Pakistan’s selectors Tuesday dropped opener Kamran Akmal from the 15-man squad for the Champions Trophy to be held in England in June but recalled his younger brother Umar. 35-year-old Kamran was part of Pakistan’s squad which won a three-match one-day series 2-1 in the West Indies earlier this month but managed scores of 47, 21 … Read more
Mohammad Hafeez accelerated from a pedestrian start to pace Pakistan to a formidable 308 for five batting first against the West Indies in the opening one-day international at the National Stadium in Guyana on Friday. Amid increasing speculation about his worth to the team, the 36-year-old right-hander contributed a top score of 88 to temporarily … Read more
Pakistani selectors Wednesday named young leg-spinner Shadab Khan in a 16-man squad for their three-match Test series in the West Indies, rewarding him for his strong Twenty20 performance. Shadab, 18, who rose to fame in the second edition of the Pakistan Super League in February-March, took 10 wickets in Pakistan’s 3-1 T20 series victory against … Read more
Pakistan frittered away a promising position but still managed to post a competitive 137 for eight in the third T20 International against the West Indies at the Queen´s Park Oval in Trinidad on Saturday. Veteran Kamran Akmal (48) and Babar Azam (43) had the visitors well poised for a total in excess of 160 as … Read more
Shadab Khan gave another match-winning bowling performance and Hasan Ali held his nerve for Pakistan to sneak a three-run victory over the West Indies in the second T20 International on Thursday. Set a relatively modest target of 133 to level the series following a six-wicket defeat in the opening match in Barbados, the hosts were … Read more
Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed won the toss and put the West Indies in to bat in the first T20 international of a four-match series at Kensington Oval in Barbados on Sunday. Thrashed 3-0 by their opponents at the start of what proved a disastrous tour of the United Arab Emirates last September, the West Indies … Read more
Pakistan on Wednesday recalled opener Ahmed Shehzad and Kamran Akmal in separate squads for the four-match Twenty20 and three-match one-day series in the West Indies starting later this month. Both batsmen earned their recalls on the back of solid performances in the recently held Pakistan Super League (PSL) where they played for opposing sides in … Read more
Pakistan on Monday hailed the successful staging of the Pakistan Super League final as a step towards restoring international cricket in the country after a deadly attack on the Sri Lankan team in 2009. With nerves jangling after a recent resurgence of militant violence, tight security blanketed Lahore’s sold-out Gaddafi Stadium but the game went … Read more
Pakistan staged its biggest cricket match in almost a decade Sunday, as a packed stadium in Lahore watched the final of a Twenty20 league organisers hoped would restore faith in the country’s ability to safely host foreign teams. The scoreboard showed a one-sided win for domestic side Peshawar Zalmi over rival Quetta Gladiators — though … Read more
Kamran Akmal fired Peshawar Zalmi into the Pakistan Super League final Friday but left his foreign teammates facing a dilemma over whether or not to travel to violence-hit Lahore for Sunday’s title match. England trio Chris Jordan, Samit Patel and Dawid Malan as well as West Indies stars Darren Sammy and Marlon Samuels are all … Read more