Cricket

India advanced to their eighth ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup final with a comprehensive 96-run defeat of Australia and will face England in the showpiece. Shaik Rasheed and Yash Dhull put on the second biggest partnership of the tournament, adding 204 runs for the third wicket after a shaky start for the Men in Blue. Australia never got ...

Win the toss and win the match mantra proved to be wrong in the third successive fixture of the HBL Pakistan Super League 2022 when Lahore Qalandars defeated Peshawar Zalmi by 29 runs in the ninth game of the PCB’s marquee event at the National Stadium on Wednesday. Fakhar Zaman continued his rich form with the bat to stroke a ...

Faisal Khan Afridi of the PCB Elite Panel of Umpires has been suspended for five HBL Pakistan Super League 2022 matches and fined 50 per cent of his match fee for breaching the event’s Health and Safety protocols. Tournament Director Salman Naseer: “The PCB had announced it will follow a zero-tolerance approach towards any Health and Safety breaches. This decision ...

Tim David and Rilee Rossouw clobbered 10 fours and 12 sixes between them as Multan Sultans scored 93 runs in their last five overs that set the platform for a thrilling 20 runs victory over Islamabad United in a 414-run fest in the eighth match of the HBL Pakistan Super League 2022 at the National Stadium on Tuesday. David scored ...

As part of the 2021 edition of the ICC Awards, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced Daryl Mitchell as the winner of the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award for 2021.  Mitchell won the award for his gesture of refusing to take a single in the high-pressure ICC Men’s T20 World Cup semi-final against England in Abu Dhabi on November 10, ...

Cooper Connolly is backing Australia’s new batting prodigy Teague Wyllie to help fire his team into the ICC Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup final 2022. A talented India team stand between Australia and Saturday’s showpiece match at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium. However, Aussie captain Connolly believes his team have the ability to get there, particularly if his Western Australia ...

England kept their nerve to become the first team to reach the ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup final after edging a thriller with Afghanistan by 15 runs. Spinner Rehan Ahmed became the hero for the Young Lions, taking three wickets in the penultimate over at crucial point when their opponents needed just 18 runs from the last 10 ...

Left-arm spinner Akeal Hosein and fast bowler Jason Holder have achieved career-best rankings in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s T20I Player Rankings after helping the West Indies to a series-deciding 17-run victory in the fifth match against England in Bridgetown. In the latest weekly update to the men’s rankings, which considers performances in the last three matches of the series, Hosein has ...

Cricket is the first discipline to announce its complete line-up for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games after Sri Lanka was confirmed as the eighth team in the women’s T20 tournament. The announcement was made jointly by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) on Tuesday following Sri Lanka’s victory in the ICC Commonwealth Games Qualifier 2022 ...

Johannesburg, South Africa- The West Indies Women won a thrilling one-over eliminator in the second One International against South Africa Women at the Imperial Wanderers Stadium, to take a 1-0 series lead with two matches remaining. In a rain-reduced match of 41 overs per side, West Indies won the toss and elected to bowl first. The West Indies bowlers proved ...