Cricket

Karachi:Central Punjab were crowned Quaid-e-Azam Trophy first-class 2019-20 champions following their resounding innings win over Northern at the National Stadium, Karachi on Monday. The revamped tournament that included six Cricket Association sides produced some top-class cricket that gave real context to domestic cricket. Both red-ball and white-ball events earned recognition and eyeballs like never before. A total of 31 matches ...

Lahore:Women’s cricket in Pakistan continued to evolve in 2019. Pakistan national women’s team reached new heights and the Pakistan Cricket Board undertook major initiatives to promote the game amongst young potential cricketers. Pakistan reached the fourth spot in the 50-over ICC Women’s Championship after securing astonishing series win against West Indies women earlier in the year and securing a 1-1 ...

Lahore:Year 2019 will be remembered as a landmark year in Pakistan’s cricketing history. It ended with the country taking a major stride in ensuring full resumption of international cricket in Pakistan as Sri Lanka played two Tests in Rawalpindi and Karachi in December. Prior to the Test series, Pakistan had staged eight HBL Pakistan Super League matches in Karachi in ...

Lahore:The year 2019 was a year of mixed on-field performances for the Pakistan national men’s team. They strengthened the claim of Karachi’s National Stadium being the national side’s fortress in Test cricket with a win against Sri Lanka to register their first World Test Championship win, but struggled on away tours failing to win in South Africa and Australia. They ...

Offspinner Will Somerville will return to the SCG where he played for New South Wales after being called up to the New Zealand squad for the final Test against Australia as Trent Boult’s replacement. Somerville, the 35-year-old offspinner, has played three Tests for New Zealand, all of them in Asia, and has taken 14 wickets at 25.14 after returning home ...

Four-day Test matches could become mandatory as part of the World Test Championship from 2023, with the ICC’s cricket committee likely to formally consider the change in 2020 amid widespread discussions among member boards about how to reduce numerous pressure points in the global cricket calendar for the future. However, the world’s cricketers stand as the most likely source of ...

Former legspinner Danish Kaneria on Saturday clarified that he was never discriminated against on the basis of religion during his playing career for Pakistan, but did claim that he was treated differently by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) after he was found guilty in a spot-fixing scandal. Kaneria made headlines this week after former teammate Shoaib Akhtar said that the ...

Australia 467 and 4 for 137 (Wade 15, Head 12) lead New Zealand 148 (Latham 50, Cummins 5-28) by 456 runs Pat Cummins put further daylight between him and next-most prolific bowlers of 2019 with another display of supreme pace bowling as he claimed 5 for 28 to help dismantle New Zealand on the third day at the MCG. James ...

Graeme Smith has assured South Africans of all races that he is committed to transformation after he was criticised by the Black African Cricket Clubs (BACC), who held a meeting at the Wanderers on Friday. The group, which formed in 2011 after a racially charged split in the Central Gauteng Lions, aim to reposition and grow black African cricket and ...

New Zealand’s sorry Australian tour took another turn for the worse as Trent Boult was ruled out of the third and final Test in Sydney with a fracture on his right hand, sustained while batting. Boult had been struck on the gloves by Mitchell Starc at the back-end of New Zealand’s first innings at the MCG, and went to hospital ...