Shoaib Mohammad

Former Pakistan opener Shoaib Mohammad has questioned the need of professional coaches in modern cricket saying their role is overrated and a majority of them are failures as players.

Former fast bowler Salim Jaffar and opening batsman Shoaib Mohammad has been named as the Pakistan Cricket Board's selection committee members.

In an advertisement on its website, the board also invited applications for sports physiotherapist, strength and conditioning coach, and spin bowling consultant.

Four persons carrying Rs 5.10 lakh cash were detained by Tezaji Nagar police at Khandwa road toll booth on Sunday.

The national selectors who picked the Pakistani squad that won the Twenty20 World Cup are angry that they have been completely ignored in the celebrations for the team's triumph.

NIA started probing Jamaat's alleged charade of charity funding after a prod from the ministry of home affairs, which declared the outfit a banned organisation on February 28, 2019.

The PCB may be forced to review the list of players who were given central contracts this week after members of the national selection committee complained they had not been consulted by their chief while finalising the list.

He might have resigned as Pakistan's chief selector last month but Abdul Qadir says he has seen enough during his seven month stint at the helm that he could easily write a best selling book now.

A Delhi court has dismissed anticipatory bail pleas of two men in a northeast Delhi riot case, stating the conspiracy behind the riots had to be unearthed.

Former India wicketkeeper Kiran More has said ball tampering was almost a norm during the team's 1989 Test tour of Pakistan. More, however, said that neither side reported the other for it and everyone learnt how to scratch the ball and then generate reverse swing.

Former Pakistan batsman Ejaz Ahmed is all set to be named as the fielding coach of the national team before the home Test series against arch-rivals India.

Joint teams of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), J&K Police and CRPF searched properties belonging to members of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami at various locations in the Valley on Thursday and seized digital storage devices and sheaves of documents purportedly showing funds collected in the name of charity being funnelled into secessionist activities.

Pakistan's newly appointed chief selector Saleem Jaffer has made it clear that players with poor fitness records would not be shown any leniency during his tenure.

Carrying on with their sustained raids against fraudulent and illegal call centres in the city, since the fresh exposure of scamming call centres in Kolkata by a US-based Youtuber last month, Bidhannagar police sealed yet another call centre in Sector V and arrested nine of its officials and employees on Friday.

Newly-appointed PCB Chairman Ejaz Butt made former Test pacer Saleem Jaffer the new chairman of an interim selection committee.

PCB chief selector Abdul Qadir has come under the scanner for commitment towards his job and for his alleged involvement in the selection of his son in a domestic team for the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.

New Zealand all-rounder Daryl Mitchell on Friday became the first New Zealand batter to score three successive centuries against England in a Test series.

Intikhab Alam claimed he has been offered a two-year contract while PCB chairman Ejaz Butt insists the decision is yet to be approved by the governing body.

Ironically, despite the police being aware of the volatile situation, the senior officials had not found it necessary to deploy additional force to ensure peace.