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LAHORE : Punjab Parliamentarians cricket team defeated Sindh Parliamentarians by 35 runs in an exhibition cricket match at Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday. Captain of Punjab Parliamentarians cricket team Punjab Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and Tourism Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti received the winners’ trophy while runners-up trophy was received by Sindh team skipper Jamal Siddiqui. Batting first Punjab Parliamentarians cricket ...

Karachi: Southern Punjab opener, Zeeshan Ashraf scored his first century of the first-class season to put his team in the driving seat against winless Sindh on day-one of the four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy ninth round match at the National Stadium on Monday. Sohaib Maqsood also produced a classy knock of 81 runs to see Southern reach 344 for five at stumps. ...

Lahore:Northern v Central Punjab, Shalimar Cricket Ground, Islamabad Opening batsman Shamyl Husain scored a half-century to help Northern score 251 for seven in 80 overs against Central Punjab at Shalimar Cricket Ground in Islamabad on day-one of the first round of the PCB-PEPSI National U16 Three-Day tournament matches on Monday. Opting to bat first, Northern scored 251 for seven in ...

Karachi:Balochistan’s Imran Butt stroked his third century of the tournament on the opening day of his side’s four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy fixture against Northern at Karachi’s UBL Sports Complex. The right-handed opener scored 124 runs from 150 balls and led Balochistan’s way to 271 for eight in 84 overs after Northern, the visiting team, decided to not to contest the ...

Lahore:Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will take on Southern Punjab in the final of Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Second XI three-day tournament, the four-day affair will be played at the State Bank Stadium in Karachi on Tuesday. The two sides have played each other twice in the round-robin stage of the tournament, both matches ended in a draw at the Hayatabad Sports Complex in Peshawar. ...

Lahore:Central Punjab’s spinners spun the web around Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s batsmen on day one of the four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy ninth round fixture at Karachi’s NBP Stadium. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, after winning the toss and electing to bat, were 227 for eight in 90 overs as Zafar Gohar and Bilal Asif shared seven wickets between them. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa lost seven wickets for ...

New Zealand 615 for 9 dec (Watling 205, Santner 126, de Grandhomme 65, Williamson 51) beat England 353 (Stokes 91, Denly 74, Burns 52, Southee 4-88) and 197 (Wagner 5-44) by an innings and 65 runs New Zealand marked the arrival of Test cricket in Bay of Plenty with an emphatic victory over England. These are times of rich promise ...

BRISBANE: Australia look certain to take a 1-0 lead in their series against Pakistan after dominating with both bat and ball on day three of the first Test in Brisbane on Saturday. Big centuries to Marnus Labuschagne (185) and David Warner (154) helped Australia to a first innings total of 580 in reply to Pakistan’s 240. At stumps Pakistan were ...

Lahore, 22 November 2019: The 56th PCB’s Board of Governors meeting was held in Lahore on Friday. The following are the outcomes of the meeting: Return of Test cricket in Pakistan after 10 years The PCB’s supreme body lauded the management for convincing Sri Lanka Cricket to send their men’s national team to Pakistan for the World Test Championship matches. ...