Category: Sports

LUCKNOW: West Indies handed Afghanistan a crushing nine-wicket defeat within three days in their one-off cricket Test here on Friday. Resuming their second innings at a precarious 109-7 at the Ekana Cricket Stadium with a lead of only 19 runs, Afghanistan were bowled out for 120 in its second innings within 30 minutes on the […]

Steve Smith on Saturday became the fastest man to score 7,000 Test runs, shattering a record that had stood since 1946, while moving past Donald Bradman to become Australia’s 11th highest scorer. The 30-year-old took a single off Muhammad Musa during the second Test against Pakistan in Adelaide to reach the milestone and take possession […]

Veteran Leander Paes improved his Davis Cup record to 44 doubles wins on Saturday as India thrashed Pakistan 4-0 in the Asia/Oceania tie played at a neutral venue due to political tensions between the two countries. The 46-year-old Paes combined with Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan to serve out Pakistan’s teenage pair of Muhammad Shoaib and Huzaifa Abdul […]

An irrepressible David Warner smashed an unbeaten 335 on Saturday while Steve Smith became the fastest man to 7,000 Test runs as Australia took control of the day-night second Test against Pakistan. Skipper Tim Paine waved his players back into the pavilion at 589 for three ahead of the second day’s dinner break with Warner […]

David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne both plundered back-to-back centuries as Australia stamped their authority on the opening day of the day-night second Test against Pakistan in Adelaide on Friday. At the close on a rain-interrupted day, the home team were a dominant 302 for one with the pair building an ominous 294-run partnership, leaving Pakistan […]

WELLINGTON: Former South Africa, Australia and Pakistan cricket coach Mickey Arthur has been released from his short-term Twenty20 contract with New Zealand side Central Districts to pursue another job, the first-class side said on Thursday. Specialist cricket website ESPN Cricinfo said this month that Sri Lanka Cricket were in talks with Arthur to take over the national […]

LUCKNOW: A maiden Test century by Shamarh Brooks and wily spin bowling put the West Indies in firm command of their one-off Test against Afghanistan on Thursday. Brooks made 111 as West Indies managed a lead of 90 after they were 277 all out in the second session of day two in the northern Indian […]

KARACHI: A joint delegation of global football body FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation is visiting Pakistan next week for dialogue over the resumption of funding to the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Normalisation Committee by both bodies, Dawn can exclusively reveal. Both FIFA and the AFC had suspended funding to the PFF in January following an election […]

Pakistan cricket has its own unique way of inducting and discarding talent. Sure, talent matters a great deal but so does the time, the regime and the people in charge. That is why even if you’re out of the side at one time, there is always hope that you’d be back at someone else’s expense […]

David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne both plundered back-to-back centuries as Australia stamped their authority on the opening day of the day-night second Test against Pakistan in Adelaide on Friday. At the close on a rain-interrupted day, the home team were a dominant 302 for one with the pair building an ominous 294-run partnership, leaving Pakistan […]