Cricket

KARACHI: Rangoonwala Cricket Club defeated Firdous Cricket Club by nine wickets in the most important match played in the Second corporate colour -kit Tweenty-20 League cricket tournament at Quaid – e – Azam park cricket ground in steel township here on Sunday. Left arm pacer Moazzam Ali played key role in enabling the Rangoonwala Cricket Club to mark third victory ...

Lahore:South Africa’s Faf du Plessis will make his HBL Pakistan Super League debut as he was one of the 21 foreign stars to confirm his participation in the remaining four matches of Pakistan’s marquee event, which will be played in Karachi on 14, 15 and 17 November. Du Plessis has played 255 international matches for South Africa, including 47 T20Is ...

Karachi:Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kamran Ghulam has been charged for a breach of PCB’s Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel during his side’s second round first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy fixture against Sindh at the UBL Sports Complex. Kamran was fined 40 per cent of applicable match fee for a level 1 offence relating to showing dissent an umpire’s decision. The ...

Karachi:The computerised tomography (CT) scan conducted on Bilawal Bhatti in a local hospital on Monday afternoon was all clear and the all-rounder has been discharged from the hospital, but advised complete rest for the next few days. The following is the sequence of events: • Bilawal Bhatti was hit on the side of his head off a Khurram Shahzad short-pitched ...

Lahore:Northern presented the National U19 One-Day Tournament title to Sindh on a silver platter when they lost their last nine wickets for 38 runs to lose the final by 53 runs at the Gaddafi Stadium on Monday. Chasing 243 runs in 50 overs for victory, Northern were cruising at 151 for one before they were mesmerised by wrist-spinner Aaliyan Mehmood ...

Karachi:Northern made an impressive comeback in the ongoing first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy with a comprehensive nine-wicket win over Central Punjab, the title defenders, in the afternoon session of the third day’s play at the National Bank Sports Complex. The win helped Northern clinch 26 crucial points – 16 for outright win, four for batting and six for bowling. It was an ...

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s Aleem Dar has been awarded a special memento for his 210th appearance as an umpire for an one-day international (ODI) cricket match when he turned up for the second ODI between the green shirts and Zimbabwe. Dar’s 210th appearance set the record of him supervising the highest number of ODI matches in the world. With a new feather ...

Rawalpindi: Off-spinner Iftikhar Ahmed’s maiden five-wicket haul helped Pakistan record a comprehensive six-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the second match of the three-match ODI series that is a part of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League at the Pindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi on Sunday evening. The victory gave Pakistan an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series. The Greenshirts ...

Lahore: Adeel Meo’s yet another five-wicket haul not only helped Sindh record a comprehensive victory over Central Punjab, but also earned his side a place in the final of the National U19 One-Day tournament.   Both Sindh and Northern ended the group stage with seven wins each from 10 matches. The two teams will play at the final at the Gaddafi Stadium, ...

Karachi: Northern continued to dominate Central Punjab in their second round fixture of the first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, being played at the National Bank Sports Complex, and took their bonus points’ tally to 10 after adding four batting points on Sunday. The title defenders were 64 for two in their second innings at the close of play with a 131-run trail to ...