Cricket

Doha, Qatar Asia Lions openers Upul Tharanga and Tillakaratne Dilshan cracked breezy half-centuries to blow away the World Giants and emerge as the new champions of the Skyexch.net Legends League Cricket (LLC) Masters. In the final held at the Asian Town Cricket Stadium in Doha, Asia Lions, cheered by a packed stadium, scored an emphatic seven-wicket victory with 23 balls ...

Dubai-Harmeet Singh made history in Houston by being named the first pick of the Major League Cricket (MLC) draft when the six MLC franchises converged at Space Center Houston to make their domestic picks and announced big international signings as the historic 2023 season prepares to take flight. Singh was selected by the Seattle Orcas, who unveiled their name and ...

Debutants New York Strikers recorded a morale-boosting 27 runs win over Chennai Braves in the Abu Dhabi T10 match at the Abu Dhabi Zayed Cricket Stadium on Thursday. Though New York Strikers could post only 99 for 6, their bowlers bowled brilliantly to restrict Chennai Braves to 72 for 6 in 10 overs.   Chennai Braves won the toss and ...

Pakistan’s premier first-class tournament Quaid-e-Azam Trophy is set to have a new champion as last season’s finalists Northern take on Sindh in the five-day final at the headquarters of Pakistan cricket, Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium from Saturday. Northern have been the finalist twice since the revamp of the domestic system in 2019-20. They would be hoping to make it a case ...

A total of 13 matches will be played in the T20 Women’s Cricket Tournament, which commences in Lahore from 26 November.   In order to incentivise domestic performers, the best performer of every match will get PKR20,000 and the player of the tournament will bag PKR50,000. The winning team will receive PKR 1 million, while the runner-up will get PKR0.5million.   The ...

Day-three of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy tenth round was staged at three venues today (Tuesday). Sindh and Central Punjab are poised for draws against Balochistan and Southern Punjab respectively at the LCCA Ground and Gaddafi Stadium Lahore while Northern are facing a defeat after a poor day against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the Shoaib Akhtar Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi.   The players selected ...

The tenth and final round of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2022-23 season begins at three venues across the country tomorrow (Sunday). Number two in the points table Sindh will take on Balochistan at the LCCA Ground, Lahore, fifth placed Southern Punjab play third placed Central Punjab in the Punjab derby at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore and top-ranked Northern face bottom placed ...

3rd CG United ODI in Antigua free for all fans to celebrate V.C. Bird National Holiday ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket fans eager to catch the action in the December white-ball series between the West Indies Women and England Women will be able to grab their tickets from today through the Windies Tickets service, presented by Mastercard.   Tickets have ...

  Lanka Premier League 2022 will commence on the 06th December 2022 in Hambantota with the inaugural game scheduled to be played between defending champions Jaffna and Galle at 3 PM. The first round of the tournament, which will consist of 20 games will be played in Hambantota before it moves to Kandy and then Colombo. The final round games ...

The first-ever tour of Ireland’s national women’s team to Pakistan completed on Wednesday (16 November). The two teams played three ICC Women’s Championship matches and three T20Is over the two weeks. Pakistan completed a comfortable clean-sweep in the ODIs, but the tourists fought back to won the closely contested T20I series 2-1.   After witnessing the culture of Pakistan, the ...