Cricket

Kuala Lumpur:High-profile contests serve crucial opportunities to players – on either side of the experience scale – to leave ever-lasting impressions. One player who is eager to make the most of the upcoming ICC Women’s Championship ODIs between Pakistan and England is Javeria Khan. The top-order batter, who boasts a distinguished record of having the most number of centuries (two) ...

Northern U16 v Balochistan U16, Shalimar Cricket Ground, Islamabad Shamyl Hussain’s century and left-arm spinner Mohammad Hasnain’s nine wickets in the match helped Northern U16 beat Balochistan U16 by an innings and 44 runs on day-two of the PCB-Pepsi National U16 three-day match at the Shalimar Cricket Ground, Islamabad on Wednesday. Resuming their first innings on 114 for three, Northern ...

Karachi: Khurram Manzoor and Saud Shakeel hit centuries as Sindh hit back hard at Balochistan on  day three of the four-day tenth round first class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match at the National Stadium on Wednesday. Responding to Balochistan’s first innings total of 471 for nine declared, Sindh had reached 356 for five in 115 overs at stumps. Fawad Alam continuing his rich ...

Karachi: After batting for almost two days, Central Punjab secured three valuable bowling points as well by squeezing Southern Punjab to 392 before the culmination of the third day’s play at the State Bank Stadium on Wednesday. Central Punjab, opted not to follow-on the opposition, have scored one run before stumps were drawn to stack an overall lead of 206 runs. ...

Karachi: Two quick Khyber Pakhtunkhwa wickets, minutes before the close of play gave Northern the upper hand on an action-packed day-three of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy first-class 10th round game being played at the UBL Sports Complex in Karachi on Wednesday. Northern who need an outright win to book their place in the 27-31 December tournament final declared their second innings ...

Lahore:The International Cricket Council has confirmed umpire and match referee appointments for the ICC World Test Championship fixtures between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, to be played from 11-23 December. Andy Pycroft will lead the Playing Control Team for the opening Test in Rawalpindi from 11-15 December, which will also include Michael Gough and Richard Kettleborough as the on-field umpires, Richard ...

The baton of No. 1 Test batsman in the world has changed hands between Virat Kohli and Steven Smith again, with Kohli surpassing Smith following a century in his team’s inaugural day-night Test, against Bangladesh in Kolkata. While Kohli led the Indian batting effort, Smith failed to go past 36 in Australia’s home Tests against Pakistan, resulting in the swap ...

Defending champions Melbourne Renegades have signed Pakistan left-arm seamer Usman Shinwari and allrounder Faheem Ashraf for a chunk of the upcoming Big Bash League season. Shinwari will be available for the first five games, with England quick Harry Gurney replacing him for the remainder of the season, while new recruit Faheem will be replaced by Afghanistan allrounder Mohammad Nabi after ...

COLOMBO:South African Mickey Arthur has been named Sri Lanka’s head coach, replacing Chandika Hathurusingha, who was stripped of his coaching responsibilities following a disappointing World Cup, an official source said Wednesday. The 51-year-old takes over ahead of the two-match Test series against Pakistan later this month, the official said, adding that a formal announcement was expected shortly. Details of the ...

LAHORE: former cricket Star and former captain of Pakistan Cricket Team Wasim Akram on Tuesday congratulated his wife for being selected as first Global Ambassador for Pakistan with Fred Hollows–an international foundation working on restoration of eye sight. In a tweet, former Pakistan Cricket Team Captain Wasim Akram expressed pleasure over success of his wife, addressing her wife Shahniera Akram ...