Karachi: After starting a league at Happy Home Society Campus recently, Leisure Leagues has started the second six-a-side football league at the school’s Gulshan Campus as well. A total of eight teams from the school are featuring in the tournament and each team with play two games with every other team in the league. So far, Leisure Leagues has signed ...

Lahore:Northern U16 v Southern Punjab U16, Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad Northern U16 beat Southern Punjab U16 by eight wickets in PCB-Pepsi U16 one-day tournament at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad on Saturday. Chasing a 110-run target, Northern U16 achieved victory in the 19th over. Mohammad Saad scored an unbeaten 52 off 59 balls with five fours, while Shamyl Hussain scored 32 ...

Mark Boucher, the former South Africa wicketkeeper and current Titans coach, will be unveiled as South Africa’s interim coach by acting director of cricket Graeme Smith on Saturday. ESPNcricinfo has learnt that interim team director Enoch Nkwe will stay on and work with Boucher; a source said the pair is “keen to work together”. The Boucher news comes two days ...

Sri Lanka 282 for 6 (de Silva 87*) v Pakistan Thirty-two deliveries. That’s all the cricket Rawalpindi saw on yet another frustrating, weather-affected day. Overnight rain and a delay in removing the covers wiped out the entire first session of play – the one-hour lunch break for Friday prayers unfortunately falling during exactly the brightest, most cricket-conducive period of the ...

New Zealand 5 for 109 (Taylor 66*, Starc 4-31) trail Australia 416 (Labuschagne 143, Head 56, Wagner 4-92, Southee 4-93) by 307 runs A nearby grass fire wafted the unmistakable odour of smoke across Perth Stadium early on another enervating day in the west. By the close the only fire was that being breathed by Mitchell Starc, as Australia cornered ...

Former West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo has officially come out of international retirement, making himself available for selection in the West Indies T20I side in the lead-up to their men’s T20 World Cup defence in Australia next year. Bravo, however, confirmed that he didn’t want to play any other format. “I would like to announce my return to international T20s ...

Karachi: The second edition of KFC Karachi Premier League has tentatively been scheduled to begin from December 27 here at Naya Nazimabad Cricket Stadium. A MoU was signed between KPL CEO Moiz Bin Zahid and KFC CMO Muhammad Noor Alam on Thursday here at KFC Gulshan Iqbal branch in the presence of other guests and media. KPL Patron-in-Chief Zeeshan Altaf ...

Graeme Smith has been announced as South Africa’s first director of cricket, albeit in a temporary role, after several months of negotiation. Smith has signed on for three months and will begin work immediately, with two weeks to go before South Africa play England in a four-Test series at home, starting on Boxing Day, followed by three ODIs and as ...

Pace sensation Gerald Coetzee, who had suffered a hamstring strain in a recent MSL match, has recovered and was named in South Africa’s squad for the Under-19 World Cup at home in January next year. Allrounder Bryce Parsons was appointed captain of a 15-man squad that is filled with all-round talent. As many as four allrounders were picked, and wicketkeeper ...

Asghar Afghan has been reappointed captain of Afghanistan across all three formats, the Afghanistan Cricket Board has announced. Afghan, 31, will replace Rashid Khan, who was named captain across formats in July, after Afghanistan lost all their matches at the World Cup under Gulbadin Naib. Rashid will now become Afghan’s deputy. The ACB had wrested captaincy away from Afghan in ...