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Shaheen Afridi will play for Hampshire in next year’s Vitality Blast. Shaheen, who has become an important part of Pakistan’s seam attack in all formats over the past 18 months, is expected to be available for the duration of the T20 competition as an overseas player. “I am delighted to sign with Hampshire for the upcoming Vitality Blast competition,” Shaheen ...

Bangladesh’s tour of Pakistan, scheduled for next month, is now facing uncertainty with the BCB offering to play only T20Is in Pakistan, while asking that the two-Test series be shifted to a neutral venue. “We have had a round of correspondence with them [the BCB] and they are happy to play three T20s in Pakistan but they are slightly reluctant ...

Karachi: Sri Lankan bowlers Lahiru Kumara and Lasith Embuldeniya combined with four-wicket hauls to roll Pakistan over for 191 runs in their first innings on day-one (Thursday) of the second ICC Test Championship series Test match being played at the National Stadium, Karachi. However, Pakistan pacers Mohammad Abbas and Shaheen Shah Afridi roared back with three early strikes to even ...

Kuala Lumpur:Amy Jones’ career-best score of 89 and Danni Wyatt’s 55 set an 84-run win for England Women over Pakistan Women in the second T2oI at Kuala Lumpur’s Kinrara Oval on Thursday. With this victory, England went 2-0 up in the three-match series. The Heather Knight-led side scored an imposing 185 for five after winning the toss thanks to a ...

Cricket Scotland has announced fixtures against New Zealand and Australia for the home summer of 2020. New Zealand will play an ODI and a T20I ahead of their trip to Ireland, while Australia will arrive for a T20I before travelling on to England. New Zealand had been due to visit for an ODI on June 26, but have changed their ...

Ellyse Perry, the premier allrounder in women’s cricket, has won two of the three top annual ICC awards for 2019: the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for women’s cricketer of the year and the ODI Cricketer of the Year award. Alyssa Healy, meanwhile, has taken home the Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year award for the second year in a row. In ...

Lahore:Balochistan U16 v Northern U16, Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad Northern beat Balochistan by six wickets after Balochistan were asked to bat first. Balochistan were bowled out for 98 runs in 38.1 overs. Faiz Ullah top-scored with 33 runs. For Northern, Mohammad Ibrahim took three wickets for 13 runs in nine overs. In return, Northern chased down the target in the 29th ...

Kuala Lumpur, 17 December 2019: Bismah Maroof’s gutsy half-century was in vain as England Women beat Pakistan Women by 29 runs in the first of the three T20Is at Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. The Pakistan captain scored a 58-ball 60, hitting five fours. Pakistan lost both openers in the first five balls of the run chase as the scorecard read ...

Lahore:A high performance camp commenced today at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Lahore and will continue for three weeks. The ten players has reported and started work today under the supervision of PCB Director Medical and Sports Sciences Dr Sohail Saleem. The players in the camp will undergo one on one sessions with the trainers and physios of the ...

Kuala Lumpur: Pakistan national women cricket team’s journey in the ICC Women’s Championship 2017-20 culminated in the Bismah Maroof-led side breaking into the top-four of the eight-team tournament standings with their third ODI against England women getting washed-out in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. For a side which sits seventh on the ICC Women’s ODIs team rankings, the past two years ...