Category: Sports

LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board’s director international cric­ket Zakir Khan will lead four of the seven sub-committees of the 2020 Pakistan Super League’s Organising Com­mittee. Zakir will supervise the Logistics, Protocol-Recept­ion­-Invitation, Security-Anti­-corr­up­tion and Admin­istra­tion sub-committees and will also serve as one of the members of the Organising Com­m­ittee which will also include the director commercial, PSL […]

BRISBANE: Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has lauded Babar Azam as Pakistan’s dangerman ahead of the upcoming Test series beginning in Brisbane on Thursday. Babar is world’s No.3 batsman in ODIs as well the No.1 T20 batsman. However, despite his modest career Test batting average of 35.28, Ponting is backing the 25-year-old top-order batsman to […]

India have traditionally been reluctant to embrace innovation in cricket but on Friday, after much heel-dragging, they will finally experience a day-night Test when they face neighbours Bangladesh in Kolkata. The game’s most influential nation were the last major team to jump on the Twenty20 bandwagon and the Board of Control for Cricket in India […]

Right-arm bowler Sana Mir announced that she has decided to take a break from international cricket to “plan and reset my future objectives and targets”, a press release by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Wednesday. The announcement comes weeks before the commencement of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s Championship’s one-day international (ODI) and Twenty20 […]

Pakistan will take a huge gamble in the first Test against Australia in Brisbane on Thursday by giving 16-year-old schoolboy quick Naseem Shah his debut. Many a more-experienced fast bowler has wilted on Australia’s hard tracks but Pakistan skipper Azhar Ali is backing the teenager, who has only seven first class matches under his belt, […]

MELBOURNE: Former Australia captain Steve Smith, who was banned for a year for ball-tampering, says he does not feel hard done by despite a much lighter sanction handed down to West Indies batsman Nicholas Pooran for the same offence. Pooran was given a four-game ban during the third ODI against Afghanistan, the International Cricket Council […]

SYDNEY: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief executive Wasim Khan is trying to convince Cricket Australia and the players’ union to agree to an Australia ‘A’ tour of the country as the next step in an effort to attract a full Australian team back there for the first time in over 20 years. Wasim is in […]

Pakistan head into the opening Test in Brisbane on Thursday seeking a rare win on Australian soil and could unleash a 16-year-old debutant in a teenage pace attack against seasoned stars Steve Smith and David Warner. Pakistan have drawn a series in Australia, but have never won one, and last tasted a Test victory at […]

Former cricket umpire Simon Taufel’s most vivid memory is a moment that shook the cricketing world in 2009, when he was on a bus in Lahore that was attacked by militants targeting the Sri Lanka team. But he hopes cricket makes a full return to Pakistan, which has largely been shunned by touring teams since the […]

New Zealand and England will take their cricketing rivalry into the Test arena on Thursday after finding themselves evenly matched in recent limited-overs thrillers. England have bragging rights after winning a rollercoaster World Cup final in July, then edging the Black Caps 3-2 in a desperately close Twenty20 series completed earlier this month. Both the […]