LAHORE, Jan 25 (EW): England leg-spinner Adil Rashid and power hitter Harry Brook will not be a part of the eighth edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL). Rashid, who was roped in by Multan Sultans during the draft in December, will miss the tournament due to his engagements with the English team. Since the spinner will miss the …
Pakistan’s batting maestro Babar Azam has been named as the captain of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) ODI Team of the Year for 2022. The 28-year-old registered eight scores of more than fifty in the nine games he played in 2022. He finished the year with 679 runs at a mammoth average of 84.87. The ICC praised Pakistan Skipped saying, ” …
(Reuters) – A Saudi Arabian businessman won the bidding to watch the latest chapter in Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi’s celebrated rivalry in global soccer with a 10 million riyals ($2.66 million) bid for a ticket to their showpiece game. The Saudi government’s entertainment arm said on Twitter that Mushref Al-Ghamdi, general manager of real estate group AqarOne, was …
BRISBANE (EW): Australian cricketers 19-year-old Phoebe Litchfield and Darcie Brown had impressive performances in the second ODI against Pakistan in Brisbane, leading Australia to a victory by 10 wickets. Litchfield scored her second unbeaten ODI 50 in a row while Brown was player of the match after taking three key wickets. “We have got so many experienced players around …
MELBOURNE, Jan 17 (EW): Tennis Australia on Tuesday banned Russian and Belarusian flags at the Australian Open after Ukraine’s ambassador demanded action when they were seen among the crowd. Moscow called the ban an “unacceptable politicisation of sports”. The red, white and blue stripes of Russia were held up by fans during Monday’s first-round clash between Ukraine’s Kateryna Baindl …
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 16 (EW): Danish ace Viktor Axelsen stormed to victory in the final of badminton’s Malaysia Open on Sunday, successfully defending his title by outgunning Japan’s Kodai Naraoka. The world number one only needed 40 minutes in Kuala Lumpur to secure his first trophy of the year, displaying top form to walk away with the match 21-6, …
SYDNEY, Jan 13 (AFP): Australia on Friday defended their hotly contested decision to pull out of a cricket series against Afghanistan following a Taliban crackdown on women’s “basic human rights”. “Basic human rights is not politics,” Cricket Australia chief executive Nick Hockley said in a statement sent to AFP after Afghanistan’s cricket board lashed the cancellation as “pathetic”. The …
SYDNEY, Jan 10 (EW): Australia captain Pat Cummins believes his side have as good a chance of winning a Test series in India as they will ever have when they play four matches on the sub-continent in February-March. Cummins was brimming with confidence after winning four out of five Tests in a dominant home summer, which concluded with a …
DUBAI, Jan 5 (EW): Pakistan all-format captain Babar Azam has been nominated by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the player of the month award for December 2022. Following his sensational run with the bat in the outgoing month, the Pakistan skipper has been shortlisted for the award along with England’s Harry Brook and Australia’s Travis Head. “The Pakistan …
Shahid Afridi, newly-appointed interim chief selector, revealed that players in the domestic circuit with a strike rate of less than 130 or 135 will not be selected to represent Pakistan in the T20 format. Speaking to a private channel, the former Pakistan captain described his job as the chief selector “difficult”, saying that it is hard to please everyone …
