Cricket

Career-best performances by UAE youngster Vriitya Aravind and Bahrain’s Junaid Aziz steered their respective teams to victory in the Group B matches of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier A, supported by Dream 11 on the opening day at Al Amerat on Friday. A dream spell by leg-spinner Aziz, who picked five wickets in ten balls and a captain’s ...

Defending champions Multan Sultans qualified for the 23 February Qualifier of the HBL Pakistan Super League 2022 with a punishing 117 runs victory over a hapless Quetta Gladiators in front of an almost full-house at the Gaddafi Stadium on Friday. Mohammad Rizwan, Rilee Rossouw and Shan Masood struck electrifying half-centuries as Multan Sultans scored 81 runs off the last five ...

The Women’s World Cup is a platform where stars are born, and it is the ultimate stage where cricketers of the day can leave ever-lasting legacies. For Pakistan, the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 is an opportunity to leave a mark and break the glass ceiling. We arrive in New Zealand well prepared, with our eyes set on one ...

Peshawar Zalmi continued their brilliant turnaround in the HBL Pakistan Super League 7 as they secured a thrilling 10-run win (third consecutive victory) over Islamabad United in the 24th match of the tournament played at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on Thursday night. Player of the match Mohammad Haris produced a dazzling innings of 70 to set-up his side’s win. Zalmi then ...

Playing in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup is a long-awaited dream come true for all of us.  We have played three T20 World Cups but have never played an ODI one, so we are very excited and very eager to perform on the biggest stage. We want to make the most of this opportunity and make it count. We ...

Lahore, 17 February 2022: Multan Sultans skipper Mohammad Rizwan led from the front as his side overcame a stiff challenge from the winless Karachi Kings to register their seventh win out of eight round matches in the 23rd match of the HBL Pakistan Super League 7 played at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on Wednesday night. Sultans were set a 175-run ...

Lahore, 16 February 2022: Ben Cutting of Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators’ Sohail Tanvir have both been fined 15 per cent of their match fees for breaching a Level 1 offence of the HBL PSL Code of Conduct in separate incidents during their side’s match in the HBL Pakistan Super League 2022 on Tuesday. Both the players were found to have violated Article 2.6 ...

The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier A, supported by Dream 11, begins at the Oman Academy grounds in Al Amerat on Friday. A lot is at stake for the eight participating nations – Ireland, Nepal, UAE, Canada, Germany, Philippines, Bahrain, and hosts Oman – as they vie for the two spots available at the Qualifier A from 18 to ...

Lahore, 16 February 2022: 20-year-old Will Smeed missed a maiden Twenty20 century by one run as Peshawar Zalmi defeated Quetta Gladiators by 24 runs in the 22nd match of the HBL Pakistan Super League 2022 at the Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday. Smeed dragged a full-toss by Salman Irshad onto his stumps that not only ended his entertaining innings but also shut ...

Heather Knight It’s pretty surreal to feel so near to a World Cup and yet so far away! Throwing rolled up socks into your bed to keep ticking over wasn’t how I imagined our build-up for this tournament back in 2017 but an awful lot has happened in the world since then. As I write this, we’re on day five ...