Vettel takes 50th win and Formula One championship leadMONTREAL: Sebastian Vettel capped an emotional weekend for Ferrari with a clinical pole-to-flag win at the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday to retake the lead in the Formula One world championship from M...
Steyn returns to South Africa Test squad in search of milestoneCAPE TOWN: Fast bowler Dale Steyn has been recalled to South Africa’s Test squad for the two-match tour of Sri Lanka next month, providing him with another opportunity to become his country’s most pro...
Afridi sparks social media outrage after sharing photo of chained lionISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi caused a social media outrage after sharing a photo of ‘pet lion’ with him and his daughter. Afridi posted a picture of his daughter rejoicing like...
Rashid Khan – Teenage Afghan googly wizard wowing cricketing worldNEW DELHI: He’s 19 and from a country at war for decades, but Rashid Khan of Afghanistan is the toast of the cricket world with his leg-spin wizardry. From Thursday, the world’s top-ranked Twenty20 bo...
Cricketers need to be groomed in domestic cricket: Waqar YounisKARACHI: Former captain Waqar Younis sees some good cricketers emerging from Pakistan Super League (PSL), but believes the tournament will not produce quality Test cricketers. He says cricketers need...
Indonesia targets 1.3mn ticket salesLAHORE: The organising committee of the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia this summer, INASGOC, has teamed up with an experienced ticketing company in a bid to sell over 1 million tickets. The move is vie...
Tendulkar wants more opportunities for minnowsMUMBAI: Scotland’s historic win over England has led to praise from Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar, who has called for the sport’s second-tier teams to get more opportunities to prove themselve...
Shami replaced by uncapped Saini in India squadNEW DELHI: Indian fast bowler Mohammed Shami has not been passed fit for Thursday’s Test match against Afghanistan and will be replaced by uncapped paceman Navdeep Saini, the Board of Control for Cric...
ICC provisionally suspends Zimbabwe official Ikope DUBAI: Zimbabwe Cricket director Enock Ikope has been provisionally suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and charged with three counts of breaching the organisation’s anti-corru...
Neymar, Brazil arrive in Russia as clock ticks down to World Cup startSOCHI: Neymar and his Brazil teammates landed on Russian soil in the early hours of Monday morning, fresh from beating Austria 3-0 in their final warm-up outing ahead of the World Cup. As the clock ti...
How World Cup favourites are shaping upSOCHI: The phoney war is over and most of the big guns have arrived in Russia ahead of the start of the World Cup on Thursday. Here is how the favourites are shaping up. Brazil: In 2014, Brazil were b...
England chances boosted courtesy Premier League coaching powerSAINT PETERSBURG: The globalisation of the Premier League is often blamed for hampering home-grown players but the likes of Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp have played a key role in boosting England’s...
Russian police stretched to limit by World Cup dutiesMOSCOW: Police staffing is so stretched in several Russian cities as officers are deployed to bolster security at soccer World Cup venues that one union leader says criminals could benefit. Several po...
For a brief moment, goalscorers forget poverty and warSOCHI: The eyes of the world will turn to Russia this week for the World Cup but it is far away you must look to find the sport’s beating heart - on war-ravaged streets and in poverty-stricken slums w...
Nadal unsure of Wimbledon appearance after record French Open winPARIS: Rafael Nadal has cast doubt on his participation at Wimbledon, saying he needs to see how his body recovers after a long clay court campaign culminated in an 11th French Open title. Two of the...
Italian Sara Errani’s doping suspension increased to 10 months by CASZURICH: Italian tennis player Sara Errani’s ban for an anti-doping violation has been increased from two to 10 months by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the Swiss-based tribunal said on Mond...
Suzuki signs Spaniard Mir on a two-year MotoGP dealLONDON: Suzuki has signed Joan Mir on a two-year contract in an all-Spanish line-up from next season, the factory MotoGP team announced on Monday. The 20-year-old from Palma de Mallorca will move up f...
Spanish Moto3 teenage rider dies after crashMADRID: Promising young Spanish Moto3 rider Andreas Perez has died from injuries sustained in a crash in Barcelona over the weekend. The 14-year-old was racing in the second Repsol Moto3 FIM CEV event...
Chelum of sister-in-law of Test cricketer Imran Farhat heldLAHORE: The Chehlum of Nadia Pervaiz, who was wife of Gulraiz Farhat and sister-in-law of Pakistan Test and international cricketers Imran Farhat and Humaiyun Farhat, was held at 446-A1 Township Secto...
Messi says Argentina future depends on World CupBRONNITSY: Argentina captain Lionel Messi said his international future will be determined by his country’s performance at the World Cup in Russia. “It will depend on how far we go, how we’re going to...