Babar Azam

132 articles tagged with "Babar Azam"

Oct 8, 2026

Farhan made 100 the last time Pakistan played Sri Lanka, and now he captains them without Babar in Rawalpindi

Sahibzada Farhan’s first series as Pakistan’s T20I captain starts against Sri Lanka on Friday, with Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Salman Ali Agh...

Sep 30, 2026

Boucher won the MLC with MI New York, and MI Emirates have given him Robin Singh’s job a day before the auction

Robin Singh won the ILT20 in 2024 and reached last season’s final. MI Emirates have replaced him anyway, with Babar Azam the headline name at Thursday...

Sep 16, 2026

Babar has not played a domestic first-class match since 2019, and he asked the PCB to find him a team

Babar Azam will turn out for OGDCL in the President’s Trophy, his first domestic first-class cricket in nearly seven years. He was in none of the eigh...

Sep 14, 2026

Pakistan have earned 24 World Test Championship points, and handed 19 of them back

The ICC docked Pakistan another 11 WTC points on September 14 for a slow over-rate at Edgbaston. That leaves them bottom of the table on five points f...

Sep 14, 2026

Salman Agha made 45 runs in five Test innings, and then 300 not out in Abbottabad

A fortnight after being sent home from England, Pakistan’s dropped captain batted for 336 balls in the President’s Trophy and made the highest score o...

Sep 12, 2026

Pakistan were still two runs behind with eight wickets down, and Razaullah’s nine sixes left England chasing 130

A 21-year-old debutant batting at No. 9 hit 81 off 63 balls and added 121 with Mohammad Abbas, turning a certain innings defeat at Edgbaston into a fo...

Sep 9, 2026

Pakistan were 26 for 4 in the tenth over at Edgbaston, and extras were their second-top scorer at lunch

Ollie Robinson had figures of 8-3-9-2 and Josh Tongue took three as Pakistan slid to 100 for 7 by the first interval of the third Test, with two of th...

Sep 4, 2026

Pakistan sent seven players home for a dead rubber, and five of the replacements have never played a Test

England won the series at Lord’s on 30 August. Pakistan’s answer was to change half the squad and both coaches before a third Test that decides nothin...

Aug 31, 2026

Abbas took nine, Shakeel made 97, and Pakistan still lost at Lord’s by 194 with ten batters

England won the second Test inside four days to take the series 2-0, with Ollie Robinson claiming eight wickets for the second Test running and Pakist...

Aug 29, 2026

Robinson bowled 13 overs for 11 runs, and Pakistan were 180 behind before tea

Ollie Robinson took 4 for 11 from 13 overs as Pakistan were bowled out for 110 at Lord’s on Friday, and England closed day two of the second Test 261...

Aug 28, 2026

The PCB told Sky its players would not come out after lunch, and the interview aired anyway

Mike Atherton’s interview with Imran Khan’s two sons went out during the lunch break on day one at Lord’s. The Pakistan Cricket Board had warned Sky i...

Aug 28, 2026

Abbas reached 900 first-class wickets at Lord’s, and England were 248 for 9 when the light went

Rain held the start up until 12.20pm, Mohammad Abbas and Mohammad Ali shared seven wickets, and England lost nine of them in 56 overs on the opening d...

Aug 25, 2026

Babar batted a full session at Lord’s, and returns for a Test Pakistan cannot afford to lose

Pakistan’s captain came through a full net session at Lord’s two days out from the second Test, facing pace, spin and throwdowns. His return costs Aza...

Aug 19, 2026

Pakistan lose Babar the day before Headingley, and Salman Agha has never captained a Test

Babar Azam’s right hand has not healed, so Pakistan begin a three-Test tour of England without their captain and the leading run-scorer from their las...

Aug 17, 2026

Babar was cleared for Headingley, then ruled out of the first Test

A rising ball from Manny Lumsden hit Babar Azam on the right middle finger at Beckenham. He was cleared to play on Monday, then ruled out of the first...

Aug 17, 2026

England lost the Ashes, the coach and the captain, and have handed the Test side back to Joe Root

Joe Root captains England again at Headingley on Wednesday, four years after giving the job up, with Ben Stokes retired, Brendon McCullum out of the r...

Aug 10, 2026

England name Root’s first squad in four years, and Pakistan land for their first Tests here since 2020

Joe Root is England’s Test captain again, four years after he gave the job up, and his first squad brings Dan Lawrence back at six. Pakistan arrived f...

Aug 6, 2026

Pakistan win in Port of Spain to level the series, three years after their last away Test win

West Indies needed a draw in Port of Spain for their first series win over Pakistan since 2000. They were bowled out for 117 instead.

Aug 5, 2026

Pakistan hired a batting coach 15 days before Headingley, and the fortnight before it explains why

Michael Smith arrives on a two-year deal with 71 for 9 at Tarouba and Abdullah Shafique’s unbeaten 160 both sitting in the same fortnight of evidence.

Aug 5, 2026

Shafique’s unbeaten 160 puts Pakistan four wickets from a first away Test win since 2023

Abdullah Shafique faced 323 balls for an unbeaten 160 in Port of Spain, and by the close Sajid Khan’s 4 for 32 had left West Indies 103 for 6 with a l...

Aug 4, 2026

Sydney Sixers want Ben Stokes, and the reported fee would break a BBL record they set themselves

A reported 600,000 Australian dollars would make Stokes the best-paid player in Big Bash history. The record he would break belongs to Babar Azam, and...

Aug 4, 2026

Babar is 14 short of his first Test hundred since 2022, and Pakistan trail by 78

Abdullah Shafique’s unbeaten 107 and an unbroken stand of 168 have Pakistan 78 behind West Indies at Port of Spain, with Babar Azam 14 runs from endin...

Aug 3, 2026

Greaves holds West Indies together again as rain cuts day one in Port of Spain

West Indies reached 239 for 5 in 74 overs at Queen’s Park Oval, with Justin Greaves 64 not out after Babar Azam had dropped him at leg slip.

Aug 2, 2026

West Indies are one result from their first series win over Pakistan since 2000

Pakistan arrive at the Queen’s Park Oval 1-0 down, without Shan Masood, and carrying the longest run of away Test defeats in their history. The second...