Cricket

• Head coaches select their respective squads from pool of players announced on 28 August; squads to be reshuffled for Quaid-e-Azam Trophy and Pakistan Cup closer to events Lahore:Head coaches of the six Cricket Associations today confirmed their 16-player squads for this month’s National T20 Cup. The squads were finalised from a pool of players, which the head coaches had ...

By Akhtar Ali KhanThe Pakistan Cricket Board has started planning for the tour of New Zealand. For New Zealand too, 30 players are likely to be included in the squad. The Pakistan cricket team will visit New Zealand in November-December, where a series of two Tests and three T20 matches will be played. The PCB has started formulating the strategy ...

Former national cricket team captain Salman Butt has refused to play in the National T20. Sources said that the domestic team Central Punjab apologized for including Salman Butt in the first XI. In this regard, the team’s head coach Shahid Anwar had offered Salman Butt the captaincy of the second XI. Shahid Anwar had said that he wanted to feed ...

By Akhtar Ali Khan The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has shared the preliminary schedule of the Zimbabwe cricket team’s tour of Pakistan with the Zimbabwe Cricket Board, which is likely to be finalized by next week. According to sources, the PCB has also briefed Zimbabwe Cricket on the biosecure environment and assured that the health and safety of the players ...

Australia defeated England by 5 wickets in the third and final T20 International to save themselves from the Whitewash. In the match played in Southampton, Australia won the toss and invited England to bat. Johnny Barstow of the host team scored the most 55 runs while Joe Danley scored 29 and Moin Ali scored 23 runs. England scored 145 for ...

• D category player has an opportunity to earn more than what players received last season • “PCB generates its funds and revenues through cricket and it is appropriate that a large chunk of these funds are reinvested into development and cricketers,” says Nadeem Khan Lahore:The philosophy of professionalism and its connection with performance, which, in turn, provides big rewards ...

By Akhtar Ali KhanThe Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has requested the Sports Arbitration Court to hold the hearing of Umar Akmal’s case on video link. The PCB took a stand in the request that the video link hearing would reduce the expenses of the parties. It should be noted that the PCB and Umar Akmal are the parties in the ...

England’s best form remains in T20 cricket as they beat Australia in the second consecutive T20 match to take an unbeaten 0-2 lead. In the second match of the three-match series in Southampton, England easily defeated Australia by 6 wickets. Australia won the toss and elected to bat first, but did not take advantage of the decision. After the wickets ...

London:Jos Buttler will miss England’s final T20I of the summer for family reasons. Buttler, who hit a match-winning 77 not out in the second game of England’s series against Australia on Sunday, left the biosecure bubble at the Ageas Bowl following the game. Subject to Covid-19 testing, Buttler will be return to the England camp when they move up to ...

London:Former England all-rounder David Capel has died at the age of 57 after a long illness. According to media reports, former England all-rounder David Capel was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2018. David Capel, who started his first-class cricket career with a tour of Sri Lanka in 1981, played 15 Tests and 23 ODIs for his country. He scored ...