Cricket

Lahore:Former Test spinner Nadeem Khan has been appointed as Coordinator – National Selection Committee following a recruitment process. Nadeem will act as a bridge between chief selector Misbah-ul-Haq and the six selectors by gathering feedback, information and maintaining players’ profile from the domestic matches, and presenting to the selection committee so that the data can be used in their decision-making. ...

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Lahore:Pakistan U19 to play friendly matches against china and Afghanistan U19 squads. The 12-player squad will be captained by Mohammad Harris Khan, while Saim Ayub will be his vice-captain. Pakistan U19 team will play China on Saturday, 19 October and Afghanistan on Sunday, 20 October. A combined Afghanistan and Pakistan side will play China on Wednesday, 23 October. Pakistan squad ...

KARACHI: Pakistan cricket team’s opening batsman Ahmed Shahzad, on Tuesday, joined the ranks of Virat Kohli and Dwayne Smith in the list of players with the most T20 centuries. Ahmed —who is playing for Central Punjab’s team in the ongoing National T20 Cup — scored an unbeaten 111 off 63 balls against Northern at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium, smashing three sixes ...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s fast bowler Mohammad Amir has been included as most expensive Pakistani cricketers in players draft for the inaugural edition of England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) newly introduced “The Hundred” cricket. Thirty-five Pakistani cricketers were among 239 foreign players whose names were released by ECB with Amir as most expensive among all the Pakistanis with a reserve price ...

Faisalabad,: An unbeaten 111 from 63 balls by Ahmed Shehzad helped Central Punjab to a four-wicket win over Northern in the fifth fixture of the ongoing National T20 Cup at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium. Set a target of 223, Central Punjab chased down the total on the penultimate ball of the match. Opener Ahmed played an instrumental role in the run-chase, ...

Karachi: Left-arm-spinner Raza Ali Dar’s astonishing seven-wicket haul went in vain as Central Punjab went down by 19 runs to Northern in the National T20 2nd XI tournament at the National Stadium, Karachi on Tuesday. In the second match of the day, Southern Punjab recorded a three wicket win over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the back of another match winning innings ...

Lahore: Mohammad and Mubasir Khan scored centuries for Balochistan and Northern respectively, while Sindh’s Muhammad Makki and Southern Punjab’s Mohammad Zahid took five-for each on day one of the third round of National U19 Three-Day tournament on Tuesday. At Jinnah Stadium in Sialkot, Balochistan after been put into bat scored 350 for seven in 83 overs against Central Punjab. Mohammad ...

Faisalabad: Wahab Riaz’s three for 28 with the ball and an unbeaten 17-ball 42 secured a four-wicket win for Southern Punjab over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium in the sixth match of the National T20 Cup. Wahab took the wickets of Sahibzada Farhan (27 off 19), Adil Amin (7 off 12) and Iftikhar Ahmad (0 off 2) to leave Khyber ...

A delegation of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will be visiting Pakistan in the next few days in order to monitor security arrangements ahead of their women’s and Under-16 teams’ scheduled tours. The BCB delegation, according to a source close to the matter, will monitor security plans in Lahore and Rawalpindi. The BCB had talked about sending its delegation by ...