KANDY: Pakistan were eliminated from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup despite beating Sri Lanka by five runs in a Super Eights match of extraordinary swings at Pallekele on Saturday.
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Harry Brook’s masterclass ton carries England to last four in Pallekele thriller against Pakistan
KANDY: Harry Brook produced a captain’s innings of rare composure and power as England secured their place in the semi-finals of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup with a two-wicket victory over Pakistan in a gripping Super Eights match at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Kandy on Tuesday.
Man freed after abduction over viral video of girl cricketer in conservative tribal area
PESHAWAR: A young man abducted in Pakistan’s conservative North Waziristan tribal district for filming and sharing a viral video of a girl playing cricket was released on Saturday after mediation by local elders, police and activists said.
Jailed PTI leaders urge suspension of protests during Ramadan, condemn Zardari’s remarks on Khan
LAHORE: Five jailed senior leaders of Pakistan’s opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on Friday urged the party to suspend all protest activities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and shift focus to parliamentary politics, while condemning President Asif Ali Zardari’s recent remarks about the party’s incarcerated founder, Imran Khan.
Magnitude 5.9 quake shakes northwest Pakistan, no casualties reported
ISLAMABAD: A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck parts of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, the Pakistan Meteorological Department said, with tremors felt across several districts but no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Farhan’s unbeaten hundred powers Pakistan into Super Eights with rout of Namibia
COLOMBO: Pakistan sealed their place in the Super Eights of the T20 World Cup with a commanding 102-run victory over Namibia in Colombo, Sahibzada Farhan’s unbeaten century ensuring they bounced back from defeat to India and avoided the threat of early elimination.
Pakistan to begin Ramadan on Thursday after crescent sighted
PESHAWAR: Pakistan will begin the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Thursday after the crescent moon was sighted on Wednesday, the country’s moon-sighting committee announced, aligning the South Asian nation with neighbours Bangladesh and India.
Silence from Punjab officials fuels questions over reports of $40 million luxury jet purchase
LAHORE: Reports that the provincial Punjab government has acquired a luxury Gulfstream business jet for VIP use have met with a wall of official silence, even as the move draws sharp rebukes from opposition figures and amplifies concerns over public spending in a nation grappling with soaring poverty and debt.
At least 11 killed in Sindh bus-trailer crash on national highway
KARACHI: At least 11 people were killed when a passenger bus slammed into a trailer loaded with heavy concrete girders on the National Highway in southern Sindh province early on Sunday, rescue officials and police said.
India vs Pakistan: The rivalry that cricket refuses to let die
In the end, it took the full machinery of international cricket’s diplomacy – late-night talks in Lahore, interventions from the ICC, quiet words from friendly nations – to ensure that the fixture everyone knew had to happen actually would. For a few fraught days this month, the T20 World Cup’s marquee clash between India and Pakistan teetered on the edge of cancellation, another casualty of the region’s tangled politics. That it survived, to be played on Sunday evening at Colombo’s R. Premadasa Stadium, says something profound about the strange, stubborn power of this particular contest. It does not merely sustain cricket; in many ways, it defines it.