Babar Azam, captain of the ICC’s ODI and T20I teams of the year, versus Mohammad Rizwan, T20I Cricketer of the Year, who wouldn’t be excited? The first match of the seventh PSL took place on Jan 27 and the air is buzzing with excitement, especially after the Karachi Kings were defeated by the Multan Sultans. From joking about Azam letting Rizwan win to Rizwan’s cute captaincy moments — Pakistani Twitter has captured it all. After a short but electrifying curtain-raiser, cricket fans were more than ready to witness the first battle between their favourite teams and the reactions are filled with good humoured clap…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
NORTH SOUND (Antigua): Two-time former champions Pakistan clash with Australia in the ICC U-19 World Cup Super Series quarter-final here at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium on Friday. Led by Qasim Akram, Pakistan have remained unbeaten in the tournament winning their three Group C matches against Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea to confirm their quarter-final clash with Australia. After finishing their group matches in Trinidad on a high with a thumping nine-wicket win over Papua New Guinea, Pakistan have trained hard in the lead-up to the match against the Aussies. Pakistan, meanwhile are the third most successful side after…
The second match of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2022 sees Quetta Gladiators lock horns with Peshawar Zalmi at National Stadium Karachi tonight. The match is scheduled to kick off at 8pm. Ahead of that clash, here is all you need to know about the two teams that will be in action tonight: Quetta Gladiators What did they do in offseason? Quetta Gladiators used to be one of the most consistent PSL sides but they have gone off track the past two campaigns, finishing second last in 2020 and last in 2021. With such a poor recent record, this should…
KARACHI: Multan Sultans captain Mohammad Rizwan kicked off the year with another half-century while Imran Tahir took three wickets as the defending champions got off to a winning start in the seventh edition of the HBL Pakistan Super League here at the National Stadium on Thursday. Chasing 125 after Babar Azam’s Karachi Kings struggled to impress with the bat on what looked like a placid pitch, 2021 ICC T20I Cricketer of the Year Rizwan smashed an unbeaten 52 off 47 balls, smashing five fours and one six to help the Sultans win by seven wickets. Rizwan’s opening partner Shan Masood…
Rafael Nadal marched into the final of the Australian Open to be just one match away from becoming the all-time men’s Grand Slam leader after overcoming Matteo Berrettini in their semi-final on Friday. The 35-year-old Spanish great, seeded sixth, was too solid for the Italian seventh seed, winning 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in two hours 55 minutes, and will face either Daniil Medvedev or Stefanos Tsitsipas in Sunday’s final. Nadal is level on 20 majors with his golden-era rivals Novak Djokovic, who was deported on the eve of the tournament, and Roger Federer, who is absent with injury. It gives the Spaniard…
KARACHI: The surging price of oil, which touched $90 a barrel for the first time in seven years owing to tight supplies as well as mounting political tension between Russia and Ukraine, caused across-the-board profit-taking on the Pakistan Stock Exchange on Thursday. However, range-bound trading gave way to a change in sentiments later on. Investors conducted value-buying towards the end of the session in anticipation of the corporate results’ season, according to Arif Habib Ltd. As a result, the benchmark index added 127.99 points or 0.28 per cent from a day ago to close at 45,083.04 points. Market participation increased…
LAHORE: Three private companies, which had been awarded a contract to run wagons under phase one of the Pakistan Railways project to outsource its freight business four months ago, have surprisingly backed out, Dawn has learned. The companies also surprisingly continued using hundred of freight wagons for the transportation of imported coal from Karachi to various destinations without signing the project award agreement and submitting the performance bank guarantees, it is further learned. “It is a major scam as the firms declared successful after a lengthy bidding process not only backed out of their commitment under a revenue-sharing model but also continued…
ISLAMABAD: The government is working on a set of tax and expenditure measures to provide relief to the urban middle, lower-middle and salaried classes to absorb increasing price shocks. A meeting of the Macroeconomic Advisory Group presided over by Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Thursday considered a few measures that address inflationary pressures on the urban middle class. These proposals would be fine tuned along with fiscal implications over the next couple of days but would be made public after the executive board of the international monetary fund (IMF) approves the revival of its programme and disbursement of over $1…
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab Agriculture Department informed the wheat review committee on Thursday that the province would not be able to achieve its revised sowing target of 16.7 million acres due to the increasing price of fertilisers. However, it said, the originally assigned sowing target of 16.2m acres would be achieved. Punjab had voluntarily enhanced its sowing target to 16.7m acres, but due to the fertiliser crisis it reverted to its original target of 16.2m acres. A meeting of the committee, chaired by Minister for National Food Security and Research Syed Fakhr Imam, was informed by Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan…
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Finance (MoF) on Thursday identified the spread of Omicron variant, external pressures on account of higher imports and double digit inflation as emerging risks to an otherwise balanced growth trend. “Though economic recovery is underway, the economy is also confronting the new Covid-19 wave, inflation and external sector pressure. The rising global inflation along with the significant increase in transportation cost and the subsequent supply chain disruption is expected to make international trade costly,” the MoF’s Economic Adviser’s Wing (EAW) said in its Monthly Economic Update & Outlook. In its January 2022 Update, the EAW noted…
