Category: Sports

LONDON: Wolves marked their return to European football after a 39-year absence with a 2-0 home win over Crusaders of Northern Ireland in the Europa League second qualifying round on Thursday. Diogo Jota and Ruben Vinagre were on target at Molineux in the first leg clash. However, it was a nervous evening for the Premier […]

Lasith Malinga shone in his farewell match after Kusal Perera struck a quick-fire century as Sri Lanka crushed Bangladesh by 91 runs in the first one-day of a three-match series in Colombo on Friday. Malinga rattled Bangladesh with his fiery opening spell, reducing the visitors to 39-4 in the process, without allowing them to recover […]

Ireland collapsed to just 38 all out as England won the one-off Test at Lord’s by 143 runs on Friday. Chris Woakes took six wickets for 17 runs and Stuart Broad 4-19 in an Ireland second innings that lasted just 15.4 overs. The visitors had been set a seemingly modest 182 to win on the […]

Mohammad Amir on Friday announced his retirement from Test cricket with immediate effect, but reaffirmed his commitment to playing white ball cricket for Pakistan. In a statement shared by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Amir said: “It has been an honour to represent Pakistan in the pinnacle and traditional format of the game. I, however, have decided […]

Hockey legend Samiullah Khan recalled a cold but shining morning in January 1982 when he together with other players of Pakistan’s national hockey squad landed at Karachi airport holding the glittering World Cup trophy after his team beat West Germany 3-1 in the final in Bombay (now Mumbai). As soon as the champions emerged from […]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has shortlisted four prominent Test victories while requesting the cricket fans and followers to vote for country’s greatest win in 67-year long history of the country of Test playing. The victories picked by a five-member panel — comprises of Benedict Bermange, Qamar Ahmed, Dr Nauman Niaz, Osman Samiuddin and […]

India cricket legend M.S. Dhoni is to go on a tour of duty in Indian Kashmir after skipping a tour of the West Indies with the national team to join his regiment, a military source said. The 38-year-old Dhoni, an honorary lieutenant colonel in a reserve force, will go on patrols with the 106 Para […]

A biomechanical lab in Lahore has been accredited by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as a testing centre for suspected bowling actions, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Thursday. The lab at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (Lums) will become the fifth such centre which has been approved by the game’s governing body. […]

LAHORE: The eagerly-awaited meeting of the PCB Cricket Committee has been convened for Aug 2 at the National Cricket Academy to review the performances of different national teams and present recommendations to the board chairman Ehsan Mani. The meeting is overdue following the conclusion of the World Cup in England and Wales because the national […]

GAP: European champion Matteo Trentin won the 17th stage of the Tour de France, a hilly 200-km ride from the Pont du Gard, on Wednesday. The Italian jumped away from a reduced group of breakaway riders at the foot of the last climb and further powered away in the descent to claim his third stage […]