Newly appointed said that he wants to have good relations with the influential Indian cricket board.

Addressing the media persons here on Friday, Butt said that if Pakistan wants to remain strong in the International Cricket Council (ICC), then it would have to seek the help of BCCI. He is expected to meet the new president of the Indian Board Shashank Manohar on the sidelines of the ICC executive board meeting in Dubai next week. 

He is quite optimistic that his meeting with the Indian president would be productive for the cricket of Pakistan. 

Pakistan beat hosts Canada by 35 runs in their opening match at the Al Barakah Twenty20 Canada Cup tournament here.

Electing to bat first, Pakistan scored 137 for the loss of seven wickets in their quota of 20 overs. Opening left hand batsman Salman Butt scored an impressive 74 from 56 balls which included six boundaries and three huge sixes. From Canada, both Harvir Baidwan and Umar Bhatti took three wickets each. 

Here’s a good news for the Indian badminton fans. In the latest badminton rankings, Indian national champion Chetan Anand has reached the 22nd place, up by eight places. 

Last week, in a thrilling tussle Chetan win his maiden Grand Prix title in Bitburger Open badminton tournament at Saarbruecken in Germany. He also won the Czech International title last month and now has a tally of 35750 points in the rankings released yesterday.

Andrew Symonds, the ace Australian cricketer may be very good with the game but it takes more than that to play international cricket. The Player was sent back from Darwin during the home series against Bangladesh after his deliberate absence at the compulsory team meeting to go fishing. Ever since, the cricketer is in great soup coz as a result of such arrogant behavior he was not included in the Australian Test Team to play in India.

A prize money of Rs 13.720 crore was announced by the Indian Cricket League (ICL) for its October edition of Twenty20 championship. The second season of ICL began with a glittering ceremony on October 10 and will witness 41 matches at Hyderabad, Panchkula, Gurgaon and Ahmedabad.