Cricket

Lahore :Skipper Shan Masood produced a workmanlike innings of 118 to anchor Southern Punjab to 303 for 5 against Sindh on day one of the four-day first class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match at the UBL Sports Complex on Saturday. Invited to bat first by Sindh captain Asad Shafiq, the left-handed Test opener played flawlessly and with precision for 306 minutes and ...

Lahore:In the opening round of the National U19 50-over tournament, Balochistan secured a comprehensive win over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while Sindh and Southern Punjab also win against Central Punjab and Northern, respectively. At Sialkot’s Jinnah Stadium, Akhtar Shah’s five-fer inspired Balochistan to six-wicket victory over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, after been put into bat were dismissed for 112 in 25.2 overs. ...

Specsavers County Championship Division One, Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton (day four): Somerset 203: Van der Merwe 60; Harmer 5-105, S Cook 4-26 & innings forfeit Essex 141: Cook 53; Leach 5-32, Van der Merwe 4-41 & 45-1 Somerset (9 pts) drew with Essex (8 pts) Essex were crowned county champions, while Somerset missed out again, as their title decider ...

Batting great Mohammad Yousuf on Thursday threw more shade at Pakistan head coach and chief selector Misbahul Haq, alleging that his appointment was not based on merit and questioning how he would be able to spot first-class talent on the basis of “scorecards” alone. “The head coach will be with the national team then how would he be able to ...

SYDNEY: Australia’s one-day skipper Aaron Finch is keen to play Test cricket again after watching the top order fail to fire during the recent Ashes series. The 32-year-old was dumped after scoring just 97 runs in three Tests as an opener against India last summer, later declaring his chances of padding up again had “probably slipped away”. But he is ...

KARACHI: The best likely outcome of Friday’s one-day International (ODI) featuring Pakistan and Sri Lanka at the National Stadium would be a mismatch. And that too if the wet weather — that is threatening to affect the game — doesn’t play spoilsport. The Sri Lankans have arrived in Pakistan without almost all of their leading players — including the likes ...

Lahore: An unbeaten century from Sidra Amin, which included a 100-run partnership for the fourth-wicket with Aliya Riaz, helped PCB Blasters beat PCB Challengers by six runs in the final of the National Triangular One-Day Women Cricket Championship 2019 at the Lahore Gymkhana on Thursday. After being put into bat, PCB Blasters scored 216 for five in 50 overs. Sidra, ...

LAHORE: Pakistan’s ODI series against Sri Lanka in Karachi, which commences Friday, marks return of five players to the national squad. They are Abid Ali, the right-handed opener, Iftikhar Ahmed, an all-rounder who bats in the middle order and bowls off-spin, Mohammad Nawaz, a slow left-arm bowler, Mohammad Rizwan, wicketkeeper-batsman, and Usman Shinwari, left-arm fast-bowler. With this series being an ...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s head coach Misbah ul Haq has demanded world cricket to actively support Pakistan as it takes another step towards the revival of complete international cricket at home with Sri Lanka ODI and T20I series which will be played in Karachi and Lahore. Misbah told media in Karachi ahead of the series that it is important for world cricket ...

Pakistani paceman Faheem Ashraf on Wednesday broke into the ICC’s top 10 T20I ranking for bowlers, becoming the third Pakistani bowler to be currently on the list. Faheem Ashraf joined compatriots Imad Wasim and Shadab Khan, who currently stand on second and third position respectively. Simultaneously, Afghanistan’s Mujeeb ur Rahman also made it to the list of T20I bowling elites. ...