Category: Sports

Pakistan’s cricket coach Micky Arthur said on Tuesday that the 5-0 loss against Australia was “incredibly hard”, but accounted the poor performance to the lack of key players in the squad. “We hate losing as a team — it’s not part of our vocabulary. Losing 5-0 was incredibly hard. We didn’t have our best team against Australia,” […]

A LOT of criticism has already been directed towards Pakistan for succumbing to a 0-5 whitewash to Australia in the recent ODI series. However, since i personally believe in thoroughly analysing the reasons for any defeat or victory, therefore I feel that the team management — comprising a bevy of coaches — is primarily responsible […]

KARACHI: Having not yet won the Pakistan Cup, both Punjab and Balochistan will launch their bid for the elusive title when the fifth edition of the one-day tournament starts at the Pindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi from Tuesday. Defending champions Federal Areas, who are chasing their third trophy on the trot this time since their […]

NEW DELHI: Indian-born media executive Manu Sawhney has taken over as chief executive of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the world body said on Monday as it started a new era aiming to boost the sport’s television revenues and profile. Sawhney, who has been managing director of broadcaster ESPN Star Sports and is a non-executive […]

SYDNEY: Australia’s top bowlers on Sunday lashed out at ‘false’ and ‘inflammatory’ claims they were planning a Test boycott if David Warner had not been kicked off the team in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal. Warner was widely seen as the instigator of the plot to use sandpaper to alter the ball during the […]

World champions Australia completed a 5-0 whitewash over Pakistan with a clinical 20-run win in the fifth and final one-day international despite a brilliant hundred from Haris Sohail in Dubai on Sunday. Sohail scored a 129-ball 130 for his second one-day international hundred but failed to take Pakistan past Australia’s imposing 327-7, finishing at 307-7 […]

DHAKA: Grief-stricken New Zealand have postponed a tour of their youth cricket team to Bangladesh, saying they were still in a ‘state of shock’ following the Christchurch mosques terror attack earlier this month. The New Zealand U-19 cricket team was scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on April 10 to play five youth one-day matches against Bangladesh. But […]

Roger Federer is gearing up for a Miami Open final shootout with John Isner on Sunday after blowing away young-gun Denis Shapovalov in straight sets. Federer produced a 6-2, 6-4 masterclass at Hard Rock Stadium to leave up-and-coming star Shapovalov, who grew up idolising the Swiss, chasing shadows during a difficult first set. The Swiss […]

KARACHI: Veteran Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez could find himself out of this year’s ICC World Cup after he underwent a follow-up surgery on his fractured thumb in Manchester earlier this week. Hafeez, 38, has been told to rest for two weeks before he can resume any kind of training. The problem facing the senior player […]

MELBOURNE: Fitting the disgraced duo of Steve Smith and David Warner into Australia’s World Cup squad will be “bloody hard” given the side’s resurgence without them, according to captain Aaron Finch. Both Smith and Warner are eligible to return to the national side after their 12-month suspensions for ball-tampering ended on Thursday. Australia beat Pakistan […]