Briefly Cricket

Victory for Hameed

Karachi: Pakistans discarded Test player Yasir Hameed scored a moral victory over British tabloid The News of the World,which implicated him in the spot-fixing scandal last year,after the UK Press Complaint Commission upheld his complaint against it. According to Yasirs lawyer Umar Khayyam,the UK Press Complaint Commission has ordered the tabloid to take off from its website,a video and story about the Pakistan opener in which he was seen discussing the fall-out from the Lords spot-fixing scandal.

Nigeria team starts training

Lagos: Nigeria8217;s 23-man squad have begun training ahead of the ICC Africa Twenty20 Cricket League Division One tournament in Uganda in July. The squad,including former captain Dolapo Gafar,is dominated by players who gained promotion into the World Cricket League Division Six in May. The training camp will continue until June 26. Nigeria8217;s first match of the Division One competition is against Namibia in Kampala on July 9.

Haider to face PCB panel

Lahore: Pakistan8217;s runaway wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider will appear before the disciplinary committee of the Pakistan cricket Board on Friday.In a long awaited hearing Zulqarnain will try to convince the disciplinary committee that his decision to desert the national team in Dubai and flee to London,where he sought asylum,was justified as he was under threat from alleged match-fixers.8221;Zulqarnain has been told to appear before the disciplinary committee on Friday and it is the committee that will now decide his fate,8221; a PCB official said.