Often, in cricket, you will listen to commentators talking about building partnerships is a key to post a total or to chase a total. In the last one year or so, Pakistan left out Mohammad Yousuf who has scored above 7000 runs in Test cricket for Pakistan, and is one of the greatest batsman Pakistan has ever produced. Leaving him out from the national side was actually imposed more responsibility to the big two of Pakistan middle order, Misbah-ul-haq and Younis Khan.

Pakistan middle order now revolves around two heavy weights. They are the guiders of the ship named Pakistan cricket team.

Pakistan vs Hong Kong

KARP Group Hong Kong Cricket Sixes Semi Final, Oct 30 2011

Toss:                          England won toss chose bowl first

Pakistan:                   154/5 in 5 Overs

Hong Kong:               119/6 in 4.6 Overs

Result:                       Pakistan win by 35 runs

Pakistan vs Hong Kong

KARP Group Hong Kong Cricket Sixes Semi Final, Oct 30 2011

Toss:                          Hong Kong won the toss and chose to bowl first

Pakistan:                   114/3 in 5 Overs

Hong Kong:               84/3 in 5 Overs

Result:                       Pakistan win by 30 runs

Pakistan vs Ireland

KARP Group Hong Kong Cricket Sixes Quarter Final, Oct 30 2011

Toss:                          Ireland won the toss and chose to bat first

Pakistan:                   87/4 in 4.4 Overs

Ireland:                     86/2 in 5 Overs

Result:                       Pakistan win by 2 wickets

The Spaniard hailed the prolific forward in his prematch press conference and said there has never been any player like him in the history of the game.

Vienna -- Top seeds Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Juan Martin del Potro will meet in the final of the Erste Open in Austria after Saturday's semi-finals.

Tsonga, seeded one, accounted for unseeded German Daniel Brands 6-2 7-6 (7-4) in their final-four encounter, with the Frenchman striking 13 aces in the one hour, 23-minute battle.

The ninth-ranked Tsonga will face del Potro in the final in Vienna, after the latter defeated sixth seed Kevin Anderson 6-4 3-6 6-4 in two hours and 13 minutes.

Over my 15 or 16 years of playing international cricket in Tests and One Day Internationals, Wasim Akram is definitely the most outstanding bowler I've ever faced. ”
--Former West Indies batsman Brian Lara.

He is the most complete bowler in the world. My personal observation of Akram is that he is the best fast bowler in the world
--Robin Singh

Wasim Akram was one of the greatest finds of Pakistan cricket, I still feel proud to have introduced him in world cricket.
--Javed Miandad

Wasim Akram is the best fast bowler of all time
--Shane Warne

I have never seen a greater cricketer or sportsman than him
--Imran Khan

Wasim could bowl you deliveries u couldn't handle whether you are on 20 or 200
--Alec Stewart

Wasim Akram is one of the best all-rounders that I have seen, There were Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee and Kapil Dev in the 80's, I would put Wasim Akram at the very top of that group, one of the most exciting cricketers that I have seen play
--Greg Chappell

Read Full Story to find mind boggling facts about Wasim Akram:

Manchester City put in a performance for the ages when it trounced Manchester United 6-1 at Old Trafford on Sunday.

Clinical, lethal, disciplined, decisive, unrelenting - all words that could be used to describe how the club played, and rightly so.

(Saturday, October 29, 2011)

Match # 161

Match between Police & Muslim Fc Draw 1:1 @ Sadiq Shaheed Stadium, Quetta, Pakistan

Scorer Police: Naseeb Ullah 1 Goal @ 75 Minute.
Scorer Muslim FC: Saeed Ahmed 1 Goal @ 53 Minute.

Match # 162
Match between PIA & KPT Draw 2:2 @ Peoples Football Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan

Scorer PIA: Shakir Lashari 1 Goal @ 37 Minute, Muhammad Ishtiaq 1 Goal @ 52 Minute.
Scorer KPT: Naveed Ahmed 1 Goal @ 5 Minute, Naveed Ahmed 1 Goal @ 90+3 Minute.

Read Full Story to Find out previous days' results:

Today in Hong Kong Super Sixes tournament, many interesting games took place. And what can be more interesting than a Pakisatn vs India game.

Pakistan went in to play the game with lots of positivity as they had beaten a very strong South Africa team.

India too won their first game against Hong Kong.

It was expected to be a close match and so it was.

But due to some sheer brilliance from Pakistan's talented Umar Akmal with both ball and the bat Pakistan won the honors, find Full Scorecard Here.

Umar Akmal smashed 52 runs off 11 balls only. That wasn't it he delievered a very tight over at a very crucial stage of the match when he conceded 8 runs only.

Following is the video footage of Umar Akmal's batting gem in which he struck pretty beautiful sixes, standing on one leg alone: