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White-ball specialist Liam Livingstone has been given the chance to shine with the red ball for England’s Test tour to Pakistan as opener Alex Lees was dropped from the 15-man squad announced on Wednesday. Livingstone has never played an international at Test level and has not even featured in first-class cricket for over a year, increasingly focusing his efforts on …

Sri Lanka on Thursday qualified for the final of the Women’s Asia Cup 2022 after beating Pakistan by one run in a thrilling semi-final at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, Bangladesh on Thursday. Requiring nine runs in the last over, and with three runs required to win off the final ball, Nida Dar was run-out while attempting to take a …

Ireland women’s cricket team will be travelling to Pakistan for the first time in November for three ICC Women’s Championship 2022-25 fixtures, followed by three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Wednesday. A press release issued by the PCB said all six matches would be played at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Ireland will be the fourth …

NEW DELHI: Kuldeep Yadav led India’s inspired spin bowling display by picking up four wickets to help the hosts skittle South Africa for 99 and set up a seven-wicket win in the deciding third and final one-day international in Delhi on Tuesday. Opener Shubman Gill fell one run short of a deserved half-century as India knocked off their target in …

KARACHI: Fast approaching the twilight of her career, Nida Dar is not relenting. Her sense of purpose is so strong, that carrying the Pakistan women’s cricket team on her shoulders — a team which is almost always subject to criticism — doesn’t ever seem to tire her. At 35, the all-rounder’s rescue efforts continue to drag the team out of …

Mehar Chhayakar, an Indian cricketer formerly based in the United Arab Emirates, has been banned from all cricket for 14 years for seven breaches of the sport’s anti-corruption code, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Wednesday. Chhayakar was found guilty by an ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal of attempting to influence aspects of the UAE’s one-day international series in Zimbabwe in 2019 as …

Former champions Pakistan are counting on fit-again pace spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi to be back to his destructive best at the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia. The 22-year-old was on Tuesday given the green light to join the squad after recovering from a right knee injury sustained in the first Test against Sri Lanka in July. He missed the Asia Cup, the …

Glenn Phillips and Devon Conway struck half-centuries as New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 48 runs in Christchurch on Wednesday to book their place in the Twenty20 tri-series final. The hosts now face Pakistan on Friday, also in Christchurch, in the final of a series which is a tune-up for this month’s T20 World Cup in Australia. Fresh from dispatching Pakistan …

Sourav Ganguly is set to be replaced as president of Indian cricket, with the former captain’s backers claiming he has been forced out for refusing to join the ruling political party. Ganguly is widely regarded as one of India’s greatest captains and has been in charge of the powerful Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for the past …

Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics will upgrade software for their 5G-enabled phones in India by December, the companies said on Wednesday, as Indian authorities press mobile phone manufacturers to adopt the high-speed network. Apple said it would push software upgrades to recent models, including the iPhone 14, 13, 12 and iPhone SE, which, industry sources say, do not yet support …