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Pakistan defeats the Ashes Winner by 2-0

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                   Before the series, every cricket fan was hoping for a tight competition between two big test playing nations. One was England who has just defeated Australia in Ashes series. Other was Pakistan who has not lost a home series for last 8 years. And same was the team who had whitewashed England by 3-0 in 2012. Many were thinking that this time England will be taking revenge of that whitewash. But history repeated itself. It seemed to be a sequel of 2012 test series. Pakistan outplayed England expect in first test where there was a neck to neck fight. The reasons for that tight competition were obvious as Pakistan was lacking Yasir Shah; a backbone of Pakistan's bowling attack and Azhar Ali who proved himself a reliable batsman for last couple of years. The series saw many stunning performances from players of both teams. Shoaib Malik scored 245 runs in his very next match after making comeback. Younis Khan completed 9000 runs in test cricket and became first

Pakistan Super League

The twice postponed Pakistan super league is finally ready to kick off next year in Dubai and Sharjah. A glittering launch ceremony was held in Lahore and it was attended by celebrities from Entertainment Industry, Sports, Media persons and people from business community. Head of PSL committee briefed the audience about IPL like event. He announced there will be five teams in inaugural edition of PSL with the addition of 1 team with every coming year. These five teams will be named as Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Islamabad and Quetta. He added"Winning team will be awarded 1 Million USD". The event will start from 4 Feburary with its final to be played on 24 Feburary. So far many big names in T20 format like Gayle, Peterson, Pollard, Sangakara, Narine, Watson have agreed to be part of inaugural edition. Like this fan page to updated https://m.facebook.com/ThePSLT20Mela