Pakistan

Wesley Madhevere will play his first T20I at home © AFP Zimbabwe chose to bowl v Pakistan Sean Williams opted to chase against Pakistan on a surface that he expected to flatten out in the afternoon in the series opener. Zimbabwe had a new opening pair after Brendan Taylor was ruled out with illness. Wesley

News Pakistan left-armer could be available for up to seven group games and the knockouts Mohammad Amir, the Pakistan fast bowler, has signed to play for Kent in this year’s Vitality Blast. He is set to arrive for the second half of the competition, after the conclusion of the rearranged Pakistan Super League, and be

News Head coach says he doesn’t want to give “gutsy” Zimbabwe a weak link to exploit After winning both ODI and T20I series against South Africa, Pakistan may find Zimbabwe a relatively weaker opponent, but head coach Misbah-ul-Haq stands guarded against complacency. On the eve of the first T20I in Harare, Misbah said he doesn’t

Waqar Younis hasn’t been back home in Sydney for ten months now © AFP/Getty Images Waqar Younis, Pakistan’s bowling coach, has been released from the squad to be with his wife, who will be undergoing a surgery soon, and will miss the series in Zimbabwe as a result. He is presently in Harare and will

Haider Ali didn’t enjoy too much success in his new role at No. 5 during the South Africa tour © Getty Images While the top-order trio of Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Fakhar Zaman shone brightly during Pakistan’s 3-1 T20I series win in South Africa, the performances of the middle and lower order weren’t quite

News Pakistan allrounder is set to become first beneficiary of the board’s maternity leave plans Pakistan batting allrounder Bismah Maroof is taking an indefinite break from cricket as she prepares to embrace motherhood. And the PCB is likely to use the opportunity to introduce pregnancy provisions in its central contracts system for the first time.

News “The way Fakhar performed stood out obviously, but I think we should pay credit to the bowlers, too” It might have hung in the balance for longer than was necessary, but that made Pakistan’s T20I series win in South Africa all the more pleasing for captain Babar Azam. When Mohammad Nawaz smacked a six

Report Visitors unchanged; hosts bring in Bjorn Fortuin and Wiaan Mulder for Beuran Hendricks and Pite van Biljon Toss Pakistan chose to bowl vs South Africa With Pakistan looking to add the T20I series trophy to the one they won for the ODIs on this tour of South Africa, Babar Azam won the toss asked

Big picture The end of South Africa’s summer is approaching and they have everything to play for. Although victory in the fourth and final T20I against Pakistan won’t give them a second trophy this season, it will mean they will share the spoils in a series where they were without seven first-choice players, and could

News Rizwan, meanwhile, said he felt “the same joy as if I’d done it myself” when Babar reached his hundred Babar Azam celebrated reaching the top of the ODI rankings with a performance for the ages in the shortest format, scoring his maiden T20I hundred, and the highest score by a Pakistani in T20I cricket.

Report The series is level at 1-1 after South Africa bounced back from a defeat in the first game Toss Pakistan chose to bowl vs South Africa Pakistan have opted to field first after winning the toss at SuperSport Park in the third T20I. The series is level at 1-1 after South Africa bounced back

Big picture Match one went down to the penultimate ball. Match two was as one-sided as they come. What are these two teams really about? South Africa have been rebuilding for much of the last six years and still don’t seem to have much beyond the outlines of a foundation. They know they have a

Amidst the current panic about over rates and T20 matches extending beyond four hours, the second T20I between South Africa and Pakistan was over well within three. And yet, despite it’s brevity, it’s difficult to imagine George Linde will play another international match that provides as much gratification as this one did. Not only did

Report Mohammad Hasnain replaces Haris Rauf in the second change for the visiting side Toss Pakistan chose to bat vs South Africa Both South Africa and Pakistan wanted to bat first at the Wanderers and the hosts initially thought they had won the right to it when match referee Andy Pycroft said the coin had

News Dr Saleem had tendered his resignation last month, only for it to be accepted now The PCB has decided to release the head of its Medical Department Dr Sohail Saleem, officially accepting his resignation, which had been tendered on March 5 in the wake of the PSL’s postponement last month. The PCB believes there

News The season was curtailed last month after an outbreak of Covid-19 among a number of players The PCB will outsource the management of its bio-security protocols to an international firm when the sixth season of the PSL resumes in June. The dates for the resumption have now been finalised, with the league restarting on

At a time when the vast majority of people have not seen others regularly, one person has overstayed his welcome over the last three months from the South African point of view. With two hundreds, two fifties, and two forties in nine innings, and a T20I average of 135.50 in 2021, Mohammad Rizwan has been

Big picture Given there is a certain other tournament that happens to coincide with this four-match series, South Africa against Pakistan at the Wanderers is unlikely to have global eyeballs fixed firmly upon it. One of the few T20I series longer than three games, it must have appeared, on paper, as the perfect appetizer ahead

News Pakistan coach happy with Babar Azam’s progress as captain, says he’ll improve further with experience In the three ODIs against South Africa, Pakistan’s strategy to extract maximum firepower from the middle order remained a theory until Hasan Ali, from the late-middle order, showed a glimpse of what can be with his 32 off 11

News Legspinner Zahid Mahmood has replaced the injured Shadab Khan Pakistan have made a late call to include Fakhar Zaman in their squad for the T20I series against South Africa and Zimbabwe. He was earlier overlooked for the format and was meant to return back home following the ODIs, but having struck back-to-back centuries, the

News ‘Throughout the tournament, our batsmen did well, especially Fakhar [Zaman] and Imam[-ul Haq]’ Amid all the other accolades that Babar Azam and Misbah-ul-Haq will invite for their cricketing careers, what happened at SuperSport Park today led to a record that binds the two men together in a rare accomplishment. The 17-run win in the

Preview South Africa have seven different faces in their side, five necessitated by players leaving for the IPL TossSouth Africa chose to bowl vs Pakistan South Africa have seven different faces in their side – five necessitated by players leaving for the IPL, one though injury and one a decision made on form – as

News The head coach is confident after Pakistan’s fighting effort in the second ODI even though they lost the match Pakistan’s fighting performance in the second ODI, even though they lost the match, has given head coach Misbah-ul-Haq the confidence that his team can win the three-match series. If Pakistan manage to do so, Misbah

News Allrounder picked up the injury to his left toe while batting in the second ODI in Johannesburg Shadab Khan will play no further part in Pakistan’s ongoing tour of South Africa and Zimbabwe because of a left toe injury he sustained while batting in the second ODI against South Africa in Johannesburg on Sunday,

News Team-mates and former players react to Fakhar Zaman’s blistering 193 The controversy over the manner in which his innings ended may have overshadowed Fakhar Zaman‘s innings on Sunday at The Wanderers. His 193 will easily reside among the greatest ODI innings played by a Pakistan batsman and perhaps even beyond that when taking into

News The debate is whether de Kock was trying to deceive the batsman or signalling to his team-mates The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has weighed in on Fakhar Zaman‘s contentious run-out on Sunday night in the second ODI against South Africa, saying it was “up to the umpires to decide” if Quinton de Kock had

News Temba Bavuma calls Pakistan opener’s innings “incredible… the best I’ve come across” For a little while, the memory may have drifted back to Abu Dhabi, over a decade ago, when Abdul Razzaq pulled off one of Pakistan’s most improbable heists against South Africa. In the end Pakistan – basically Fakhar Zaman – fell desperately

Report Visitors in with a chance to secure series Pakistan have won the toss once more and will bowl first in the second ODI with one eye on a series win. Both teams are unchanged. “We have an opportunity to rectify the mistakes we made in the first ODI and put some of the things

Preview The hosts will have to iron out their inconsistencies at the top if they are to level the series Big picture The first ODI painted a broad enough picture of both sides’ strengths and weaknesses in a way whole series often fail to do. Across exactly 100 overs of two mid-table sides jostling for

Imam-ul-Haq was one of two set batsmen to fall quickly as Pakistan stuttered © AFP/Getty Images It should’ve been far more comfortable than it ultimately was but given Pakistan’s records in chases such as the one they faced at Centurion, it is an achievement they eventually overcame two distinct phases of panic after two set