Pakistan cricket at new low after England humiliation, Cricinfo lists grounds
Cricinfo has posted ground guides for England and India tours of Pakistan, while The Daily Star reports gloom after an England defeat.
Pakistan cricket has hit a new low after an England defeat, Bangladesh's The Daily Star reported on Wednesday, while cricket website Cricinfo published ground guides for England's and India's tours of Pakistan.
The Cricinfo pages, titled 'Cricket Grounds | England in Pakistan' and 'Cricket Grounds | India in Pakistan', appeared online but their full content was not retrievable. The Daily Star's headline described Pakistan cricket as being in 'gloomy times' and called the England result a 'humiliation'.
The lead report from Cricinfo was filed to Google News early on September 24, 2026, under the headline 'Cricket Grounds | England in Pakistan'. A second Cricinfo page carried the headline 'Cricket Grounds | India in Pakistan'. Skardu Times could not access the body text of either page, so no match details, scores, fixtures or venues could be confirmed.
Cricinfo, which is owned by ESPN, typically uses such ground pages to list stadiums and tour schedules. The appearance of a page for India in Pakistan is notable because the two countries have not played a bilateral series on Pakistani soil since 2008, but the headline alone did not indicate whether the page was new or archived.
The Daily Star is a leading English-language newspaper in Bangladesh and regularly covers South Asian cricket. Its report did not include a dateline or match score in the material seen by Skardu Times.
Pakistan has hosted England in recent years, including Test series, but no details of the latest result were available from the headlines. Ground guides on Cricinfo are usually published in the weeks before a tour begins, but the website did not provide a publication date in the visible headline.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has not issued a statement on the reported defeat or the Cricinfo pages.
Skardu Times has not independently verified the result or the status of the India tour page. The reports from Cricinfo and The Daily Star are attributed to those outlets.
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