Cricket

Quetta: Adil Amin’s century and half-centuries from captain Sahibzada Farhan, Israrullah and Khalid Usman helped Khyber Pakhtunkhwa avoid follow-on against Balochistan on Day Three of their four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match at Quetta’s Bugti Stadium. In reply of Balochistan’s mammoth 553 for eight, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were bowled out for 406 in 103.3 overs – just avoiding the follow-on. This, however, provided ...

Lahore: Ali Imran and Qasim Akram were the stars for Central Punjab in their win over Southern Punjab on day two of the fifth-round of National U19 Three-Day tournament on Wednesday. At Bahawalpur’s Dring Stadium, Central Punjab resuming their first innings on 138 for four in 34 overs were bowled out for 290 in 65.2 overs. Qasim Akram scored a 131-ball ...

Lahore: Ayaz Shah claimed three wickets for 14 runs as Bangladesh U16 were bowled out for 108 runs in their first innings on the opening day of the second three-day match against Pakistan U16 at the KRL Stadium in Rawalpindi on Wednesday.  Bangladesh team from the start were never in a position to score big and continued to lose wickets at ...

Karachi:Central Punjab U19 cricketers Zain Bin Farooq and  Abu Huraira have been fined 50 per cent of their match fees for level 2 offences relating to conduct that brings the game into disrepute during their team’s National U19 three-day match against Northern at Rana Naveed Cricket Academy, Sheikhupura, last Wednesday. In a related incident, both the players were charged by ...

India Women beat Pakistan Women by seven wickets in ACC Women’s Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2019 match played at the Navy Cricket Ground, Werisala in Sri Lanka on Sunday. India chased down the 107-run target for the loss of three wickets in 30 overs after Pakistan were dismissed for 106 runs. Nuzhat Parween top-scored for India with a 68-ball 44, ...

Lahore:Domestic red-ball cricket resumes on Monday, 28 October, when the fifth-round action of the four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy commences at three centres. To provide context to domestic cricket, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had split the country’s premier event into two phases to create a window for the National T20 Cup ahead of the Pakistan national men’s team’s tour of ...

َLahore:The first three-day match between Pakistan U16 and Bangladesh U16 ended in a draw at the KRL stadium in Rawalpindi on Sunday. Resuming their second innings from 119 for four, the visiting Bangladesh side were bowled out for 200 runs in 95.2 overs. Bangladesh gained a 283-run overall lead, Nayeem Ahmed who scored 54 runs in the first innings top-scored ...

Lahore:In the fourth-round of the National U19 50-over tournament, an all-round performance from Abdul Wahid guided Balochistan to a five-wicket win against Southern Punjab, while Central Punjab and Sindh defeated Northern and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, respectively. At Dring Stadium in Bahawalpur, Southern Punjab after opting to bat scored 202 for nine in 50 overs, courtesy Basit Ali’s 78 off 99 balls, ...

Aliya Riaz’s superb death bowling meant that middle-order batter Rumana Ahmed’s blistering half century went in vain as Pakistan Women defeated their Bangladeshi counterparts by 14 runs in the 1st T20I at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Saturday. Chasing a 127-run target, Bangladesh were dealt two early setbacks and kept on losing more wickets at regular intervals against a ...

Bangladesh opening batsman Tamim Iqbal has withdrawn from the tour of India next month due to personal reasons, the country’s cricket board (BCB) said on Saturday. The tour, which starts on November 3, includes three T20 internationals and two test matches. Bangladesh announced a 15-man T20 squad last week, with Shakib Al Hasan as skipper. According to ESPNcricinfo here Imrul ...