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Asghar Afghan has been reappointed captain of Afghanistan across all three formats, the Afghanistan Cricket Board has announced. Afghan, 31, will replace Rashid Khan, who was named captain across formats in July, after Afghanistan lost all their matches at the World Cup under Gulbadin Naib. Rashid will now become Afghan’s deputy. The ACB had wrested captaincy away from Afghan in ...

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 ...

SHARJAH: Quetta Gladiators, boosted by their two successive victories, will look to extend their winning streak when they take on a wobbly Peshawar Zalmi at the Sharjah Cricket Ground tonight. After losing their first match to Karachi Kings, Sarfraz Ahmed’s XI made a whirlwind comeback to beat Lahore Qalandars by 9 wickets and Islamabad United by 6 wickets. Defending champions ...

Sharjah: Afghanistan spin sensation continues his meteoric rise to lead his team to a 4-1 series win over Zimbabwe Leg-spinner Rashid Khan starred as Afghanistan wrapped up a dominant 4-1 series win over Zimbabwe on Monday, cruising to a 146-run victory in the fifth and final one-day international at Sharjah. After winning the toss and batting first, Afghanistan posted 9-241 ...

Sharjah: Brendan Taylor scored a majestic 125 as Zimbabwe thrashed Afghanistan by 154 runs in the second one-day international at Sharjah on Sunday to level the five-match series. Wicketkeeper Taylor led the Africans to 333-5 from their 50 overs with his ninth ODI hundred, before Graeme Cremer took 4-41 with his leg-spin as Afghanistan slumped to 89-7 on their way ...

SHARJAH: Rahmat Shah hit a career best 114 while leg-spin wizard Rashid Khan took four wickets as Afghanistan trounced Zimbabwe by 154 runs in the first one-day international on Friday in a huge boost ahead of next month´s World Cup qualifiers. Rahmat smashed his runs off just 110 balls with eight boundaries and four sixes as Afghanistan piled up 333-5 ...

India’s Virat Kohli has been named as captain of the ICC Men’s Test and ODI Teams of the Year 2017, which were announced today by the International Cricket Council. Apart from his own stellar performances across both the formats during the period between 21 September 2016 and 31 December 2017, Kohli also inspired India to the number-one and two rankings ...