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Karachi :-Mohammad Amir is considering shortening his Test career in a bid to extend his international playing days. The fast bowler has come to an agreement in principle with Pakistan’s head coach, Mickey Arthur, which will see Amir’s workload being managed in the future, and it is likely that it will reduce the number of Tests he appears in. Amir, ...

KARACHI :-   The 48th meeting of the PCB Board of Governors (BoG) took place at a local hotel in Karachi today to discuss various methods pertaining to Domestic, International and Women’s cricket. The meeting was chaired by Chairman PCB Mr. Najam Sethi. The BoG appreciated and congratulated the PCB for the outstanding success of the HBL Pakistan Super League ...

KARACHI: The trio of young PSL performers Asif Ali, Hussain Talat and Shaheen Shah Afridi were rewarded for their outstanding performances during the league with a call by Pakistan’s selection committee for three-match series against the West Indies. The 15 member squad for the three T20Is to be played on 1st, 2nd and 3rd of April in Karachi was announced ...

KARACHI: Jean-Paul Duminy, the South African cricketer who captained Islamabad United in the absence of Misbah-ul-Haq, noted Sunday night that many of the foreign players would like to come to Pakistan again. Commonly known as JP Duminy, the South Africa T20I team’s vice-captain said he was very happy after the team’s performance in the final game of the Pakistan Super League’s (PSL) third ...

AUCKLAND – New Zealand pulled off a dramatic win by an innings and 49 runs over England in Auckland on Monday, wrapping up the rain-affected first Test with 18.5 overs to spare. It is only the 10th time New Zealand have beaten England in the 102 test history between the two countries. As fortunes fluctuated on the final day in ...

South Africa 311 (Elgar 141*, de Villiers 64, Cummins 4-78) and 373 (Markram 84, De Kock 65, De Villiers 63, Philander 52*, Cummins 3-67, Hazlewood 3-69, Lyon 3-102) beat Australia 255 (Bancroft 77, Morkel 4-87, Rabada 4-91) and 107 (Morkel 5-23) by 322 runs South Africa might have won the Test, but the real winner was schadenfreude. After the ball-tampering ...

DAMBULLA: The Pakistan bowling attack rattled Sri Lanka in the third and final match of the ICC World Championship one-day international series to help Pakistan complete a 3-0 sweep with a 108-run win in Dambulla. Pakistan posted 215/9 on the back of a steady Nahida Khan innings from the top and useful contributions from Javeria Khan, Bismah Maroof, Sidra Ameen ...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has also called the incident a ‘shocking disappointment’ In the wake of the recent ball tampering incident, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called for the removal of cricket captain Steve Smith. “It seems beyond belief the Australian cricket team have been involved in cheating. Our cricketers are role models and cricket is synonymous with ...

Steve Smith and David Warner will stand down as captain and vice-captain for rest of Australia´s third Test match against South Africa, Cricket Australia said Sunday as it investigates a ball-tampering scandal. Tim Paine will step in as acting captain for the remainder of the Test in Newlands, CA chief James Sutherland said in a statement. “Following discussions with Steve ...

  Rawalpindi:The Pakistan Super League final has brought more shine to the ‘city of lights’ that Karachi is, stated Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor. In a tweet posted Sunday, DG ISPR thanked the Pakistan Cricket Board, foreign players, government administration, security apparatus and people of the country. “Terrorism imposed on us is on the way out,” ...