Category: Sports

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday announced the dates of upcoming matches between Bangladesh and Pakistan women’s cricket teams that are to be played at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium. The Bangladesh women’s cricket team will arrive in Pakistan for a two-week tour on October 23 and play two one-day international and three Twenty20 games — […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan seamer Mohammad Abbas is hoping to return to English county side Leicestershire next season. The right-arm Test bowler is back in Pakistan after being recalled to begin preparing for a heavy schedule of international cricket during the upcoming season, including Tests against Sri Lanka, Australia and Bangladesh. But Abbas, who took 29 wickets […]

LAHORE: After the interviews of candidates for the post of head coach of Pakistan team have been completed, the interviews for the post of bowling coach are likely to be conducted by a five-member panel of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) here on Friday. On Thursday, ex-captain Misbah-ul-Haq, former Test opener Mohsin Hasan Khan and […]

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Ajantha Mendis, who burst on to the scene as world cricket’s mystery spinner a decade ago, has announced his retirement from all formats of the game at the age of 34. Mendis made his debut against West Indies in a one-dayer in April 2008 but it was his remarkable haul of six […]

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday announced that pacer Shaheen Afridi will not be participating in the pre-season camp any further as he has fallen ill due to dengue fever. “Fast bowler Shaheen Afridi has been ruled out of further participation in the pre-season camp after being diagnosed with dengue fever,” read a press […]

New Zealand’s Martin Guptill went through “the best and worst day” of his career during last month’s Cricket World Cup final against England but the opening batsman’s focus has now firmly shifted to the World Twenty20 in Australia next year. Guptill was heavily involved in two pieces of action that defined last month’s World Cup […]

Novak Djokovic’s US Open title defence just got a little tougher on Wednesday as a recent shoulder issue flared up and nearly knocked the Serbian out of a second-round match that tested his resolve. Djokovic struggled with both his serve and backhand during a 6-4 7-6(3) 6-1 win over Argentine Juan Ignacio Londero and later […]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday formed a five-member panel, having two independent and three own officials, to interview the candidates for the roles of national side’s coaching staff. The panel includes former Test captain Intikhab Alam — who had previously been the man­ager-cum coach of Pakistan team, which won the World Cup-1992 […]

Australia’s star batsman Steve Smith, who will return to action on Thursday after missing the third Ashes Test because of concussion, laughed off the claim that England pace bowler Jofra Archer was his nemesis. Smith, who has been cleared to play in the tour match with county side Derbyshire, suffered the concussion in the first innings of […]

MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan-origin British professional boxer and philanthropist Amir Khan on Tuesday visited the restive Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and met the victims of unrelenting ceasefire violations by Indian troops. The 33-year-old former unified light-welterweight world champion, having held the World Boxing Association title from 2009 to 2012, and the […]