Cricket

Multan: Fakhar Zaman’s half-century set Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s fourth consecutive win in the ongoing National T20 Cup First XI tournament as they defeated Central Punjab by 29 runs at Multan Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. With a blazing 66, which came off 42 balls, Fakhar registered his second half-century on trot and 20th overall in T20 cricket. The 30-year-old provided Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a solid ...

Multan: Defending champions Northern recorded their 10th consecutive victory (National T20 Cup for First XIs 2019 and 2020) by defeating last year’s finalists’ Balochistan by a comprehensive seven wicket margin on Tuesday night at the Multan Cricket Stadium in the 14th match of the National T20 Cup for First XI teams 2020. This was the last match of the Multan-leg and ...

Lahore:Babar Azam, the captain of Pakistan men’s limited overs teams, will take the charge of Central Punjab when the National T20 Cup First XI tournament resumes in Rawalpindi from 9 October. The champion batsman turned out for Somerset in the England T20 championship, where he scored his career-best 114 not out, after the conclusion of Pakistan’s Test and T20I series ...

Karachi:Regarding the birth of a fifth daughter, former national team captain Shahid Khan Afridi believes that Allah rewards daughters with whom He is pleased. Allah is pleased with me, so He rewards me with daughters. It may be recalled that Shahid Afridi became the father of his 5th daughter in February this year.

Lahore: All 119 players and player support personnel belonging to the six U19 Cricket Association teams have tested negative in their first Covid-19 tests, which were conducted on 3 October. To facilitate the U19 cricketers, their parents or guardians in the process, the first tests were carried out at the team’s central stations. As such, Balochistan and Sindh teams were ...

Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board today announced its nominations to the ICC Panel of International Match Officials for the 2020-21 season. Former Test opener Ali Naqvi is the only new inclusion as he joins Prof. Javed Malik in the ICC Panel of International Match Referees, while Ahsan Raza, Asif Yaqoob, Rashid Riaz Waqar and Shozab Raza have been retained in ...

Lahore: Sindh and Southern Punjab won their matches on Sunday in the ongoing Second XI teams at the Gaddafi Stadium Lahore.  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa v Sindh An all-round performance from Mohammad Sarwar went in vain as Sindh beat Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by four wickets. After being put into bat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa lost wickets at regular intervals and were reeling at 58 for seven ...

Multan: Balochistan recorded a 16-run win over the luckless Southern Punjab side to gain two valuable points in the ninth match of the National T20 Cup for First XIs on Sunday evening at the Multan Cricket Stadium. Southern Punjab’s poor run continued in the tournament as the Shan Masood-led side crashed to their fourth consecutive defeat, they are languishing at the ...

Pakistan women’s team player Nada Dar has joined the ICC’s top ten players’ rankings. In the ongoing ranking of women players by the ICC, Pakistan’s Nada Dar has also managed to make a place in the top ten cricketers. Australia’s Sufi Devine topped the women’s T20 rankings, while England’s Natalie snatched Australia’s Alice Perry second. Nada Dar is ranked 10th ...

Lahore:The national junior selection committee headed by former Test fast bowler Saleem Jaffer today announced the U19 squads of the six Cricket Associations who would compete in the National U19 three-day and one-day tournaments as part of the domestic season 2020-21. The PCB endeavoured to maximise the participation of the teenage cricketers and held open trials for the selection of ...