Category: Sports

PERTH: National team’s bowling coach Waqar Younis believes that the induction of young guns like Nasim Shah, Mohammad Musa Khan, Shaheen Afridi, Mohammad Abbas and Imran Khan in the squad for the two-match Test series against Australia would mark the birth of a new era for Pakistan cricket. Pakistan made an unprecedented move by naming […]

LAHORE: South African greats Dale Steyn and Hashim Amla will be joined by England’s World Cup winners Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid in the draft for next season’s Pakistan Super League (PSL) with the quartet registered in the platinum category, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Wednesday. Steyn, South Africa’s leading Test wicket-taker, and […]

PERTH: Pakistan’s 16-year-old speedster Nasim Shah has given Australia’s batsmen plenty to think about with a fiery spell in the drawn pink-ball tour three-day match against Australia ‘A’ here on Wednesday. Two days after the death of his mother, Nasim delivered a bruising display of fast bowling at the Perth Stadium that culminated in the […]

Cameron Bancroft and Joe Burns got the nod on Thursday for Australia’s Test squad to face Pakistan, with Usman Khawaja and Marcus Harris axed after flopping during the Ashes series against England. Bowling allrounder Michael Neser was also included as a back-up to the formidable pace attack of Josh Hazelwood, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and […]

Test cricket is set to return to Pakistan after over a decade when Sri Lanka team plays its World Test Championship matches in the country in December, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Thursday. In a press release, PCB said that Sri Lanka will play two test matches in Pakistan: First Test: December 11-15 at […]

MUMBAI: The Twenty20 World Cup is the only major piece of silverware missing from Australia’s trophy cabinet but the hosts are gearing up perfectly to end the drought next year, former wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist has said. Australia are the most successful side in the 50-over World Cup with five titles but are yet to taste […]

PERTH: Having managed to end as the highest run-getter for Pakistan in the just concluded T20 International series against Australia, it will be important for Babar Azam to turn on the screws in the longer format as his team gets ready to take on the Aussies in a two-match Test series, which also includes a […]

KARACHI: Young fast bowler Nasim Shah will not be returning home from Australia after his mother passed away late on Monday. The 16-year-old has decided to stay with the national squad Down Under after discussions with his family, a Pakistan Cricket Board spokesman told on Tuesday. “Nasim was to miss his mother’s funeral even if […]

For Iraqis opposed to the Baghdad government and its sponsor Tehran, there is even more than football at stake when Iraq faces Iran in a World Cup qualifier on Thursday. Anti-regime rallies at the epicentre of protests in the capital’s Tahrir Square have faded in recent days, following a spree of arrests, threatening messages and […]

Tour de France organisers say three-time runner-up Raymond Poulidor has died. He was 83. Poulidor had been hospitalised since early October and “he left us this morning,” his wife Gisele told AFP from their home in western France. He was admitted to the hospital after a bout of fatigue he suffered during the event, where he worked […]