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File picture of Pakistan’s Shadab Khan | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Top Pakistan cricketers such as Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub and Shadab Khan found no bidders in the Hundred Draft where 50 players from the country had signed up. Pakistan were represented by 45 male cricketers and five female players in the draft. Naseem and Shadab were in the top category price bracket of £120,000 while Ayub placed himself in the £78,500 segment. ALSO READ | Cricket takes a leap into the unknown with half a billion pounds Among the women players, Aliya Riaz, Fatima Sana, Yusra Amir, Iram Javed, and Jaweria Rauf did not find any takers. The Indian Premier League owners buying stakes in the Hundred teams could be cited a...

Growing up in Hyderabad, the bedroom wall at Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella’s home had three posters that probably would have never been pasted together. Alongside philosopher Karl Marx and Goddess of wealth Lakshmi was good-looking batsman ML Jaisimha, a long-time favourite cricketer among the game’s connoisseurs. In an old interview, Nadella has also spoken about missing the heady days of Sachin Tendulkar’s debut as he moved to the United States in 1988.Another desi corporate czar in the US, Nikesh Arora of cyber-security company Palo Alto Networks, recently said how he and his other Silicon Valley friends, most Fortune 1000 regulars with Indian roots, get up at 4 am to watch the Indian Premier League. They would tune in for Tests too. At the height of the anti-trust law...

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50 Pakistan cricketers find no takers in Hundred Draft

Silicon Valley’s The Hundred dream: Stake at Lord’s today, maybe owning Virat Kohli tomorrow