KARACHI: For a man regarded among the top batters in current world cricket, Babar Azam is a quiet individual in his role as the all-format Pakistan captain. While there is no denying his standing as the country’s best batter — who currently tops the ICC One-day International batting ranking and has been overtaken by England’s […]
TOKYO: After a dramatic evacuation from Taliban-held Kabul and a secret operation to fly him to Tokyo, Afghan Paralympian Hossain Rasouli beat the odds on Tuesday to compete in the long jump. It was not the event he had been expecting to contest, after qualifying for the 100m T47, but then just about everything in […]
PERTH: Embattled head coach Justin Langer on Monday insisted the Australian cricket team was ‘in a better place’ after clear-the-air talks with senior players following discontent over his management style. Langer came under intense scrutiny in the wake of recent consecutive white-ball series losses to the West Indies and Bangladesh, with friction over his intense […]
India all-rounder Stuart Binny, who owns the record of the best bowling figures in ODI format, on Monday announced his retirement from first class and international cricket. The 37-year-old Binny began his career with his state Karnataka and represented India in six Tests, 14 ODIs and three Twenty20 Internationals. “I would like to inform you […]
LEEDS: Cheteshwar Pujara was left eyeing a first Test century in more than two years as he held firm alongside India captain Virat Kohli to keep England at bay at Headingley on Friday. India were 215-2 in their second innings when bad light led to an early close on the third day of the third […]
LONDON: Former Test captain Ted Dexter, one of England’s greatest players, has died aged 86 after a recent illness, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) said on Thursday. Dexter, nicknamed ‘Lord Ted’, was an aggressive batsman and part-time seam bowler who played 62 tests for England after making his debut in 1958 against New Zealand. He […]
KARACHI: An elated Babar Azam heaped praise on Shaheen Shah Afridi and Fawad Alam after the duo played pivotal role in Pakistan’s series-levelling victory in the second Test against the West Indies in Kingston. While addressing a tour-ending virtual presser on Wednesday hours before the squad was due to leave for Lahore via London, the […]
LEEDS: India captain Virat Kohli has dismissed talk that England’s injury crisis has bolstered his side’s hopes of victory in the third Test as they ‘don’t wait for the opposition to be weak’. Kohli’s men head into Wednesday’s clash at Headingley 1-0 up in a five-match series after a superb 151 run-win in the second […]
Pakistan threw down the gauntlet to the West Indies on the penultimate day of the two-match Test series on Monday, setting the hosts 329 to win as the visitors chase a series-levelling victory at Jamaica’s Sabina Park. West Indies will start Tuesday’s final day at 49 for one, 280 runs away from the target as […]
Fawad Alam’s fifth Test century and Shaheen Shah Afridi’s new ball potency pushed Pakistan into the ascendancy on a truncated third day of the rain-affected second Test against the West Indies at Sabina Park on Sunday. Fawad’s unbeaten 124 lifted the tourists to 302 for nine declared in their first innings before Shaheen removed both […]