Pakistan cricket

74 articles tagged with "Pakistan cricket"

Oct 14, 2026

Kusal Mendis is now Sri Lanka’s top T20I run-scorer, and his 87 not out beat Pakistan in Rawalpindi

Kusal Mendis made a career-best 87 not out off 48 balls as Sri Lanka chased 169 with 17 balls to spare, though Pakistan still took the T20I series 2-1...

Oct 13, 2026

Mohammad Imran has five wickets for 32 in his first two T20Is, and Pakistan go for a sweep in Rawalpindi tonight

Pakistan lead Sri Lanka 2-0 after Sunday’s 82-run win and can finish the series 3-0 in the third T20I at Rawalpindi from 6:30pm IST.

Oct 10, 2026

Lahiru Udara made exactly half of Sri Lanka’s 182, and Farhan’s 89 still won it for Pakistan

Pakistan chased 183 with seven balls to spare in the first T20I in Rawalpindi, despite losing four wickets for 34 near the end, and lead the three-mat...

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...

Oct 3, 2026

Hasan Nawaz made 96 for Pakistan, and India’s bowlers still won the Asian Games final by 19 runs

India defended their Asian Games men’s cricket gold in Nisshin, posting 211 for 6 behind fifties from Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Varma and holding Paki...

Oct 1, 2026

Pakistan were 53 for 4, and Samad’s 22 off five balls put them in their first Asian Games final

Abdul Samad and Hasan Nawaz added an unbroken 59 as Pakistan beat Bangladesh by six wickets in a 13-over semi-final in Nisshin. Sufiyan Muqeem, who bo...

Sep 28, 2026

India and Pakistan are in the Asian Games semi-finals, and neither has bowled a ball

Rain washed out both of Monday’s quarter-finals in Nisshin, and the ICC rankings sent India past Afghanistan and Pakistan past Hong Kong.

Sep 27, 2026

Pakistan beat Hong Kong in the last Asian Games quarter-final, and they meet in the first one in Nisshin

Pakistan won by 68 runs when the sides met in Hangzhou in 2023. Sahibzada Farhan’s new-look team play Hong Kong again at 5:30am IST on Monday.

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

Wasim Akram asked what batter the PSL has produced in ten years, on the day Pakistan lost 3-0

Wasim Akram reached for a 15-year-old Indian batter to make his point about the Pakistan Super League, a few hours after England completed a series sw...

Sep 11, 2026

Pakistan are going back to the Kookaburra, and the PCB is making the same argument it made in 2019

The PCB will use Kookaburra balls in the President’s Trophy and the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy from 2026-27, ending a two-season run with the Dukes that bega...

Sep 6, 2026

The PSL’s broadcaster wants a January window, and three of its four main venues sit in Punjab’s winter fog

Moving Pakistan’s T20 league to January would take it out of the IPL’s shadow and drop it straight into the Big Bash and SA20’s. That is the trade the...

Sep 5, 2026

Pakistan changed Test coach again mid-series, and Mike Hesson was in Japan when it happened

Mike Hesson takes charge of Pakistan’s Test side at Edgbaston on Wednesday, the eighth man responsible for the job since May 2023. He says the squad w...

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 30, 2026

Only 24.5 overs were possible at Lord’s, and England still went 357 ahead

Rain and bad light held day three at Lord’s to 24.5 overs. Dan Lawrence made an unbeaten 50 in them, and Pakistan now need a ground-record chase to ke...

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

Saim Ayub went from 50 to 100 in 21 balls, and then took the wicket that decided the chase

The Jamaica Kingsmen beat the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots by 11 runs at Warner Park. Saim Ayub made 102 from 58 balls, his first hundred in 161 T20s,...

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 22, 2026

Robinson and Tongue took eight each, and England were finished with Pakistan inside three days

Pakistan were bowled out for 171 and 135 at Headingley, and Joe Root’s return as England captain has started with an innings win and 12 World Test Cha...