Woolmer in mind, Younis is eyeing glory again

After dedicating the World T20 win to Bob Woolmer, Pakistan's coach who died during the 2007 World Cup, Younis Khan now wishes to go one further: Win the Champions Trophy in the country Woolmer chose to make his home.

Born in Kanpur, Woolmer played for England, but had settled in South Africa.

"It would be great if we could win in the land where Bob lies buried... It would be wonderful if I could either take the Trophy to Cape Town and place it before Mrs Woolmer or invite her here, if we do win... Woh ek bahut bada kaam ho jaye ga," the Pakistan captain told The Telegraph rather emotionally .

Assured of a semi-final berth, step No.1 has been reached.

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Skippers plays down Afridi-Gambhir spat

Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik played down an incident that took place during his team’s second one-dayer against India when Shahid Afridi had a war or words with Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir. ‘It was nothing,’ Malik said after the match which Pakistan lost.’It just happened in the heat of the moment and later I went to Gautam and apologised to him on behalf of Afridi,’ he added.

After the first two games that went smoothly, the cricket community was reminded about the intensity of Pakistan-Indian encounter when Afridi and Gambhir had a spat during the Kanpur one-dayer.

It all happened when Gautam came to the crease at the dismissal of Sachin Tendulkar and soon drove Afridi for a boundary after which the duo got engaged in a verbal clash. It got worse when Gautam decided to go up to Afridi and said something which by judging Afridi’s reaction made it clear that Gambhir wasn’t exchanging any pleasantries.

The eyeball-to-eyeball encounter between the rival players was finally cut short by umpire Ian Gould. The umpire took Gambhir aside and asked him to control his emotions and also gave a similar advice to Afridi. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni also played down the incident. ‘Agar yeh nahi hota tau pata kaisay chalta ka yeh Pakistan-India series hay (If this hadn’t happen then how will you know that it is a Pakistan-India series),’ he said smilingly at a post-match press conference.

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