Cricket

Big Picture On an overcast Tuesday afternoon just over two weeks ago in Malahide, Pakistan found themselves three wickets down for 14, still needing 146 more to prevent Ireland becoming the first team since 1877 to win their maiden Test match. With a worrying recent history of fourth-innings implosions, Pakistan looked set for a defeat so ignoble it would define ...

A big thing happened in the life of Mohammad Amir today. For nearly every other elite athlete it isn’t a big deal at all. It is a duty they must fulfill but one they approach with various degrees of interest or disdain. Two days away from the second Test at Headingley, and 62 international matches into his second career, this ...

For artists of all shades, it is an eternal question: how do you follow up a masterpiece? Do you give up resigned in the knowledge that most of humanity has the capacity to produce one truly great piece of work in a life? Do you strive to replicate it, knowing that merely reproducing it might be enough to get by? ...

Bahria Town Sports Wing is holding 4th Bahria Town Floodlit Cricket Tournament from May 30 to June 3, 2018 at Bahria Cricket Stadium Bahria Town Lahore. Teams from all over Pakistan are participating in the event. Mian Usman Director Athar Associates was the Chief Guest on the First Match Day of the Tournament and Mr. Abdul Rauf Former Test Cricketer ...

By Ijaz Ahmad PESHAWAR, Brisk arrangements continue for the smooth conduct of the Floodlight Ramzan Sports Festival under the aegis of Directorate General Sports Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at different venues will be commencing from June 1, Organizing Secretary Syed Jaffar Shah told APP here on Wednesday. Syed Jaffar Shah, who is also international athletic coach, said that as desired by Director ...

Test cricket remains at “high risk” of being targeted for corruption according to ICC chief executive David Richardson, but he believes the dangers posed to domestic and even junior-level cricket is the clear and present danger as the fallout continues from the Al Jazeera documentary on spot-fixing released last week. He also admitted that corrupt elements were here to stay ...

Jos Buttler has been rested for England’s ODI against Scotland next month while Liam Plunkett returns to the squad for that match and the series against Australia. A hamstring injury had ruled Plunkett out of the matches against New Zealand. Captain Eoin Morgan is expected to be fit for the start of England’s one-day season despite fracturing a finger playing ...

England must show “heart” and “fight” in the second and final Test against Pakistan at Headingley, according to fast bowler James Anderson. Joe Root’s side were beaten by nine wickets at Lord’s and have to win in Leeds to avoid a series defeat. “It’s going to take some special individual performances this week,” said Anderson. England have called up Surrey ...

Eoin Morgan has been forced to pull out of the ICC World XI squad for the 31 May Twenty20 International against the Windies at Lord’s due to a fractured finger. Morgan, England’s limited-overs skipper, had been set to captain the side. He will be replaced as captain by former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi, while Morgan’s compatriot Sam Billings will take ...

The ICC Cricket Committee concluded its two-day meeting in Mumbai on Tuesday with strong support for the ICC Board’s commitment to improve player behavior and the development of a culture of respect. The Committee has also made recommendations around the toss in Test cricket and ICC World Test Championship playing conditions. On day one of the meeting, the Committee was ...