3:00 AM ET How the game played out Multan needed to win every one of their remaining games to have a realistic chance of making the playoffs. To say they failed to do that today against Quetta Gladiators today would be something of an understatement. Shoaib Malik’s men turned in perhaps their worst performance all
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7:15 AM ET Australia’s attack on tour in India is already depleted in the injury-enforced absence of Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood. Under the circumstances, they certainly don’t want to risk losing Pat Cummins too in the lead-up to the World Cup. With Australia set to play back-to-back five-match ODI series in India and then
shares Umar Amin watches on fly off his bat © PSL How the game played out Twin fifties by Umar Amin and Kieron Pollard helped Peshawar Zalmi surge past Multan Sultans’ total of 172 in a seven-wicket win at Dubai. Sultans got off to a red-hot start reaching 65 for 1 in the Powerplay,
3:00 AM ET Karachi Kings 134 for 5 (Livingstone 38, Iftikhar 33*, Imad 19*, Lamichhane 2-17) beat Lahore Qalandars 133 for 5 (de Villiers 33, Sohail 29*, Iftikhar 2-4) by five wickets How the game played out Karachi and Lahore are the two largest cities in Pakistan, boasting a population in excess of 25 million.
shares Neil Wagner rejoices after a wicket © Marty MelvilleAFP/Getty Images It can be back-breaking to bowl one short ball after another, peppered across 16.2 overs on a relatively warm day. But Neil Wagner has made it his life’s calling to bowl at batsmen’s body, intimidate them, bother them and threaten them eventually into
8:10 PM ET Glenn Maxwell has stressed his desire to bat higher up the order for Australia’s ODI team in the run to this year’s World Cup in England, pointing out that coming in with 15 overs to go in a T20 innings is a world removed from the same scenario in a 50-over match.
3:00 AM ET Lahore Qalandars 107 for 2 (de Villiers 47*, Haris 33*) beat Quetta Gladiators 106 (Ahsan 33, Lamichhane 4-10) by eight wickets How the game played out Sandeep Lamichhane‘s career-best T20 figures of 4 for 10 decimated first-place Quetta Gladiators’ promising start in the Powerplay as Lahore Qalandars rode on the Nepal legspinner’
shares © Getty Images Big Picture A three-nil loss in the ODI series, a mostly rained-out warm-up match, and a line-up that’s missing two of their senior cricketers – it has been a troublesome path to the first Test against New Zealand for Bangladesh. Besides, of late, the home side doesn’t lose a lot
3:00 AM ET Multan Sultans 122 for 4 (Siddiq 46, Vince 28) beat Islamabad United 121 all out (Ronchi 32, Christian 3-19) by six wickets How the game played out Multan Sultans swept the season series with Islamabad United in dominant fashion, chasing a target of 122 with ease in a six-wicket win in Dubai.
shares Nic Pothas and Sanath Jayasuriya have a chat © AFP Sanath Jayasuriya, former captain, World Cup winner and one of Sri Lanka’s most popular personalities, has been slapped with a two-year ban by the ICC’s anti-corruption unit for refusing to co-operate with investigations concerning corruption in the island nation. As a result and