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TopicPakistan cricket

Topic: Pakistan cricket

PCB demotes Babar Azam in central contracts. Pakistanis call it ‘injustice to national hero’

Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan were the only two Category A players. After their demotion, there are no players in the category, marking a first in the 21-year history of Pakistan’s contract system.

Pakistan cricket is in a ‘dark age’, ushered in by politics, corruption, terrorism & crumbling infra

New Delhi: Pakistan have a new head coach for their men’s Test team—the seventh such appointment in four years, and one that illustrates how...

Pakistanis slam Babar Azam for his ‘tuk-tuk cricket’. Call him SOAT, painfully slow

Calling Pakistan’s Champions Trophy performance “disappointing”, former pacer Shoaib Akhtar said the team is playing a “different kind of cricket, not the ones other teams are playing”.

No Indian flag at Karachi stadium causes uproar. Pakistanis say ‘well played PCB’

The PCB downplayed the matter, insisting that the flags displayed at the stadiums were only of those teams that are playing in Pakistan.

Salman Butt says Rachin Ravindra’s injury is not PCB’s fault. ‘He must’ve slipped’

Pakistan’s cricketing community was divided Rachin Ravindra's injury. While some criticised the PCB for poor infrastructure, others defended the board, calling it a freak accident.

Pakistan’s Champions Trophy troubles are never ending. Now no opening ceremony

Due to logistical challenges with the English and Australian teams' arrival, the tournament’s traditional opening ceremony and the customary captains' day will be scrapped, reported Dawn.

PCB is now ‘Pakistan Circus board’ after red ball coach Jason Gillespie resigns

Gillespie’s resignation comes a month after former white ball coach Gary Kirsten’s resignation. The general consensus is: ‘Not a day where this board doesn’t sabotage the team’.

Pakistani fans want under-19 sensation Shahzaib Khan in senior side, see Sachin in him

Shahzaib Khan’s innings is now the highest score ever made against India U-19 in a Youth ODI, surpassing the previous record of 134 set by Sami Aslam back in 2012.

‘PCB is sold out’—Pakistanis convinced that they won’t get to host Champions Trophy

The hybrid model, being floated as an alternative, involves Pakistan hosting some of the matches while others would be played in neutral venues or in India.

Pakistan lets go of Jason Gillespie as white-ball coach. ‘No foreigner will apply for role’

Gillespie was announced as interim head coach on 28 October for Pakistan’s white-ball tour of Australia after Gary Kirsten resigned. Now, Aqib Javed is the interim coach.

On Camera

SRK is more Johnny Depp than Depp

SRK's impromptu party looked refreshingly ‘normal’ and as cool as the Birthday Boy himself. King of Kool could be another tag for the man who once declared himself 'the last of the stars'.

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Launch of India’s heaviest comms satellite is a level up for its soaring military ambitions. Here’s how

ISRO’s LMV3 rocket set off the CMS-03 satellite from Sriharikota Sunday. It weighs 4,410 kg, will primarily serve Indian Navy and has a life of at least 15 years.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.