British Pakistani boxing star Amir Khan got engaged with the American Pakistani student Faryal Makhdoom when he gave her the £100,000 three diamond rings on 29th January.
According to The Sun newspaper, the second generation Pakistanis swapped the rings in front of 1,000 people at a lavish £150,000 engagement party at Bolton Wanderers’ Reebok Stadium where rich footballers such as Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Ricky Hatton, David Haye are just some of people on the guest list.
Not too long ago, India's Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was lifting the World Cup in Mumbai surrounded by a bunch of players that were on a high and rightly so, as they has just won an ODI Match against Srilanka to become the World One Day Champions.
It was a great moment in India's Cricketing history as they had won the World Cup after 28 years.
The Cricketing Gurus around the proud nation termed it as the greatest Indian team in the history, as it had a great blend of experience and youth plus they a had a very calm and efficient captain who had the skills to lead and guide this bunch of diverse players. However, in less than one year, all the Gurus are taking thier words back as the self proclaimed "World's Great Cricketing Nation" has been humiliated in England and Australia in the presence of all the Legends in the team.
Aisam is all set to launch his autobiography, in Karachi and Lahore simultaneously after the French Open. He was talking to the media in Karachi Press Club yesterday.
‘I tasted success consistently with Rohan Bopanna, now my focus is back towards winning with my new partner.’ Aisam played the pre-Quarter Final’s at the recently concluded Australian Open.
Since the resignation of Waqar Younis, Pakistan have been on the lookout for a coach. Mohsin Khan has been in-charge of the national side as a interim coach whilst the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) look at their options. The PCB initially got dozens of applications, which has now toned down to a reported two people.
Whatmore then went to coach Lancashire in England and won three One-Day competitions. He then went on to coach the Bangladesh side before heading to the IPL and Kolkata Knight Riders. Mohsin on the other hand, apart from having a illustrates Cricket career and these few months of leading the national side; his finest experience is being a leading actor in numerous Bollywood movies.
Whatever else they do this year, nothing can beat what we have seen this month. Pakistan may go on to win many series and tournaments this year such as the Asia Cup, T20 Championship, ODI series win against England BUT nothing and I mean nothing comes in front or comes harder than what has been achieved over the last few weeks with a high profile test series win against the world number 1 ranked side and that too with a whole test match to spare.
England came into the series as favourites and Pakistan although they had had an impressive run with series wins without a single defeat against New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as a commendable drawn series against South Africa and a test win coming back from behind in the Caribbean to level the series.
Pakistan's under-stated captain, Misbah ul Haq is slowly creeping up in the annals of Pakistan’s finest captains’ territory. Under him, Pakistan has won series against New Zealand, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and now England.
The latest test series win is Misbah’s fourth successive as a captain, he also has the honor to be the first Pakistani captain to win 8 test matches in a single year.
Misbah was named Test captain in October 2010 against South Africa.
After the astonishing victory over England, many Pakistani cricketers have improved their positions in world Test rankings. After achieving the #1 ranking in ODI bowling charts, Saeed Ajmal has moved upto #2 in Test Rankings.
Misbah ul Haq and Abdur Rehman have also entered the Top 10 of batting and bowling rankings for the first time in their careers. Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali and Mohammad Hafeez have also improved their positions.
The Chairman said that by talking about the spot-fixing issue repeatedly, some forces try to bring player morale down, but players understand that it was a thing of the past, and the players involved have been punished.
“It is time for us to focus of the present and the future”, he added. Zaka also spoke about how big an achievement it was for this team to beat England in a test series, and it shows that the team, players, management and administrations sole focus is to do well in cricket.
The Title race is evolving itself to become one of the tense finishes of previous years. Manchester City are on top with a brilliant Goal Difference, Manchester United are hot on their heels. Tottenham, the surprise package of this season have come on leaps and bounds after their disastrous start to the season. Who will win it? Who has the quality? Strength in depth? Experience and know how? Let’s take a look.
Melbourne, Australia : World No.1 Serbia's Novak Djokovic defied all odds to clinch his third Australian Open Title on Sunday.In a match full of excitement, thrill , joy, happiness, emotions ,drama and sensational tennis, Nole and Rafa both had equal chances to bag the title. But it was the Serbian who proved that he had nerves of steel and just merely managed to cross the finish line in what was the longest Grandslam Final of the Open Era.
The teams of both Djoko and Nadal supported their men throughout the epic five-setter and emotions were evident in their camps. Both the players pushed each other to their limits but ultimately, it was Novak who dragged himself past the finish line while Rafa succuessfully went through "SELF-DESTRUCTION".
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Pakistani tennis super star, Aisam ul Haq has said that playing for Pakistan in the London Olympics this year is my first priority. ‘I will soon start winning with my new partner’, he added yesterday in Karachi.
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Zaka Ashraf has said that it is time to forget the past and cherish Pakistan’s emphatic win.
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