Category: Sports

LONDON: India skipper Virat Kohli preferred to highlight the positives from their six-wicket defeat to New Zealand in a Cricket World Cup warm-up on Saturday and was particularly pleased with the performance of the lower order. Twice champions India slumped to 39-4 in the 11th over before all-rounders Hardik Pandya (30) and Ravindra Jadeja (54) […]

LONDON: Australia spinner Nathan Lyon insists his team were prepared for the ‘ruthless’ reaction from England fans to Steve Smith and David Warner. Australia duo Smith and Warner were given a torrid time by the Southampton crowd during their World Cup warm-up victory over England on Saturday. It was the shamed pair’s first appearance against […]

Serena Williams heads into this year’s French Open as an outsider for a Grand Slam title for possibly the first time in 20 years, with questions surrounding her fitness after a poor start to the season, while Naomi Osaka looks to solidify her position at the top of the women’s game with a third straight […]

Grieving Pakistan cricketer Asif Ali on Saturday left for England to join up with his country’s World Cup squad following the funeral of his daughter, who he said will continue to be his strength and inspiration. Asif left the team’s tour of England and returned to Pakistan following the death last Sunday of 19-month-old Dua […]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has allowed all members of the national squad, who want to stay with their wives during the World Cup, but not before the June 16 blockbuster against arch-rivals India to be held at Old Trafford, Manchester. Earlier, this permission had only been granted to two players — Haris Sohail […]

Novak Djokovic can become only the second man in history to have twice held all four Grand Slam titles at the same time with victory at the French Open. However, a returning Roger Federer and rejuvenated Rafael Nadal will once again stand in his way. World number one Djokovic completed his first private stranglehold of […]

LAHORE: Gearing up to meet the joint fact-finding mission by global football body FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Syed Ashfaq Hussain Shah — the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) chief recognised in the country — is hoping for a “decision in Pakistan’s favour”. The FIFA-AFC mission will meet the Ashfaq-led PFF on May 28 […]

Babar Azam managed to resuscitate a crumbling Pakistani side with a 112 off 108 balls in the first warm-up match of the upcoming International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup on Friday. His innings came to an end after Rahmat Ali took a catch on a slow ball by Dawlat Zadran. He was quickly followed by […]

Comparisons with Virat Kohli have been a stumbling block for many batsmen in world cricket but Pakistan’s Babar Azam has embraced the challenge wholeheartedly and will carry his country’s hopes at the upcoming World Cup. Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur first mentioned Azam, the world’s top-ranked Twenty20 international batsman, in the same breath as Indian […]

The head of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) anti-corruption unit said on Friday he had been in direct contact with around 12 “corruptors” to warn them off the World Cup. Match fixing or spot fixing, where gamblers try to influence specific incidents in a game, remains one of the biggest problems facing cricket, particularly in […]