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SOUTHAMPTON: Nasser Hussain has called on cricket to adopt a new ‘mindset’ after bad light blighted the drawn second Test between England and Pakistan at Southampton. Only 134.3 overs were sent down across five days in a match marred by rain delays as well as the spectacle of players being taken off the field for bad light […]

LONDON: England named a 14-man Twenty20 squad on Tuesday for the upcoming three-match series against Pakistan, with selectors leaving out players from the Test squad in the ongoing series against the Asian side. Eoin Morgan will captain the side, with all three matches to be played behind closed doors at Old Trafford in Manchester when […]

Barcelona will choose a new coach in the coming days, and it may have a new president next year. The club is also promising wide-ranging and profound structural changes after one of its most humiliating defeats ever the 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the quarter finals of the Champions League on Friday. The one […]

Mohammad Rizwan frustrated England with a fine unbeaten fifty on the second day of the second Test at Southampton on Friday. Pakistan were 215-8 in their first innings when bad light — despite the Ageas Bowl floodlights being on full beam — forced an early tea. Wicketkeeper Rizwan was 53 not out, his second-highest score […]

Rain delayed the scheduled 11:00 am local time start of the second day’s play in the second Test between England and Pakistan at Southampton on Friday. Although several England players warmed-up on the outfield playing ‘headers and volleys’ with a football, the pitch and square remained fully covered. And even though the floodlights were piercing […]

LAHORE: Experienced all-rounder Shoaib Malik will join the Pakistan squad in Southampton on Saturday to be available for the three-match Twenty20 International series against England starting on Aug 28. The T20 battle begins after the ongoing three-Test series between the two countries in England ends on Aug 25. The 38-year-old Shoaib was to travel to […]

SOUTHAMPTON: Pakistan’s luck ran out as captain Azhar Ali was dismissed after lunch before rain stopped play on the first day of the second Test against England in Southampton on Thursday. Azhar, who was nearly out for seven, fell for 20 when he edged paceman James Anderson and second slip Rory Burns, who had already […]

MANCHESTER: Paki­stan captain Azhar Ali ‘missed a trick’ several times in the opening Test against England and their three-wicket loss will hurt the team and their fans, according to bowling great Wasim Akram. Azhar and his men held the upper hand for most part of the series opener and had England, chasing 277 for victory, […]

MANCHESTER: England star all-rounder Ben Stokes will miss the concluding two Tests against Pakistan for family reasons, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Sunday. Stokes’s father Ged was admitted to hospital in Johannesburg two days before Christmas last year with a serious illness while following his son’s progress with the England cricket […]

We are feeling frustrated, just as the fans are, after the Old Trafford Test match but this is how cricket is. There are very small margins between victory and defeat and it’s easy to curse yourself when you’ve lost. But, we should remember that we were right on top until pretty much the last session […]