Babar Azam has been appointed captain of the national Test cricket team. Babar Azam has now become the captain of the Pakistan cricket team for all three formats.

Babar Azam’s first assignment as Test captain will be to lead Pakistan in a two-Test series against New Zealand in the ICC World Test Championship. The Test series between the two countries will start on December 26.

Babar Azam has been appointed captain of the national Test cricket team in place of Azhar Ali. Azhar Ali captained the national Test cricket team in England.

Chairman PCB Ehsan Mani approved the new appointment after meeting Azhar Ali on Tuesday evening. In the meeting, Ehsan Mani thanked Azhar Ali for his services as captain. He also contacted Babar Azam and congratulated him on his appointment.

Chairman PCB Ehsan Mani said that Azhar Ali has knowledge of cricket and he is a specialist top order batsman, Azhar Ali still has a lot of cricket left and he is sure that Pakistan can benefit a lot from his experience.

Ehsan Mani said that the future captain of Babar Azam was identified at an early age. For his development, he was appointed as the captain of Whiteball Cricket last year and continued his performances and leadership. Based on his abilities, he proved that he was ready to take on additional responsibilities as captain.

According to the details, in the match played in Rawalpindi, Pakistan achieved the target of 130 runs given by Zimbabwe at a loss of 2 wickets in 16 overs.

Opener Fakhr Zaman was dismissed for 21. Haider Ali played an innings of 27 off 20 balls.

Abdullah Shafiq scored a brilliant 41* in his debut, his innings included four fours and a six, Khushdal Shah played a lightning fast innings of 36 runs.

For Zimbabwe, Masakadza and Shumba took one wicket each.

Earlier, in the third T20 match played in Rawalpindi, Zimbabwe scored 129 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the allotted overs and gave Pakistan a target of 130 runs to win.

According to sources, the PCB has decided to hand over the leadership of the Test team to Babar Azam after captaining the ODI and T20 teams.

Sources said that Babar Azam has agreed to lead the national Test team. After getting the leadership, Babar Azam will lead the national team in all three formats till the World Cup.

Top PCB officials have also assured Babar Azam of their full support. In the new selection committee, Babar Azam’s consultation as captain will be given importance.

The captaincy of the national Test team will be announced after the approval of the chairman PCB. The issue of captaincy will be discussed in tomorrow’s meeting of the PCB governing board.

Sources said that in case Babar Azam is given the captaincy, Muhammad Rizwan will be the vice-captain.

It should be noted that the captain of the national team Babar Azam has won another honor by completing 1000 runs in T20 International matches this year. He has become the first Pakistani player to score 1000 runs for 2 consecutive years.

The Board of Governors has approved the audited financial statement for the year 20-2019 which shows a profit of Rs 3.8 billion after tax deduction. Therefore, the total reserves of the PCB will now be Rs 17.08 billion as against the previous financial year. In 19-2018, it was Rs 13.28 billion.

The PCB’s audited financial statement for 2019-20 will soon be released on the PCB’s corporate website.

Meanwhile, PCB Chief Executive Wasim Khan in his briefing to the Board of Governors said that the PCB sold its product in the domestic cricket season 21-2020 for more than Rs 34 million as compared to the previous season 20-2019. 11.5 million more than the competition.

Negotiations are underway for the sponsorship of the Pakistan Cup ODI tournament. The PCB expects this amount to reach Rs 40 million

Pakistan won the series by defeating Zimbabwe by 8 wickets in the second T20 match.

In the second T20 match played in Rawalpindi, Pakistan achieved the target of 135 runs given by Zimbabwe at a loss of two wickets.

Opener Fakhr Zaman failed again and returned to the pavilion with just 5 runs, captain Babar Azam played a responsible innings of 51 runs.

Young batsman Haider Ali remained unbeaten on 66, Khushdal played an innings of 11 runs.

Fast bowler Mazrabani took both the wickets for Zimbabwe.

Earlier in the second T20 match played in Rawalpindi, Zimbabwe scored 134 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in the stipulated overs and gave Pakistan a target of 135 runs to win.

Harrasment incident has been occured in Faysal Bank F-10 branch where Manager Usman Gohar have seen sexually assaualted a female worker caught by camera. This is one of the most serious issue because this has been happening in Capital and that too doing by the manager.

The video shows the bank manager groping the female worker next to his desk and the clip has gone viral on social media but due to the sensitive nature of the video, we are refraining from sharing it over here.

Incredible quick bowler Sarfaraz Nawaz has made a dangerous case that his previous colleague and officeholder Leader Imran Khan used to smoke pot, sniff cocaine and devour liquor during his playing days.

In a meeting on Tough situation with Rashid, Nawaz said that the head was a normal client of liquor and medications.

“He used to drink before me,” asserted Nawaz – a namesake of PM Imran’s most unpleasant political opponent.

Nawaz, in the meeting, asserted that after a dreary exhibition against Britain in 1987, PM Imran had gone to his home in Islamabad and lit up a joint.

“He (Imran Khan) smoked cannabis … he used to do it in London and even at my home. In 1987, when Pakistan confronted Britain in a cricket match and he didn’t bowl well, he had gone to my home alongside Mohsin Khan, Abdul Qadir, Salim Malik for a feast. He devoured charas there. He grunts something and burns-through cocaine too,” Nawaz guaranteed in an alarming claim.

Sarfaraz Nawaz, who spearheaded the specialty of converse swing and highlights at number 6 in Geo Super’s rundown of most prominent Pakistani quick bowlers, held firm on his cases and moved the PM to confront him and deny.

“Acquire him front of me and we should check whether he denies it. I am not the solitary observer. There are numerous in London. He can document a body of evidence against me as well,” he said.

It is appropriate to make reference to here that Sarfaraz Nawaz, as well, was the main Pakistani pacer before his group of work was overshadowed by PM Imran, who even drove the nation to their sole 50-over World Cup win in 1992.

Besides, Nawaz had entered governmental issues in 1986 – very nearly 10 years before PM Imran did during the 1990s. Nonetheless, where commonplace MPA-transport was the pinnacle of Nawaz’s political profession, his colleague turned-enemy has proceeded to guarantee the most noteworthy office in the nation.

According to the details, in the second ODI match played in Rawalpindi, Pakistan easily achieved the target of 207 runs given by Zimbabwe for the loss of 4 wickets in 35 overs. Captain Babar Azam scored an unbeaten half century.

Pakistan’s first wicket fell at 68 runs, opener Abid Ali returned to the pavilion with 22 runs, Imam-ul-Haq played an innings of 49 runs off 61 balls, Haider Ali, who made his debut in the match, was dismissed for 29 runs, in his innings. There were 2 sixes and a four.

Wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan was hit by Sikandar Raza for one run, Babar Azam played an unbeaten 77-run innings.

The second ODI between Pakistan and Zimbabwe is underway at the Pindi Cricket Stadium. Pakistan’s openers are batting aggressively in pursuit of an easy target of 207 runs.

In the first over, Imam-ul-Haq hit two fours. Imam-ul-Haq scored 34 while Abid Ali scored 21 runs. Pakistan has 64 runs in ten overs.

Earlier, winning the toss and playing first, Zimbabwe were all out for 206 in 45.1 overs.

The last Zimbabwean to be dismissed was Mamba, who was bowled cleanly by Mohammad Musa after scoring 11 runs.

Chamo Chibaba was dismissed by Haris Rauf, Craig Ervin returned the ball to Muhammad Musa while Brian Chari fell victim to Faheem Ashraf.

Similarly, Brendon Taylor also got caught on the ball of Iftikhar Ahmed after scoring 36 runs and the batsmen who came after him could also score 10 runs and Iftikhar Ahmed also piled them up.

Iftikhar Ahmed bowled well, dismissing Sikandar Raza and Tendai Chisoro. Iftikhar Ahmed took the fifth wicket by dismissing Sean Williams.

For Pakistan, Iftikhar Ahmed took five wickets while Mohammad Musa took two wickets.

Zimbabwe’s Taylor scored 36 while Sean Williams scored 75.

In the second ODI, two changes have been made in the Pakistan team, replacing Wahab Riaz and Haris Sohail with Haider Ali and Musa Khan.

Pakistan and Zimbabwe will play the third and final ODI on November 3.

According to the schedule, the first T20 match between host Pakistan and Zimbabwe will be played on November 7 in Rawalpindi. The second T20 match between the two teams will be played on November 8, while the third T20 match will be played on November 10 at the Pindi Stadium in Rawalpindi. Earlier, these matches were to be played in Lahore.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), it appears, is quieting the issues of HBL Pakistan Super Association, as it keeps on abstaining from reacting to media inquiries over the undertakings of the Class, the nation’s leader Twenty20 function.

Second time in a month’s time, neither the PCB media office nor the advertising office was prepared to answer the questions of the media as the undertakings between the PCB and the six establishments keep on turning out to be progressively ‘fishy’ step by step, taking steps to ruin the picture of PSL.

Last time, a gathering of the six establishments with PCB authorities was held after which a concise public statement was given regarding the matter. At the point when Day break reached PCB chief media head Samiul Hasan, he said that as he didn’t go to that gathering the media should legitimately put the inquiries to PCB advertising head Shoaib Naveed.

On Thursday, another gathering between the proprietors of PSL establishments and the PCB was held in Lahore – and was once more followed by a couple phrased public statement giving no suitable subtleties regarding the matter.