Category: Sports

Runs, wickets, catches, controversies and colours … Pakistan Super League has had plenty of everything across its first three editions. It’s safe to say that the T20 league is now old enough that it can be given the number treatment. Ahead of the 2019 installment, the league organisers conducted a statistical review of the tournament, recapping data […]

Hosts Australia will take on Pakistan’s men and India’s women for the opening fixtures of the Twenty20 World Cups in 2020, organisers said Tuesday as the draw for the tournaments was announced. Ten women’s teams will play in 23 matches from February 21 to March 8, with reigning champions Australia to clash with India in […]

THE loud presence in the field of Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed has now been gagged by the game’s world governing body, the ICC, who have finally slapped him with a four-match ban for his racial slur during last week’s Durban ODI which the tourists lost. In frustration of not being able to break what turned out to […]

MELBOURNE: Novak Djokovic was about as perfect as can be in his semi-final at Rod Laver Arena. Didn’t miss much. Almost couldn’t, really. It was a performance so flawless, so fantastic, that it was easy to feel as if only one man on the planet might have a chance of preventing Djokovic from claiming a […]

Imamul Haq hit a measured century — and delivered a message to his critics — as Pakistan piled up 317 for six in the third one-day international against South Africa on Friday. As Imam completed the single that took him to his fifth century in his 19th one-day international he pointed to his mouth as […]

Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday announced that the International Cricket Council’s international panel umpire Michael Gough will travel to Lahore to umpire matches of the HBL Pakistan Super League 2019. Gough, 39, will umpire in the matches to be held on March 9 and 10, set to take place between Lahore Qalandars and Islamabad United, […]

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has vowed foolproof security for cricket events in Karachi including the matches of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) slated to be held in March. In a meeting with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) security consultant Col Asif on Thursday, Murad informed that the police and the Rangers had […]

In a major step towards the revival of international cricket in the country, the Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed on Thursday that the West Indies women’s cricket team will play three Twenty20 Internationals (T20I) in Karachi In the build-up to the ICC Women’s Championship fourth round fixture, the three T20Is will be played on January 31 […]

BRISBANE: Sri Lanka may have their best chance to win a cricket Test in Australia when they face an unsettled Australian lineup in the day-night game in Brisbane from Thursday. The teams have met only 13 times in Australia since Sri Lanka joined the ranks of Test nations in 1981 and the home team has […]

THE preceding year turned out to be critical for equine sport as no less than 36 horses died at the Karachi Racecourse on two counts —colic and other diseases plus mercy killings. Though the figure couldn’t erase the maximum mark of casualties of racing horses that occurred in 2015, it did raise alarm bells for […]