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The Pakistan Cricket Board today announced details of the inaugural women’s league, which will run alongside the HBL Pakistan Super League 8 at the Pindi Cricket Stadium in March 2023. Four city-based sides, each comprising 12 local and six foreign players, will compete for the biggest prize in Pakistan’s women’s…

After the successful completion of the National T20 and Cricket Associations T20, the 2022-23 season enters into next phase with two red-ball tournaments – the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy and Cricket Associations Championship – beginning from Tuesday, 27 September. The squads for both tournaments have been finalised by national men’s chief selector,…

The Pakistan Cricket Board announced to increase in the retainers and match fees in the domestic contracts 2022-23, approved by the Board Of Governors at its 70th meeting. According to the PCB, the contracts will run from September 2022 to august 2023 and the list of player names will be…

The first T20 match of the series of 7 T20 matches between Pakistan and England will be played tomorrow at National Stadium Karachi. The match will start at 1930 hours. Meanwhile, a special arrangement has been made for the flood victims living in the camps in Karachi to watch T20…

The first Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Chess Championship concluded successfully in Islamabad . In the championship professional category, Sulaiman Ahmed Ashrafi stood first, Sabat Ali second and Salman Ali Khan stood third, while Noor Fatima Rashid stood first, Raja Hattamur Rehman second and Hamza Zaka Mustafa stood third in the women’s and…

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have qualified for final of the National T20 Cup beating Northern by five wickets in Multan today.   Batting first, in first semi-final, Northern set a victory target of 165 runs in allotted twenty overs. In reply, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chased the target in 19 overs for the loss of…

National Basketball Championship for Women will start in Islamabad from 3rd of next month. Eight teams will participate in the five-day event. The teams have been divided into two pools.  Pakistan WAPDA, Karachi, Rawalpindi and Quetta make pool A, while Pakistan Army, Lahore, Peshawar and hosts Federal Basketball Association are…

Durham needed only 37 minutes on the final morning to wrap up a seven-wicket victory over Leicestershire in the County Championship. Michael Jones, who fell three runs short of a century in the first innings, added a 58-ball 50 before Durham, chasing 105, completed the win effectively inside eight sessions…

Former international umpire Asad Rauf has died aged 66 after a cardiac arrest in Pakistan. He first officiated in a one-day international in 2000, and was a member of the International Cricket Council’s elite panel between 2006 and 2013. Rauf officiated 64 Test matches – 49 as an on-field umpire…

Roger Federer, a 20-time Grand Slam singles champion, will retire from top-level tennis after the Laver Cup in London later this month. Swiss Federer, 41, has not played since Wimbledon 2021, after which he had a third knee operation. “My body’s message to me lately has been clear,” Federer said. “I…

Pakistan Cricket Board has put together a dynamic commentary panel for the historic seven T20 Internationals between Pakistan and England. Renowned commentators David Gower and Mark Butcher from England, and Pakistan’s cricket legends Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Aamir Sohail, Bazid Khan and Urooj Mumtaz will commentate on the seven games…

Pakistan cricket selectors today unveiled their squad for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Australia 2022, which will be held from 16 October to 13 November. In the seven events to date, Pakistan has won the title in 2009 in the United Kingdom, reached the final in 2007 and featured…

The Pakistan Cricket Board, on 12 September 2022, provisionally suspended Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s left-arm spinner Asif Afridi with immediate effect under Article 4.7.1** of the PCB Anti-Corruption Code, which means that he cannot take part in any cricket-related activity, pending conclusion of the investigation being carried out by PCB’s Anti-Corruption Unit.…

Pakistan beat hosts Australia by one wicket to qualify for Over 60’s Cricket World Cup (45 overs) final on Monday.  Set to chase 216 runs, Pakistan was well supported by Muhammad Aslam who scored 63 off 68 balls.  Aslam set a perfect tone for the Green Shirts in the run-chase. Tahir…

An unbeaten century from Sindh’s Sharjeel Khan led his side to a comprehensive nine-wicket win over Balochistan in the 22nd fixture of the Kingdom Valley National T20 Cup 2022-23 here at the Multan Cricket Stadium on Monday. Chasing 159 to win, Sharjeel and Saim Ayub provided a flying start to the…

Sri Lanka have won the title of the Asia Cup Champions for the sixth time, beating Pakistan by 23 runs in the final of the tournament at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday night. Batting first, Sri Lanka posted 170 runs in allotted twenty overs. Bhanuka Rajapaksa with 71 runs…

The PCB will write to the ICC to “lodge a protest” over the crowd trouble and “gruesome visuals” that followed the Afghanistan-Pakistan game at the Asia Cup. Addressing the media, PCB chairman Ramiz Raja said: “You can’t link hooliganism with cricket and this environment makes you sick. We will write to ICC,…

Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board Ramiz Raja has said that it is a great achievement that the Pakistan cricket team has been included in the top three world teams. Addressing a press conference in Lahore today, the Chairman said the PCB is striving to introduce new talent for national…

Sri Lanka 174 for 4 (Mendis 57, Nissanka 52, Chahal 3-34) beat India 173 for 8 (Rohit 72, Madushanka 3-24) by six wickets Sri Lanka all but secured a place in the Asia Cup final through a thrilling win with one ball to spare against India, who came close again but couldn’t beat…

Somerset have signed Pakistan off-spinner Sajid Khan for the remainder of the County Championship season. The right-handed bowler has played in seven Test matches for his country, claiming 22 international wickets. Khan has played a total of 49 first-class matches, taking 190 wickets at an average of 26.95. “I know…

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Friday announced the squad for the seven-match T20I series against Pakistan, which gets underway later this month in Karachi. The England Men’s selection panel have also named the squad for the ICC T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia starting in October, a…