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LAHORE: Test cricketers Abdul Razzaq and Salman Butt are in race to win captainship of national cricket team for T20 World Cup.
All-rounder Abdul Razzaq has appeared to be a strong contender for this position keeping in view the recent blow to Pakistan cricket in terms of bans on many players.
However, some elements in PCB are [...]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board has barred former captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan from the national team indefinitely for behaviour they
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday slapped banned and imposed heavy fines on a number of its top
LAHORE: Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, has promised to take “more than significant” action against leading Pakistan players in the aftermath of inquiry
Hafeez scored 100 with the help of 18 boundaries (16 fours, two sixes) in his 53-ball ton to help Wolves beat Lahore Lions, while Stallions overcame a late Karachi Dolphins surge.
CHITTAGONG: Craig Kieswetter smashed a maiden century as England posted a comfortable 45-run win over Bangladesh in the third and final one-day international on
PROVIDENCE: Shingirai Masakadza held his nerve in the final over to help Zimbabwe earn a two-run victory over West Indies in the first One-day International here on Thursday.
Masakada, on his ODI debut, collected three wickets – two in the final over – for 36 runs from three overs, as Zimbabwe successfully defended a target score [...]
KARACHI: Two Pakistan cricketers are under investigation for suspected match-fixing, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ejaz Butt announced. “We suspect 2
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday announced a provisional 30-man squad for the ICC World twenty20 to be played in April-May this year.
The squad includes seven players who have not been previously selected for a major international tournament. Controversial fast blower Shoaib Akhtar has been overlooked by the selectors.
While squad has been announced, the [...]
LAHORE: Ijaz Butt, the chairman of PCB, has said no Pakistani team will participate in the Champions League Twenty20 this year.
“I have already spoken to Lalit Modi about this and there is no chance of any team from Pakistan playing in the Champions League this year,” Butt was quoted as saying by PTI. “After the [...]
GWALIOR: India’s Sachin Tendulkar became the world’s first batsman to smash a double-century in one-day internationals, achieving the feat against South Africa on Wednesday.
The 36-year-old was unbeaten on 200 in the last over.
Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe’s Charles Coventry had jointly held the record with 194.
Anwar made that score against India in May 1997 while [...]
KARACHI: Pakistan’s enterprising all-rounder Shahid Khan Afridi said on Monday that he was deeply hurt and disappointed the way a smearing campaign was launched against him after the ball biting incident during the final ODI against Australia at the WACA.
“I made a big mistake in frustration and faced the punishment for the same,” he told [...]
JAIPUR: India overcame the absence of four top stars to beat South Africa by one run in a thrilling one-day international on Sunday and take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
Wayne Parnell was run out off the final delivery, attempting a second run that would have tied the match, to leave the Proteas on [...]
DUBAI: Abdul Razzaq single-handedly changed the course of the match with a brilliant innings as Pakistan beat England by four wickets to level their two-match Twenty20 series 1-1 here on Saturday.
At the Dubai Sports City stadium, England scored 148-6 from their 20 overs after being put in by Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik, who was second [...]
DUBAI: Eoin Morgan and Kevin Pietersen put on a record fourth wicket century partnership as England beat World Twenty20 champions Pakistan by seven wickets here Friday in the first of their two-match Twenty20 series.
At Dubai Sports City, England were in trouble at 18-3 chasing Pakistan’s modest total of 129-8, but Morgan (67 in 51 balls) [...]
KOLKATA: India defied an unbeaten century from Hashim Amla to crush South Africa by an innings and 58 runs in the final Test on Thursday to draw the series 1-1.
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh claimed 5-59 as the tourists, trailing by 347 runs on the first innings, were bowled out for 289 in their second knock with [...]
LAHORE: Australian-born Pakistan fitness trainer David Dwyer, who recently quit his post, will temporarily rejoin the team before the World Twenty20 Championship in the Caribbean later this year.
Dwyer, who has overseen a massive rise in the fitness of Pakistan’s cricketers, will link up with the side in Lahore from early April to begin work. The [...]
DUBAI: While the tentacles of Twenty20 cricket wrap ever more firmly around the world game, Pakistan meet England in a hastily arranged two-match series that will show just where the two sides lie ahead of the World Twenty20 which starts at the end of April in the Caribbean.
Coming off the back of success in the [...]
ABU DHABI: After a disastrous Australian tour, Pakistan’s confidence will not have been helped as they were overcome by an inexperienced Pakistan A in their warm-up game ahead of the twenty20 series against England. Abdul Razzaq’s rollicking unbeaten 39 boosted Pakistan to 143 for 8 after they were put in to bat, but well-paced innings [...]
NEW DELHI: Dozens of television news channels across India will boycott the glitzy Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament due to what they said were
Razzaq & Salman running for captainship in T20 World Cup
Pakistan sees a massive 36.3 per cent rise in inflation
Oil crisis awaits as PSO faces default for providing cheap fuel to US-led NATO froces in Afghanistan
PCB spins again: Yousuf, Younis may be considered for selection
Muhammad Yousuf & Younis Khan suspended indefinitely from playing cricket, others heavily fined
Eight powerful cartels refuse to cough up Rs 7 billion in fines and penalties
Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram & Ijaz Ahmed are being utilized after clearance: Ijaz Butt
