Barring a successful appeal, England's main man Wayne Rooney looks set to miss the group stages of the European Championships next year. Yet is he deserving of a place on the plane to Poland and Ukraine at all?

Since his sending off against Montenegro and the three match ban that resulted from it, there has been much debate on whether England manager Fabio Capello should take his star striker Wayne Rooney to the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine next year.

-Zaka Ashraf replaces Mr Butt as the chairman of the PCB. Ijaz Butt considers the eradication of player power to be his leading achievement. His replacement has affiliations with ZTBL.

-Shahid’s “conditional retirement” only lasted 5 one dayers and 2 T20s against Ireland and Zimbabwe. It’s hardly as if he missed anything major.....

- Misbah and Rehman are named in the test team of the year in the annual awards of a leading sporting publication. The former more specifically is even the overseas player of the year. Both these players have been the leading run getter and leading wicket taker over the last year in the whites for the side.

- Peshawar pacemen Nauman Habib was kidnapped and murdered after round 1 of the QEA. This major tragedy was announced on the same day of the end of Mr Butt’s tenure. The bowler has taken 7 wickets in the last first class game he played and was the 2nd leading bowler during the Faysal Bank T20 is Karachi where he played a key part in the major upset to eliminate the star studded Karachi Dolphins in the group stages including taking the wicket of the former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi after he was MOM the previous day against Islamabad Leopards for his 3-20 and 58.

SHANGHAI--Britain's top ranked Andy Murray crushed Japan's young star Kei Nishikori to book his place in his third consecutive tournament final while a highly spirited David Ferrer made a comeback defeating his fellow countryman Feliciano Lopez 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-3.

The fourth-ranked Murray has now won 24 of his last 25 matches and is aiming for a third consecutive title to complete a successful asian swing.

Andy Murray will replace Federer for the 3rd position in the ATP World Tour Rankings if he wins on Sunday.

Legendary Hanif, the father of Pakistan Cricket

Hanif Mohammad's 337: 970 minute stay at the wicket for 337 against West Indies following on with a deficit of over 450.

The 'little master' batted for over 16 hours to save the match from a highly unlikely position.

The longest ever stay at the crease in test history, batting for effectively 2.5 days.

A demonstration of a watertight defence, immaculate concentration and admirable stamina.

A knock full of character and spirit.

Pakistani players have been once again ignored by the Indian Premier League (IPL) meaning there will be no Pakistani cricketers in the next season of the Twenty20 league. It is the third time in a row that the IPL has avoided cricketers from the neighbouring country. 

IPL's newly appointed chairman Rajiv Shukla had said that it will be up to the franchises to take a decision on Pakistan players whether to buy them or not. “Their (Pakistani) referees’ services have been utilized. Some franchises have taken Pakistani former players as coaches also and supporting staff as well. So it is not that Pakistan as a whole has been banned or something. There is no question of banning anyone.”