Cricket

Ellyse Perry, the premier allrounder in women’s cricket, has won two of the three top annual ICC awards for 2019: the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for women’s cricketer of the year and the ODI Cricketer of the Year award. Alyssa Healy, meanwhile, has taken home the Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year award for the second year in a row. In ...

Lahore:Balochistan U16 v Northern U16, Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad Northern beat Balochistan by six wickets after Balochistan were asked to bat first. Balochistan were bowled out for 98 runs in 38.1 overs. Faiz Ullah top-scored with 33 runs. For Northern, Mohammad Ibrahim took three wickets for 13 runs in nine overs. In return, Northern chased down the target in the 29th ...

Kuala Lumpur, 17 December 2019: Bismah Maroof’s gutsy half-century was in vain as England Women beat Pakistan Women by 29 runs in the first of the three T20Is at Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. The Pakistan captain scored a 58-ball 60, hitting five fours. Pakistan lost both openers in the first five balls of the run chase as the scorecard read ...

Lahore:A high performance camp commenced today at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Lahore and will continue for three weeks. The ten players has reported and started work today under the supervision of PCB Director Medical and Sports Sciences Dr Sohail Saleem. The players in the camp will undergo one on one sessions with the trainers and physios of the ...

Kuala Lumpur: Pakistan national women cricket team’s journey in the ICC Women’s Championship 2017-20 culminated in the Bismah Maroof-led side breaking into the top-four of the eight-team tournament standings with their third ODI against England women getting washed-out in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. For a side which sits seventh on the ICC Women’s ODIs team rankings, the past two years ...

Abid Ali punches Vishwa Fernando through the offside to raucous Pindi cheers, becoming: The first man in history to make Test AND ODI tons on debut The first Pakistan batsman to make a hundred at home in 10 years The first Pakistan batsman to make a ton in Pindi since 2000 (the last was Younis Khan, also on debut) Apart ...

Mushtaq Ahmed has promised to “revive” the form of Yasir Shah, who has been released from Pakistan’s squad after being left out of the XI for the first Test against Sri Lanka. Mushtaq, the former Pakistan legspinner, is with the PCB as a consultant, contracted to work with spinners at all levels, from age-group to national team, for 120 days ...

BCB president Nazmul Hassan is hopeful that the Bangladesh team will get security clearance from the government to tour Pakistan next month for a series comprising three T20Is and two Tests. However, he also said that there remained a couple of more steps that needed to be taken before a final decision could be arrived at. Last week, BCB chief ...

Lahore:The second cricket Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka will be held at the National Stadium in Karachi from 19-23 December. The following is the schedule of media opportunities in the build up to and during the Test as well as important information for media planning to attend the match: Monday, 16 December: · Both the teams have opted not ...

Lahore:Northern U16 v Southern Punjab U16, Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad Northern U16 beat Southern Punjab U16 by eight wickets in PCB-Pepsi U16 one-day tournament at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad on Saturday. Chasing a 110-run target, Northern U16 achieved victory in the 19th over. Mohammad Saad scored an unbeaten 52 off 59 balls with five fours, while Shamyl Hussain scored 32 ...