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LAHORE: The Board of Governors of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has put their “faith, support and confidence” in the Pakistan cricket team despite their “below expectation” performance ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019. The discussion on the team’s performance took place during the 54th meeting of the PCB’ Board of Governors in Lahore on Wednesday presided over by Chairman ...

Lahore:Pakistan U19 team will depart for Durban, South Africa, early Saturday morning for a series of seven 50-over matches to be played from 22 June to 7 July in Pietermaritzburg and Durban. The series is part of the side’s preparation for next year’s ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2020, which will be staged in South Africa from 17 January to ...

Seniors Hamilton Masakadza and Brendan Taylor, who had been sidelined from the ODI series against UAE with injuries, have returned to Zimbabwe’s squad for their limited-overs tour of Netherlands, which starts with the first ODI in Deventer on June 19. Masakadza will take back captaincy from Peter Moor, who had stood in as captain in Masakadza’s absence. ALSO READ: Netherlands ...

Sri Lanka team manager Ashantha de Mel has complained to the ICC about the “unfair” pitches he feels Sri Lanka have had to play their matches on, as well as the less-than-ideal training facilities and accommodation. The ICC has strongly denied the accusation that there has been favouritism. Although their two most-recent matches were washouts in Bristol, Sri Lanka had ...

New York by Sohail cheema . Babar Azam is the most talented and gifted batsman in Pakistan batting line up. – But in sports,  talent and being gifted is over rated. The difference between a superstar or top athlete vs average player,  top athlete is mentally strong and has never say die mentality. – Top athlete put the prize of ...

MANCHESTER: Pakistan’s embattled captain Sarfaraz Ahmed admitted on Thursday that his team failed to execute the plan in its 41-run World Cup defeat against Australia in Taunton. But Sarfaraz, who came under criticism for a series of poor decisions in Wednesday’s game, vowed that Pakistan would go for the kill in their eagerly awaited clash against India at Old Trafford ...

NOTTINGHAM: Former Pakistan fast bowler Waqar Younis expects his team to bring back leg-spinner Shadab Khan for Sunday’s clash against arch-rivals India in Manchester to revive their World Cup campaign. Pakistan went with a four-pronged pace attack against Australia, relying on the part-time spin of senior all-rounders Mohammad Hafeez and Shoaib Malik. The duo conceded 86 runs in their combined ...

Lahore:The Pakistan Cricket Board today announced a comprehensive and busy National Cricket Academy Programme 2019-2020, which will commence next week and culminate next year around the same time. The NCA Programme 2019-2020 has been broken into four different categories, namely: Player Skills and Training, Youth/Talent Hunt and Skills Training, Game Education Programme, and Players Development at Regional and High Performance ...

TAUNTON: Pakistan’s fast bowler Mohammad Amir was happy to achieve his career’s maiden five-wicket haul but he would have been more delighted if it had contributed to his side’s win. Amir said Pakistan couldn’t bowl according to the condition in first fifteen overs which allowed Australia to post a big total against them. “We didn’t bowl how we were supposed ...

West Indies and India will kick off the new World Test Championship with two five-day matches in the Caribbean in late August and early September, Cricket West Indies announced on Wednesday. The first Test will be played at Viv Richards Cricket Ground in North Sound on the island of Antigua from August 22-26, followed by the second at Sabina Park ...