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Pakistan, Bangladesh second Test commences today

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DHAKA: Pakistan pace bowler Shaheen Afridi said on Friday he enjoyed bowling with Hasan Ali as the latter helped him put opponents under pressure in Test matches. Afridi and Hasan have emerged as Pakistan’s new pace bowling pair in 2021, taking 83 wickets in Tests between them.”I enjoy bowling with him. This year he has […]

Ton-up Agarwal helps India to 221-4 after Patel’s four wickets

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MUMBAI: Mayank Agarwal hit an unbeaten 120 to lead India’s fightback on the opening day of the second Test after Mumbai-born New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel took all four wickets to fall.India reached 221 for four at stumps with Agarwal and wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha, on 25, in the middle after the hosts elected to bat […]

Azhar Mahmood becomes head coach of Islamabad United

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LAHORE: Islamabad United have signed former Pakistan allrounder Azhar Mahmood as their head coach for the seventh edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL). Mahmood will take over from Johan Botha, marking a fourth change in their management since the first season of the league in 2016; Deans Jones, Misbah-ul-Haq and Botha were the previous […]

Sri Lanka win second Test by 164 runs as West Indies collapse

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GALLE: Spinners Lasith Embuldeniya and Ramesh Mendis took all 10 wickets as Sri Lanka demolished the West Indies to win the second Test in Galle on Friday with a session to spare.Chasing an improbable target of 297 to secure their maiden Test win on the island, the visitors lost only two wickets in the first […]

Entire Yorkshire coaching staff leave club after racism scandal

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LONDON: Yorkshire’s director of cricket Martyn Moxon and head coach Andrew Gale have left the troubled county side along with the entire coaching staff as the fallout from the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal rages on. Moxon had been signed off from work due to a stress-related illness while Gale had been suspended pending a disciplinary […]

Adnan and Sami qualify for boys’ singles final

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LAHORE: The 6th Hassan Tariq Rahim National Ranking Tennis Championship is indeed a joy to have professional tennis at Lahore Gymkhana tennis courts and the ongoing tennis event can take comfort from the fact that it has brought to the fore some astute and buoyant young ones who look skillful,talented and gifted and are likely […]

Golovkin world title bout in Japan postponed over border ban

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TOKYO: Gennady Golovkin’s world title fight against Ryota Murata in Japan was Friday postponed “to next spring”, over a ban on new foreign arrivals to the country prompted by the Omicron variant. The hard-hitting Kazakh boxer was set to return to the ring after a year’s absence with a unification bout against Japanese WBA super-titlist […]

South Africa stun Pakistan in Junior Hockey World Cup

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LAHORE: South Africa shocked erstwhile Asian powerhouse Pakistan 4-1 in the shoot-out to set up a ninth-10th place classification clash against South Korea in the FIH Junior Men’s Hockey World Cup in Bhubaneswar, India on Thursday.Trailing by two goals in the second quarter, South Africa made a remarkable comeback after the change of ends.While Pakistan […]