Cricket

KARACHI:   The duo of Sami-ur-Rehman and Asif Ali shone with the bat and ball as Omar Associates stormed into the quarterfinals of 5th Naya Nazimabad Ramadan Cup T20 Cricket Tournament when they whipped National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) by 40 runs on Friday nigh Opener Sami banged 61 and left arm spinner Asif Ali captured three wickets to play key ...

KARACHI:  Experienced   batsman Triq Haroon scored a fine timely half century as Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) sailed inot the last eight round of 5th Naya Nazimabad Ramadan Cup T20 Cricket Tournament with an emphatic six wickets success over Rehman Foundation on Thursday night.  Fancied SSGC chasing a modest 106 runs winning total, lost three top wickets with 25 runs ...

LONDON:- Pakistan were 350 for eight in reply to England s first-innings 184, a lead of 166 runs, at stumps on the second day of the first Test at Lord s on Friday. Mohammad Amir was 19 not out and Mohammad Abbas unbeaten on nought after four Pakistan batsmen made fiftties, Babar Azam top-scoring with 68 before retiring hurt. This ...

Devon Smith is back in West Indies’ Test squad after a gap of nearly three years. The selectors have also called up the uncapped wicketkeeper-batsman Jahmar Hamilton for the home Test series against Sri Lanka, which starts on June 6. With only 13 players in the squad, four players who made the trip to New Zealand for West Indies’ last ...

Sri Lanka batsman Dhananjaya de Silva has withdrawn from the tour of West Indies after his father was killed by an as-yet unidentified gunmen on Thursday night. Sri Lankan Police confirmed that Ranjan de Silva, Dhananjaya’s father, was shot dead in Rathmalana – just south of Colombo – at around 8:30 pm. Ranjan was a councillor in the Dehiwala-Mt. Lavinia ...

Former Australia captain Steve Smith will return to cricket after the ball-tampering scandal as a marquee player at next month’s Global T20 Canada league. Smith was banned for 12 months from national and state teams for his role in the scandal in Cape Town in March, but the suspension does not extend to domestic tournaments outside his home nation. The ...

NEW DELHI: Asian nations are clamping down on the number of T20 leagues players can compete in as global cricket chiefs struggle to regulate the format’s phenomenal rise. But with stars like West Indies batsman Chris Gayle and England’s Ben Stokes making fortunes in the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL), Australia’s Big Bash League and other T20 tournaments around the ...

Dual international Ed Joyce on Thursday announced his retirement from all forms of cricket less than a fortnight after realising his dream of playing a Test for Ireland. The 39-year-old was one of the 11 men who made history against Pakistan in Malahide earlier this month, when Ireland became the 11th Test-playing nation. Joyce played a total of 78 one ...

LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday praised the performance of Pakistan cricket team at the Lord’s cricket ground. May and her husband Philip John joined Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman (PCB) Najam Sethi, businessman, and former Punjab Assembly lawmaker Dr Ashraf Chohan, and Romana Ahmed at Lord’s and watched the second match between England and Pakistan. The prime minister, ...

LONDON: Pakistan pacemen Mohammad Abbas and Hasan Ali took four wickets apiece as England suffered yet another top-order collapse at Lord´s on Thursday. Hopes that a return home and a rejigged top-order picked by new national selector Ed Smith would help rid England of the batting slumps that plagued them during a run of seven straight Tests without a victory ...