Cricket

Pakistan’s Aleem Dar has become the first umpire in cricketing history to supervise 350 international matches. He achieved this feat during the third T20 international between Pakistan and West Indies in Karachi. The three-time International Cricket Council umpire of the year (2009, 2010 and 2011), thanked his country for giving him a chance to reach this milestone. “I’m thankful to ...

JOHANNESBURG: Kagiso Rabada, the world´s number one Test bowler, will miss the Indian Premier League season due to a back injury, Cricket South Africa said Thursday. He had been contracted to the Delhi Daredevils for the annual Twenty20 league, which begins this weekend. The national cricket body said Rabada had been ruled out of action for three months with what ...

By:-Sohail Cheema This is insane,  Star India won the TV rights to broadcast all Indian cricket matches from 2018 to 2023 ( including IPL) for $3.5 billion dollars. — To break up these numbers,  IPL alone for next 5 years is $2.5 billion dollars and rest of the Indian cricket series or matches are close to $1 billion dollars for ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has invited the England cricket team to tour the country for the first time since 2005, after a successful visit by the West Indies amid improved security boosted hopes of an international revival. A visit by a major Test-playing nation such as England would be hugely significant, in terms of both cricket as well as Pakistan´s wider security ...

Pakistan batsman Babar Azam has once again secured the top spot in the ICC T20 international batsmen rankings, while spinner Shadab Khan has rocketed to number two in the bowlers rankings. According to the latest rankings updated as of April 3, 2018, Babar Azam (881 points) has displaced New Zealand’s Colin Munro from the number one spot following a spectacular ...

KARACHI: The return of international cricket turned sweeter for fans at the National Stadium in Karachi on Tuesday as Pakistan scripted a sure-footed whitewash against the visiting West Indies in the three-match T20I series. The West Indies scored 153-6 — their highest total of the series — with Andre Fletcher (52) scoring the only half-century on this tour for the ...

England fast bowler James Anderson has broken another record after recording the most number of deliveries in Test cricket history by a pace bowler, 30,020. Midway through the final day of the second Test against New Zealand in Christchurch, he overtook the previous record of 30,019 held by West Indies great Courtney Walsh who retired in 2001. During his career, ...

Shadab Khan has been fined 20 per cent of his match fee and given one demerit point after being found guilty of a level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel during Monday’s Twenty20 International against the West Indies in Karachi. The Pakistan wrist spinner was found to have violated article 2.1.7 of ...

It was little wonder that New Zealand captain Kane Williamson would have liked to have had more Test cricket this season after series victories over West Indies and England in the four red-ball matches they were able to host. Two thumping victories over the Caribbean islanders and another innings triumph over England in Auckland were followed by a gutsy draw ...

KARACHI: West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first against Pakistan for the third T20I in Karachi. Pakistan made two changes in its squad as Shaheen Shah Afridi and Usman Shinwari have made their place in the final-playing 11 while fast bowlers Muhammad Amir and Hasan Ali are being rested. Afridi will be making his debut tonight, Wasim ...