JOHANNESBURG — SA20 commissioner Graeme Smith has pledged to make it the second best league in the world after admitting that the IPL remains the leader of franchise cricket, from where they can “only learn” to get better. The third season of SA20 is currently underway across venues in South Africa. “BCCI and IPL have […]
GALLE — Australia on Thursday dealt more blows with captain Pat Cummins and senior pacer Josh Hazlewood being ruled out of the ICC Champions Trophy owing to injuries. Cummins has not recovered from the ankle niggle that plagued him towards the end of the recent Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series against India, while Hazlewood is still […]
NEW DELHI — Pakistan star Babar Azam, on Thursday, took to social media to say that he lost his phone and all his contacts and that he would get back to everyone he knows soon. However, fans on social media saw the funny side to the post, with most poking fun at the former Pakistan […]
LAHORE — The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday announced that the renovation and upgradation work at Lahore’s Gaddafi stadium has been completed in record time of 117 days and it is now ready to host international matches, including the ICC Champions Trophy. The PCB said in a statement said that the new-look stadium now […]
DUBAI — Tickets for the highly-anticipated ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025 match between arch-rivals Pakistan and India have been sold out in less than an hour after the tickets for the mega tournament went on sale. Cricket enthusiasts rushed to the tickets’ sales website with more than 140,000 fans queuing up online to get their […]
LAHORE — Australian great Ricky Ponting has said that the Pakistan team is a strong contender to make it to the final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Speaking to journalist Sanjana Ganesan alongside Ravi Shastri in a bumper episode of The ICC Review on Saturday, the two cricket greats predicted that India and Australia […]
PUNE — The Ranji Trophy quarterfinal between Jammu and Kashmir against Kerala will be played at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium here from February 8. The match has been relocated from its original venue in Srinagar due to “potential weather concerns” raised by the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association with the BCCI. “We have a […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan former captain Rashid Latif has called the squad picked for the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025 as “a political selection” and played the national selection committee for making a few surprise decisions. In the squad announced on Friday, all-rounder Faheem Ashraf staged a comeback after two years on the sidelines. He was surprisingly […]
LAHORE — Pakistan selectors want their premier batsman Babar Azam to open in the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy, a thought inspired by the success legendary Sachin Tendulkar had after shifting to the pole position from middle-order. The Indian batting maestro started opening the innings after playing 69 matches down the order, and his first match […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi on Friday confirmed that newly renovated Gaddafi Stadium Lahore and National Stadium Karachi would be inaugurated on February 7 and February 11, respectively ahead of the highly-anticipated ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025. “Lahore stadium is going to be inaugurated on February 7, God willing,” Naqvi told […]