Cricket

Women’s Ashes Test, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton, (day four of four): Australia 420-8 dec & 230-7: Perry 116, Haynes 87; Perry 76* England 275-9 dec: Sciver 88, Jones 64; Molineux 4-95 Match drawn Scorecard Australia will retain the Women’s Ashes as the Test petered out into a draw. England avoided the follow-on and declared on 275-9, but they ...

COLOMBO: The Bangladesh cricket team arrived in Sri Lanka amid tight security on Saturday, the first foreign sporting side to visit the island since the deadly Easter attacks earlier this year. More than 250 people were killed in the April 21 bombings targeting hotels and churches that were claimed by Islamist militants, and Sri Lanka has been under a state ...

Colombo:Kumar Dharmasena, who along with Marais Erasmus was the onfield umpire in the 2019 World Cup final, admitted on Sunday that he made a mistake by awarding an extra run to England after the ball ricocheted off Ben Stokes’ bat and ran to the boundary. “It’s easy for people to comment after seeing TV replays,” Dharmasena told Sri Lankan weekly ...

Rashid Khan, the newly elected captain of Afghanistan’s cricket team, is eyeing an improved show in next year’s T20 World Cup after his team’s dismal show at the recently-concluded World Cup 2019. The Afghanistan Cricket Board replaced Gulbadin Naib with Rashid Khan as team’s skipper after Afghanistan finished the World Cup without a single victory. Rashid Khan has said that ...

Dhoni opts out of West Indies tour, Hardik rested, Bumrah only for Tests Amid intense speculation over his future, MS Dhoni is not travelling with the India squad to the West Indies. Chief selector MSK Prasad has said the wicketkeeper-batsman has “expressed his unavailability” for the tour. Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya have been rested from the white-ball leg of ...

Russia’s sports ministry has refused to include cricket on its register of officially recognised sports. The order was issued on 15 July – the day after England’s dramatic Cricket World Cup final win over New Zealand. Among the sports officially recognised in Russia are petanque, draughts and mini-golf. Exclusion from the official list does not amount to a ban, but ...

Lahore:The High Performance Skill and Training Program for national Under-19 cricketers will commence from 22 July at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore. A contingent of 17 players – comprising members of the Pakistan side which whitewashed South Africa Under-19 in a seven-match away one-day series – will gather at the NCA by 21 July. The coaches will analyse the ...

Lahore:The Pakistan Cricket Board Medical Advisory Committee (MAC) held its inaugural meeting at the National Cricket Academy on Thursday to discuss matters ranging from player safety to fitness and health protocols for domestic and international players. The nine-member committee discussed the necessity of enhancing the medical standards – to meet the criteria set by the International Cricket Council – across ...

KARACHI: ( Sports Link Report ) The Pakistan physical disability cricket team training camp, for the 2019 physical disability world Cricket series which will be held from next month in the Worcestershire, England began from 23rd July 2019 here at the NCA National Stadium Karachi. During training camp the ability of batting bowling fielding fitness and others will be improved ...

Lahore:The Al-Nisa School Quetta, has set-up the first-ever cricket academy in the Balochistan province. The academy has been launched in collaboration with PCB under its CRIC4US Program. CRIC4US is a grassroots development program launched by PCB in 2018 under the flagship of Women Cricket Vision 2022. The purpose of the program is to develop women cricket at the grassroots level ...