number three ranked Aaron Finch. If Rizwan continues his magnificent form in the upcoming matches, he will likely replace Finch as the number three batter in the world.

Source: Pro Pakistani