T20 World Cup 2026 Cricket News

Central Punjab found guilty of ball tampering, Ahmed Shehzad fined

Central Punjab were found to have tampered with the condition of the ball, and their captain Ahmed Shehzad was fined 50% of his match fee

01-Nov-2019•ESPNcricinfo staff

Fresh faces in Pakistan squads in post-Sarfaraz Ahmed overhaul

Muhammad Musa Khan, Khushdil Shah and Usman Qadir are the new faces in the T20I squad

21-Oct-2019•Danyal Rasool in Lahore

Test captaincy a chance to 'leave my legacy' - Azhar Ali

He hopes to build a team culture that promotes fearless cricket and intelligent decision-making under pressure

18-Oct-2019•Danyal Rasool in Lahore

Sarfaraz Ahmed sacked as Pakistan's Test and T20I captain

Azhar Ali takes charge of Test team, Babar Azam named captain of T20I side

18-Oct-2019•Osman Samiuddin

Somerset fly high as Jack Leach, Jamie Overton round up Nottinghamshire

Division One leaders claim seventh win of campaign as Azhar Ali digs them out of trouble before bowlers take over

09-Jul-2019•Paul Edwards at Taunton

Tom Banton's emergence keeps Somerset's title challenge beating

Nine final-day wickets stand between Somerset and a sixth win in eight after they gradually turned the screw on Hampshire

02-Jul-2019•Matt Roller at Taunton

Tom Banton's star rises before Azhar Ali finishes off Worcestershire

Somerset rode into the Royal London semi-final on the back of their opener's thrilling hundred as Worcestershire never got going in the chase

10-May-2019•David Hopps at New Road

Peter Trego and Azhar Ali hundreds underpin crushing Somerset win

Somerset pair put on double-century stand before rain, with steep asking rate too much for Essex

26-Apr-2019•ECB Reporters Network

Pakistan consider changes after 'disappointment' of series defeat

Azhar Ali admitted Pakistan could alter the balance of their side for the third and final Test

10-Jan-2019•Danyal Rasool in Johannesburg

Faf du Plessis' century leaves Pakistan with mountain to climb

Faf du Plessis bounced back from his pair at Centurion with a captain's innings of 103 as South Africa stretched their lead above 200

04-Jan-2019•The Report by Andrew Miller

Soft signal, hard luck, as Pakistan suffer more third-umpire woe

04-Jan-2019•Danyal Rasool at Cape Town

Pakistan stick with under-fire top six for Newlands examination

Sarfraz Ahmed backed his batsmen to come good as he ruled out changes or the inclusion of an allrounder

02-Jan-2019•Danyal Rasool in Cape Town

Arthur gives Pakistan's seniors dressing-room dressing down

Coach's focus on the 'soft dismissals' of Sarfraz Ahmed, Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq, with talk emerging of 'big changes' in the next Test

28-Dec-2018•ESPNcricinfo staff

'World-class' Yasir Shah gives Pakistan an advantage - Sarfraz Ahmed

The conditions are expected to favour the seamers, but Pakistan's captain has singled out his legspinner as a potent threat to South Africa's batsmen

24-Dec-2018•Danyal Rasool in Centurion

Babar Azam, Azhar Ali centuries rescue Pakistanis

Three wickets from seamer Thandolwethu Mnyaka had overseen a disappointing top-order collapse early, with Pakistan reduced to 112 for five at one point

20-Dec-2018•ESPNcricinfo staff

Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq tons headline see-saw day

William Somerville's 4 for 75 helped restrict Pakistan's lead to 74 but the hosts struck back with two quick wickets before stumps

05-Dec-2018•The Report by Danyal Rasool

Azhar Ali agrees Somerset return in 2019

Somerset have confirmed the return of Pakistan batsman Azhar Ali as overseas player for the whole of the 2019 season

26-Nov-2018•ESPNcricinfo staff

Azhar and Sohail make 81 each on attritional first day

Azhar Ali and Haris Sohail summoned the spirits of what had made this Pakistan side so hard to beat on UAE soil

24-Nov-2018•The Report by Danyal Rasool

Azhar Ali retires from one-day internationals

The former Pakistan captain has decided to focus only on Tests going forward

01-Nov-2018•Umar Farooq

Azhar and Shafiq's collective brainfade

A hundred and thirty Tests between them, and the two managed to become involved in one of the most bizarre run-outs ever, even by Pakistan's standards

18-Oct-2018•ESPNcricinfo staff

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