BRISBANE: Senior Australian opening batsman Matthew Hayden announced his immediate retirement from representative cricket at a press conference here on Tuesday.Hayden’’s anticipated announcement at the age of 37 followed a poor run of form in Australia’’s recent losing Test series against India and South Africa. The aggressive left-hander leaves after 103 Tests with 8,625 runs at a batting average of 50.74. He hit 30 centuries, which ranks him sixth all-time behind Indian Sachin Tendulkar’’s 41.
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SYDNEY: Australian opening batsman Matthew Hayden has called a press conference on Tuesday where he is expected to announce his retirement from international cricket, reports said. A press conference was set down for Brisbane’’s Gabba ground where the 103-Test batsman was expected to formally retire from international cricket following his dumping from Australia’’s Twenty20 and one-day squads. There has been continual speculation about the playing future of the 37-year-old batsman, who has been struggling for form in Australia’’s recent series against India and South Africa.Since returning from an Achilles injury this year, Hayden has scored 383 runs at 23.93 in his last nine Tests compared to his overall Test record of 8,625 runs at 50.73.Hayden had been trying to hold on for a final Ashes series in England in mid-year before retiring from the game, reports said. He has 30 Test centuries to his name and 29 half-centuries. Hayden played 161 one-day internationals for Australia, scoring 6,133 at an average of 43.80 and playing in two World Cup-winning sides. In the one-day arena he hit 10 centuries and 36 half-centuries with a top-score of 181 not out.
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The tensions between Pakistan and India might last for another three or four months until the general elections held in India, a Pakistani analyst said on Monday, adding that there is very little possibility of war. “Perhaps the tensions will continue for the next three or four months until the elections are held in India,” said Khalid Rahman, director general of Pakistan’s Institute of Policy …
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By Omar Khalid, Karachi, Jan 12 : Pakistan have refused to clear squash team’s tour to India for the Asian Junior Championship citing security concerns after its request to relocate the tournament was turned down by Asian Squash Federation (ASF).
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Pakistan has provided nuclear technology to North Korea to help the reclusive communist state build a uranium-based nuclear programme, the US State Department said Monday (January 12), according to Yo …..
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NEW DELHI: TV channel Times Now has exposed yet another of Pakistan’s lies — Islamabad may want the world to believe that it has cracked down on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, but that is far from the truth.
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ISLAMABAD: Low intensity tremors were felt in Rawalpindi and Islamabad on early Tuesday.No immediate reports came on loss of property or life.
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NEW YORK: Oil prices slid under 40 dollars in New York Monday on concerns that a deepening global economic downturn could extend the slump in demand for energy, analysts said.The market also reacted to news of a possible resolution to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine gas supply crisis and tracked developments in the Middle East, where Israeli infantry units clashed with Hamas fighters across Gaza. The benchmark contract, light sweet crude for delivery in February, slumped 3.24 dollars to close at 37.59 dollars per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent North Sea crude for February shed 1.51 dollars to settle at 42.91 dollars on London’’s InterContinental Exchange. The market had tumbled last week after a brief bounce above 50 dollars on the back of jitters over the Russia-Ukraine crisis and ongoing unrest in Gaza, whose neighbors are key oil-producing nations.
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QUETTA: Unknown miscreants on Tuesday have blown up gas pipeline, going through Kiryani Road, in Quetta, Geo T.V reported.Gas supply to the area has been suspended due to explosion, sources said.
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The US pursuit of Al Qaeda with airstrikes complicates Pakistan’s struggle against the Taliban, who launched their largest attack in months over the weekend.
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