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Chris Gayle has announced that he will be part of the fourth edition of the Everest Premier League, Nepal’s domestic T20 tournament. The West Indies batsman said he would be playing for Pokhara Rhinos in the tournament, which is scheduled to begin on February 29. “I will be visiting Nepal for the biggest sporting event, the Everest Premier League,” Gayle ...

Former England captain Sir Alastair Cook has been appointed to the MCC’s world cricket committee. The committee is an independent panel of former and current players and umpires that can propose changes to the sport’s laws. Cook is England’s leading Test run-scorer with 12,472 in 161 matches and captained England a record 59 times. The 35-year-old retired from England duty ...

England posted their first century opening stand in more than three years only to lose four wickets for 50 runs on a fluctuating first day of the fourth Test against South Africa in Johannesburg. Zak Crawley’s maiden half-century, allied to 44 from Dom Sibley, took England to 107-0 just after tea on a day when the start was delayed by ...

Lahore:Bangladesh will return to Pakistan after a gap of almost 12 years when they will arrive in Lahore today evening to play three T20Is on 24, 25 and 27 January at the Gaddafi Stadium. These two sides featured in the first and only T20I on Pakistani soil in April 2008, which the hosts, captained by Shoaib Malik, won by 102 ...

LAHORE: Pakistan all-around Mohammad Hafeez, who was recalled for the Bangladesh series yesterday, said that he will retire from international cricket after the Twenty20 World Cup later this year to end his career on a good note. The 38-year-old was Thursday recalled to Pakistan’s Twenty20 series against Bangladesh starting in Lahore from January 24. Hafeez has been one of Pakistan’s ...

Pakistan are not fans of the idea of four-day Test cricket, with the current leaders of the coaching staff, head coach Misbah-ul-Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis both opposing reducing Test cricket to four days. They join a growing chorus of coaches and former players, including former Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur, as well as India’s head coach Ravi Shastri, Mahela ...

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KARACHI: Pakistan’s cricket board on Friday warned the national players to meet fitness standards or lose up to 15 percent of their salary, as officials seek to address the team’s fall in the international rankings. Pakistan failed to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup in England last year, and won only one of their six Test matches. They also ...

England have sounded the final whistle on football as a warm-up activity in training sessions. Ashley Giles, the director of England’s men’s teams, has never made any secret of his disapproval of his side playing football. And, after Rory Burns became the latest player to sustain a football-related injury, Giles and Chris Silverwood, the England coach, have decided to ban ...

Lahore: The fourth term fitness tests of the centrally contracted players will be held at the National Cricket Academy on 6 and 7 January. All the available centrally contracted players will attend the two-day testing, which is aligned to their contracts. Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Amir and Shadab Khan, who will be occupied with their commitments in the Bangladesh Premier League, ...