Veteran wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal on Tuesday became the first wicketkeeper with 100 stumpings in T20 cricket. The 38-year-old achieved the feat while playing for Central Punjab during the National T20 Cup fixture against Southern Punjab. The Lahore-born increased his lead over India’s MS Dhoni who is second placed on the list with 84 stumpings to […]
Pakistan Head Coach and erstwhile Chief Selector Misbah-ul-Haq on Wednesday announced that he was resigning from his position as a chief selector to “focus on coaching”. During his press conference at the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) headquarters in Lahore. He rubbished rumors that the decision to resign had anything to do with his meeting with […]
Pakistan’s star all-rounder Imad Wasim has revealed that he is working on a ‘new ball’ which would help him improve his performances in the white-ball cricket. The 31-year-old is in England where he played a huge role in guiding Nottinghamshire to the title in the Vitality T20. Blast where he ended up claiming eight wickets […]
Continuing his superb form, Pakistan’s young pace sensation Shaheen Shah Afridi has surpassed Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan as leading T20 wicket-taker in the ongoing calendar year, 2020. Afridi achieved this feat on Monday during his domestic side KP’s National T20 Cup match against Sindh. Shaheen finished with 5 for 21. This takes his T20 wickets tally […]
Introduction Imran Khan (born Nov 25, 1952, in Lahore, Punjab) is a former Pakistani Captain who was indisputably the greatest cricketer to emerge from Pakistan. He played 88 Test matches and 175 One Day International matches for Pakistan. Being the only son of his parents ─ and a brother to four sisters ─ he was […]
Former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram on Thursday apologized for declining the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) offer for becoming cricket committee chairman after the resignation of former chairman Iqbal Qasim. The PCB had recently made the offer to Akram. However, sources revealed that the cricket legend, who is busy with several other assignments including commentary, apologized […]
Veteran all-rounder Shahid Afridi has backtracked from the recent statement against head coach Misbah-ul-Haq regarding his performance in the semi-final of the 2011 International Cricket Council World Cup. Afridi was leading the side during the much-awaited encounter on March 30, 2011, against the arch-rivals India in Mohali where the Men in Green suffered a 29-run […]
A legal battle has emerged between the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the Pakistan Super League (PSL) over the financial model of the cash-rich 20-over tournament. According to ESPNcricinfo, the teams, Islamabad United, Karachi Kings, Peshawar Zalmi, Multan Sultans, Quetta Gladiators, and Lahore Qalandars, filed a collective petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) in […]
New Zealand‘s government has approved quarantine arrangements that might allow the Pakistan and West Indies teams to tour in coming months, the country’s cricket board said on Friday. New Zealand Cricket chief executive David White said the tours would help the game through the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s an enormous boost for us, it’s our financial […]
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has suspended the head coach of the Balochistan First XI team for the upcoming National T20 Cup. The PCB, in a statement on its website, mentioned that the decision was taken because the 38-year-old has an unresolved matter with Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), which is his parent organization. “The PCB […]
