Cricket

Lahore:England and Wales Cricket Board Chief Executive Tom Harrison and Cricket Ireland Chief Executive Warren Deutrom have described their visits to Islamabad and Lahore as successful and termed some of the initiatives taken by the local authorities as impressive. Speaking in the 16-minute sixth episode of the PCB Podcast, which is available here, Harrison said he was taking all the information ...

Lahore: Central Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Southern Punjab scored victories over Sindh, Balochistan and Northern, respectively, on day three of the fifth round of three-day non-first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy tournament on Thursday. At NBP Sports Complex, Karachi, Sindh after resuming their second innings on 50 for the loss of four wickets were dismissed for 115 giving Central Punjab 243 runs to win ...

Faisalabad: With Pakistan’s three-match T20I series against Australia in early November and the player draft for the next year’s HBL Pakistan Super League after it, the upcoming National T20 Cup in Faisalabad throws opportunities to many up-and-coming cricketers to leave a mark. Like it has been the case in the four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, any performance in this year’s edition of ...

Karachi: Pakistan women team’s training camp for the upcoming home series against Bangladesh has been scheduled from 13to 23 October at the Lahore Country Club, Muridke. The purpose of the camp is to prepare the players for the important home series, which is the second home assignment for the women team following the T20I series against the West Indies held in ...

Another inexplicable display of Sunday league fielding and irresponsible batting saw Pakistan lose to Sri Lanka by 13 runs in the third and final T20I at the Gaddafi Stadium Lahore on Wednesday. The result heaped on the world’s top-ranked T20I side the embarrassment of being whitewashed 3-0 on their own turf by a side that had not only left as ...

Lahore: Northern captain Umar Amin has been fined Rs 16,000 for a minimum over rate offence during his team’s Quaid-e-Azam Trophy round four first-class match against Balochistan at the KRL Stadium in Rawalpindi on Tuesday. Northern were found to be two overs short of the required over-rate in Balochistan’s second innings on the fourth and final day of the match. Match referee Iqbal ...

5th Match: Peshawar Panthers vs Bahawalpur Deer’s (Abbasiya Sports Complex, RYK) Bahawalpur Deers won the toss and elected to field first. Peshawar Panthers piled up a huge total of 209 runs without losing a wicket. Badar Munir played outstanding innings of 133* runs with the help of 17 (4s) & 1 (6) off 72 balls. That was Badar’s second century ...

Lahore:The National T20 Cup 2019 will take place at Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad from 13 to 24 October. The six cricket association sides will take place in a single-league format, with the top four sides featuring in the 23 October semi-finals. The final will be played on 24 October. The PCB, in line with its policy of openness and accountability ...

Lahore: Twenty-nine centuries, three double-centuries and four five-wicket hauls embellished the first phase of the four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy tournament. After 12 matches across four rounds, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Ashfaq Ahmed is perched at the top of the list for highest run-getters in the tournament with 473 runs in five innings. The 32-year-old one-drop batsman has scored the most number of centuries ...

Lahore: Sindh, Southern Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa dominated day two of the fifth round of three-day non-first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy tournament on Wednesday. At NBP Sports Complex, Karachi, Sindh took a 127-run first innings lead over Central Punjab as Danish Aziz’s four-wicket haul restricted the visitors to 228 runs in reply to Sindh’s first innings score of 355 runs. Raza Ali Dar ...