Pakistan registered a commanding win against Australia in the second ODI and levelled the series in Adelaide on Friday, November 8. Babar Azam finished the game off with a six after Saim Ayub and Abdullah Shafique's 137-run stand chasing a low score of just 163 runs.

Mohammad Rizwan's captaincy stint in white-ball cricket for Pakistan will kick off with a three-match ODI series against Australia. The series marks the return of the big three of Pakistan cricket including Babar Azam while for Australia skipper Pat Cummins comes back having missed England series.

Shai Hope slammed his 17th ODI century as West Indies posted a massive score of 328 runs on the board in the second game of the three-match series in Antigua. Hope equalled West Indies great Desmond Haynes for most ODI tons for the region while achieving a massive feat in the current decade.

Babar Azam is under fire for not scoring runs for Pakistan. He was dropped from the team for the final two Tests against England on home soil. His last century had come in an ODI game against the Kiwis on May 5, 2023.

"The contracts have been offered under the structure that was agreed last year between the players and the PCB for a three-year period. As part of the PCB’s strategy to incentivise, five players have been offered central contracts first time," the PCB statement said.

"Uncapped players in the ODI squad include Aamir Jamal, Arafat Minhas, Faisal Akram, Haseebullah, Muhammad Irfan Khan, and Saim Ayub. Jahandad Khan and Salman Ali Agha join the T20I squad for the first time," the PCB statement said.

Babar Azam was snubbed and left out of Pakistan's playing XI for the second and third Test of the series against England in Multan and Rawalpindi respectively. He is expected to be back in the squad for Pakistan's white-ball tour of Australia.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the annual retainership contracts for the men's team for 2024-25 with former captain Babar Azam and wicketkeeper batter Mohammad Rizwan being the only ones in category A. There were quite a few changes from the last time around with five new inductees.

Pakistan's gamble took an even more positive turn in Rawalpindi as England lost half their side in the first session of the third Test. Pakistan played an unchanged line-up from the second Test in Multan, which helped them achieve a first win at home in more than three years.

The third and final Test match between Pakistan and England is set to get underway on October 24 (Thursday) in Rawalpindi. The series is currently locked at 1-1 and Pakistan will be aiming to finally win a series at home and for the first time in Shan Masood's captaincy.

"Mohammad Rizwan because of his seniority, his reliability as a player and because of his experience of leading teams well in domestic cricket and PSL is a front runner to become white-ball captain,” the PCB source told PTI on Friday.

Even though Babar Azam is celebrating his 30th birthday today, Kamran Ghulam, his replacement in Pakistan's Test team, has made the headlines. On his debut, with Pakistan struggling at 19/2, Ghulam has so far showcased brilliant temperament and impressed in 2nd Test vs England.

Pakistan have announced their playing XI for the second Test against England starting from October 15. Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah have been dropped and a total of four changes have been made to the playing XI from the last Test.

Pakistan made a radical move by dropping three of their star players including Babar Azam and Shaheen Afridi for the remaining two Test matches against England. England have a 1-0 lead in the series and the second Test begins in Multan on October 15.

Former captain Babar Azam was dropped from Pakistan's Test squad alongside star pacers Naseem Shah and Shaheen Afridi while India suffered a close defeat to Australia in the Women's T20 World Cup and stand on the brink of elimination. Here's a look at the top 10 sports stories on October 14.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has named a 16-member squad for the second and third Test matches against England. The Board has excluded some big names, including Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah from the team that faced England for the first Test in Multan.

Babar Azam has scored merely 352 runs in nine Test matches since the start of 2023 without a fifty-plus score. The former captain could only manage scores of 30 and 5 in the first Test against England in Multan.

Babar Azam has not hit a fifty-plus score in the last 17 innings. He was dismissed for 30 after making a decent start on the flat track of Multan against England. Pakistan ended the opening day strong on 328/4 with Shan Masood and Abdullah Shafique hitting centuries.

Babar Azam will be in action from October 7 in the first of a three-match Test series against England in Multan. Babar is fresh off his resignation as Pakistan's white-ball captain and will be keen on improving his batting record across formats now with less pressure on him.

Pakistan batter Babar Azam has stepped down as the captain of the national side in white-ball cricket. Babar was renamed as Pakistan's white-ball coach before the T20 World Cup 2024. In a long statement, he mentioned that captaincy has been rewarding but was adding to his workload significantly.