Category: Sports

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has removed Sarfaraz Ahmed as skipper in the Test and Twenty20 formats due to “drop in overall form”, a press release issued by the cricketing body said on Friday. Batsman Azhar Ali will replace the wicket-keeper to captain the team in the upcoming Tests against Australia as well as the World Test […]

PARIS: Captain Mohammed Naveed is one of the three United Arab Emirates cricketers who have been charged with corruption, the Inter­national Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Wednesday. Batsman Shaiman Anwar and right-arm pace bowler Qadeer Ahmed have also been charged by the ICC, the three players facing a total of 12 counts of breaching the […]

AFTER Pakistan were left exposed by a weaker Sri Lanka side in the recently held T20 International series , the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is yet to summon its Board of Governors (BoG) and Cricket Committee for any meeting to discuss the fiasco as the national team sets its sight on next month’s tour to […]

BARCELONA: Barcelona forward Lionel Messi picked up a record-extending sixth — and third consecutive — European Golden Shoe award on Wednesday following his outstanding individual 2018-19 domestic campaign. The award is presented to the top goalscorer in league football across Europe, with the Argentine finding the net 36 times last season as Barca retained their […]

All-rounder Mitchell Marsh is set to miss the opening Test against Pakistan after fracturing his right hand punching a wall, with Australian coach Justin Langer branding him “an idiot”. The Western Australia captain took his frustrations out in the changing rooms after he was dismissed for 53 in a Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania on […]

Former cricketer Sourav Ganguly on Thursday sidestepped a question pertaining to resumption of bilateral cricket between Pakistan and India, saying the decision was up to Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, Hindustan Times reported. Ganguly, who will assume the position of the Board of Control for Cricket India (BCCI) chief later this month, told […]

SYDNEY: Australian captain Tim Paine has addressed speculation over whether Steve Smith will again lead the team once a ban ends in March, saying he would be fully supportive if it happens ‘one day’. Smith skippered the team until he was suspended for 12 months over a brazen attempt under his watch to alter the […]

DOHA: Pakistan’s top grappler Mohammad Inam Butt won the gold medal at the inaugural ANOC World Beach Games in the Qatari capital Doha, defeating Georgia’s Dato Marsagishvili in the 90kg final at Katara Beach late on Monday. The 30-year-old is Pakistan’s lone participant among 1237 athletes from 97 countries, who are competing in 14 different […]

Australian cricketer Shane Watson has apologised to fans after his social media accounts were flooded with “illicit” photographs of half-naked women and racist comments, seemingly the work of hackers. The all-rounder, who plays for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League, said in social media posts late on Tuesday that both his Twitter and […]

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced Australian duo Steve Smith and David Warner and West Indies opener Chris Gayle are among the most expensive players listed in Sunday’s draft for the new domestic tournament The Hundred. Smith helped Australia retain the Ashes in England last month while Warner endured a miserable series, […]