Category: Sports

PAKISTAN snooker witnessed two contrasting scenarios in a span of almost one year — from Dec 2018 to Nov 2019. Celebrated cueist Mohammad Asif, who was a persona non grata and barred to travel with the Pakistan team to Egyptian city of Marsa Alam to compete in World 6-Reds and Team Event by the Pakistan […]

LAHORE: Becoming the first ever batsman to score a century, both on One-day International and Test debuts, was not enough for Pakistan opener Abid Ali to be recognised by the team’s head coach-cum-chief selector Misbah-ul-Haq in his year-ender statement issued by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday. Abid, after toiling hard and performing consistently […]

With more than 100 wildfires burning in New South Wales state there is a strong chance the smoke could affect play during the third Test between Australia and New Zealand beginning on Friday at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Air quality has been a regular concern for Sydney residents in recent weeks and the smoke is […]

The schedule for the much anticipated fifth edition of the Pakistan Super League was released by the Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday, with the series set to take off on February 20. According to the schedule, the series will run from February 20 to March 22, with all the matches being played on the home […]

South African cricket captain Faf du Plessis believes cricket needs more, not fewer, elite nations. Speaking after South Africa’s 107-run win in the first Test against England on Sunday, Du Plessis was asked his opinion about plans for an annual ‘Super Series’ of one-day games, involving the so-called ‘Big Three’ of India, Australia and England, […]

NEW DELHI: India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, dogged by injury, said he was not yet thinking about next year’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia and that his main target was to get fit first. The right-arm bowler has been laid low by sports hernia, the latest in a series of injuries, which kept him out of […]

CENTURION: During a playing career of 147 Test matches, Mark Boucher had a reputation as a fighter, always prepared to take on a challenge. It’s a character trait which looks likely to continue in his new career as South Africa’s head coach. It was a ‘great feeling’ to be in a winning Proteas dressing room […]

MELBOURNE: Aust­ralia will look to use the disappointment of their late Ashes fade-out in England to push for a series whitewash of New Zealand at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Tim Paine’s men took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series against the Black Caps on Sunday with a 247-run win at the Melbourne Cricket […]

British prime minister John Major dodged going to the Atlanta 1996 Olympics to stay in London and watch cricket instead, newly declassified files showed on Tuesday. Major weighed up the pros and cons of going to the Games, with his advisors pushing him to attend, insisting he had “street cred” in sport and it would […]

“We will by no means empty those 12 observation posts, we will not leave there,” Akar said. His comments came during a visit together with top army commanders to the southern province of Hatay on the Syrian border to inspect Turkish troops on Saturday. Turkey, worried over a new wave of refugees from the Idlib […]