Welcome, to this edition of the WI Insider for 2022. This is your exclusive scoop on what’s new, now and next in WI cricket! This is the first of a number of news updates in the next weeks. Today we focus on the Apex Test Series ticket news in Barbados, the WI Men’s Tour of India and a potential fan inter-island charter flight! ...
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Nigar Sultana: This World Cup is a huge opportunity for us
Playing in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup is a long-awaited dream come true for all of us. We have played three T20 World Cups but have never played an ODI one, so we are very excited and very eager to perform on the biggest stage. We want to make the most of this opportunity and make it count. We ...
Read More »Rizwan’s 76 earns Multan seventh win as Karachi’s losing streak continues
Lahore, 17 February 2022: Multan Sultans skipper Mohammad Rizwan led from the front as his side overcame a stiff challenge from the winless Karachi Kings to register their seventh win out of eight round matches in the 23rd match of the HBL Pakistan Super League 7 played at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on Wednesday night. Sultans were set a 175-run ...
Read More »Tour De Khyber, Tirah Valley from February 21
PESHAWAR, Feb 17 (APP): The two-day Tour de Khyber and Tour de Tirah Valley in the merged tribal areas being paddled off from Khyber Pass on February 21-22, 2022, President Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cycling Association Nisar Ahmad told APP here on Wednesday.He said the two important races are aimed at highlighting the scenic places of Khyber Pass to Landikotal and will ...
Read More »Star-studded Para Swimming World Series 2022 kicks off in Aberdeen
The Para Swimming World Series 2022 kicks off in Aberdeen, Great Britain on Thursday (17 February) with the second stop set to start on Friday (18 February) in Melbourne, Australia. The four-day Para Swimming World Series Great Britain 2022 is the first major competition for the sport since the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games last year. It is an important stepping-stone ...
Read More »Cutting and Sohail fined for breaching HBL PSL Code of Conduct in separate incidents
Lahore, 16 February 2022: Ben Cutting of Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators’ Sohail Tanvir have both been fined 15 per cent of their match fees for breaching a Level 1 offence of the HBL PSL Code of Conduct in separate incidents during their side’s match in the HBL Pakistan Super League 2022 on Tuesday. Both the players were found to have violated Article 2.6 ...
Read More »ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier A: Eight teams to battle out for two spots in Muscat from 18-24 February
The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier A, supported by Dream 11, begins at the Oman Academy grounds in Al Amerat on Friday. A lot is at stake for the eight participating nations – Ireland, Nepal, UAE, Canada, Germany, Philippines, Bahrain, and hosts Oman – as they vie for the two spots available at the Qualifier A from 18 to ...
Read More »Smeed’s 99 in vain as Zalmi defeat Gladiators
Lahore, 16 February 2022: 20-year-old Will Smeed missed a maiden Twenty20 century by one run as Peshawar Zalmi defeated Quetta Gladiators by 24 runs in the 22nd match of the HBL Pakistan Super League 2022 at the Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday. Smeed dragged a full-toss by Salman Irshad onto his stumps that not only ended his entertaining innings but also shut ...
Read More »Heather Knight: Get goosebumps imagining what retaining the trophy would mean
Heather Knight It’s pretty surreal to feel so near to a World Cup and yet so far away! Throwing rolled up socks into your bed to keep ticking over wasn’t how I imagined our build-up for this tournament back in 2017 but an awful lot has happened in the world since then. As I write this, we’re on day five ...
Read More »Training and media opportunities during Test players’ camp
Karachi, 16 February 2022: Training camp for the available Test players ahead of Pakistan-Australia Test series in Karachi will commence on Thursday. The following players will participate in the camp: Azhar Ali (Central Punjab)Fawad Alam (Sindh)Imam-ul-Haq (Balochistan)Nauman Ali (Northern)Sajid Khan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)Saud Shakeel (Sindh)Zahid Mahmood (Sindh) Reserves: Mohammad Abbas (Southern Punjab)Yasir Shah (Balochistan) In addition to the above, additional players ...
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