Afridi, Malik to represent World XI in charity match against WindiesISLAMABAD: ICC World Twenty20 winners - Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik and Thisara Perera - are the first set of players to confirm their participation for the ICC World XI in a T20I against the Windies...
Tim promises to alleviate Australia’s ball-tampering painSYDNEY: Australia Test captain Tim Paine pledged on Thursday to embark on a new era of “respectful” cricket and rebuild public trust after the ball-tampering scandal that rocked the sport. The newly a...
Ready to bat at any number for Pakistan: Fakhar ZamanLAHORE: Opening batsman Fakhar Zaman is just focused on helping the team win and is not worried about batting at any number after being for the Test team, which will face England and Ireland in May. Z...
If I were captain, Fawad would be in my Test team: YounusKARACHI: Former batting great Younus Khan has thrown his support behind the long-ignored Fawad Alam, saying that the all-rounder would have been in his Test team if he were the captain. Lamenting the...
PCB chairman Sethi to visit India for ICC meetingLAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Najam Sethi and chief operating officer Subhan Ahmed will fly to Kolkata on Saturday (today) to attend an International Cricket Council meeting. The visit...
Sarfraz makes cricket stars clean up after themselvesLAHORE: After helping the national cricket team clean up their act this past year, it seems captain Sarfraz Ahmed now wants his players to clean up after themselves. During the ongoing training camp a...
Bangladesh punishes cricketers for poor performancesDHAKA: Bangladesh axed six players from national contracts after a year of poor performances with players who escaped the chop being denied a pay rise, an official said Thursday. Opening batsmen Soumy...
England to host 100-ball domestic competition from 2020LONDON: English domestic cricket is set to get yet another format after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced plans for an eight-team, 100-ball competition in the pursuit of younger, fam...
FIFA ‘observing situation in Pakistan’ after Supreme Court ordersLAHORE: Global football body FIFA has said it is ‘observing the situation in Pakistan’ after the Supreme Court ordered fresh elections of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF), in a fresh twist to th...
Manchester United bounce back with 2-0 win at BournemouthBOURNEMOUTH: Manchester United tightened their grip on second place in the Premier League after goals in each half by defender Chris Smalling and substitute Romelu Lukaku gave them a clinical 2-0 win...
Kovac’s Eintracht stun Schalke to set up final with BayernBERLIN: Eintracht Frankfurt’s Luka Jovic scored a 75th minute winner to stun hosts Schalke 04 1-0 on Wednesday and earn his manager Niko Kovac a date with Bayern Munich, the club he will coach from ne...
Chelsea’s Alonso handed three-match ban, out of FA Cup semi-finalLONDON: Chelsea defender Marcos Alonso will miss Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final against Southampton after being handed a three-match suspension for violent conduct, the Football Association (FA) said on T...
VAR incidents to be shown on stadium screens at World Cup 2018FLORENCE: Spectators at World Cup matches will be able to see replays of incidents which are reviewed by the video assistant referee (VAR) on the stadium screen once a decision has been made, FIFA sai...
Ronaldo backheel earns Real Madrid late draw, Valencia loseMADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo’s superb backheel late in the game earned Real Madrid a point in a 1-1 La Liga draw with Athletic Bilbao at the Bernabeu stadium on Wednesday. The Portuguese forward flicked...
Footballer banned for nine games for abusing refereeMADRID: Atletico Madrid midfielder Keidi Bare was banned for nine matches on Wednesday after repeatedly abusing an official during a match for the club’s B team. The Albanian, who has played twice for...
Kings Public High School Sports GalaLAHORE: Kings Public High School for Girls and Boys Nishtar Town Ferozpur Road Lahore organised a big sports gala at its school premises here the other day. Patron-in-chief Prof Dr CM Hanif, former Pr...
FIFA hand out fines fo ‘third party’ dealsMANCHESTER: FIFA have handed out a series of fines to clubs for transfer deals involving “third party influence”, world soccer’s governing body said on Thursday. FIFA policy on third-party ownership b...
Boxers Alvarez, Ogawa banned for six months for failed drug testsLAS VEGAS: Mexican Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Japan’s Kenichi Ogawa have been suspended for six months following hearings with the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) after both boxers failed recen...
Andy Rihs, hearing-aid billionaire and passionate cyclist, dies at 75ZURICH: Andreas “Andy” Rihs, a Swiss billionaire whose success with the world’s largest hearing aid company Sonova financed his passion for professional bicycle racing and soccer, has died at the age...