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Pakistan’s Cricket World Cup hopes are over. After winning the toss and finishing on 315-9 in 50 overs on Friday, Pakistan needed to dismiss Bangladesh in their last group-stage match for an improbable seven runs or less to overtake fourth-place New Zealand and reach the semifinals. Although Mohammad Hafeez began Pakistan’s bowling attack with a […]

LONDON: Pakistan will go all out in their final World Cup league-round fixture with Bangladesh on Friday despite facing a near impossible task to qualify for the semi-finals, skipper Sarfraz Ahmed said on the eve of the match at Lord’s. Pakistan, fifth in the standings behind New Zealand who occupy the fourth and final knockout […]

Win the toss, start Asif Ali from ball one, aim for 500, bowl out Bangladesh for 100, and restart the it-also-happened-in-1992 drumbeat. It’s crazy how some super optimists are still plotting ways to semi-finals which do not exist. Or exist only in mathematical possibilities and fantasies. Pakistan are out of World Cup 2019, and so are Bangladesh. […]

MANCHESTER: Austr­alia may have already booked their place in the semi-finals of the World Cup ahead of Saturday’s round-robin finale against South Africa but the match still matters to coach Justin Langer. Victory over the Proteas at Old Trafford would ensure the defending champions remain top of the standings. That would mean they stayed in […]

Coco Gauff continued her magical Wimbledon debut on Wednesday when she became the youngest player since 1991 to reach the third round as defending champion Novak Djokovic made the last 32 for the 11th successive year. Gauff, just 15 and who had to come through qualifying, had already stunned five-time champion Venus Williams in the first round. […]

Pakistan were 82 for the loss of 3 after the eighteenth over in their World Cup match against Afghanistan at Headingley on Saturday. Hafeez and Haris Sohail were at the crease chasing a modest target of 228. Babar Azam, who scored his maiden World Cup century in Pakistan’s match against New Zealand earlier this week, was bowled […]

Afghanistan v Pakistan is perhaps the World Cup match that cricket fans in the war-weary nation will be watching most intensely. It is a complicated relationship. Many Afghanistan players learned the game growing up as refugees in Pakistan but lots of Afghans also accuse their powerful neighbour of supporting Taliban militants. With years of distrust […]

LEEDS: Pakistan are still resonating with emotion after reviving their World Cup aspirations with back-to-back victories. A little over a week ago, some of the players didn’t want to leave their hotel rooms out of fear of a backlash that incessantly followed them after the India defeat. But two big wins on, few players from […]

LEEDS: The first lesson Babar Azam learned from his coach was to play the first and last ball of a match, and he showed he had not forgotten that advice during his brilliant hundred against New Zealand. Babar’s 10th One-day International century at Edgbaston on Wednesday — his eighth in a winning cause — has […]

Already-eliminated South Africa dealt a huge blow to Sri Lanka’s hopes of moving onto the final four with a thumping nine-wicket defeat of the Asian side in their World Cup match on Friday at the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street. Proteas skipper Faf du Plessis and Hashim Amla’s unbroken 175-run stand set the stage for their […]