Muhammad Ali

LAHORE: Pakistan cricket selectors, headed by former Test captain Inzamamul Haq, on Wednesday included eighteen-year-old Shadab Khan in a 16-member Pakistan Test squad named for a series against West Indies later this month. Shadab broke into the Test squad 10 days after making his Twenty20 international debut. Shadab, who rose to fame in the second […]

Young guns fired Pakistan to 3-1 triumph in a four-match Twenty20 International series against West Indies on Sunday. Pakistan selectors included leg-spinner Shadab Khan (man-of-the-series for his 10 wickets in four outings), fast bowler Hasan Ali, left-arm pacer Rumman Raees, batsman Babar Azam, all-rounder Imad Wasim and other youngsters in the limited-overs squad for the […]

Once again Pakistan batting failed to click. And once again it let Pakistan down. After winning the first two Twenty20 internationals, Sarfaz Ahmad and his charges lost the third by seven wickets at Port of Spain on Saturday. Except for Kamran Akmal, who made enterprising 48 and Babar Azam, who scored entertaining 43, the remaining […]

No doubt, it was a high-octane and thrilling contest. Pakistan took the wind out of West Indies sails when skipper Sarfraz Ahmad and his charges outplayed the hosts by three runs in the second Twenty20 International of the four-match series at Port of Spain on Thursday. Hopes were not high keeping in view the batting […]

LAHORE: Islamabad United player Khalid Latif has been charged by the Anti-Corruption Tribunal (ACT) of the Pakistan Cricket Board for his alleged involvement in spot-fixing during the Pakistan Super League (PSL) II which concluded in March this year. The Pakistan batsman has been charged with six breaches of the PCB’s Anti-Corruption Code. Latif and his […]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday banned fast bowler Mohammad Irfan from all forms of cricket for one year and fined him Rs.10,00,000 ($10,000) after he admitted failing to report approaches by bookmakers linked to spot-fixing. The 34-year-old said he had not spoken out at the time because he was under mental stress […]

Shoaib Malik and Shadab Khan struck a match-winning performance as Pakistan outclassed West Indies by six wickets to clinch the first Twenty International of a four-match series at Kensington Oval in Barbados on Sunday. West Indies, put in to bat, struggled throughout their innings as 18-year-old Pakistan leg-spinner Shadab took three wickets for seven runs […]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) Anti-Corruption Tribunal (ACT) held a preliminary hearing at the National Cricket Academy here Friday, where formal charges were read out against Sharjeel Khan in the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) spot fixing case. Khalid Latif, his team-mate for Pakistan and Islamabad United and similarly implicated, did not appear, citing […]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday charged and suspended international player Shahzaib Hasan in the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) spot fixing case. Batsman Shahzaib has become the fifth Pakistan player to be provisionally suspended by the PCB as part of its investigation into alleged corruption in the PSL that concluded last month […]

LAHORE: Pakistan cricket selectors, headed by former Test captain Inzamamul Haq, Wednesday recalled batsmen Ahmad Shahzad and Kamran Akmal for a four-match Twenty20 and three-match one-day international series in the West Indies starting later this month. Kamran has been recalled to the national team after three years while Shahzad after a year. Azhar Ali, who […]