Category: Sports

LONDON: English cricket’s controversial new Hundred competition has been delayed until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, cricket chiefs announced on Thursday. The new 100-balls-per-side format, to be played by eight franchises rather than the established 18 first-class counties, had been due to start in July. But with the English season delayed until at least […]

LAHORE: World amateur snooker champion Mohammad Asif has appealed to the Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination (IPC) Dr Fehmida Mirza for granting him a cash award, as given recently to the medallists of last year’s South Asian Games, for winning the coveted title last year. “Recently, Dr Fehmida Mirza awarded cash prizes to the medal […]

Pakistan on Friday lost its top spot in the International Cricket Council (ICC) T20 rankings after more than two years, sliding to the fourth position as Australia rose to number one in both Test matches and T20 internationals. The reshuffle came as the ICC issued an annual update, eliminating results from matches played between 2016 […]

LAHORE: Legendary left-arm pacer Wasim Akram has once again highlighted the importance of Test cricket by saying that it is the most genuine format of the game and if anyone wants to become a great cricketer, he has to excel in Tests to achieve that. Wasim said on Tuesday in a video interaction with Pakistani’s […]

TOKYO: The postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will have to be cancelled if the coronavirus pandemic isn’t brought under control by next year, the organising committee’s president warned on Tuesday while ruling out further delays. The comments, in an interview with a Japanese sports daily published, come as medical experts doubted whether the pandemic can be […]

KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja on Tuesday said criminalising match-fixing can be a “useful deterrent” to fight the menace which, according to him, needs a concerted effort like the one currently on to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Controversial batsman Umar Akmal was handed a three-year ban by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday […]

Pakistan cricket has never been about openers. The number one and two barely ever stick. Hark back all the way to 1952 — when Pakistan played its first Test – and you’d find a select few opening batsmen who were reliable enough to make their name. Hanif Mohammad and Saeed Anwar — but who else? […]

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday said it was disappointed with Shoaib Akhtar’s “poor choice of words” regarding the sports body’s legal department and its legal adviser Taffazul Rizvi. Akhtar, while commenting on PCB’s decision to ban Umar Akmal from all forms of cricket for three years, had dished criticism on the cricket board’s legal […]

KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board’s Chief Executive Wasim Khan, while talking on Friday, said the PCB can handle financial challenges for the next couple of years, but if need be, he will himself take the lead in accepting a salary cut. “We are lucky to complete most of our season at home and at the moment […]

MUMBAI: Australian Darren Cahill, the coach of two-time Grand Slam winner Simona Halep, has backed the idea of merging the men’s and women’s tours, saying it would make tennis simpler for both players and fans. Roger Federer called for a merger between the two governing bodies on Wednesday on social media with the men’s ATP […]