World Cup 2019

Australia cruised to victory by 86 runs against New Zealand at Lord’s on Saturday, with batsman Usman Khawaja and pace spearhead Mitchell Starc starring for the defending champions. Aaron Finch’s team, already through to the last four from the 10-team round-robin stage, were wobbling at 92/5 after winning the toss on a hot day. But Khawaja (88), who received fine ...

New Zealand paceman Trent Boult took a hat-trick against Australia in a World Cup match at Lord’s on Saturday. The left-arm quick struck in the last over of Australia’s innings, dismissing Usman Khawaja for a top-score of 88 before he bowled tailender Mitchell Starc and then had Jason Behrendorff lbw, despite the batsman’s review. It was the first hat-trick by ...

LEEDS: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Saturday declared that it would take appropriate measures to punish rowdy fans, who scuffled in and outside Headingley during the World Cup game featuring Pakistan and Afghanistan. “We are aware of some scuffles among a minority of fans and are currently working with the venue security team and the local police force, West ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday congratulated the Pakistani team “for keeping their nerve under pressure and in the end winning against Afghanistan”. In a message posted on Twitter, PM Imran said: “Congratulations to the Pakistan team for keeping their nerve under pressure and in the end winning against Afghanistan. Twitter/Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI)/Screenshot via Geo.tv “I also especially want to ...

LEEDS: Pakistan’s young pace sensation Shaheen Shah Afridi on Saturday became the youngest ever player to take four wickets in a World Cup match. Shaheen Afridi got wickets of Gulbadin Naib, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Najibullah Zardan and Rashid Khan to finish with bowling figures of 4/47 in World Cup match against Afghanistan at Headingley on Saturday. By doing so at the ...

LEEDS: Pakistan kept their nerve to avoid a huge shock on Saturday, beating a spirited Afghan side by three wickets with just two balls to spare to keep their World Cup semi-final hopes alive. All-rounder Imad Wasim hit Afghanistan skipper Gulbadin Naib for a boundary through the covers to seal the win off the fourth ball of the last over, ...

Pakistan rode on a hundred by Babar Azam to beat New Zealand by six wickets, ending their unbeaten streak in the World Cup, to keep their campaign alive at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Wednesday. After the victory, Indian tennis star Sania Mirza, wife of Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik, posted an inspiring message on Twitter, saying, “What an incredibly great leveler ...

Virat Kohli broke Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara’s record to become the fastest to score 20,000 international runs, a target he reached when he scored 37 runs in the World Cup 2019 match against the West Indies on Thursday. The Indian skipper took only 417 innings to achieve the record — 131 in Tests, 224 in ODIs and 62 in ...

Left-arm spinner George Dockrell and medium-pacer Barry McCarthy have been left out of Ireland’s ODI squad for the three-match series against Zimbabwe that begins on July 1 in Bready. Dockrell, however, has found a place in the squad for the three-match T20I series that follows the ODIs. Offspinner Simi Singh and seam-bowling allrounder Shane Getkate, who recently impressed for Ireland ...

BIRMINGHAM: Although the man of the match for Pakistan’s remarkable six wickets win over New Zealand on Wednesday was Babar Azam, there was another hero, Shaheen Shah Afridi – who bowled a memorable spell to push Kiwis on the back foot. He took three wickets for 28 runs in ten overs and got important wickets of Colin Munro, Taylor and ...