Rizwan Ali

India is aiming to end its 11-year trophy drought in global cricket competitions. South Africa is chasing its first men’s World Cup title in any limited-overs format. Saturday’s Twenty20 World Cup finale at Bridgetown, Barbados features the tournament’s two unbeaten teams and it’ll end in either triumph or heartbreak for opposing captains Rohit Sharma of India and Aiden Markram of South Africa. The 20-team tournament started June 1 and has been staged in the United States and the Caribbean. Indi…

Defending champion England and unpredictable Pakistan started the Cricket World Cup among the favorites to reach the semifinals but the teams face off Saturday with little more than pride at stake. England will be hoping to sign off a woeful title defense with at least three wins from nine games. England’s campaign got under way with a thumping nine-wicket loss to New Zealand in a rematch of the 2019 final. It also included a run of five consecutive losses. Pakistan needs a near impossible 287-r…

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — New Zealand batters Mark Chapman and Chad Bowes struck half-centuries against Pakistan before a strong hailstorm brought a premature end to the fourth Twenty20 on Thursday.

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Legspinner Rehan Ahmed became the youngest men’s test cricketer to claim a five-wicket haul on his debut and put England on the brink of a historic 3-0 sweep in its first test tour to Pakistan in 17 years.

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — England spinners hit back with three wickets on a flat wicket after Pakistan openers Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique struck record-breaking centuries in the first cricket test on Saturday.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — England’s cricket team arrived in Islamabad early Sunday to play its first test series in Pakistan since 2005. Led by Ben Stokes, England will kick off the tour in Rawalpindi -- an adjacent city to Islamabad -- which hosts the first test from next Thursday.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The relentless opening pair of captain Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan combined with some brutal pace bowling makes Pakistan a formidable team at the Twenty20 World Cup.

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — England made a triumphant return to Pakistan after 17 years with a six-wicket win in the first Twenty20 on Tuesday.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Up there with winning the Ashes. Australia captain Pat Cummins was jubilant after his team thrived in testing cricket conditions to win the test series against Pakistan 1-0, and he compared it to routing England 4-0 in January.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Shaheen Shah Afridi jolted Australia with two wickets in three balls before Usman Khawaja and Steve Smith combined to guide the visitors to 70-2 at lunch on Day 1 of the third and final test against Pakistan.

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Australia opener David Warner said he hopes for an improved pitch for the second test in Karachi after the visitors could claim only four Pakistan wickets in the series-opening draw on Rawalpindi’s docile wicket.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Veteran off-spinner Nathan Lyon is aiming for a 3-0 sweep in Australia’s first test series in Pakistan since 1998. “It’s going to be a big challenge, but I’m going into this test series thinking we’re going to be performing and playing our best cricket to win 3-0,” Lyon said in an o…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Australia vice-captain Steve Smith says he has fully recovered from the concussion he sustained last month and is looking forward to his team’s first test cricket series in Pakistan since 1998.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — With a match against Pakistan looming at the T20 World Cup, Afghanistan legspinner Rashid Khan is hoping to give the people back home something to remember.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has recalled power-hitters Asif Ali and Khushdil Shah for next month’s cricket Twenty20 World Cup.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan defeated Zimbabwe by five wickets in the country’s first international match against a major team in six years on Friday in a stadium encircled by police and filled to capacity.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Hundreds of Pakistani policemen featured in a dress rehearsal on Saturday to provide security for a planned visit by Zimbabwe’s cricket team to the eastern city of Lahore.