Tag: Cricket
IPL not high-quality cricket: Sanjay Manjrekar
Indian Premier League (IPL) as a T20 league got a boost in popularity this year, but to confuse this with it being high-quality cricket...
Cricket for a cause: A history
The cricket world is coming together at Lord’s on Thursday 31 May to do its bit for communities in the Caribbean affected by deadly hurricanes last...
Amir says bowling Pakistan to win in England will be a...
LONDON: Mohammad Amir says bowling Pakistan to a test series win in England would be "the best memory" of his life.
Fired-up Amir was a...
Amazing to see Pakistanis, Indians share dressing room for World XI:...
ICC World XI head coach Andy Flower is thrilled with the idea of Pakistani and Indian players sharing a dressing room for World XI versus...
Cricket corruption ‘goes right to the top’, says Sri Lanka’s Ranatunga
COLOMBO: World Cup-winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga on Wednesday said corruption "goes right to the top" in Sri Lanka and accused the International Cricket Council...
Eighth-grader commits suicide
RAWALPINDI: An eighth-grader committed suicide after his parents scolded him for not studying well enough.
The mother found the 17-year-old victim, Arslan Salamat, hanged in his...
Banned Warner, Bancroft sign up for Northern Territory comp
MELBOURNE: Australian batsmen David Warner and Cameron Bancroft have signed up for a limited overs tournament in Northern Territory in July as they look...
Al Jazeera urged to hand over evidence of alleged match-fixing
DUBAI: Qatari news channel Al Jazeera was urged to hand over evidence of alleged match-fixing on Monday after a TV documentary claimed to uncover...
Sarfraz Ahmed ‘surprised’ but ‘proud’ of Pakistan
Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed said he felt both surprised and proud after his inexperienced side outplayed England during a dominant nine-wicket win in the...
ICC shares list of royals who have played cricket
To mark Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's British royal wedding, on the same day as the Indian Premier League 2018 game between Rajasthan Royals...
Former captains flip out over plans to scrap coin toss
NEW DELHI: Proposals to scrap the time-honoured tradition of a coin toss prior to test matches defy logic and should not be considered, according...
16 catches dropped off Amir’s bowling in his last 17 Tests
Pakistani slip fielders and wicketkeepers have dropped 16 catches in last l17 Test matches of Muhammad Amir. The spearhead of Pakistani bowling attack has...
English cricket to adopt NFL-style ‘Rooney Rule’
LONDON: The England and Wales Cricket Board is to adopt the "Rooney Rule" as part of an action plan aimed at boosting engagement with...
World Cup 2019, 2020 World T20 will be my last, announces...
LAHORE: Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik has set his sights on playing at least until the 2020 World Twenty20 and the 36-year-old is aware that...
Women’s skipper in talks with PCB to narrow pay gap
-Bismah Maroof highlights huge gap between male, female cricketers’ pay
Pakistan Women's captain Bismah Maroof on Saturday revealed that she is in talks with Pakistan...
Dean Jones hopes Shadab is ‘as annoying’ to his coach as...
Islamabad United (IU) Head Coach Dean Jones hopes that all-rounder Shadab Khan is as annoying to the national coach Micky Arthur as he was...
PCB considers holding PSL 2019 opening ceremony in Pakistan
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) recently considered holding the opening ceremony of Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2019 in Pakistan, media reports said on Friday.
While discussing...