BIRMINGHAM (England): England captain Andrew Strauss has insisted resting James Anderson from the third Test against the West Indies will enable the strike bowler to play more international cricket in the long-run.

England, 2-0 up in the three-match series, have decided now is the time to give [...]

PALLEKELE: Sri Lanka will look to improve their recent one-day record against Pakistan when they clash in a five-match series starting in Pallekele on Thursday.

The World Cup runners-up have lost five of their last six one-dayers against Pakistan, four in the United Arab Emirates last November and one in the Asia [...]

KARACHI: Prone to controversies, Pakistan’s flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi has kept a low profile in the ongoing tour of Sri Lanka leading to speculation that he has been stopped from speaking to media by the team management.

Pakistan cricket circles was abuzz with speculation after ‘Geo News’ [...]

KARACHI: Pakistan’s shamed pacer Mohammad Asif, who served a jail sentence after being found guilty of spot-fixing, has dismissed speculation that he intended to apply for political asylum in the United Kingdom.

“I am training hard and regularly to keep myself fit and I am also preparing to file appeals [...]

ISLAMABAD: PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf says with people on both sides of border keen on restoration of India-Pakistan cricket ties, “good news” would soon come on the issue.

“I think it is the desire of the people of countries that Indo-Pak matches should be restored soon,” Ashraf, who [...]

NEW DELHI: Efforts to revive cricketing ties between India and Pakistan continue to gather momentum, with the Pakistan Cricket Board ( PCB) chairman Muhammad Zaka Ashraf, recently taking up the matter with ICC chairman Sharad Pawar and BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla.

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NEW DELHI: Efforts to revive cricketing ties between India and Pakistan continue to gather momentum, with the Pakistan Cricket Board ( PCB) chairman Muhammad Zaka Ashraf, recently taking up the matter with ICC chairman Sharad Pawar and BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla.

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NEW DELHI/KOCHI: V Jayadevan, the Thrissur-based engineer who developed the VJD System for calculating target scores in interrupted limited-overs cricket, has written to International Cricket Council (ICC) chief Sharad Pawar asking for an independent assessment of his work.

He insists a ‘neutral’ comparison with the prevalent Duckworth-Lewis [...]