King Babar Azam reclaimed the top spot in the ICC’s T20I Batting Ranking following his superb performance during Pakistan vs Namibia match. His two consecutive half-centuries in the ongoing T20I World Cup have helped him surpass England’s Dawid Malan as the leading batter. In his career, Pakistani skipper Babar is at the top of the ranking for the sixth time.
Rizwan scored unbeaten 79 runs off 50 balls in T20 World Cup 2021 against Namibia, continuing his brilliant run in the shortest format of the game. With this knock, Rizwan has now surpassed Virat Kohli for the most T20 runs in a calendar year and is just five runs behind Chris Gayle.
The opening pair of Pakistan, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan, scripted history on Tuesday. The partnership between Babar and Rizwan has broken Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan’s record during Pakistan’s T20 World Cup match against Namibia. They overtook Rohit and Dhawan’s record of the most century stands in the shortest format of the game.
The CEO of Tesla says he will sell $6 billion of stock and give the proceeds to the UN if it can prove the money will solve world hunger. $6 billion from the world’s billionaires could help end the world’s hunger crisis, according to the UN. Through a Twitter thread, Elon Musk challenged a UN official to show him how this donation would help poor people.
The West Indies women’s cricket team arrived in Pakistan for a three-match ODI series against Pakistan. The team arrived at Jinnah International Airport on Monday. They will stay in quarantine for three days before training at National Stadium begins on November 4. The matches will take place at Karachi’s National Stadium on 8, 11, and 14 November.
The Pakistani startup, Sedenius Technologies, is working on introducing Self Driving Technology in Pakistan. The company designs and develops software for cars with autonomous driving systems. Currently, the company is working on developing an ADAS that is calibrated and modulated by technologies like Multisensor Data Fusion and the Automotive Data and Time-Triggered Framework.
Saudi Arabia has announced it will ban children under the age of 12 from entering the premises of Masjid al-Haram. The officials stated that children under the age of 12 do not qualify for Umrah, or permission to pray inside the Masjid al-Haram. Permission could not be granted through the Tawakkalna app.
Several accounts on social media have threatened to rape the 10-month-old daughter of Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli. In a recent match against Pakistan, where men in blue lost by 10 wickets, a few trolls targeted Mohammed Shami, but captain Virat Kohli supported him. Some Twitter users have publicly criticized Virat Kohli for defending Shami on the social media platform.
Lahore-based B2B social commerce platform, Zarya, has raised $1.7 million in a pre-seed round. The pre-seed round was led by Raed Ventures including Fatima Gobi Ventures, Class 5 Global, and Global Founders Capital. The seed round was also joined by Taager, an Egyptian social commerce startup that raised $6.4 million earlier this year.
Syed Ashfaq Hussain Shah, president of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF), said on Saturday that they were open to discussions with FIFA regarding their issues. The PFF was suspended by FIFA in April after Shah, a group of officials elected by the Pakistani Supreme Court for the PFF but not recognized by FIFA, took over the Pakistan football headquarters from the FIFA normalization committee.