Masked gunmen launched a brazen attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, wounding seven team members.
Thilan Samaraweera became just the sixth batsman in Test cricket to notch a double hundred in consecutive matches on Monday.
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/ 23 February 2009
Rows of empty seats and thousands of unsold tickets have provided a bleak backdrop to Pakistan’s first Test in 14 months.
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/ 15 November 2008
Shivnarine Chanderpaul hit a fighting century but couldn’t stop Pakistan winning the second day-night international by 24 runs on Friday.
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/ 22 October 2008
Bangladesh on Wednesday were left to rue another Test near-miss but took heart from running New Zealand close in Chittagong.
Holders Australia could pull out of the Champions Trophy after the International Cricket Council decided to go ahead with the tournament in Pakistan.
Misbah-ul Haq led Pakistan’s charge in guiding the home team to a comfortable 102-run win in the one-off Twenty20 international at the National Stadium in Karachi on Sunday. The 33-year-old scored a career-best 87 to lift Pakistan to their record Twenty20 total of 203-5 in 20 overs.
Opener Salman Butt smashed a record-breaking century to help Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 150 runs in the fifth and final day-night international on Saturday for a 5-0 series whitewash. The left-hander scored a career-best 136 to lift Pakistan to their highest one-day total against Bangladesh of 329-9 in their 50 overs.
An International Cricket Council (ICC) investigator has questioned banned fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar over his claims that he was offered money to throw matches, Pakistani sources said on Tuesday. Akhtar (32) was banned for five years a week ago for criticising the Pakistan Cricket Board. He later alleged that that he had refused offers of bribes to underperform.
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/ 30 January 2008
Mohammad Yousuf’s brilliant century and Shoaib Malik’s all-round contribution helped Pakistan overwhelm Zimbabwe by seven wickets in the fourth one-day match in Faisalabad on Wednesday. The win, which lifted the home team to a 4-0 lead in the five-match series, came in Pakistan’s world-record 673rd one-day match.