Aiden Markram and Rassie van der Dussen hit half-centuries before Yasir Shah's late strikes gave Pakistan the upperhand, on Day 3 of the first Test, in Karachi, on Thursday.
The Pakistan Cricket Board is set to appeal against the ICC-imposed provisional suspension of leg-spinner Yasir Shah for failing a dope test last November in the series against England. A PCB official said it has been decided not to ask the ICC to have a test of the B sample collected from Yasir after his sample A tested positive for a banned substance leading to the ban.
Pakistani pace spearhead Wahab Riaz and leg-spinner Yasir Shah have been reported to be involved in a scuffle during a practice session in Brisbane on Wednesday following which the team management is likely to take action against the duo. As per a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official, both the players hit each other following an argument while playing football on the eve of the opening Test of the three-match series against Australia starting from Thursday.
Pakistan's Kamran Akmal identified technical problems that are affecting Babar Azam's recent slump in form
Pakistan rising leg-spinner Yasir Shah on Sunday was handed a provisional suspension by the International Cricket Council after being charged with an anti-doping rule violation.
International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday has banned Pakistan's ace leg-spinner Yasir Shah from playing any forms of cricket for three months. Yasir had tested positive for a prohibited substance in December. The 29-year-old player will be able to play again from March 27. The leg-spinner will miss out on the ongoing Pakistan Super League, the upcoming Asia Cup and the World T20, and he could make his return for Pakistan only during the tour of England in June. Shah, whose test was conducted on November 13 last year during the one-day series against England in the United Arab Emirates, later told an ICC panel that he had taken his wife's medicine mistakenly which led to his positive dope test.
Former cricketer Sreesanth feels that without the swashbuckling all-rounder Yuvraj Singh, India wouldn't have lifted the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007.
They are afraid of grass pitches: Basit Ali's surprising take on Pakistan batters ahead of England Test series
Bypolls will be held on Wednesday in 31 assembly seats spread across 10 states and Kerala's Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, from where Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is making her electoral debut. Though these bye-elections are not going to have any bearing on the governments, they are seen as a big test for the Congress and the INDIA bloc which failed to put up a united show in the recent Haryana assembly polls. Most of these seats fell vacant after the sitting MLAs contested the Lok Sabha elections and won while in some constituencies, the bypolls are being held due to death of the representatives. The Wayanad seat was vacated by Rahul Gandhi, who also won from the Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency which he kept. Voting will be held in seven seats in Rajasthan, six in West Bengal, five in Assam, four seats in Bihar, three in Karnataka, two seats in Madhya Pradesh, and one seat each in Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Kerala and Meghalaya. Votes will be counted on November 23.
Pakistan have recalled opener Yasir Hameed for the first two Tests against West Indies.
Dushan Hemantha's four-wicket haul and Ahan Wickramasinghe's sensational fifty sealed Sri Lanka A spot in the final and brought an end to defending champions Pakistan A campaign to its unforeseen conclusion in the first semi-final match of the ACC Men's T20 Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2024.
Pakistan have lost their opening batsman with typhoid for the first Test against India which starts on January 13.
Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah has revealed that spin legend Shane Warne's useful tips helped him dismantle England batting line-up and clinched the three-match Test series 2-0 in the United Arab Emirates.
Yasir Shah wrecked Zimbabwe's batting lineup with six for 26 as Pakistan cruised to a 131-run win in the opening One-dayer at the Harare Sports Club on Thursday.
Veteran leg-spinner Shah took six second innings wickets for 143 runs to finish the match with a career-best 14 for 184 as New Zealand were bowled out for 312 after being forced to follow on a day earlier.
England all-rounder Ben Stokes has hailed Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah as the best the game has seen since the days of Australian great Shane Warne.
The Pakistan opener is likely to miss the first Test against India, beginning January 13.
Leg-spinner Yasir Shah took six second-innings wickets in Pakistan's crushing 133-run second Test win over West Indies in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday as they took an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. - Scorecard: The wily spinner finished with 6-124 to secure his second ten-wicket haul in Test cricket after claiming four wickets in the first innings as West Indies were bowled out for 322 before tea on a weary fifth and final day pitch at Sheikh Zayed Stadium.
Pakistan's Yasir Shah claimed five wickets to put the breaks on England's scoring on Day 2 of the 1st Test at Lord's in London on Friday.
USA's aggressive batting approach, as highlighted by batsman Steven Taylor, is a threat to any opponent. However, their bowling attack, which can lack discipline at times, might be vulnerable against the Windies' powerful batting lineup that includes Nicholas Pooran, Andre Russell, and Powell himself.
Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani drew nil salary from his oil-to-telecom-and-retail conglomerate Reliance Industries for the fourth straight year in a row while his children earned a sitting fee and a commission for being on the board of India's most valuable company. Ambani, 67, had capped his annual remuneration at Rs 15 crore from financial year 2008-09 (April 2008 to March 2009) to 2019-20 (FY20); and since FY21, he opted to forego his salary, due to COVID-19 pandemic, until the company and all its businesses were fully back to their earnings potential.
The BCCI president Anurag Thakur may have taken a tough stand against the resumption of India-Pakistan cricket ties, but Pakistan's premier spinner Yasir Shah is keen on having a face-off with India's spin magician Ravichandran Ashwin. Shah became the joint-second fastest to 100 wickets in all Test cricket when he took 5 for 121 in his 17th match against West Indies in the first day-night Test in Dubai on Sunday.
Former Pakistan leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed feels the categorisation of Test and limited overs spinners is the need of the hour. According to Mushtaq, skill-wise, Lyon and Ashwin are on par with greats like Saqlain Mushtaq and Muttiah Muralitharan but not best suited for the one-day game.
South Africa will have no room for error as their world-class batters will be keen to flex their muscles against a spirited USA in their opening Super Eight match of the T20 World Cup.
'Indian football needs to work together and move in the same direction.' 'Only then will the competition in India improve, and the Indian national team will improve.'
Having conceded a 121-run lead in the first innings, the Caribbean side began their charge in the final session on Day 4.
New Zealand started the day shakily but recovered to post 229-7 at the close thanks to Williamson's 89 off 176 deliveries on a spinning track at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium.
No team is assured of a semifinal berth and England will need to defeat USA by either 10 runs or at least an over to spare to stay in contention for the semifinals.
The ministry said that the media and the public's concerns about the late processing of the results have been reviewed.
Pakistan spinners Zulfiqar Babar and Yasir Shah took nine wickets in the second innings as the hosts beat Australia by 221 runs in the first Test on Sunday to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.
India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin will be gunning for the No.1 spot in the ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers as an interesting contest promises to develop with Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah, who wrested the top spot following a 10-wicket haul in the Lord's Test that ended on Sunday.
He finished a stellar T20 International career, registering the record for most by runs any player in T20 World Cups -- 1,292 runs in 35 matches.
President Alvi recalled the fight for the EVMs waged by the previous PTI-led government, saying that the entire endeavour -- which involved more than 50 meetings at the presidency alone -- was abandoned.
Ranveer Singh made his fans proud as he received a special honour at the Red Sea Film Festival 2023.
According to the complaint filed with the police, the girl says when she contacted Yasir on WhatsApp pleading for his help he laughed at her and told her to keep quiet about the whole issue.
Sarfraz Ahmed celebrated his promotion with a breezy 77 and leg-spinner Yasir Shah claimed a career-best 4-29 to help Pakistan crush Sri Lanka by 135 runs in the second one-day international and go 2-1 up in the five-match series.
Amazon Prime Video has announced 69 assorted Web series and movies, and the slate sure looks interesting.
Bad light stopped play on day three with Karunaratne on 27 and Dhananjaya de Silva on 30.
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