Roston's classic century helps West indies to draw the 2nd test against India.

Rain stopped the play on day four with the West indies in big trouble. At the end of day four west indies lost their four wickets on just 48 runs.
As the day five started Roston chase showed great commitment and save the test match of his country.
At one stage India looking to to with the match very easily but Roston century and Jason holder and Blackwood's half centuries turned it down for India and match resulted in draw.

There is a lot to be said of roston. He's languid at the crease. He plays late and close to his body. He wasn't perturbed by a tough situation. And his timing stood out. Two days short of 50 years since it was last done for West Indies and six days after the 80th birthday of the man who did it, Chase achieved the double of a century and a a five-for in the same Test. In the process he helped pull off an improbable draw: batting for survival, West Indies had lost four wickets in 15.5 overs on day four, but on the final day they gave up only two.

Indian coach is very upset about this draw and he said " Obviously, we wanted to win this Test match. Yesterday, we were in a very good position and credit to the West Indies batsmen, the way they batted,”.

“Yesterday, time was very crucial for us because we were in great momentum and the conditions were such that it could have been different if we had probably bowled more. There was loss of play, more than 100 overs were lost in this Test match. So all those factors mattered. In the end, credit to the West Indian batsmen in terms of how they batted today and their application as well,” he added.

Prisma fever grips the World.

Prisma is great photo editing app, was recently launched by ios but now its also availble for andoroid users as well.
Prisma storm the world because of his unique filters.
Prisma filters change the image into a hand-made sketch, whick looks amazingly awesome.
Prisma fever also hit the bollywood celebrities.
People around the world are using prisma to edit their picture and uploading them on social media site like facebbok, twitter and instagram.

The prisma app co-founder said that the firm also has several new features to reveal such as the Prisma Video feature, 360-degree Prisma photos, and a list of different filters to transform real life images in to digital arts.
Some amazing facts about Prisma application.
1. Prisma has been used to edit over 400 million photos till now.
2. 10.6 milliom iphone user downloaded it till now.
3. Over 1.55 million daily active user.
4. There are 30 filters in prisma app.

2nd Test, England lead by a mammoth 489 runs.

Its Stumps, Day 3 Eng 98/1 and lead by 489 Runs.

There are two days left and 180 More overs are to be played in the game.

England is in a very strong position at the moment and favorite to win the match.
As 2 days are left so what's is going to be?
180 overs of play or 2 days of rain. 

There are prediction of raining in Manchester old trafford. 

Earlier today Misbah-ul-haq scores a brilliant fifty.

Mickey Arthur on Misbah's performance today "Misbah-ul-Haq has been an example to the Pakistani players for a very long time. 

England only lost Alex hales today, who goes for 24.

Cook and Joe root are till on crease and looking solid.Well the beauty of Test Cricket is that new records can be made any time. If we look at number of overs played in the 4th innings of a Test Match since 1990. Then the draw chances for Pakistan looks slightly possible. Technically looking at the weather Pakistan will get around 150 More Overs and if Pakistan survives them then they might draw it.

South Africa won 2nd test by 4 wickets

CAPE TOWN: Pakistan lost the three-Test series after South Africa recorded their second consecutive win by four wickets here at the New Lands on Sunday.

Chasing 182, South Africa completed their victory before the end of the fourth day, losing six wickets.

For South Africa, Hashim Amla was the top scorer with 58 while AB de Villiers made 36 and captain Graeme Smith scored 36.

Saeed Ajmal's 10-wicket match haul proved in vain as South Africa beat Pakistan by four wickets inside four days on Sunday.

South Africa have now won their last six series, and are unbeaten in 12. They have not lost a five-day match since December 2011 - 14 games ago - and has won its last six.

 South Africa, who had won the first Test by a huge margin of 211 runs at Johannesburg last week, lead the series 2-0 with the third and final Test to be played at Centurion from February 22.

Situation was uncertain for the women's team and players were overwhelmed by fears as no hotel was willing to give them security: Zaka Ashraf

RAWALPINDI: PCB chief on Friday blamed the women's flop in the World Cup on security fears in host India, claiming the players were "overwhelmed".

 Pakistan finished last in the eight-team event after losing all four matches, which were moved to the eastern city of Cuttack when the right-wing nationalist Shiv Sena party threatened to disrupt Pakistan's matches in Mumbai.

The International Cricket Council decided to house Pakistan at the club house of the Barabati stadium instead of a hotel for security reasons.

"The situation was uncertain for the women's team and players were overwhelmed by fears as no hotel was willing to give them security," said Zaka Ashraf, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) after talks with Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

Pakistan team manager Ayesha Ashar said at the time that the squad was happy with the arrangements made at the Barabati stadium.

But Malik said he would raise the issue with India.

"Not giving security to our women's team is a concern and I will raise this issue with the Indian government," Malik said. 

Election Commission of Pakistan rejected a proposal by the government to lift ban on recruitment

Election chief dismisses gov’t request for jobs ban removal : 

The Law Minister had written to the Chief Election Commissioner for lifting ban on fresh jobs as the ban is affecting performance of the several government departments.

The Election Commission issued a formal directive notifying continuation of the ban on new recruitments and diversion of development funds.

It was‚ however‚ clarified that all vacancies‚ which were advertised on or before 31st of August last year‚ are outside the purview of the ban and may be filled-in.

Section of the local media had earlier reported that the ruling coalition had planned to recruit thousands of people before the election just for political purposes.

The government will complete its term in mid-March and new elections are scheduled to be held within three months. Some ministers have indicated that the polls could be held in the first week on May.

 The Election Commission said that all appointments shall be made strictly in accordance with the rules applicable to such appointments and purely on merit.

The institutions established under the Constitution are exempted from the ban on recruitments, a Commission’s notification said.

The Commission said requests from ministries‚ divisions‚ departments or institutions of the Federal Government or any department or institution of any provincial or local government including health and education department will be considered on case-to-case basis by the Election Commission.

About diversions of funds‚ it said no funds will be diverted from an ongoing project to a new or existing development project in any constituency.

The directive said the development projects already in progress may continue without interruption where no diversion of funds is required.

Requests from foreign donors to divert funds from one project to another will be considered by the Commission on case-to-case basis.

Diversion of funds in respect of projects of strategic importance will also be considered by the Election Commission on case-to-case basis.

Pakistan lost the first test by 211 runs at Johannesburg.

Johannesburg :When the 4th day game were started Pakistan at 184/4, depending on Misbah and Asad shafiq but Steyn struck immediately with the new ball and dismissed Asad Shafiq and Misbah in consecutive overs ending all hopes for Pakistan.

Asad Shafiq (58) and Misbah (64) were the high  notable scorer in pakistan’s second innings.Dale Steyn took the new ball. An hour and 40 minutes later, he was still bowling with it. In a spell that lasted 10 overs and four balls, Steyn grabbed four wickets to take his match tally to 11 and his status as the best bowler operating on the international stage at the moment to a new level.

Score:

Pakistan: 49 & 268 (Misbah-ul-Haq 64, Asad Shafiq 56; D. Steyn 5-52) v South Africa 253 & 275-3d.

 S.Africa leads the 3-match series 1-0.

 Pakistan play the second test of the series from February 14 at Cape Town.