Pakistan and Sri Lanka will meet in the final of the ODI tri-series at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Saturday, October 31, after a week in which the hosts swung from one of their most dramatic wins in years to one of their most chastening defeats. How Shaheen Shah Afridi’s side responds to being bowled...
Shadab Khan hit a maiden one-day international century from number eight to rescue Pakistan from the brink of defeat and secure a one-wicket victory over England in Lahore on Sunday, booking the hosts a place in Saturday’s tri-series final. The innings, unbeaten on 113 off 96 balls, was one of the more remarkable chases in...
Pakistan have dropped Shan Masood, until recently their Test captain, from the squad for the two-match home series against Sri Lanka, as selectors turn to youth and domestic form in a revamped 14-man group announced by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Saturday. Babar Azam continues as captain, and three uncapped batters, Sameer Minhas, Mohammad...
Pakistan began their ODI tri-series with a 37-run win over Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi on Sunday, thanks to a comeback century from Salman Ali Agha and a pace attack that kept taking wickets when the visitors threatened to run down a big target. The result gives Shaheen Shah Afridi’s side a winning start to a...
Pakistan has recorded the highest hunger score in South Asia in the 2026 Global Hunger Index, according to Dawn, a finding that points to a worsening food security crisis in a country where the cost of living has already become a central political issue. The report, released on Wednesday, landed the day before World Food...
Pakistan begin a seven-match ODI tri-series against Sri Lanka and England on Sunday, with Shaheen Shah Afridi leading the side into a tournament that doubles as an early test of the squad being shaped for the 2027 World Cup. The series opens at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium with Pakistan facing Sri Lanka, five days after Sri...
Sahibzada Farhan has won his first series as Pakistan’s T20I captain, and he has done it with the bat as much as with the whistle. Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 82 runs in the second T20I at Rawalpindi on Sunday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series, with Farhan and Maaz Sadaqat...
Pakistan’s men’s cricket team came home from the Asian Games with a medal no Pakistan men’s side had won in the sport before, even if it was not the colour they wanted. India beat them by 19 runs in the gold-medal match at Korogi Athletic Park in Nisshin, Japan, on Saturday, October 3, and held...
Pakistan will play two of the biggest matches of its 2026 Asian Games campaign within 24 hours of each other on October 1, taking on Bangladesh in the men’s cricket semi-final in Nisshin, Japan, before its hockey team walks out against arch-rivals India in Kakamigahara in a semi-final that carries its own separate weight of...
England wrapped up the second Test against Pakistan at Lord’s with a full day to spare, beating the tourists by 194 runs on Sunday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series and secure their first Test series victory since December 2024. Chasing a daunting 389 for victory, Pakistan were bowled out for...