Cricket

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Bangladesh opening batsman Tamim Iqbal has withdrawn from the tour of India next month due to personal reasons, the country’s cricket board (BCB) said on Saturday.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 ...

Lahore: Pakistan women cricket team’s captain Bismah Maroof on Saturday became the first Pakistani woman to complete 2000 runs in women’s T20 internationals. Bismah, 28, reached this milestone during her 29-ball-34 in first T20I against Bangladesh women cricket team in Lahore that also helped her side complete a 14 runs win. She reached this milestone with a superb stroke towards ...

The Indian government has reportedly not yet responded to its cricket board’s request to host Pakistan Women’s team for a Test series in November, meaning that it might have to forfeit points again. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is obliged to host Pakistan Women’s team for a Test series, as part of the ICC Championship. The ...

Faisalabad: Balochistan have been fined PKR25,000 for a minimum over rate offence during their National T20 Cup final against Northern at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium on Thursday.                                                                           The ...