Category: Sports

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 — […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

MONACO: World Athletics gave Russia’s troubled track and field federation a second deadline late on Thursday to pay a $5 million fine by mid-August after saying the Russian Sports Ministry promised to clear the debts. The Russian Athletics Federation, known as RusAF, was fined $10 million in March, with half of that sum suspended. It […]

Fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Haris Rauf have been declared fit to join Pakistan squad in England after testing negative twice, a press release by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Thursday. Amir had left for England on July 24 and was in quarantine for five days, as per the host country’s rule. He […]

ISLAMABAD: Former Indian skipper Mohammad Azharuddin sees limited-overs captain Babar Azam to be regarded as one of Pakistan’s greatest batsmen in future, provided the Lahore-born cricketer remains consistent in his performance. The ex-Indian batsman said fans should enjoy Babar’s batting rather than comparing him with Indian captain Virat Kohli. “Babar is still young and has […]