The Pakistan Cricket Board on Tuesday announced the 16-member squad for the first Test against England. SQUAD: Azhar Ali (captain), Babar Azam (vice-captain), Abid Ali, Asad Shafiq, Fawad Alam, Imam-ul-Haq, Kashif Bhatti, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Rizwan, Naseem Shah, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Afridi, Shan Masood, Sohail Khan and Yasir Shah. Pakistan are the second […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
MANCHESTER: The English cricket team are aware that another slow start to a Test campaign could prove costly as they go in search of a first series win over Pakistan in 10 years. Wednesday sees a three-match contest get underway with the first Test at Old Trafford. And while England can point to recent series […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
Pakistan’s Head coach Misbah-ul-Haq said Monday the team’s 16-member squad for England series — which will start at Old Trafford, Manchester, on Wednesday — would be revealed tomorrow. Expressing satisfaction with the team’s preparations for the England series, head coach Misbah-ul-Haq said the team was in good form and ready to play. “We started after […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Ehsan Mani suggested on Monday that the England cricket team should tour and play a series in Pakistan as it was “safe”. “England should visit Pakistan and play a series,” he said, adding: “No country is risk-free, but conditions are improving in Pakistan now.” Mani further said that England’s series […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
LONDON: England captain Joe Root will be considering multiple options regarding his team’s bowling options when England take on Pakistan this week in the first Test at Old Trafford. The skipper can call on veteran new-ball partners James Anderson and Stuart Broad, the express pace of Jofra Archer and Mark Wood and the impressive Sam […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
Pakistan’s former Test cricketer and coach Mudassar Nazar has advised the batsmen of the national team to be cautious of England’s bowling attack in their forthcoming Test and Twenty20 International series. He said that the Pakistani batsmen will have to make big scores and take early wickets during their Test and T20I series, beginning from […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
LAHORE: In a clear case of conflict of interest and what can easily be termed as violation of PCB Constitution, as many as twenty staff members of the Pakistan Cricket Board have been registered as general body members of the Northern Cricket Association (NCA) — the only one registered out of the six associations — […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
SOUTHAMPTON: Sam Billings struck a career-best unbeaten 67 as England overcame a mini-wobble to claim an emphatic six-wicket victory over Ireland in their Cricket World Cup Super League One-day International on Thursday. After being sent into bat in the opening ODI of the three-match series at the Ageas Bowl, Ireland slipped to 28 for five […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
LONDON: Clinical passports may be the solution in getting fans back to football stadia, the Premier League’s chief executive Richard Masters said on Friday. Masters says having defied the sceptics in resuming and bringing the season to a climax — behind closed doors — after the hiatus caused by the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
PESHAWAR: Pakistan’s squash legend and former world No.1 Jansher Khan has thanked his fans and well-wishers for their prayers during his two back spinal stenosis lower and upper operations carried out at the Shifa International Hospital in Peshawar recently. “I am grateful to all my fans and well-wishers for their prayers during my operations and […]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE