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A top official of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has admitted that removing Mickey Arthur as head coach of the national team was a tough decision to make. Arthur has recently spoken about the manner in which PCB’s cricket committee recommended his removal after the World Cup, saying he felt let down by people he trusted most. PCB’s chief executive Wasim Khan said in an interview on Sunday that the cricket committee, which was headed by him and included Wasim Akram and Misbah-ul-Haq, had held a robust meeting and asked a lot of tough questions to Arthur, captain Sarfaraz Ahmed and former chief sel “The first question we asked ourselves was were we happy to be number seven in Tests and number six in One-dayers. Are we happy that we have been inconsistent over a long period of time,” Khan said. “In Mickey’s defence, he did a lot of good things for Pakistan cricket. But we had to make a tough decision, it’s is a new regime, new domestic structure and we needed to be susta...

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has set a June, 2020, cutoff time for the Indian Cricket Board to affirm its support in Asia Cup planned for September, one year from now. "We have to check whether India consents to come to Pakistan for the Asia Cup. There is still some time till one year from now's September however by June, we need to know where we are going with this and in the event that it can't be facilitated here in light of an absence of association of India," PCB CEO Wasim Khan said in a meeting. Anyway an official choice to move the competition will be Asian Cricket Council's privilege. "In any case, that is a choice for the Asian Cricket Council and ICC to make. We are prepared to have India in the Asia Cup," Khan said. Khan anyway recognized the functional issues in having any respective cricketing ties with India in the predominant strenuous connection between the two neighbors. "Board to board level, we share a decent connect...

Sri Lanka's interval lead trainer Rumesh Ratnayake feels his side's without issue constrained overs voyage through Pakistan will urge different countries to send their sides to this piece of the world. The Sri Lankan group started its voyage through Pakistan on Friday, after 10 of its principle players would not travel refering to security concerns. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had at first welcomed Cricket Sri Lanka to play two Tests of the ICC Test Championship in Karachi and Lahore yet the Islanders rather selected to play a restricted overs arrangement of three ODIs and the same number of Twenty20 matches. The PCB is presently seeing this visit to go off effectively and have the Tests in December in Pakistan. "This will be an antecedent for that (Test) visit (in December). I'm certain this will positively empower the others (SL player, who would not travel) to take choices, we can't implement it on them," Ratnayake told a media gathering. "The...

Former  India batsman Yuvraj Singh, who reported his retirement from Cricket not long ago has said that he felt the group the board was searching for reasons to drop him towards the finish of his vocation, matching with new determination criteria, for example, the obligatory 'yo-yo' Test. Talking on TV Channel 'Aaj Tak' on Thursday, Yuvraj was likewise dismal about how the BCCI and group the board didn't take senior players like him, Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan into certainty towards the finish of their professions, and pass on their arrangements plainly. "I never felt that I would be dropped subsequent to being the man of the match in 2 games out of the 8-9 I played after the Champions Trophy 2017. I got harmed and I was advised to plan for the Sri Lanka arrangement. At that point all of a sudden, the yo-yo test came into the image," Yuvraj said. "It was a u-turn in my choice. All of a sudden I needed to return and get ready for the yo-yo test...

The five-Test Ashes arrangement finished 2-2, however Australia were marginally ahead on a large portion of the key numbers. They scored more runs per wicket, progressively hundreds, had a higher control rate with the bat, and took more wickets. Britain had a marginally better hit rate with the ball, however the Australia bowlers were far more tightly as far as control, yielding just 2.96 runs per over to England's 3.56.  Steven Smith transcend above every other person in the arrangement, in spite of missing one Test with damage. His total of 774 is the fifth-most astounding ever in an Ashes arrangement, yet the way that it arrived in a generally low-scoring arrangement makes his accomplishment much increasingly amazing. Smith scored 200 runs less than Don Bradman did in the 1930 arrangement, however as far as rate commitment to Australia's runs (barring additional items), the two exhibitions are at standard: Bradman scored 35.5% of Australia's keeps running off t...

Previous India batsman Gautam Gambhir condemned the national group's administration over their treatment of wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant. The youth has gone under the scanner after a string of conflicting exhibitions where he lost his wickets to insensitive strokeplay. The two India lead trainer Ravi Shastri and batting mentor Vikram Rathour had spoken about Pant waiting be increasingly cautious with the willow after India's voyage through the West Indies. "Actually, I have constantly sponsored Sanju Samson in front of Rishabh for wicketkeeper-batsman's job however it is baffling to see the group the executives utilizing words like 'from dauntless to thoughtless', 'rap on Rishbah's knuckles' and 'requirement for a reinforcement of Rishabh'," Gambhir wrote in his segment for Times of India.  "This is no real way to deal with a youthful human asset. Everybody needs him to pl ay 'reasonable' cricket," the Wo...

All-rounder Mohammad Nawaz and batsman Iftikhar Ahmed have been given ODI returns by Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistan's central selector and lead trainer, for the inevitable home arrangement against Sri Lanka. Nawaz transformed the debut period of the Pakistan Super League, exhibitions which slung him into the national group figuring. The 25-year-old, be that as it may, neglected to legitimize his everything rounder tag, particularly with the bat and sneaked out of the ODI group post the Asia Cup last September. An unbeaten century in a week ago's five star game against Kyhyber Pakhtunkhwa is comprehended to have strengthened convictions in his multi-dimensional capacities. Iftikhar, then again, made the remainder of his two ODI appearances in 2015. The 29-year-old dazzled in the local List A challenge in April this year, hammering two hundreds and a fifty out of three progressive experiences. Striking non-attendants in the squad from the one that played in Pakistan's last ...