Category: Sports

SYDNEY: Compulsory neck guards on helmets for Australian cricketers are ‘not far away’, the national team’s medical chief said on Monday after a sickening blow felled Steve Smith during the second Ashes Test. Australia have been at the forefront of pressing for better safety measures after the death of Phillip Hughes, who was hit on […]

Olympian and former goalkeeper of the national hockey team Zakir Hussain passed away on Monday at the age of 85. Hussain’s funeral prayers will be held in his home town Gulshen Anwar Masjid, Jinnah Colony, Wah Cantt. The veteran player won a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico and a silver medal […]

Compulsory neck guards on helmets for Australian cricketers are “not far away”, the national team’s medical chief said on Monday after a sickening blow felled Steve Smith during the second Ashes Test. Australia have been at the forefront of pressing for better safety measures after the death of Phillip Hughes, who was hit on the base of […]

LONDON: Jofra Archer took two wickets and struck Test cricket’s first concussion substitute, Marnus Labuschagne on the grille of his helmet as England pushed for an unlikely series-levelling victory in the second Ashes clash at Lord’s on Sunday. Australia were struggling at 46-2 in their second innings at tea on a compelling final day of […]

SYDNEY: Australia Cric­keters Associa­tion (ACA) on Sunday slammed fans at Lord’s for booing Steve Smith after he was felled by a bouncer from fast bowler Jofra Archer, saying the sport deserves better. The star batsman collapsed face forward after a sickening blow to the side of the neck and head when on 80 during Australia’s […]

LONDON: Wolverhampton Wanderers celebrated their biggest aggregate win in Europe on Thursday after the Premier League side beat Armenia’s Pyunik 4-0 on the night, and 8-0 overall, to set up a Europa League playoff with Serie A’s Torino. The winner of the home and away legs on August 22 and 29, with the first match […]

GALLE: A fighting half-century by B.J. Watling helped New Zealand to take a highly competitive lead of 177 at stumps on day three in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Friday. New Zealand, who trailed Sri Lanka by 18 runs in the first innings, finished on 195-7 and a target around 200 […]

MUMBAI: Ravi Shastri will continue as head coach of the Indian senior men’s cricket team up to 2021 after edging out New Zealand’s Mike Hesson and Tom Moody of Australia, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) said on Friday. The BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), comprising cricket great Kapil Dev, former India coach Anshuman Gaekwad and […]

LAHORE: Former Test pacer Sarfraz Nawaz on Friday urged the Pakistan Cricket Board not to hire any foreign coaches for the national team. The former Test pacer also wants the PCB to allow the departmental teams to continue playing at least in the national one-day and T20 events, if not in the first-class event of […]

Steve Smith continued to pile on the runs as Australia staunched the flow of wickets in the second Ashes Test against England at Lord’s on Saturday. Australia were 155-5 at lunch on Saturday’s fourth day, having lost just one wicket in the session. That still left Ashes-holders Australia, looking to win their first Test series […]