Imran Khan’s Kabul visit might help revive Afghanistan vs Pakistan bilateral cricket on November 24, 2020LAHORE: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to Afghanistan last week could well pave the way for a revival of cricketing ties between the two neighbouring countries. The relations were severed in 2017 following a bomb blast in Kabul, for which the Afghan authorities had blamed Pakistan. Imran’s visit to Afghanistan, his first since forming […]
Aaqib Javed says Lahore Qalandars missed out because they misjudged the pitch on November 20, 2020LAHORE: Aaqib Javed, the Lahore Qalandars coach, has said that his side “misread the pitch” after they lost the final against rivals Karachi Kings on Tuesday. After Lahore opted to bat, Fakhar Zaman and Tamim Iqbal added a steady 68-run opening stand off 61 balls, but the middle-order batsmen struggled to get going on a […]
PCB contemplating to replace Azhar with Rizwan as Test captain on October 23, 2020LAHORE: Just 12 months after Azhar Ali replaced Sarfaraz Ahmed as Pakistan’s Test captain, there could be another change on the way, with increasing murmurs in the executive corridors of the PCB’s headquarters about a younger replacement. Mohammad Rizwan is at the top of the list of potential replacements for the Test captaincy, with the […]
Lahore to replace Multan as partial host for Zimbabwe tour on October 11, 2020LAHORE: Logistical challenges have caused the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to replace Multan, which was one of the venues lined up to host Zimbabwe’s limited-overs series in Pakistan later this month, with Lahore. The PCB and the city government in Multan had a disagreement over the financial outlay, with the PCB deciding it would cost […]
PCB to shell out Rs 90 million extra for production after PTV pulls out on September 30, 2020LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will be worse off by nearly PKR 90 million as a result of the withdrawal of state broadcaster PTV (Pakistan Television) from bidding for the rights of a production deal for the series against Zimbabwe and domestic cricket. A consortium led by UAE-based Tower Sports and Indian production company […]
Covid-19, policy changes leave women cricketers in a flap in Pakistan on September 26, 2020The abolishing of departments from the domestic circuit, not to forget the Covid-19 pandemic, has hit women’s cricketers harder than their male counterparts in Pakistan, leading to the number of active women cricketers coming down alarmingly in the past few months –– only 45 are left now. Until 2017, there were over 200 women cricketers […]
Umar Akmal files appeal with CAS to overturn 18-month ban on August 21, 2020LAHORE: The legal battle between Umar Akmal and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) took another turn after the Pakistan batsman filed an appeal in the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland to overturn his ban, which was halved from its original three-year term last month. Akmal’s move came after the PCB had […]
Pakistan team faced with legal threat of equipment being seized on July 28, 2020LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has played down reports that a company based in the Isle of Man may seize assets owned by the Pakistan team currently in the UK, as part of an old legal dispute between the firm and the Pakistan government. A report in the national media quoted a letter from […]
PCB’s new ethics code takes aim at conflict of interest on July 17, 2020LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has introduced a clear-cut code of ethics which could have far-reaching effects on various employees. Its ramifications are likely to be felt by the likes of Misbahul Haq, head coach and chief selector of the men’s senior team, Urooj Mumtaz, head of the women’s wing, and even Wasim Akram, […]
Players are the bosses and coaches are the helpers: PCB Director High Performance Nadeem Khan on June 5, 2020LAHORE: After a drastic revamp of the domestic cricket structure last season, the PCB has now turned the National Cricket Academy into a High Performance Centre (HPC). The restructuring will see a new framework in place for the development of age-group players all the way to the national team. Nadeem Khan, the former cricketer and […]