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Former Pakistan cricket captain Bismah Maroof remembers the look of befuddlement that quieted the typically beaming face of her two and a half year old daughter, Fatima, as she bid a tearful goodbye to her national teammates in Karachi on Thursday. “She had never seen us like this,” Maroof, ...

NEW DELHI: Comparing India's Virat Kohli and Babar Azam of Pakistan involves looking at two of the most accomplished batsmen in modern cricket, each with their own strengths and achievements.Now, former Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez shared his two cents on the comparison between the two modern-day greats.In a viral ...

NEW DELHI: Former Australia swashbuckling opening batsman Matthew Hayden has chosen Virat Kohli over captain Rohit Sharma to open the innings for India in the upcoming T20 World Cup. Hayden believes Kohli should partner with young batting star Yashasvi Jaiswal at the start of the innings, as the combination ...

Nothing seems to be going in favour of the Pakistan senior men's cricket team at the moment as the Babar Azam-led suffered a crushing four-run defeat to an understrength New Zealand in the 4th T20I on Thursday. The defeat at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore was their second in ...

Warwickshire have signed allrounder Aamer Jamal on a multi-format contract until the end of July, after he was left out of Pakistan's ongoing T20I series against New Zealand.Jamal announced himself to the world by taking 18 wickets in three matches in his maiden Test series for Pakistan in Australia ...

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reconstituted its national women's selection committee, expanding it to seven members. The decision was taken by PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi, and comes in the wake of Pakistan's 3-0 ODI series loss to West Indies at home earlier this week.According to a PCB release ...

Former Pakistan captain Bismah Maroof has called time on a storied 17-year international cricket career with immediate effect. She is, however, available to play league cricket.One of the most prominent names in women's cricket, Maroof finishes as Pakistan's leading run-scorer in both the ODI and T20I formats. She scored ...

The 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup – formerly, simply the World T20 – is the ninth edition of the tournament in only 17 years and the biggest ever with 20 teams taking part. It is taking place jointly in the Caribbean, for the second time, and the United ...

NEW DELHI: In the forthcoming T20 World Cup in the Americas, Virat Kohli should begin the batting with India captain Rohit Sharma because he is more than capable of scoring a forty-ball century similar to Travis Head, former captain Sourav Ganguly remarked on Monday.Kohli recently blasted a century off ...

New Zealand's win over Pakistan in the third T20I has raised familiar questions around Pakistan's approach to T20 cricket, with Babar Azam defending Pakistan's batting performance and rejecting suggestion that a middle-overs slowdown played a part in his side's defeat. This, even as Shadab Khan stressed that T20s needed ...