West Indies arrived here early yesterday from Dubai to begin their final preparations for the Twenty20 World Cup set to bowl off today. The 2012 champions spent the last two weeks in a preparation camp in United Arab Emirates where they also played four unofficial T20 warm-up games – two against Zimbabwe in Sharjah and
Half-centuries from Haris Sohail and an unexpectedly restrained Shahid Afridi revived a floundering chase as Pakistan won a thrilling first ODI by three wickets. New Zealand, having hauled themselves out of a mire of their own thanks to a century from Ross Taylor, were running away with the game at the three-quarter mark, but Haris
Opening for the first time in a T20 international, Sarfraz Ahmed made a breezy unbeaten 76 to steer Pakistan to a seven-wicket win over New Zealand at the Dubai International Stadium. Sarfraz put on 51 with Awais Zia for the first wicket, and an unbroken 43 with Umar Akmal for the fourth wicket, to take
Pakistan lost three wickets for five runs after lunch but recovered to bat out a draw to retain their 1-0 lead over New Zealand going into the final Test in Sharjah. Pakistan went from 70 for 1 to 75 for 4 before Asad Shafiq, in partnerships with Younis Khan and Sarfraz Ahmed, dug in to
(ESPNcricinfo) Pakistan 219 for 4 (Younis Khan 106, Misbah 34*, Johnson 3-22) v Australia Twelve years ago, Younis Khan played in Pakistan’s only previous Test match meetings with Australia in the UAE. A 3-0 sweep for Steve Waugh’s side included one Sharjah match that lasted only two days. When he walked to the centre of