Night stay @ Shangrila Farmhouse with RIKSOF

As always, this is another very memorable hang out with RIKSOF and this time it is at Shangrila Farmhouse. It is not too far from city and its only a 20 minute drive from 4K last bus stop (see map).

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Facilities Includes:

• Bedrooms : 3 superior rooms with A/C .Each of the rooms has a luxury bathroom, TV with satellite and is individually designed to include everything you could wish for.
• Sitting area : (based on Shahi Takhat)
• Indoor Games : (Snooker, Hand football ,Dabuu, Enough space to play cricket matches as well)
• AAbshar : (Beautiful Natural look of AAbshar)
• Bar B Q And full Goat Roast area
• Children Arena : (different types of rides for children)
• Swimming Pool : (ideal pool size 25 x 50 with filter plant)
• Lush Green Garden : (Beautiful Garden with quantity of different flowers and decorative items)
• Standby generator, Security Guard, Mosquito free Environment

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Amir, Asif & Salman - From Hero to Zero

Pakistani cricketers are again under a controversy and this time it is a serious one - the FIXING case :|

The trio who are Hero of last week are now Zero. In my last blog I am really excited of Pakistan's fighting win over England and now I am not much interested to even watch a cricket match.

Is it a non-professionalism or a trap or anything else - the trio-players has taken part in this show of money. The future of these players is still not clear and are at stake. But as a Pakistani I am still hoping these players will not have a life ban and will play cricket after completing their punishments.

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Pakistan beat England after 9 Years

A victory dedicated to the flood victims of Pakistan.

Pakistan beat England in England after 9 years in a Test Match is another huge achievement by a rookie team within a month. Previously they beat Australia after 15  years in a Test Match.

A good team work by Pakistani bowlers as well as batsmen has done the work for Pakistan. Taking a first inning lead and excellent comeback by Paki bowlers in the 2nd innings has provided them a victory. There are lots of moments and achievements in a match that really boost the team moral. Some of them includes 1) Wahab Riaz's superb debut 5 wicket hall, 2) M. Yousuf solid comeback in a International side, 3) M. Amir becomes the youngest bowler to take 5 wicket hall in England in a Test Match and become a Man of the Match, 4) Saeed Ajmal's Spin magic, 5) Azhar Ali's unbeaten rock knock of 92* in the first innings and 6) Kamran Akmal's shocking 8 catches to reach his 200 dismissals in a Test Match.

Also a big relief for a new captain Salman Butt to still remain in the series. We all are hoping to win the Lord's Test to level the series.

Yousuf is a class act.

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Cricket - Rookie Paki Beat Aussies in Tests "Unbelievable"

At last Pakistan has proved that they are now better than Bangladesh and Zimbabwe after beating Australia once in last 15 years. The hard fought three wicket win over Aussies boost the team's confidence and allow the rookie captain "Salman Butt" to retain his captaincy role.

When you look at the Pakistani team, currently they are the most weakest team in the history of Pakistan cricket. There are no bowling option for Wasim, Waqar, Shoaib Akhtar, Saqlain, Mushtaq etc - even than they can able to bowl Aus out on 88. Also the worst ever batting line-up missing Saeed, Inzamam, Yousuf, Younus etc - even than they can able to chase the target (credit goes to the bowlers).

Early Captaincy Role:
Salman Butt is very early for Test match captaincy but he has to take this responsibility. The practice for assigning captaincy role to some one who is early in his career stages is not bad for some teams - for example we have Smith for SouthAfrica, Strauss for England and Dhoni for India. But these three players have proved themselves as a right captain with their performances. We are also expecting same from Butt.

I have gathered some numbers/stats of the match that are as follows:

The Age Factor:

Australia:
Shane Watson (29), Simon Katich (34), Ricky Ponting (35), Michael Clark (29), Michael Hussey (35), Marcus North (31), Tim Paine (25), Steven Smith (21), Mitchell Johnson (28), Ben Hilfenhaus (27), Dough Bollinger (29)
Total Sum = 323
Average Age = 29.3

Pakistan:
Imran Farhat (28), Slaman Butt (25), Azhar Ali (25), Umar Amin (20), Umar Akmal (20), Shoaib Malik (28), Kamran Akmal (28), Mohammad Amir (18), Umar Gul (26), Danish Kaneria (29), Mohammad Asif (28)
Total Sum = 275 (Not even a single player exceeds Australia's average age)
Average Age = 25

Test Matches Played:

Australia:

Shane Watson (20), Simon Katich (52), Ricky Ponting (146), Michael Clark (62), Michael Hussey (52), Marcus North (17), Tim Paine (2), Steven Smith (2), Mitchell Johnson (36), Ben Hilfenhaus (11), Dough Bollinger (10)
Total Sum =  410
Average Matches = 37

Pakistan:
Imran Farhat (35), Slaman Butt (29), Azhar Ali (2), Umar Amin (2), Umar Akmal (8), Shoaib Malik (30), Kamran Akmal (50), Mohammad Amir (10), Umar Gul (28), Danish Kaneria (60), Mohammad Asif (19)
Total Sum = 273
Average Matches =24.8


This is what talent and spirit is all about. Pakistan has beaten Australia that are much better as the stats suggests.

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Champions League Twenty20 2009

At the end of Champions League 2009, it is again an Australian side leading the tournament in great style. The final was between New South Wales (Australian League) and Trinidad & Tobago (West-Indian League). With the starred performance by Brett Lee, NSW beat T&T to win inaugural champions league Twenty20.

T&T should should not be disheartened at having lost the final, their only defeat of the tournament. The inexperience team of Daren Ganga have few expectations of performing in such a manner.

For me it is T&T, one of the most unexpected performer of this League. Reaching the finals and beating the well reknown league teams makes it the best team of the tournament (but not the champions). If one looks at the current situation of Westindies International no one can expect that one of WI's league team becomes such an impressive performer of tournament.

The team is a mixture of some international players (Ganga, Bravo, Simmons, Rampaul, Ramdin, Pollard) and some new faces. And the thing is that they are performing well. The new faces of opening pair are succesfull in providing solid opening stands in most of the matches.

All these T&T players that are not well re known before this tournament, but definitely become much more popular after this. They are expected to be the part of other leagues like IPL of current times.

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ICC Champions Trophy 2009

Its around a week now that the mini world cup of ICC has been concluded and successfully ensures the importance of ODI's in International Cricket. Thanks to South Africa Management hard work.

The whole tournament was perfectly arranged and can be said as the Best ICC Champions Trophy Tournament ever. All the teams are highly motivated (due to new players in almost every team) and crowd was awesome (as it is always been in South Africa).

Australia winning their second consecutive ICC CT tournament has played the best of cricket as compared to all other teams. Australia haven't able to perform with their standards from last one year and lost series against South Africa and the Ashes (making their rank down to 3rd). Winning this tournament makes them number 1 again.

If we look at the results of whole tournament we can see some surprises in this tournament as well. A cricket "BIG TOURNAMENT" + "SURPRISE", a team came into mind is South Africa (the hosts). From last 3 or 4 tournaments they are giving surprises by failing badly in a big tournaments.

The star players of this tournament also includes some new names. From the batting point of view these players have performed their job really well:

Ricky Ponting: (Australia)

Shane Watson: (Australia)
Greame Smith: (South Africa)

Paul Collingwood: (England)

Mohammed Yousuf: (Pakistan)

And we look at the bowling end we can have the following pictures in mind:

Parnell: (South Africa)

Stuart broad: (England)
Kay Mills: (Newzealand)
Saeed Ajmal: (Pakistan)

Ashish Nehra: (India)

NO Australian's. You can find PM Siddle (Austraila) at number 10, strange.

Players that have played the best innings and bowled brilliantly are yet to discussed.

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