Category: Sports

KARACHI: Former Pakistan skipper Rashid Latif feels the four-nation tournament proposal revealed by BCCI president Saurav Ganguly will “flop” like the Big Three model. The former Test wicket-keeper saw it as an attempt by the formidable trio of India, Australia, and England to isolate other member nations. “By playing such a series, these four countries […]

MELBOURNE: New Zealand made two changes on Wednesday for the Boxing Day Test against Australia with fast bowler Trent Boult back from injury and Tom Blundell replacing Jeet Ravel at the top of the order. The dangerous Boult missed the first Test in Perth, where his team crashed by 296 runs, with a rib injury […]

DHAKA: Bangladesh are ready to play Twenty20 Internationals in Pakistan next month but the Test series must take place in a neutral venue, the chief executive of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Nizamuddin Chowdhury said. Test cricket returned to Pakistan after a decade with a two-Test series against Sri Lanka earlier this month. Rawalpindi and […]

All our lives we’ve heard from experts, commentators, pundits, game legends and anyone who can talk even a bit of cricket that “there is no shortage of talent in Pakistan”. This land is supposedly a hotbed where raw but precocious talent is mass produced at an annual basis — and at a production rate higher […]

MOSCOW: The Russian Olympic Committee said on Tuesday it expected that Russian athletes would take part in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Games under the national flag despite a four-year doping ban. “The Russian Olympic Committee is a rightful member of the Olympic movement,” its president Stanislav Pozdnyakov told reporters after a meeting. “Therefore, we have […]

DHAKA: The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Tuesday said it could only give its go-ahead to a Test series in Pakistan after the Twenty20 series despite the latter not taking their dilly-dallying on playing a Test series well. “Pakistan will try for the full return of international cricket to their country. We have to take […]

LONDON: Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez has been banned from bowling in English domestic competitions because of an illegal action. The spinner’s bowling action has been deemed illegal while playing for Middlesex. Mohammad Hafeez (right) has played 55 Tests, 218 One-day Internationals and 89 T20 internationals for Pakistan. He was reported by the umpires after a […]

MELBOURNE: New Zealand received a boost on Monday with Trent Boult appearing to be back to full fitness from a rib injury as he bowled against his own team-mates in a warm-up match ahead of the second Test against Australia. The left-arm pace spearhead missed the 296-run first Test loss to Tim Paine’s side in […]

NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli declared it “a great year” for India cricket after ending 2019 on a high with a series-clinching win over the West Indies. The India captain’s masterful 85 set up a successful 316-run chase on Sunday to win the third One-day International by four wickets and complete a 2-1 series triumph. Kohli’s […]

KARACHI: The future of Bangladesh’s scheduled trip to Pakistan still remains in limbo, but the message is loud clear from the PCB: Either they come or give a valid reason for not honouring their commitment. Ehsan Mani reiterated the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)’s stance on the thorny issue when the board chairman on Monday praised […]