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LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board Saturday unveiled an ambitious and competitive 2019-20 domestic cricket season structure, which revolves around devising a more quality and intensity focused system to significantly improve first-class cricket and create sustainable success at international level. The new 2019-20 structure was unfolded by PCB Chairman Ehsan Mani, Chief Executive Wasim Khan and Director Domestic Cricket Operations Haroon ...

KARACHI: Cricket legend Younis Khan’s mother passed away after prolonged illness on Tuesday. She had been suffering from a kidney-related disease and was hospitalised at a private hospital in Karachi, where she breathed her last. According to family sources, the funeral prayer and last rituals of the deceased will be held in Mardan district today. Younis Khan retired from international ...

Ben Stokes’s incredible unbeaten 135 and match haul of four wickets at Headingley have pitched him up 13 places to No. 13 in the rankings for batsmen and No. 2 for allrounders, while Jasprit Bumrah’s remarkable 5 for 7 in North Sound have put him in the bowlers’ top ten. Both are career-best numbers for Stokes, though, technically, he was ...

Waqar Younis picked 789 wickets across both ODI and Tests during his career. Photo: Bradman Museum International Cricket Hall of Fame Former Pakistan bowler Waqar Younis will be honoured at 13th annual Bradman Gala Dinner at the Sydney Cricket Ground in November. “This year we are honouring Mr Waqar Younis, one of Pakistan’s greatest ever fast bowlers. As always, many ...

LAHORE: Former Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has stepped down from his post in the cricket committee and submitted his application for the post of head coach. According to details, the 45-year-old met Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) International Cricket Director Zakir Khan on Monday afternoon and informed him of his decision, following which he formally applied for the head coach’s role. “It ...

DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday banned two Hong Kong players, including one who has already served a 30-month ban, from all cricket for life for breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code in matches played between 2014 and 2016. Irfan Ahmed, who was banned from all cricket for two-and-a-half years in April 2016 after admitting breaches of the code, ...

ISLAMABAD: Cricket peers of all-rounder Imad Wasim as well as some leaders of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) attended the cricketer’s valima ceremony here in the federal capital, Geo News reported. Among the politicians in attendance at Imad Wasim’s valima were Prime Minister Imran Khan’s special assistant on political affairs, Naeemul Haque, senior PTI leader Babar Awan, former finance minister Asad ...

Six months ago, Misbah-ul-Haq was playing for Peshawar Zalmi, his remarkable career that simply refused to end still going strong. In 2018, he had backtracked on his agreement with Islamabad United to be a mentor, instead going on to play for Zalmi as a gold-category player in the fourth edition of the Pakistan Super League. But now, at age 45, ...

England 67 and 156 for 3 (Root 75*, Denly 50) trail Australia 179 and 246 (Labuschagne 80) by 202 runs Josh Hazlewood beat Joe Root’s bat by a lick of paint with a ball that buzzed outside off stump just inside the last hour of yet another dramatic day of this Ashes series. The hint of a smile at the ...

Angelo Mathews and Thisara Perera are among the most high-profile omissions from Sri Lanka’s squad for the upcoming T20I series against New Zealand, along with the likes of Suranga Lakmal and Dhananjaya de Silva. The selectors have named a youthful squad, with only two players above the age of 30 – captain Lasith Malinga and seam bowler Isuru Udana. Niroshan ...