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London: Pakistan cricket team arrived in London Monday afternoon for the England/Ireland tour next month, where they will play a Test against Ireland, two Tests against England and two T20 internationals against Scotland. The team had departed from Lahore late Sunday night. According to sources, fast bowler Mohammad Amir could not accompany the team as he was unable to get ...

Pakistan to play the New Year Test at Newlands in season of five Tests, 13 ODIs and nine T20Is. Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will all tour South Africa between 30 September 2018 and 24 March 2019, with a total of five Tests, 13 one-day internationals and nine Twenty20 Internationals slotted in the period, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on ...

The reigning ICC World Twenty20 champions will be led by Carlos Brathwaite and the side includes other top names like Chris Gayle, Marlon Samuels, Samuel Badree and Andre Russell. Top-ranked bowler Rashid Khan of Afghanistan and Bangladesh stars Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal have confirmed their participation for the ICC World XI which will play a Twenty20 International against ...

Jaipur:- Yuvraj Singh has revealed that he will take a call on his career after the ICC World Cup 2019, scheduled to be held in England and Wales. India’s 2011 World Cup winning hero, Yuvraj last represented the country during the limited-overs tour of the West Indies in 2017. “I am going to look to play till 2019, whatever cricket ...

Jaipur:-Krishnappa Gowtham produced a blinder of a knock after Sanju Samson and Ben Stokes smartly negotiated a slow track as Rajasthan Royals pulled off a nail-biting three-wicket win over Mumbai Indians in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match, in Jaipur on Sunday. The pitch was not conducive for stroke-making but Samson (52) and Stokes (40 off 27) added 72 runs for the third wicket ...

LAHORE: Pakistan cricket team on Monday left for the England/Ireland tour, where they will play a Test against Ireland, two Tests against England and two T20 internationals against Scotland. According to sources, fast bowler Mohammad Amir could not accompany the team as he was unable to get the visa for England. The bowler is expected to fly to England by Wednesday, ...

Dhaka:-One of Bangladesh’s top female cricketers could be jailed for life after being caught with 14,000 methamphetamine pills, police said on Sunday. Nazreen Khan Mukta, who plays first-grade cricket in the Dhaka Premier League, was returning from a match in the southeastern city of Cox’s Bazar when police stopped and searched the team bus at Chittagong. “During our search, we ...

NEW DELHI: Trent Boult left the cricket world stunned with his fielding brilliance after taking a sensational catch hailed as the “greatest ever” during an Indian Premier League match. New Zealand´s Boult, playing for Delhi Daredevils in the lucrative Twenty20 tournament, leapt airborne on the deep square leg boundary to pouch one-handed a shot by Virat Kohli, skipper of the ...

Snehal Pradhan If you are ever in Karachi and find yourself seeking treatment at the clinic of a dentist named Urooj Mumtaz Khan, it might be best to check if there is an India-Pakistan women’s cricket match on that day. If there is, walk away. Quickly. “All my cricket is watched while I’m working,” says the former captain of the ...

Kings XI Punjab 126 for 1 (Gayle 62*, Rahul 60) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 191 for 7 (Lynn 74, Karthik 43, Tye 2-30) by nine wickets (via DLS method) It is quite rare that T20 matches are decided in the Powerplay. Saturday was one such day when Kings XI Punjab’s openers KL Rahul and Chris Gayle outmuscled Kolkata Knight Riders’ ...