Cricket

Tournament hosts and defending champions Australia will get their ICC Men’s T20 World Cup campaign underway on Saturday as the competition steps up a gear with the start of the Super 12 stage.Following a fantastic First Round, Sri Lanka and Ireland have joined Australia, Afghanistan, England and New Zealand in Group 1.The teams will clash in a round-robin format from ...

If ever you were wondering how much to read into form in the build-up to a major tournament like the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, then last year’s competition was instructive – very little.  Turn the clock back 12 months and Australia looked like they were heading into a World Cup bereft of form and struggling to find answers. Flying ...

Right-arm fast Fatima Sana returns to the national side for the three-match ODI series and three-match T20I series against Ireland scheduled to take place in Lahore from 4 November to 16 November. The three ODIs are part of the ICC Women’s Championship 2022-25 and will be played from 4-9 November at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. The 20-year old Fatima was ruled ...

The fifth round action of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2022-23 will commence from tomorrow, 21 October, at three different venues of the country with Northern leading the table with 68 points. Defending champions Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are sitting at the bottom with 26 points.   In the fifth round, Northern will take on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the Abbottabad Cricket Stadium. At the ...

  Mark Boucher’s South Africa have called upon experienced heads in their bid for a first ever ICC Men’s T20 World Cup win. Remarkably, the Proteas have never reached the final of this competition and have only made the final four on two occasions. Despite that record, there is no great change to the squad that missed out on the ...

Rawalpindi, 6 September 2022:   Qasim Akram’s Central Punjab finally opened their account in the Kingdom Valley National T20 Cup 2022-23 with an 11-run win over Sindh, thanks to Shoaib Malik’s all-round performance, at the Pindi Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.   Aamir Jamal’s exceptional performances with bat and ball – 47 not out off 17 and three for 27 – ...

Lahore, 6 September 2022:   More than 250 local and around 175 foreign players between 16 and 19 years of age will be available for selection for six teams in the player draft of the inaugural edition of the Pakistan Junior League. The draft will take place on Thursday, 8 September in Lahore.   The local players list includes the ...

Lahore, 6 September 2022:   The Pakistan Cricket Board and BS Sports today signed a year-long MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) for delivery of cricket equipment and playing kits to the participants of the PCB Pathway Programme. More than 100 players are involved in the first batch of the programme which is currently underway at the National High Performance Centre, Lahore. ...

Rawalpindi, 6 September 2022:   Balochistan and Northern have been fined PKR10,000 for maintaining slow over rate during their Kingdom Valley National T20 Cup 2022-23 match at the Pindi Cricket Stadium yesterday.   Both teams were one over short of their target after taking into account time allowances and, as such, were charged under Article 2.22 of the PCB Code of Conduct ...

Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Taimoor Masood and Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi have felicitated Pakistan cricket team for inflicting a 5-wicket defeat on arch rivals India in a Super-4 match of T20 Asia Cup at Dubai, UAE.   In his greeting message on Monday, Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Malik Taimoor Masood ...