Cricket

Lahore:Mount Maunganui and Christchurch will be the venues of the ICC World Test Championship fixtures when Pakistan tours New Zealand later this year. Mount Maunganui will hold the Boxing Day Test from 26-30 December, before the two teams head down to Christchurch for the second Test to be played from 3-7 January. In the ICC World Test Championship, fourth-placed New ...

Multan:Pakistan’s best T20 cricketers will be back in action as the much-awaited National T20 Cup First XI tournament kicks off on Wednesday at the Multan Cricket Stadium. The 33-match tournament, which will be broadcast live in its entirety in High Definition on PTV Sports, marks the beginning of competitive cricket in the country after more than six months and, as ...

Peshawar Zalmi Management conducted two-day trials and talent hunt in South Waziristan in search of new cricketing talent through MG Zalmi Camp After conducting trials in Peshawar, Jamrud, Swabi, Swat and Lahore, Peshawar Zalmi’s two-day talent hunt program in Waziristan was also very successful. Former Pakistan cricket captain Rashid Latif also arrived in Waziristan exclusively with Peshawar Zalmi management. Zalmi ...

Multan:Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Southern Punjab are two formidable sides with the potential to win the National T20 Cup First XI tournament, which begins on Wednesday at the Multan Cricket Stadium, with quality players at their disposal. The two teams will be looking to better their performances from the last season’s edition, in which their journey was cut short to the ...

Karachi (Sports Reporter) the 5th National Bank President’s Cup T20 Intergroup Cricket Tournament has started due to the postponed matches of the event. In the first match played at UBL Sports Complex, Audit Spartan easily defeated ARG Gloryz by 93 runs while International Cricketer Athar Laiq awarded Usman Azhar Man of the Match for his smoky batting. Event Manager Anwar ...

LONDON:Essex won the Bob Willis Trophy after a five-day draw against Somerset ended in their favour thanks to their superior first-inning run total at Lord s. Reigning county champions Essex extended their red-ball dominance after edging the first in what could be a new tradition of first-class season deciders for English counties. Somerset declared early on the final day on ...

Lahore: The consortium of Tower Sports and SportzWorkz has been awarded production rights for the National T20 Cup, Quaid-e-Azam Trophy and the Pakistan-Zimbabwe limited overs series, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced today. The rights were awarded following an RFP process that involved PCB’s pre-qualified production partners. Tower Sports and SportzWorkz produced the HBL Pakistan Super League 2020 and now enter ...

Multan: Central Punjab and Sindh will be hoping for change of fortunes when the razzmatazz of the T20 version commences on 30 September in Multan, the City of Saints, with the PKR9million National T20 Cup First XI tournament. Despite carrying star-studded line-ups in the last edition of the tournament, the two teams made early exits from Faisalabad, failing to reach ...

By Akhtar Ali Khan Another piece of good news came from the world of cricket. The New Zealand government has allowed the cricket board to play a series against Pakistan and the West Indies. The Pakistan cricket team has to travel to New Zealand for 2 Tests and 3 T20 matches later this year. In this regard, New Zealand Cricket ...

Multan: Asif Afridi, member of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa First XI squad for the National T20 Cup, has been quarantined after he was found to have breached the bio-secure protocols, it was announced today. The 33-year-old violated the social distancing protocols during a meeting with his friend in the team lobby and, as such, he will now undergo an isolation as well as ...