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LAHORE: The financial woes of the cash-strapped Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) are likely to deepen as the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) has refused to release travel and daily allowances (TA/DA) for national hockey teams and has also demanded a detailed account of the funds disbursed to the federation over the past year. In a letter addressed to PHF president Tariq Hussain Bugti on Friday — a copy of which was obtained by Dawn — the PSB raised several objections and sought an explanation from the federation over its failure to provide the required documentation related to previously allocated funds. “I…
NEW ZEALAND opener Devon Conway (L) and Rachin Ravindra run between the wicket during the T20 tri-series match at the Harare Sports Club on Friday. —courtesy Zimbabwe Cricket HARARE: Matt Henry took three wickets and Devon Conway hit an unbeaten half-century as New Zealand outclassed hosts Zimbabwe by eight wickets in their tri-series match at Harare Sports Club on Friday. Zimbabwe made a promising start but could only score 120-7 after being sent in. Fast bowler Henry took 3-26. New Zealand needed only 13.5 overs to secure the win, with left-handed opening batsman Conway making 59 not out off 40…
LONDON: Jasprit Bumrah is a weapon India must use sparingly but with the five-Test series against England on the line, the tourists are considering playing their pace spearhead in the fourth test in Manchester next week. The team management has decided that Bumrah, whose workload has been carefully managed since he returned from a back surgery earlier this year, will play three of the five Tests in England. A victory in Manchester would give England an unassailable 3-1 lead. To prevent that, India are considering playing Bumrah, who skipped the second test in Birmingham, in the next match rather than…
LAHORE: Pakistan women’s cricket team will play nine One-day Internationals and as many T20 Internationals on home and away basis, besides competing in the T20 and ODI World Cups during the 2025-26 activity calendar, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced on Friday. Before participating in the 50-over ICC Women’s World Cup, Pakistan will play only one series of three matches against South Africa in Lahore from Sept 16 to 22. The World Cup is scheduled to be held in India from Sept 30 to Nov 2 but Pakistan will play their matches of the global event in Sri Lanka under the…
Attention quickly turns to the white ball following Australia’s first ever Test series sweep of West Indies in the Caribbean in a contest of three or more matches, with five T20 internationals across Jamaica and St Kitts. It begins a big block of matches for Australia’s T20 side, who last played against Pakistan last November, as the squad builds towards next year’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka, beginning in February. A three-match T20 series against South Africa in the Top End follows the Caribbean tour, before three games in New Zealand in October and five at home…
Tim David has more experience playing in the Caribbean than any of Australia’s T20 squad and believes Hobart Hurricanes teammate Mitch Owen’s style is well suited to playing in the West Indies. Owen is one of two potential T20 debutants alongside Matt Kuhnemann in Australia’s 16-man squad to face West Indies in five T20 internationals beginning Sunday night in Jamaica (10am Monday AEST). An Australian T20 cap would be the pinnacle of a remarkable six months following the Hurricanes opener’s breakout KFC BBL|14 campaign, which led to deals in South Africa’s SA20, the Pakistan Super League, Indian Premier League and…
INDIA WOMEN’S TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Harmanpreet Kaur’s team have won four of the six games on this tour so far © Getty It has been less than a week since Lord’s witnessed a thriller of a Test that went down to the final session of the final day. International cricket returns to the iconic ground five days later as India and England will square off once again, but this time for the second women’s ODI of the three-match series. India had a lot of positives to take from the first ODI in Southampton. Despite the inexperience in their bowling…
BANGLADESH TOUR OF SRI LANKA, 2025 Naim scored an unbeaten 32 from 29 and was dropped for the next game [File photo] © AFP Bangladesh batter Mohammad Naim Sheikh has claimed that he was not mentally ready to bat at number four in the opening game of the recently concluded three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka . Naim, who returned to the national set-up after a gap of two years during the white-ball series against Sri Lanka on the back of solid domestic performance, failed to make the cut in any of the three ODIs. The left-handed opener was picked…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Pakistan Champions captain Mohammad Hafeez has expressed his excitement and determination ahead of the World Championship of Legends (WCL) 2025, which kicks off on Friday, July 18. Speaking at Birmingham Airport upon the team’s arrival, Hafeez said leading Pakistan Champions gives him a new kind of pride, adding that he hopes to deliver strong performances. “Always proud to represent Pakistan, and this time, a different feeling, but hopefully we will do the same things. We’ll do well,” Hafeez said. The squad was welcomed in Birmingham with head coach Arshad Khan, franchise owner Kamil Khan, and former…
ZIMBABWE T20I TRI-SERIES, 2025 Senuran Muthusamy has played only 8 games for South Africa out of the 193 international games since his debut in 2019 ©Cricket South Africa Graeme Smith came up with the idea, and it’s no less true today than it was then. The protea – the flower, not the cricketer – needs fire to disperse its seeds. Without the adversity caused by a blaze, it cannot regenerate. “Protea Fire” became South Africa’s method for making sense of the madness of the modern game. Happily, fire doesn’t often visit South Africa’s dressing rooms. But adversity does. Sometimes it…