Rizwan Ali

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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) — 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.

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…

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…