Due to a limited role offered in PCB, former test captain Javed Miandad quit as director general of the Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday.

Miandad informed, "I have tendered my resignation to the chairman PCB because I was only confined to look after affairs of domestic cricket and was never consulted in other cricketing affairs."

Back in November, Miandad was appointed by incoming PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt.

On Tuesday in the ninth round at Wijk aan Zee, Abhijeet Gupta defeated Ukrainian tailender Oleg Romanishin and maintained an impressive finish in Group 'C'.

With this win, obtained with total of 48 moves with white, Abhijeet's tally has risen to 5.5 points and now he has come to the third place in the 14-player field.

Following this, he claimed a central pawn on the 32nd move and pressed home the advantage with a well-placed bishop and an active rook, Abhijeet finally called the shots.

The superstar bubbly actress of bollywood, Preity Zinta, who also happens to own Kings XI Punjab of the Indian Premier League (IPL), is planning to give a chance to promising cricketers at the grass-root level.

A cricket seminar and a T-20 tournament would be held by her team in Chandigarh and Mohali where teams from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir will participate.

Priety informed, "My aim is to promote cricket at the grass-root level and to nurture new talent. I also want everyone involved to have fun."

As we all know, the Indian market is flourishing with novel netbooks and the latest edition is the Dell's newly launched Inspiron Mini 12 netbook.

The new and Inspiron Mini 12 is supported by the 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530, and is equipped with a 533MHz FSB, a Intel US15W chipset, and a 1GB DDR2 533MHz and 80GB 4200RPM HDD.

Other exciting features of this 1.24 kg netbook are WiFi (802.11b/g), 1.3 megapixel webcam, and Bluetooth. Mini 12 runs on the Windows XP Home edition instead of Windows Vista offered in the US.

An FIR has been filed against Indian Premier League Chairman Lalit Modi for forgery and criminal conspiracy in the 2004 Nagaur Land Row case.

The media reports floating all around suggest that Modi wanted to grab the post of the president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association in 2004; however he was not a domicile of the state. So in order to achieve his aim, he bought land in Nagaur through forgery.

It has been reported that in 2004, Modi bought land (immovable property) in Nagaur with the help of forged signature so that he could become the RCA president. Modi was also made Nagaur cricket association President.

The latest buzz is that pacer Stuart Broad has denied joining the growing list of England cricketers seeking lucrative Indian Premier League deals. The reason behind the decision is Broad's desire to put his energies on international assignments like the Ashes.

While revealing Broad's decision to opt out, England team's managing director Hugh Morris said, "It's a good opportunity for players but it's a good opportunity for us. We've got a very important summer ahead of us with the Twenty20 and the Ashes and this is a decision Stuart has made and we must respect that."