PTV served the country’s cricketer Shoaib Akhtar with an Rs100-million recovery notice after an on-air spat with anchor Dr. Nauman Niaz. In a show, the former fast bowler announced his decision to resign from the network. The former star pacer expressed disappointment and vowed to “fight this legal battle”.
Pakistani batter Mohammad Rizwan beat West Indies legend Chris Gayle’s six-year-old record as the team faced Scotland in the T20 World Cup. A wicketkeeper has now achieved the record for the most runs in a single calendar year in T20 cricket. He surpassed Gayle’s previous score of 1665, achieved earlier in 2015. Currently, the new record of 1676 is held by the heroic opener.
Pakistan and the West Indies will play a limited-overs series in Karachi next month. There will be three Twenty20 matches scheduled on December 13, 14, and 16. The two cricket boards have also announced three one-day internationals for December 18, 20, and 22. It is the first time the West Indies have toured Pakistan since it played three T20 matches there in April 2018.
Babar Azam’s father has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board to immediately arrange for the treatment of injured cricketer Bisma Amjad. Taking to Instagram, Azaeem Siddique expressed his concerns about the cricketer. The PCB can pay the Babar’s India match fee if other arrangements cannot be made for the treatment of injured woman cricketers, Siddique said.
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 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.
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.
Captain Babar Azam on Friday broke Virat Kohli’s record as the first skipper to complete 1000 runs in a T20I in the quickest time. The right-handed batsman performed this feat in Pakistan’s match against Afghanistan in the ICC T20 World Cup. He reached a historic milestone in 26 innings against Virat’s 30 innings.