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LAHORE: Pakistan captain Babar Azam on Tuesday said there should not be many changes in the team for the upcoming series against South Africa and continuity should be maintained to give confidence to the players. The 26-year-old Babar has backed his troops and is confident that his team will perform better in the Test and T20I series against Proteas, scheduled …

KARACHI: Riding on a belligerent Asif Ali century, Northern maintained their clean sheet in the Pakistan Cup on Tuesday when they overwhelmed Southern Punjab by 57 runs at the UBL Sports Complex to record a third straight triumph in the 50-over competition. Sahibzada Farhan went ballistic at the SBP Sports Complex with a blazing ton while helping Khyber Pakhtunkhwa seal …

Cricket, Imran Khan, India — put any two words from the three together and you have Pakistanis’ attention. And if you put all three together, then you have their attention plus a top Twitter trend. ‘Pakistan shocks India’ has been the top trend on Twitter all of Wednesday morning. Why, you ask? Because of a poll run by the International Cricket Council (ICC) …

s Pakistan head coach Misbahul Haq said on Monday that his fate was in the hands of the national cricket authorities after the team’s New Zealand series defeat prompted speculation about his future. Misbah, who has lost all three away Test series in his 15 months in charge, blamed an extended stay in New Zealand coronavirus isolation for the latest failure. “I …

DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday asked Twitteratis, in a poll, to identify which captain was the best. The options given by the ICC are India captain Virat Kholi, former South African captain AB de Villiers, current captain of Australia’s women Team Meg Lanning and former Pakistan team captain Imran Khan. The ICC said that  the captaincy for …

All-rounder Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi is known in almost every household for his jaw-dropping sixes and batting magic. However,  in a  rare sight, a woman at the airport failed to recognise the player and the video of this undated interaction has taken social media by storm. The woman is seen calling Afridi for a picture in the viral social media …

SYDNEY: Australia captain Tim Paine said he felt he had let down his bowlers with his atrocious wicket-keeping as India batted through the final day of the third Test for a draw on Monday. Paine thought Australia’s pace unit and spinner Nathan Lyon had created enough chances to bowl out the tourists for a win and a 2-1 series lead …

LAHORE: Pakistan captain Babar Azam has started net practice here at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) after missing out all the matches of Pakistan against New Zealand owing to thumb injury. Babar’s thumb was injured during net practice in Queens Town on Dec 12. Despite missing out all the matches, Babar remained with the team in New Zealand. The New …

SYDNEY: Cricket Australia (CA) could slap indefinite bans on any fans found to have racially abused the visiting India players during the third Test in Sydney, its interim chief executive Nick Hockley said on Monday. CA has launched an investigation with New South Wales Police after India bowler Mohammed Siraj’s complaint led to the ejection of six fans from the …

KARACHI: World T20 winner Umar Gul will be the bowling coach for former Pakistan Super League champions Quetta Gladiators in the sixth edition of PSL. Gul is  known as one the best T20 bowlers of all time. He will replace legendary all-rounder Abdur Razzaq as the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) decided against issuing non-objection certificates to national coaches and head …