But, with the ever-growing international calendar and a number of countries involved in tours, Rhodes knows just how difficult it is to find a deputy both good enough and available – and Ajmal's Pakistan team-mate, left-armer Tanvir, looks to fit t…
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From civilian casualties to girls' schools and cricket, the Taliban website's new question and answer section provides answers to a wide range of readers' questions. The BBC Afghan's Dawood Azami examines the Taliban's latest propag…
A 75-year-old former cricket club coach has been jailed after admitting sexually abusing a boy. Leslie Smith carried out the assaults on the teenager in the 1980s while coaching at an amateur club in the Aylesbury Vale area of Buckinghamshire.See all s…
A poll of 1250 eight to 16-year-old pupils and 1010 parents for cricket charity Chance to Shine suggests some pupils are put off sport as a result. More than half of the pupils surveyed say they have been subjected to teasing, taunts and physical …Se…
The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, is due to travel to India in the first visit there by a Pakistani head of state for seven years. Mr Zardari will meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, before travelling to an important Muslim shrine in …
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club has backed a transport campaign which aims to reopen a train station close to the cricket ground. If successful, Ashley Hill will become a new link in a planned metro rail system for Gloucester, which connects to ……
Pakistani officials have arrived in the Indian city of Mumbai to investigate the November 2008 attacks. Reports say the team will record the statements of doctors and officials who are part of the investigations. The statements are to be used in a …S…
A memorial event to remember a teenager who died after being hit by a cricket ball is being held at the Dorset school where he was a pupil. Kyle Rees, 16, a student at Portchester School, Bournemouth, was struck on the head in the playground on 28 …S…
By Syed Shoaib Hasan BBC News, Karachi Ahle Sunnah Wal Jamaat was first banned in 2002 by then Pakistani leader Gen Pervez Musharraf. Activists from the pro-al-Qaeda group formerly known as the Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP), or Soldiers of the Companions of the…
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As the push for talks between Western nations and the Afghan Taliban intensifies, fissures have emerged in Pakistan's militant landscape. The BBC's Haroon Rashid reports on troubled relations and infighting within the Pakistani Taliban.See all …
