Cricket

LAHORE : Director General Sports Punjab Javed Chohan has congratulatedPakistan skipper Babar Azam, fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi, wicketkeeper MohammadRizwan and women allrounder Fatima Sana for winning coveted International CricketCouncil (ICC) awards in their respective categories. Director General Sports Punjab Javed Chohan in his greeting message on Monday said thatfabulous ICC awards showed that our national male and female players ...

Since its inception in 2016, the HBL Pakistan Super League has proved to be a brilliant platform for the cricketers from around the world to ply their trade. The foreign contingent of cricketers in successive HBL PSL seasons have made no secret of their admiration for the young local talent and, since the league’s homecoming in 2020, they have thoroughly ...

The Pakistan Cricket Board today expressed its sadness following the death of Aftab Baloch, who in 1969 made his Test debut at the age of 16 against New Zealand in Dhaka. He was 69. Aftab scored 25 in his only innings in the drawn Test and had to wait for six years for his second and final Test in which ...

Bismah Maroof will lead the national side in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand as the national women’s selection committee announced the squad for the tournament to be played from 4 March till 3 April. The event will mark Bismah’s return to international cricket after two years as she took break from the game for the birth ...

Pakistan Cricket Board today confirmed playing conditions of the HBL Pakistan Super League 2022, which will be played in Karachi and Lahore from 27 January to 27 February.Some of amendments to the playing conditions, which are sitting on the corporate website under Documents/Men’s Playing Conditions, are: ·       If a team loses players due to positive results, it can seek the Technical Committee’s approval ...

As part of the 2021 edition of the ICC Awards, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced Janneman Malan of South Africa and Fatima Sana of Pakistan as the Emerging Cricketers of the Year 2021 across men’s and women’s international cricket respectively.  The ICC Emerging Cricketer of the Year in men’s and women’s international cricket is awarded to the best overall performer who is under ...

The Karachi-leg matches of the HBL Pakistan Super League 2022 matches will be played at the National Stadium from 27 January to 7 February. Below is important information for media attending, following or covering these matches: Event name ·         The official nomenclature of the tournament is HBL PSL. Media houses are instructed to use correct event nomenclature in all texts, headlines, ...

As part of the 2021 edition of the ICC Awards, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced today the T20I cricketers of the year in men’s and women’s international cricket.  Pakistan’s ace wicketkeeper-batter, Mohammad Rizwan was voted the ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2021, whilst England’s Tammy Beaumont was voted the ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year 2021.  Aggregating a staggering 1326 runs in only ...

Karachi Kings captain Babar Azam, Multan Sultans captain Mohammad Rizwan and Islamabad United captain Shadab Khan held virtual media conferences today. The audio and video files of their media interactions are available here

The Pakistan Cricket Board’s Medical Advisory Panel has put together robust Health and Safety Protocols for all participants of the HBL Pakistan Super League 2022, which will be played in Karachi and Lahore from 27 January to 27 February. The Health and Safety Protocols document has been designed to ensure health and safety of all participants as well as to ...