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Australia captain Pat Cummins led his side to a dramatic two-wicket win over England in the first Test at Edgbaston on Tuesday. The Ashes holders were 209-7, still 72 runs shy of a victory target of 281, when fast bowler Pat Cummins came in to bat after first-innings century-maker Usman Khawaja fell for a painstaking 65. And after Alex Carey was out to leave Australia 227-8, the tourists still required another 54 more runs. But Cummins and Nathan Lyon’s unbroken stand of 55 saw Australia home in a match to rival the tension of England’s two-run win in a celebrated 2005 Ashes clash at Edgbaston. Pat Cummins, who finished on 44 not out, hit the winning boundary when he edged Ollie Robinson to third man where a diving Harry Brook knocked the ball over the rope. Lyon, whose missed run out contributed to England’s stunning one-wicket win at Headingley in the drawn 2019 Ashes series in England, was 16 not out. The victory left World Test champions Australia 1-0 up in the five-match se...

HARARE: Sikandar Raza followed up his sensational four-for with a record century and powered Zimbabwe to thrash Netherlands by six wickets in the Cricket World Cup (CWC) Qualifier. Sikandar Raza was the hero of Zimbabwe’s dominant six-wicket victory over the Netherlands as the home side chased down a mammoth 316-run target in just the 41st over for the loss of four wickets. Earlier, Zimbabwe captain Craig Ervine sent the Netherlands into bat first after the coin flipped in his favour. The Netherlands had apparently made him pay for his decision to field first as the Dutch side piled up a massive 315/6 total on the scoreboard with openers Vikramjit Singh and Max O’Dowd and skipper Scott Edwards leading the charge with half-centuries. Dutch batters annihilated Zimbabwe bowlers in the first innings as most of them went for plenty but Sikandar Raza remained the exception as he returned with sensational figures of 4/55 in his 10 overs to bar the opposition from amassing a more daunting ...

CHELMSFORD: Dutch all-rounder Roelof van der Merwe showcased astounding courage in Somerset’s T20 Blast fixture against Essex when he dislocated his finger while stopping the ball. The incident happened in the 16th over of the first innings of the match when Roelof van der Merwe bowled a low full toss to Matt Critchley on the third delivery of his last over. The right-handed batter went to drive the ball straight and cannoned it straight towards Merwe who attempted to stop the ball but dislocated his right-hand index finger in the process. Roelof van der Merwe jumped up in the air in excruciating pain and immediately called the physio, who put his dislocated finger back in place. What followed, left the fans in disbelief as Roelof van der Merwe sprinted back to the pitch and completed his over immediately after. Taking to Twitter, Vitality T20 Blast shared the video of the incident and captioned it as, “Roelof van der Merwe is an absolute trooper: dislocates his finger brilliantly...

Pakistan men’s football team will depart for Mumbai on Tuesday evening to participate in the upcoming South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship, scheduled to take place from June 21 to July 4. According to the details, the national football team will depart from Mauritius Island in the evening today to Mumbai. Upon their arrival in Mumbai, Pakistan men’s football team will then fly to Bengaluru where the eight-team SAFF Championship 2023 will take place. Earlier, the Pakistan team received a two-day delay in the issuance of the Visas due to which they could not depart for Bengaluru as per schedule on Sunday. Pakistan will start their SAFF Championship campaign against arch-rivals India on June 21 before taking on Nepal and invitee Kuwait. Notably, the Pakistan football team are currently in Mauritius where they participated in the four-nation tournament. The national team failed to impress in the four-nation tournament as they remained winless in the entire competition...

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Tuesday revealed the series schedule for the Pakistan men’s team Test tour to Sri Lanka next month. The first Pakistan-Sri Lanka Test will commence at the Galle International Cricket Stadium on 16 July and the two teams will then travel to Colombo for the second Test at the Singhalese Sports Club from 24 to 28 July. For what is Pakistan’s first assignment in the 2023-25 cycle of the ICC World Test Championship, Babar Azam’s side will arrive in Sri Lanka on 9 July and play a two-day warm-up game on 11 and 12 July before they head south for the first Test. The venue for the warm-up fixture will be confirmed closer to the time. Pakistan last toured Sri Lanka in July 2022 and that two-match Test series resulted in 1-1. Pakistan scaled the target of 342 to register the best run chase at the ground and win the first Test by four wickets. The hosts pounced back in the second Test to level the series with a 246-run win. Pakistan last played a Test at the Sing...

MONG KOK: Bangladesh A edged Pakistan A by six runs in the rain-effected semi-final of the ongoing ACC Women’s Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2023 and qualified for the final. Opting to bat first in the second semi-final of the Women’s Emerging Asia Cup, which was reduced to nine overs per side due to rain interruption, Bangladesh A put on a decent show with the bat as they set Pakistan to chase 60 runs. Pakistan A captain Fatima Sana and spinner Anosha Nasir ran through the Bangladesh top-order as they joined forces to book half of their batting lineup inside three overs before a run out in the next over saw Bangladesh A slipping to 16/6. With the side in heaps of trouble, Rabeya Khan and Nahida Akter anchored Bangladesh A batting charge as the duo added 37 runs for the seventh wicket. Nahid Akter was the core contributor to the crucial stand as she scored a brisk 21 off 16 deliveries, laced up with three boundaries and a six, before falling to Tuba Hassan in the final over. Rabeya Kha...

LAHORE: Pakistan men’s cricket team’s Chief Selector Haroon Rasheed on Tuesday opened up regarding the possibility of Sarfaraz Ahmed’s inclusion in the squad for the upcoming ICC Men’s World Cup in India this year. Although Sarfaraz Ahmed has proved his mettle in the Test format after making a remarkable comeback to the format in December, Chief Selector Haroon Rasheed insisted that his performance in the shorter format needs to be evaluated. “As far as Sarfaraz Ahmed is concerned, he has given outstanding performance in Test cricket, there is no doubt about it, and that’s why you see him in the Test squad. But talking about his performance in One-Day and shorter formats, it is obviously premature,” said Rasheed in an interview with a local media outlet here. Haroon Rasheed however pointed out that there is still plenty of time for evaluations and considerations and that no player should be written off at this point. He added that each player’s skills and shortcomings will be caref...