Category: Sports

Australia batsman Steve Smith says he is determined not to be dismissed again by Pakistan spinner Yasir Shah when the teams meet in the second Test at Adelaide starting on Friday. Smith was bowled by Yasir for four runs in the opening Test in Brisbane and the leg-spinner celebrated by holding up seven fingers to […]

A tour of Australia for the Pakistan cricket team is one giant paradox — it is as easy as it is difficult. Sure, the balls jump higher than the kangaroos in Australia and Pakistani batsmen evaporate in the blink of an eye but that is precisely what makes the assignment simple as well. The touring […]

SAITAMA: Salem Al-Dawsari and Bafetimbi Gomis were the heroes as Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal beat Urawa Red Diamonds 2-0 on Sunday and 3-0 on aggregate to claim a record-equalling third Asian club title in the AFC Champions League. Al-Dawsari scored with 16 minutes left and top-scorer Gomis grabbed his 11th of the competition in injury […]

MOUNT MAUNGANUI: Mit­chell Santner scored his maiden Test century and then grabbed three quick wickets to reduce England to 55-3 in the second innings at the close of play on the fourth day of the first Test at the Bay Oval on Sunday. England are still 207 runs behind New Zealand’s first innings of 615-9 […]

Pakistan will look to tweak their line-up for the second and final Test against Australia at Adelaide Oval but wholesale changes look unlikely despite Sunday’s innings defeat in the series opener in Brisbane. Captain Azhar Ali defended both his non-performing batsmen and inexperienced bowlers after the heavy loss at the Gabba, although he did concede […]

New Zealand said their comprehensive innings victory over England was among their very best after Neil Wagner’s five-wicket burst sealed the first Test in Mount Maunganui on Monday. The tireless left-armer took the last two England wickets in successive balls for a five-wicket haul and to complete the rout by an innings and 65 runs […]

KOLKATA: Ishant Sharma and his pace colleagues wreaked havoc with the pink ball to put India in charge of their maiden day-night Test against Bangladesh here at a heaving Eden Gardens on Friday. Armed with the heavily-lacquered ball, India’s three-pronged pace attack bundled out the tourists for 106 in front of a 60,000-strong crowd which […]

LAHORE: In a major development here, the Pakistan Cricket Board’s veteran Chief Operating Officer (COO) Subhan Ahmed resigned from his post of Friday. Subhan’s decision was conveyed to the members of the Board of Governors in its 56th meeting held at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) here on Friday. Reports about the ongoing conflict between […]

LAHORE: The members of PCB’s Board of Governors, who met here for the 56th meeting on Friday, expressed their concern over Pakistan team’s poor performance but went on to confirm their support for head coach-cum-chief selector Misbah-ul-Haq. The PCB press release issued here on Friday said: “The BoG briefly discussed the recent performances of the […]

The prospect of Russia being banned from next year’s Tokyo Olympics has loomed closer as a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) panel recommended the country’s drug-testing authority be declared non-compliant with international rules. In a statement, WADA said on Friday its Compliance Review Committee (CRC) had recommended that the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) be suspended again […]