Category: Sports

ISLAMABAD: Off-spin great Saqlain Mushtaq believes Babar Azam possesses all the essential ingredients of leadership but says the batsman will have to sit with the world’s best team leaders to learn the ways of taking along his side. “I think it is very important for him [Babar] to find out how to lead the team […]

LAHORE: Middle-order batsman Umar Akmal has filed an appeal against his three-year ban imposed on him by the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) Disciplinary Panel, headed by retired Justice Fazle Miran Chouhan for not reporting to the Board about the approaches made to him by corrupt elements on two different occasions on the eve of the 5th […]

LONDON: UEFA has a plan to finish the 2019-20 season by August, including the Champions League and Europa League campaigns, the European football governing body’s president Aleksander Ceferin has said. The majority of European league seasons were suspended in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic but a few leagues have announced plans for a restart […]

ISLAMABAD: Renowned Indian cricket analyst and commentator Harsha Bhogle believes Pakistan paceman Shaheen Shah Afridi has every chance of making into the fab four list of bowlers. The list currently includes India’s Jasprit Bumrah, Australia’s Pat Cummins, New Zealand’s Trent Boult and South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada. Bhogle feels that the seamer has come up the […]

BERLIN: German football champions Bayern Munich kicked off their first match in more than two months on Sunday as Spain and Britain recorded their lowest daily coronavirus death tolls since March, but the devastating pandemic remained on the march elsewhere. With a worldwide virus death toll of nearly 312,000 and the global economy reeling from […]

MELBOURNE: Australian cri­cket chiefs are resigned to this year’s men’s Twenty20 World Cup being postponed, as momentum grows on the subcontinent for the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) to be held in the global event’s October-November timeslot. Though the tournament organisers are planning on the World Cup going ahead as scheduled, senior cricket figures hold […]

World number one Twenty20 batsman Babar Azam said on Monday that he was praying the coronavirus pandemic would not scupper his first T20 World Cup as skipper. Australia are due to host the seventh Twenty20 World Cup in October and November but organisers face challenges of providing appropriate bio-security and quarantine measures for 15 international […]

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Cricket Ireland announced on Thursday that the two T20 internationals scheduled to take place in Dublin in July have been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to a press release issued by the PCB, the decision has been taken after the Irish government announced that matches can take […]

DHAKA: Former South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis said quarantining players for two weeks before and after the ICC Twenty20 World Cup could allow it to take place in Australia this year despite the coronavirus pandemic. The tournament is due to be played in October-November but there is uncertainty after the cancellation of other major […]

KARACHI: Generally every new appointment at the top raises hopes of betterment on all fronts. In his maiden interaction with the media a day after being named as Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)’s Director High Performance, Nadeem Khan outlined a series of plans to improve the overall structure of the sport, including the mental growth of […]