Asim Zafar

The recent series played between South Africa and Australia has given birth to a new champion. For last two decades Australia has sustained its dominance in both forms of the game and fashioned so many great players. Despite the change of captains Aussies ensured that they are the influential in the game of cricket. Allan Border, Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting, under the captaincy of these players Australia unruffled lots of victories including four world cup victories in its bucket. Especially in the last two world cups Australia didn’t loose even a single match. Australia’s series defeat with a margin of 4-1 against South Africa is really wearisome for their management including the captain Ricky Ponting. The way South African bowlers dismantled Australian top order in almost every match is simply a very rare thing to happen. Australia had attempted so many opening amalgamations but nothing seemed work for them. Just a year back Australia had got the best opening pair in ...

The industry which has ruled the world for so many years and that attracted so many people including business men, investors, skill workers for almost 2 decades, is now moving towards decline. Its charm is fading away. Specialists blame short-term thinking and increasing risk aversion two basic reasons behind this turmoil. In the past valley have experienced lots of hunch times but it dealt well with it to adjust it-self and this is its vitality. Then what so special this time? Many economist and technologists feel this slouch may lead to the downfall of the industry and they declared lack of innovation and shrinking research work in this field as the cause of this slump. Companies, Venture Capitalists and new startups are investing money in new less expensive, less risky deals, including social networking portals such as Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, and Digg. But the contributions of these ventures are not helpful to deliver sizable productivity gains for business and the nation or to mak...

Once again Pakistan has come out triumphant against a weaker opposition, as we witnessed 3 ODI series between Pakistan and West Indies in Abu Dhabi. Pakistan is starving of playing international games both tests and ODIs rite after the series against india, that Pakistan played last year in India. This year Pakistan was unable to play a single test match and only managed to participate in ODIs. Bulk of the matches out of the total ODIs which Pakistan played this year were against the weak oppositions with the likes of Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and West Indies. Things look good for Pakistan as far as winning ratio is concerned and that was exactly being claimed by Jeoff Lawson about this performance as Pakistan Coach. But the analytical view presents an entirely different picture for us. Lets just analyze the matches which Pakistan played against the oppositions other than Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and West Indies. These two teams are Srilanka and India. Pakistan played only a single match agains...