Cricket

KARACHI: Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) won the seventh edition of Corporate T20 Cup beating favourites Omar Associates by 41 runs in the final at the DHA Moin Khan Acadamy on Saturday. Trailing at 16/3, SSGC turned things thanks to Ahmed Shahzad and Khushdil Shah after being put into bat first by Omar Associates. Shahzad smashed five sixes and four ...

LEEDS: Chris Woakes took five wickets as England beat Pakistan by 54 runs to win the fifth one-day international (ODI) match at Headingley on Sunday. Victory, in their final match before the World Cup hosts and favourites name their tournament squad on Tuesday, saw England to a 4-0 series win after the first match was washed out. Woakes took three ...

LAHORE: Former sports editor of Pakistan Today, Agha Akbar, passed on Sunday in Lahore after a prolonged illness. He had a liver transplant a few months ago but due to post-operation complications, he never recovered fully. He was associated with The Nation newspaper before joining Pakistan Today where he worked as the editor of the sports and magazine sections. He later ...

The Pakistan Cricket Board has scheduled a fresh round of talks with officials from Cricket Australia and England and Wales Cricket Board after the World Cup to discuss the resumption of international cricket in the country. The board is also set to officially discuss Sri Lanka’s and Bangladesh’s scheduled visits to the country as per the FTP. The discussions between ...

NOTTINGHAM: Tom Curran played an important knock towards the end of the England innings which secured the team’s win against Pakistan in the fourth ODI. Curran batting at No 8 scored 31 from 30 balls which was part of a 61-run partnership with Ben Stokes at a time when it seemed the match had slipped away from England. Tom Curran, ...

ََLahore:The Pakistan Cricket Board today announced a revised schedule of Pakistan U19 cricket team’s tour to Sri Lanka, which will now comprise five 50-over matches against Sri Lanka U19 in Hambantota from 26 May to 5 June. The tour was originally planned from 6 to 20 May, comprising two four-day matches and three 50-over matches. However, the series was postponed ...

KARACHI: High flying Qasmi GYmkhana will take on debutants Agha Steel in the 31st AKG Twenty20 Ramazan cricket tournament final at the AKG Ground on today on thursday at 1.00 pm. The prize distribution ceremony will be held after the final match  the cricket convener AKG Mirror Afzal Baig announced on wednesday. Pakistan’s Test Batsman Asad Shafiqe will be the ...

Amelia Kerr entered the record books by scoring the highest individual score in women’s ODIs. She broke a 21-year-old record, going past Belinda Clark’s 229 that was scored in 1997 against Denmark in Mumbai. Kerr also became only the second woman to score a double-century in ODIs. She reached her double-century in just 134 balls. Before this series, Kerr’s highest ...

EDINBURGH: Skipper Sarfraz Ahmed’s career-best 89 not out helped Pakistan defeat Scotland by 49 runs in the first of the two T20Is in Edinburgh on Tuesday. Pakistan started on an aggressive note after winning the toss and opting to bat against Scotland. Opener Ahmed Shehzad was caught in the deep for 14 off 12 balls, as Pakistan lost first wicket ...

Lahore:-A meeting of the Pakistan Super League Governing Council comprising representatives of PCB and all PSL franchises was held here today at the National Cricket Academy.  Chairman PCB Mr. Najam Aziz Sethi presiding over the meeting. A number of matters were discussed during the meeting. The Governing Council expressed its concerns over a newly announced T20 league taking place in ...