LAHORE: Faisal Khan Afridi of the PCB Elite Panel of Umpires has been suspended for five HBL Pakistan Super League matches and fined 50 per cent of his match fee for breaching the event’s Health and Safety protocols, an official said on Wednesday. “The PCB had announced it will follow a zero-tolerance approach towards any Health and Safety breaches. This decision [to suspend Faisal] demonstrates our resolve and commitment to deliver a successful event in which all participants remain secure so that they continue to be available to their sides and entertain millions of fans following this event worldwide,” tournament…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
For Lahore Qalandars fans, there’s a special kind of joy in watching Shaheen Shah Afridi work his magic on the pitch. The Qalandars’ captain brought his A-game against Peshawar Zalmi on Wednesday night, helping his team make its way to victory. The Qalandars set a 200 run-target after batting first. Opener Fakhar Zaman helped bolster the score by making 66 runs off 38 balls while Abdullah Shafique scored 41 runs off 31 balls. Peshawar Zalmi tried their best to reach the target but faltered early on in the game when Shaheen Shah Afridi dismissed Zalmi’s opener Hazratullah Zazai for zero in the…
LAHORE: The federal government has granted “state guest” status to foreign cricketers playing the Seventh Edition of Pakistan Super League T-20 matches from Feb 10 to 27 at Gaddafi Stadium. With the grant of the status, the Pakistan army, Rangers and police will provide foolproof security to the players on roads as well as in and around the stadium. For state guest movement, the Punjab government will now be required to offer “route zero” during the teams movement on roads and three security layers by the police, Rangers and the Pakistan army. ‘Route zero’ entails closure of traffic during movement…
KARACHI: The contest was all but over when Lahore Qalandars pacer Zaman Khan got two in two almost halfway through the Peshawar Zalmi innings on Wednesday. With the asking rate climbing in their chase of 200 at the National Stadium, Zaman had left Zalmi reeling when he sent back Hussain Talat and Kamran Akmal on consecutive deliveries to leave them needing 133 in their last 11 overs. A tough ask for Zalmi made worse as they couldn’t capitalise on Qalandars’ poor fielding in their HBL Pakistan Super League clash. There were five dropped catches as well as a missed chance…
Ashley Giles “stepped down” from his role as managing director of England men’s cricket on Wednesday as he paid the price for a woeful 4-0 Ashes series loss in Australia. The humiliating reverse followed a poor 2021 where England lost nine of their 15 Tests and were beaten in the semi-finals of the World Twenty20. “Ashley Giles is standing down as managing director, England men’s cricket,” said an England and Wales Cricket Board statement. The 48-year-old was appointed at the end of 2018, replacing former England captain Andrew Strauss, who will now take over on an interim basis ahead of next month’s…
South African batting great Hashim Amla was full of praise for the Pakistan cricket team on Monday, describing the team as “talented, entertaining and a treat to watch”. Speaking exclusively on Dawn News TV’s sports show Replay, Amla discussed the state of Pakistan cricket and the series of accolades recently won by its players. He described skipper Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan as “fantastic players”, saying their partnership was a “major plus” for Pakistan cricket in all formats of the game and the kind of chemistry they have formed can be the foundation of any successful team. Coming to the HBL Pakistan Super…
Singaporean cricketer Tim David, playing for Multan Sultans in the seventh edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), says the quality of batting and bowling as well as “high standards” in the PSL have made the tournament among the best in the globe. In an interview on Dawn News sports programme ‘Replay’, David spoke about his performance with the bat as well as his extraordinary catch in the Sultans’ slim win over Quetta Gladiators. The match between Multan Sultans and Quetta Gladiators on Jan 31 ended on the penultimate ball of the match, with the Gladiators needing seven off two, when Nasim Shah, arriving…
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Wednesday decided to return about Rs2.59 per unit to consumers of K-Electric in the next month’s billing on account of lower fuel cost in December 2021. With the decision, the consumers would get a net reduction of about Rs1.83 per unit in tariff because of a 76 paisa per unit cut in FCA currently in the field for November fuel cost adjustment that has come to an end on completion of the previous billing cycle. Nepra Chairman Tauseef H. Farooqui announced at a public hearing, also attended by Nepra members from…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday expressed displeasure over the delay in the launching of Dhabeji Industrial Zone (DIZ) in Sindh, and urged the provincial government to provide additional 1,500 acres of land it had promised for the project. The prime minister gave these remarks at a meeting on Special Economic Zones (SEZs) which are being set up in different parts of the country. Talking to Dawn after the meeting, Mr Khalid Mansoor, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister and chairman of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority, said the prime minister was quite worried about the delay in DIZ due to…
Facebook’s parent firm Meta on Wednesday delivered a gloomy mix of a sharper-than-expected drop in profit, a decrease in users and threats to its ad business that plunged shares some 22 per cent in after-hours trading. Already jittery markets have punished pandemic-era darlings including Netflix for disappointing results, with Meta getting a taste of that after its $10.3 billion quarterly profit and daily user-growth fell short of expectations. Yet the signature Facebook platform also reported losing roughly one million daily users globally between the last two quarters of 2021 — a tiny number on an app with nearly two billion…
