Former Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Akhtar, popularly known as Rawalpindi Express, and his family are currently facing a mountain of sorrows. Shoaib’s elder brother has passed away, which has been confirmed by the former cricketer himself. Shoaib’s elder brother’s name was Shaheed Akhtar. There was a lot of love between the two brothers and Shahid helped his younger brother a lot in his early cricket career, due to which he came to the national team and then made a name for himself across the world.

Information given on social media

Shoaib Akhtar gave the news of the demise of his elder brother Shahid Afridi through social media. The screenshot of his post is also going viral on social media. Let us tell you that Shoaib’s social media page is banned in India, along with Facebook, Instagram and X, his YouTube is also banned in India.

Shoaib wrote, “With great sadness I am informing you that my elder brother Shahid Akhtar has passed away. He has returned to Allah. You will be informed about the time and place of Namaz-e-Janaza.”

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Shahid Akhtar has played an important role in Shoaib Akhtar’s cricket journey, Shoaib always got the support of his elder brother. There was a lot of love between the two. Akhtar was surrounded by controversies many times during his cricket career, his brother always stood by him.

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Shoaib Akhtar’s mother died in 2021, now he has lost another important person in the form of his brother. This is a difficult time for Shoaib, hence his fans are expressing consolation on social media.

Former captain of Pakistan women’s cricket team Nida Dar has announced her return to professional cricket, who had decided to take an indefinite break last year. Citing mental health reasons, Nida had announced to take a break from sports in April 2025 to focus on her health.

Nida Dar posted on X on Thursday, “After taking time out to focus on myself and regain my strength, I am happy to announce that I am back. Once again I am available for the Pakistan Cricket Team.”

He further wrote, “I am ready to give my best, work hard and contribute whenever the team needs me. Thank you to everyone who supported me in this journey.”

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Nida Dar last played for the Pakistan cricket team in the T20 World Cup 2024, after which the PCB dropped her from the central contract list. Nida was made the captain in place of Bismah Maroof after the 2023 T20 World Cup, although Fatima Sana was made the captain before the 2024 T20 World Cup.

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Nida Dar’s international career

39-year-old Nida took 108 wickets and scored 1690 runs in 112 ODI matches for Pakistan cricket team. In T20 International, he took 144 wickets in 160 matches, scoring 2091 runs in this format.

Talking about the ongoing edition of T20 World Cup, Pakistan team has had a very bad start. After losing to India, Pakistan team lost to South Africa in the second match. The Pakistan team captained by Fatima Sana is currently at fifth position in the points table of Group A.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has made a major change in the salary system of players. PCB has come up with a new formula for players’ salaries. According to the report of ‘Telecom Asia Sport’, in the new central contract model for the year 2026, five format-based tracks have been introduced in place of the old A, B, C, D categories.

According to the new formula, the top format, which has been named ‘Track AB’. This will be for those players who play both Test and ODI formats. Whereas ‘Track A’ will be especially for Test playing cricketers. Similarly, ‘Track BC’ will be for white-ball specialists (ODI and T20 International), while ‘Track C’ will be for T20 International and franchise specialists. Players taking training in High Performance Academy will get ‘Track D’ contract.

Recently, Pakistan’s performance in Test cricket has been poor, after which former players suggested to the PCB that it should be made mandatory for the players to play domestic cricket, especially first-class four-day matches, as this will help them prepare for international challenges.

Pakistan stood 9th and last in the third cycle of the World Test Championship (WTC). Even in the fourth cycle, the team is at 8th place. Pakistan’s performance has also been poor in International Cricket Council (ICC) tournaments. Pakistan team was out of the first round of T20 World Cup 2024, ODI World Cup 2023 and Champions Trophy 2025.

Pakistan could not even qualify for the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup this year. According to the report of ‘TelecomAsia.net’, Naqvi said, “To improve our level, we want all the top players to play in domestic cricket, players who do not play in first-class tournaments will not get central contracts.”

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India has defeated Pakistan for the seventh time in the World Cup. On Sunday, Team India defeated Pakistan by 64 runs in the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026. India’s record against the Pakistan team in the T20 World Cup has become 7-2.

In this match played in Birmingham, the Indian team batted first. Despite the early dismissal of Shefali Verma and Jemimah Rodrigues, Team India scored 170 runs. In reply, the entire Pakistan team was limited to 106 runs. With this, 2025 ODI World Champion India started its T20 World Cup campaign with a win. Actually, 7 big records have also been destroyed in this match.

Most runs in World Cup (Indian)

Harmanpreet Kaur has become the highest run-scorer for India in the Women’s T20 World Cup. She currently has 762 runs and has broken the record of Mithali Raj (726 runs). Smriti Mandhana is at third position with 592 runs.

Richa Ghosh’s biggest innings in the World Cup

Richa Ghosh made the record of playing the biggest innings while batting at number-6 or lower in a T20 World Cup match. He played a stormy inning of 34 runs in 17 balls against Pakistan.

Team India made the biggest score

Team India scored 170 runs against Pakistan, which is its highest score against Pakistan in the history of T20 World Cup. However, India’s highest score in the World Cup is 194 runs, which it made against New Zealand in 2018.

Deepti has the most wickets in the world

Deepti Sharma has made the record of taking most wickets in the history of women’s T20 cricket. He now has 166 wickets in his name in T20. He took 5 wickets against Pakistan.

Most fifty in World Cup

Smriti Mandhana has equaled Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur in terms of scoring most fifties in the T20 World Cup. Mithali, Harmanpreet and Smriti, all three have scored five half-centuries each in the World Cup so far.

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Most wins against one team

This was India’s seventh win over Pakistan in the history of Women’s T20 World Cup. Team India has come second in terms of defeating any one team the most number of times. Australia is in the first place, which has defeated South Africa 8 times in the World Cup.

Deepti became the first Indian to do so

In women’s T20 cricket, Deepti Sharma is the first Indian to take 5-wicket haul twice. Before him, Priyanka Roy, Jhulan Goswami and Renuka Singh had done this once each.

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There is going to be a reshuffle once again in Pakistan cricket. Now the blame is going to fall on Pakistan’s Test captain Shan Masood. The captain of Pakistan’s Test team is about to change. According to a report, Salman Aga can be made the captain of the Test team in place of Shan Masood. Masood’s last three years as Test captain have been disappointing.

Shan Masood has captained in 16 Test matches since the Australia tour in December 2023. During this period, Pakistan has faced defeat in 12 test matches. The defeat against Bangladesh last month was their fourth consecutive defeat.

In the 150-year history of Test cricket, Shan Masood is the only captain among the top nine countries, barring Bangladesh, Ireland and Afghanistan, to have lost his first 12 Test matches. According to sources, Masood has requested Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Mohsin Naqvi not to remove him to maintain continuity, but Naqvi has made up his mind to remove him from the Test captaincy after the poor performance of the team under the leadership of Shan Masood.

Last year, Pakistan stood ninth in the third cycle of the World Test Championship. According to TelecomAsia’s report, “Naqvi is now fed up with Masood. He and his advisors feel that Aga is the best candidate to replace Masood as there are two tough Test matches to be played in the West Indies and three in England in the next few months.”

Before the England tour, Pakistan will play two test matches in Trinidad, which will start from July 25. The first Test in England will be played in Leeds from 19th August. Masood also failed as a batsman in the two-Test series and was able to score only one half-century in four innings, due to which it has become difficult to retain his place in the team.

In the coaching staff, former captain Sarfaraz Ahmed will remain as head coach and Umar Gul will remain as bowling coach. A new batting coach can be appointed for the Caribbean tour.

According to the report, PCB is also considering making former captain Mohammad Hafeez as ‘Director International Cricket’. This department can be important to get a better cricket schedule and keep an eye on the progress of the players. However, Hafeez told TelecomAsia that he has not received any offer yet, but if any offer is received, he will consider it.

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Statements critical of India keep coming from Pakistani cricketers. Now the name of Pakistani all-rounder Khushdil Shah has also been added to this list. Shah gave a controversial statement and said that whenever there is a match between India and Pakistan, the decisions taken during umpiring go in favor of India.

In fact, Khushdil Shah recently appeared on ARY Podcast, where he was asked for his opinion on the high-voltage matches between India and Pakistan. Khushdil Shah alleged that the venue of the matches is also given as per the choice of India.

Regarding the India vs Pakistan match, Khushdil Shah said, ‘There is not much pressure in the India-Pakistan match, but there are more emotions associated with this match. Secondly, things happen in the match that go in favor of Team India. Like sometimes the umpire’s decision goes in their favor and some decisions of the dressing room also go in India’s favor. Sometimes matches also happen as per their wish.”

Khushdil Shah further said that despite all these things, if Pakistan wins, then the joy of victory increases manifold. Let us tell you that Khushdil Shah is currently an active cricketer of Pakistan and has played 53 matches in his international career.

Khushdil Shah on playing against India.

“Matches against India carry a few extra emotions & then the pressure eases a bit. When we were playing, we used to beat them as well. Things tend to go in their favor during matches. Umpiring decisions go in their favor, as do some… pic.twitter.com/suNHPDz1eC

— Sherry. (@CallMeSheri1_) June 7, 2026

India and Pakistan last came face to face in the 2026 T20 World Cup. In the Group A match played on 15 February, Team India defeated Pakistan by a margin of 61 runs. In that match, Ishan Kishan had scored 77 runs, while almost all the bowlers of India wreaked havoc on the Pakistan team.

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Bangladesh defeated Pakistan cricket team by 104 runs in the first test. In this test played in Dhaka, Pakistan team looked completely backward, neither batting nor bowling showed any strength. After this defeat, there was tension in Pakistan’s dressing room also, when captain Shan Masood and senior fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi clashed with each other. Both stood face to face on the reasons for the defeat, which quickly turned into an argument.

According to reports, Pakistan team captain Shan Masood was angry with the performance of the fast bowlers. He believed that the pace of the fast bowlers was low, due to which our team could not put pressure on the hosts. He raised questions about the average speed of Shaheen Shah Afridi. He said, “Pakistan team could not create pressure because the speed of our bowlers was low. This is a matter of concern.”

Afridi blamed the batting unit

In response, Pakistan’s senior fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi raised questions on the performance of the batsmen. If reports are to be believed, Afridi, in response to Masood’s words, reminded that his team could not take the lead in the first innings. Afridi told the captain to concentrate on his batting. Masood scored only 11 runs (9 and 2) in both the innings combined.

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There was a shock in the WTC points table too

In the first Test against Bangladesh, 8 WTC points were deducted from the Pakistan team for slow over rate, with this the Pakistan team has reached the eighth position in the WTC points table. Their hopes of reaching the finals were greatly reduced.

match status

Batting first, Bangladesh had scored 413 runs, Pakistan’s first innings was limited to 386 runs. Bangladesh, which took a lead of 27 runs in the first innings, declared the second innings at 240/9. Bangladesh captain Nazmul Hossain Shanto had scored a century (101) in the first innings, he also scored 87 important runs in the second innings.

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Pakistan had to score 268 runs to win, but the entire team was limited to 163 runs. In the second innings, 6 players of the Pakistan team could not touch double figures. Bangladesh won by 104 runs and took a 1-0 lead in the 2-match series. This is Pakistan’s third consecutive Test defeat against Bangladesh.

Pakistan lost by 104 runs in the first test against Bangladesh. This is Pakistan’s biggest defeat in terms of runs against Bangladesh in Test cricket. Some Pakistani fans are not able to digest this defeat, but former cricketer Basit Ali has lashed out at his own team. He clearly said that Pakistan cricket is in a dying state.

Ever since Shan Masood became the captain of Pakistan Test team, he has played 15 Test matches and won only four. Basit Ali scolded captain Shan Masood for this record. Even in the last three test matches played against Bangladesh, Pakistan team has faced consecutive defeats.

test cricket will die

Seeing the condition of Pakistan team, Basit Ali said that there should be a 2-tier system in Test cricket. He said, “After 2027, a two-tier system will be necessary, otherwise Test cricket will die. It is fun to watch Test matches of Australia, England, New Zealand, India, South Africa. But if Pakistan, Bangladesh and West Indies play such cricket, then the two-tier system will be put to shame.”

scolded the captain badly

Basit Ali reminded the times of Inzamam ul Haq and Misbah ul Haq. He told that under the captaincy of Misbah-ul-Haq, the Pakistan team lost 19 times in 56 test matches, whereas under the captaincy of Inzamam, it lost 11 times in 31 matches. Basit told that under his captaincy the Pakistan team used to go out and win, but Shan Masood is not captaincy material.

He said, “Shan Masood has lost 11 out of 15 Test matches under his captaincy. I have no problem with his batting, he is a very good boy but he is not captaincy material. It is the fault of those who made him captain.”

Basit Ali said in an angry attitude that the captain has a very big role. He has to decide with which bowler to get the opposition batsmen out. Questioning the decisions of Shan Masood, he said that Noman Ali is not a bowler who should be handed the ball after 35 overs.

Bangladesh has defeated Pakistan by 104 runs in the first test. In the match played in Dhaka, Pakistan team had got the target of 268 runs in the fourth innings, in response to which the entire Pakistan team was reduced to 163 runs and lost the match by a huge margin of 104 runs. In the fourth innings, especially the 6 and a half feet bowler Nahid Rana wreaked havoc, who took a total of 5 wickets.

This is Bangladesh’s third consecutive victory over Pakistan in Test cricket. This is the first time in history that Bangladesh has defeated the Pakistan team in 3 consecutive test matches. This winning streak of Bangladesh team has been going on since August 2024.

Pakistan had got the target of 268

Pakistan had the target of 268 runs in the fourth innings. Taskin Ahmed had given a blow to Pakistan’s hopes of victory by dismissing Imam ul Haq in the very first over. The bat of Ajan Awais, who scored a century in the first innings, remained silent this time, who could score only 15 runs. Within no time, Pakistan had lost 3 wickets till the score was 68 and the team was still 200 runs away from victory.

Salman Agha and Abdullah Fazal managed the innings with a partnership of 51 runs. Fazal scored 66 runs and was the only batsman to score a half-century for Pakistan in the second innings. As soon as Fazal’s wicket fell, the fall of wickets started. Nahid Rana wreaked such havoc that Pakistan’s last 7 wickets fell within just 44 runs.

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Nahid Rana created havoc

About 6 and a half feet tall fast bowler Nahid Rana took a total of 5 wickets in the fourth innings. This is only the second time in Naheed’s Test career that he has taken a wicket in an innings. In the first innings, Mehdi Hasan Miraj broke the back of Pakistani batting by taking 5 wickets for Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh vs Pakistan Test Highlights: Bangladesh has gained a slight lead over Pakistan in the first test match. Despite Ajan Awais’s century, Bangladesh managed to take a lead of 27 runs in the first innings. In the Test match being played in Dhaka, Bangladesh had scored 413 runs in the first innings, in response to which Pakistan’s first innings was reduced to 386 runs. Till stumps on the third day, Bangladesh had scored 7 runs in the second innings without losing any wicket.

Azaan Awais’s century on debut

On the third day, Pakistan continued its innings with a score of 179/1. Azaan Awais, who made his international debut, completed a century in the first match of his career after some time. Awais was out after scoring 103 runs in 165 balls. Awais made a partnership of 104 runs with Abdullah Fazal. At one time, Pakistan team had scored 210 runs with the loss of one wicket, but within the next 20 runs, 4 wickets fell.

Salman Agha and Mohammad Rizwan handled the Pakistani innings and saved the Pakistani team from falling badly behind by making a very important partnership of 119 runs. Rizwan scored 59 runs and Salman Agha scored 58 runs. Pakistani batting was once again exposed when it lost wickets in bunches again. Pakistan’s last 5 wickets fell within only 37 runs. As a result, Bangladesh was able to take a slight lead of 27 runs in the first innings. Mehdi Hasan Miraj made a big contribution in destroying the Pakistani batting, who took a total of 5 wickets.

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Bangladesh ahead by 34 runs

Bangladesh is ahead by 34 runs in the second innings at the end of the third day’s play. Shadman Islam and Mahmudul Hasan Joy are standing at the crease. Let us tell you that Bangladesh has a chance to score a hat-trick of wins against Pakistan in Test cricket. Bangladesh has defeated Pakistan in both the last Test matches and the lead of 34 runs is pointing towards that historic victory.

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