BRISBANE: Twenty20 World Cup player of the series David Warner got off a flight that champions Australia shared with members of England’s Ashes squad, gave a thumbs up as he entered the arrivals hall and headed into 14 days of hotel quarantine. Cricket in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic has meant a lot of the so-called bubble life for …

NEW DELHI: New Zealand captain Kane Williamson will skip the three-game Twenty20 series against India this week to prepare for the Test series that starts this month, the team said on Tuesday. The first T20 game will be played on Wednesday in Jaipur, India, three days after New Zealand’s World Cup final loss on Sunday. New Zealand said it has …

DHAKA: Bangladesh will rest batsman Mushfiqur Rahim for the three-match Twenty20 international series against Pakistan starting in Dhaka on Friday. Mushfiqur was under fire for his below-par performance in the recent Twenty20 World Cup, having scored just one half-century in eight matches. Bangladesh had a dismal tournament, where they lost to Scotland in the qualifiers and failed to win a …

MUMBAI: India must strike a balance between trying to win every match and building a side that can be successful in future global cricket events, new head coach Rahul Dravid said on Tuesday. Success in International Cricket Council events has eluded India in recent years and the team failed to reach the semi-finals of the recently concluded Twenty20 World Cup …

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Tuesday the Afghan Taliban would be invited to the third ministerial meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbours. Mr Qureshi, at a meeting of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, said: “Afghanistan’s interim government will also be invited to the next meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbours.” Pakistan had worked out a new mechanism for consultations among Afghanistan’s …

PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday called the explosive affidavit by former chief judge of Gilgit-Baltistan Rana Mohammad Shamim “the third major testimony from within the judiciary” that she claimed proved her and her father Nawaz Sharif’s innocence. She was speaking outside the Islamabad High Court (IHC) which conducted a hearing on Maryam’s appeal seeking annulment of her conviction …

Amid fervent protest by the opposition, the government on Wednesday managed to bulldoze amendments to the Elections Act, 2017, in the joint session of parliament, thereby allowing the use of electronic voting machines and granting voting rights to overseas Pakistanis. This prompted the opposition to tear copies of the agenda and walk out of the session in protest. Lawmakers also …

Hackers from Pakistan used Facebook to target people in Afghanistan with connections to the previous government during the Taliban’s takeover of the country, the company’s threat investigators said in an interview with Reuters. Facebook said the group, known in the security industry as SideCopy, shared links to websites hosting malware which could surveil people’s devices. Targets included people connected to the government, …

False Covid-19 death reports, a vast gender gap, Nazi “fan fiction”: These are some of the perils an international crowd of volunteers battles across Wikipedia’s tens of millions of online entries. The world’s largest internet encyclopedia is often the first result to pop up when users ask the internet a question — and thus a massively influential source of free …

Pakistan will host the Men’s Champions Trophy in 2025, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Tuesday. It will be the first major global cricket tournament to be played in Pakistan since 1996 when it hosted the Men’s Cricket World Cup alongside India and Sri Lanka. The final was played in Lahore with Sri Lanka claiming the title. Reacting to …