Fawad Alam's fifth Test century and Shaheen Shah Afridi's new ball potency pushed Pakistan into the ascendancy on a truncated third day of the rain-affected second Test against the West Indies at Sabina Park yesterday. Fawad's unbeaten 124 lifted the tourists to 302 for nine declared...
The Directorate of Civil Protection (DPC) in Haiti says the death toll from the August 14 earthquake has risen to 2,207 with 344 others missing and presumed dead. In a brief statement, the DPC said that the number of people injured by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake...
The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine, a move expected to trigger a new wave of vaccine mandates as the Delta variant batters the country. Around 52 percent of the country is fully vaccinated, but health authorities have hit...
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Phlegmatic captain Kraigg Brathwaite has urged calm from his players ahead of Friday's start of the second Test, as West Indies take aim at their first Test series win over Pakistan in 21 years. A nail-biting one-wicket win late on last Sunday's fourth day handed the...