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ISLAMABAD: (Web Desk) West Indies will host a full series, including three Tests, against Pakistan beginning on March 31, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has said. Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain will stage two Twenty20s, to be followed by three one-dayers at the Guyana National Stadium. Kingston’s Sabina Park …

ISLAMABAD: (Web Desk) Pakistan is in serious danger of failing to qualify directly for the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) World Cup 2019 in the United Kingdom as it currently sits on eighth position in the ODI Team Rankings. Pakistan is at eighth position with 89 points two behind Bangladesh and …

KARACHI: (Web Desk) A local court of Karachi has issued warrant for arrest of former skipper of Pakistan Wasim Akram over his continuous absence from testifying in case filed by him. The warrant for arrest was issued by Judicial Magistrate East in a case lodged at Bahadurabad police station. The …

ZURICH: (Web Desk) Expected to benefit smaller, soccer-mad nations in Africa and Asia FIFA, the international governing body of the soccer world, has approved plans to increase the number of World Cup teams from 32 to 48 within a decade. The news was announced via Twitter, with FIFA’s media account …

LAHORE: (Web Desk) Chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq on Saturday said Pakistan’s batsmen lacked in aggression while its bowlers might have been fatigued because of which the team experienced a whitewash in the three-Test series against Australia The former captain, however, expressed hope that Pakistan will be faring better in the upcoming …

KARACHI: (Web Desk) Former Pakistan cricket heavyweights on Saturday asked Misbah-ul-Haq to call time on his illustrious career, blaming his poor batting and uninspired captaincy for a 3-0 whitewash to Australia. Misbah, who at 42 is the oldest current international cricketer, capped a miserable series with a 220-run defeat in …

SYDNEY: (Web Desk) Australia clinched a series clean sweep with an emphatic 220-run win over Pakistan in the third Test in Sydney on Saturday. The tourists were all out shortly before tea on the final day for 244 chasing 465 runs with paceman Josh Hazlewood and spinner Steve O’Keefe both …

SYDNEY: (Web Desk) Younis Khan on Thursday became the first player in the history of Test cricket to score centuries in 11 countries, including the United Arab Emirates. The veteran batsman smashed his 34th century at the Sydney Cricket Ground on a rain-affected third day of the third Test against Australia, …

Good things come to those who wait. For the SCG crowd it was a couple of sessions of full-blooded play after waiting more than four hours in the rain. For Younis Khan it was a first century in Australia at the end of a barren tour. For Australia, it was …

LAHORE :  Defending Champion, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) completed a hat-trick of the winning the national hockey championship title defeating National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) 4-3 in a penalty shoot-out in the final on Wednesday at the national hockey stadium. PIA which won the previous two titles at Karachi and …