CHENNAI: Anyone criticising England’s much debated rotation policy has not spent time inside a bio-secure bubble to understand the toll its strict Covid-19 protocols takes on players’ mental health, fast bowler Jofra Archer said on Tuesday. England are scheduled to play 17 Tests this year apart from the Twenty20 World Cup and other limited-over internationals and while their workload in …

CHITTAGONG: Bang­ladesh will look to get their first points in the inaugural World Test Championship when they take on the West Indies in a two-Test series starting on Wednesday, captain Mominul Haque said on Tuesday. The Tigers will take to the field against the West Indies in the port city of Chittagong in their first Test in almost a year. …

RAWALPINDI: While Fawad Alam, Yasir Shah and Nauman Ali shared the lead roles during Pakistan’s seven-wicket triumph in the first Test against South Africa at Karachi, Faheem Ashraf continued to enhance his growth as a cricketer on the international stage. Faheem, who considers himself a bowling all-rounder, was the major contributor with a feisty 64 off 84 balls in that …

LAHORE: Haroon Malik has a very measured approach when it comes to talking. He says every word carefully and meticulously. He probably needs to do that considering he’ll be measured by every word he says during his tenure as the Pakistan Football Federation Normalisation Committee chairman. In his first news conference, in a novel setting in the gardens overlooking the …

“Pakistan cricket as a microcosm of the entire country.” After Pakistan lost to India in a World Cup match yet again in 2019, I wrote the aforementioned line in a column and it hit home for a number of Dawn readers. A year and a half later, a situation arose recently that further reinforced the point. The point being that the Pakistan cricket team is plagued …

New dad Virat Kohli returns to captain a buoyant India against England as they aim to build on their crushing win over Australia by sealing a place in the World Test Championship final. Kohli, who welcomed a baby daughter last month, missed most of the Australia series on paternity leave as Ajinkya Rahane led an injury-ravaged side from 0-1 down to a …

ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Tuesday expressed concern over exaggerated and estimated billing by some power companies and called for shifting the headquarters of the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) to Islamabad from Lahore to improve its performance. A meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Power, presided over by Senator Fida Mohammad Khan, discussed allocations for the power …

ISLAMABAD: In a major development, the superior judiciary and appellate tribunal of the Federal Board of Revenue have disposed of 2,174 cases involving tax amount of over Rs250 billion in the first half-year, a move which will help the tax machinery to achieve annual tax collection target. The resolution of tax litigation cases — pending in different appellate forums including …

KARACHI: Foreign exchange inflows through the Roshan Digital Accounts (RDAs) reached $400 million within four months, reflecting growing confidence in the State Bank’s new initiative launched by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sept 10, 2020. RDAs aim to attract millions of Pakistanis living abroad by offering much higher returns on deposits compared to the returns in developed economies. “So far …