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HBL Pakistan Super League Player Draft pick order for the 2020 season was announced today following the first-round pick order reveal on Sunday. Chairman PCB Ehsan Mani, Chief Executive Officer Wasim Khan, owners and representatives of the HBL PSL franchises and representatives of the league partners HBL and Blitz Advertising gathered at the Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday to determine the ...

World’s tallest cricketer Mohammad Irfan on Sunday also became the oldest fast bowler to play for Pakistan since Imran Khan, Times of India reported. Irfan, 37, appeared in the rain-marred first T20I against Australia in Sydney today when he conceded 31 runs in just two overs. Based on that performance though, it is unlikely though that he’d be able to ...

Lahore: Rain played spoilsport on Sunday as the T20I series opener between Australia and Pakistan ended in no result. The first of the three T20Is was called-off just 3.1 overs into the second innings of the match. Chasing a 119-run target (DLS method), Australia were 41 for no loss in 3.1 overs before the rain interrupted the play. Earlier, Pakistan’s innings ...

Lahore: Mohammad Waqas will lead Pakistan U16 in a three-match one-day series against Bangladesh U16, which commences from Monday, 4 November. The one-dayers follows a two-match three-day series between the two teams, which Pakistan won 1-0 under Aliyan Mehmood’s captaincy. The three matches will be played at Rawalpindi’s KRL Stadium. Pakistan squad Mohammad Waqas (captain), Mohammad Shehzad (vice-captain), Abbas Ali, Ahmad ...

Lahore:Top-order batsman Saud Shakeel has been named captain and Rohail Nazir vice-captain for this month’s 50-over ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2019, which will be held in Cox’s Bazar and Mirpur, Bangladesh, from 12-23 November. The squad has been jointly selected by the men’s senior and junior selection committees, and, as per the event playing conditions, it includes 11 players ...

Lahore:With four rounds remaining in the four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, the six teams will fight for every point, when the sixth-round of the tournament commences on Monday, to secure a berth in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, which will be held at Karachi’s National Stadium from 9 to 13 December. Table-toppers Central Punjab will be aiming to consolidate their position when ...

Sydney :Ahead of his first-ever outing as Pakistan’s new T20I captain, Babar Azam on Saturday said that he would miss his predecessor and recently sacked skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed “a lot” in the series against Australia. The 25-year-old Azam took over the T20I reins from Sarfaraz earlier this month after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) decided to remove the Karachi native ...

Lahore:The ninth episode of the weekly PCB Podcast is now available here for listening and free downloading for editorial purposes. In the latest edition: Australia star Adam Gilchrist reviews the Pakistan side and their chances in the upcoming series Babar Azam looks forward to the T20I series, which begins in Sydney on Sunday Saud Shakeel shares his excitement after being ...

Karachi: HBL Pakistan Super League Player Draft first round pick order for the 2020 season will be determined at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore on Sunday. Representatives of the six HBL PSL franchises and PCB senior management will gather at the headquarters of Pakistan cricket to determine the pick order of the first round of the HBL PSL 2020 Player Draft.   ...