2:22 PM GMT Big picture This is the sort of marquee game the PSL had been yearning for all these years without fulfilment. The country’s two biggest cities and fiercest rivals face off on Tuesday in a game quite unlike any that has ever happened at the PSL. The Lahore Qalandars, having finally ended the hoodoo of finishing at the bottom of the points table for the past four years,…
12:27 PM GMT In the battle of the big-budgeted clubs, Nahidul Islam‘s unbeaten 53 and two wickets helped Prime Bank Cricket Club to a nine-run win over Gazi Group Cricketers at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka. Batting first, Prime Bank posted 251 for 6 in 50 overs with Rony Talukdar top-scoring with 79 and Nahidul providing the finishing touches with his fifty that included three fours and as…
Play 09:18 Kamran Akmal, Khushdil Shah key in semi-final outcome March 17: PSL semi-final 1 – Multan Sultans v Peshawar Zalmi, Lahore Our XI: Kamran Akmal, Imam-ul-Haq, Shoaib Malik, Zeeshan Ashraf, Haider Ali, Shan Masood, Khushdil Shah, Rahat Ali, Wahab Riaz, Imran Tahir, Sohail Tanvir Captain: Kamran Akmal Akmal has scored 78 runs in his last five innings and still has 251 runs for the tournament. That is how impactful…
Says it all: Michael Carberry’s bat sums up the state of England’s effort in the 2013-14 Ashes © Getty Images With the sports world in abeyance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, now’s as good a time as any to reminisce about the good old days, when England were truly woeful, but at least the show was able to go on … Sydney 2013-14 Had England been a Norwegian Blue parrot,…
9:00 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Sikandar Raza, the Zimbabwe allrounder, has joined Peshawar Zalmi’s squad as a silver category player. He will be available for Zalmi’s PSL semi-final against table-toppers Multan Sultans, which is to be played in Lahore on Tuesday. Raza’s arrival will strengthen a Zalmi squad that has been hit particularly hard by the departure of overseas players due to the coronavirus pandemic. Zalmi lost the services of…
6:30 AM GMT The Pakistan and Bangladesh cricket boards have agreed to postpone the upcoming third leg of their series, of one ODI and and Test in Karachi in early April, in light of growing concerns around the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) and travel restrictions around the world. The boards will explore windows to complete the series as well as fit in a Test match, scheduled for March 2021….
5:54 AM GMT As with sport around the world, Australia’s international season came to an abrupt end amid the increasing measures against coronavirus. On home soil the men’s team went unbeaten but life was tougher on the road. Here’s a recap of a season that featured Sri Lanka, Pakistan, New Zealand, India and South Africa Tests Pakistan, Brisbane: won by an innings and 5 runsPakistan, Adelaide: won by an innings…
Devon Conway was the leading scorer for the season with 701 runs in six matches 3:26 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The final two rounds of the Plunket Shield, New Zealand’s domestic first-class competition, have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic with Wellington being named the 2019-20 champions. NZC chief executive David White said the decision had been made based on medical advice following the tightening of travel restrictions by…
Toss: Karachi Kings opt to bat v Quetta Gladiators Khan touch this: Ali Khan’s 5 for 46 were also his career-best figures © Peter Della Penna Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to bat against Quetta Gladiators, who face an improbable task to join the hosts in the semi-finals. With Lahore Qalandars chasing down 187 earlier in the day and making the semi-finals along with Karachi and league-leaders Multan…
Stuart Broad heads for the team bus after England’s tour match in Sri Lanka came to a premature end 11:02 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff Stuart Broad has backed the “very tough, but necessary” decision made by the ECB to postpone England’s tour of Sri Lanka over fears about the COVID-19 pandemic. The ECB announced on Friday that the two-Test series had been postponed indefinitely, stating that “the physical and mental…