LONDON: Former captain Michael Atherton says it was strange that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) called off the Pakistan tour citing players’ welfare but allowed them a three-month window to play the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 event. In a scathing assessment of ECB’s decision, Atherton said it was worse than India’s recent […]
DUBAI: Former West Indies cricketer Marlon Samuels was charged on Wednesday with breaching four counts of the ICCs anti-corruption code while playing in a limited-overs competition in the United Arab Emirates. The charges against Samuels, who hasn’t played for West Indies since 2018, relate to the T10 League in Abu Dhabi, the International Cricket Council […]
KARACHI: New Zealand’s stand-in skipper Tom Latham on Tuesday expressed disappointment at missing a “historic moment” after his team were forced to abandon their first cricket tour of Pakistan in 18 years. The Kiwis called off the tour over a security threat on Friday — the same day they were due to play the first One-day International […]
The England Cricket Board announced on Monday that it was withdrawing both its men’s and women’s teams from their tour of Pakistan scheduled for next month. “We can confirm that the Board has reluctantly decided to withdraw both teams from the October trip,” the ECB said in a tweet. The decision comes three days after […]
New Zealand Cricket (NZC) Chief Executive David White on Monday expressed willingness to discuss the restaging of the Pakistan series the Black Caps abandoned last week, but said talks of touring the country again were premature considering their schedule was already “pretty tight”. The Black Caps devastated Pakistan’s cricket fraternity on September 17 after opting out of […]
At a time when the cricketing world is still coming to grips with New Zealand’s decision to abandon their Pakistan limited-overs tour barely hours before the first ODI citing security reasons, West Indies opener Chris Gayle, in a jest, said he is willing to travel to Pakistan on Sunday. Gayle, who is known for seeing […]
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board will suffer financial losses in millions as a result of New Zealand abruptly calling off their tour just before the first of three One-day Internationals was to begin in Rawalpindi due to a security threat on Friday. “Apart from the security losses,” a PCB official told Dawn on the condition of anonymity, […]
By: Javaid Malik MK Srinagar The 2nd cricket match of CTPL 2021 was won by SCL STRIKERS SADERBAL in an interesting contest by 45 runs. Lot of people, especially the youth, were witnessing this match and were cheering their favorite players during the match.AQIB HASSAN MIR was declared as Man of the Match as he […]
New Zealand’s white-ball tour of Pakistan was called off minutes before start of play in the opening one-dayer in Rawalpindi after New Zealand Cricket received intelligence from their government about a security threat. “Following an escalation in the New Zealand Government threat levels for Pakistan, and advice from NZC security advisors on the ground, it has been […]
LAHORE: Newly-elected chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Ramiz Raja is most likely to create a post of director cricket to implement his cricketing plans, instead of relying on the officials appointed by previous chairman Ehsan Mani. It is learnt that the director cricket will have the powers to deal with all domestic and […]