Cricket

DUBAI: Multan Sultans won the toss and opted to bat against Lahore Qalandars in today’s first game in Dubai. Lahore’s nightmare has persisted: they have lost all six of their matches so far in the third season of the Pakistan Super League (PSL). In their last challenge against table-toppers Multan Sultans, they faced a 43-run beating. Multan have won 4 out ...

DUBAI: Islamabad United opener Luke Ronchi has said he will come to Pakistan if his team qualifies for the playoffs. The last two playoffs of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) third edition are scheduled in Lahore (March 20 and 21). Karachi will host the final on March 25. Asked if he would be travelling to Pakistan, Ronchi replied in the ...

Islamabad United 164 for 4 (Ronchi 77, Narine 3-28) beat Lahore Qalandars 163 for 8 (Devcich 62, Ashraf 3-32) by six wickets Luke Ronchi’s stunning assault at the top of the order backed up Islamabad United’s disciplined bowling performance and condemned Lahore Qalandars to a six-wicket defeat, their sixth loss in as many games. Ronchi’s 41-ball 77 meant Islamabad chased ...

Dunedin:-Injury-hit Ross Taylor played through the pain to score an unbeaten 181 and remarkably seal a series-levelling five-wicket win for New Zealand in the fourth one-day international against England Wednesday. Taylor limped through much of his innings in Dunedin after aggravating a thigh injury, but batted on to compile a career-best innings and make it 2-2 in the series with ...

Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami’s wife has accused him of domestic abuse and extramarital affair by posting screenshots of questionable text messages the 27-year old pacer allegedly exchanged with various women. Hasin Jahan, who married the fast bowler in 2014, revealed that she found Shami’s phone, gifted to him by his IPL franchise Delhi Daredevils, hidden in his car, and she ...

Sir Viv Richards at his birthday party DUBAI: West Indian legend and Quetta Gladiators mentor Sir Vivian Richards is celebrating his 66th birthday today. To mark the occasion, the franchise threw him a birthday bash. Sir Viv Richards arrives at his birthday party The birthday party was attended by the Quetta management as well as the players, including the franchise ...

PORT ELIZABETH: Australian opening batsman David Warner has been cleared to play in the second Test against South Africa after accepting an International Cricket Council (ICC) charge of bringing the game into disrepute. However, South African wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock, who was involved in an ugly verbal spat with Warner, will challenge his lesser level one charge and has a ...

DUBAI: Quetta Gladiators won the toss and elected to field against table-toppers Multan Sultans at the Dubai International Stadium. Both the sides have made changes in their final playing-11 as Kevin Pieterson, Asad Shafiq and Ben Laughlin have been included in place of Mahmudullah, Umar Amin and John Hastings. Meanwhile, Umar Gul and Ross Whiteley are in for tonight’s game while Junaid ...

  COLOMBO: – Kusal Perera hit a blazing half-century to power Sri Lanka to a five-wicket win over India in the opening Twenty20 international of the tri-nation tournament on Tuesday. Chasing 175 for victory, the hosts rode on Perera’s 37-ball 66 to achieve their target with nine balls to spare at Colombo’s R Premadasa Stadium. The left-handed Perera, who hit ...

India and Sri Lanka being in action against each other had become such a repetitive event in the recent past that any new series was unlikely to generate that much interest. Now they will meet again, in the Nidahas Trophy 2018 Twenty20 tri-series, beginning in Colombo on Tuesday. The hosts will meet an Indian team led by Rohit Sharma. The ...