Category: Sports

Bangladesh captain and star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan was banned on Tuesday from all cricket for two years, with one year suspended, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said. The ban came after Shakib “accepted three charges of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code”, the sport’s governing body said in a statement. These included failing to disclose […]

David Warner emphatically bounced back to form with a first-ever Twenty20 century as Australia crushed Sri Lanka by 134 runs in their opening match of the three-game series in Adelaide on Sunday. Birthday boy Warner clubbed an unbeaten 100 as he powered Australia to a massive 233 for two, aided by century stands with skipper […]

YOKOHAMA: Springboks flyhalf Handre Pollard kicked a penalty four minutes from time to send South Africa into their third Rugby World Cup final with a 19-16 victory over Wales in a semi-final dogfight on Sunday. The South Africans will return to Yokohama next weekend to bid for a third World Cup triumph against an England […]

KARACHI: Newly-appointed Pakis­tan captain Azhar Ali is among seven players who will be hoping to have a decent run as red-ball cricket resumes after a 20-day gap with the fifth-round of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy’s First Xi competition starting from Monday. With Pakistan slated to face the might of Australia in a two-match Test series from […]

DUBAI: Ireland and the Netherlands secured qualification for the play-offs at the World T20 qualifiers on Saturday after registering convincing wins over Nigeria and Bermuda by eight wickets and 92 runs respectively. Craig Young’s four for 13, alongside Mark Adair’s two for 10, meant Nigeria always struggled were not allowed to get going with the […]

AMSTERDAM: Pakistan came into the game hopeful and optimistic. The Netherlands left them bruised and battered. A day after stunning the hosts with a 4-4 draw in the first leg of their Olympic qualifier, Pakistan came crashing down to earth on Sunday as the Netherlands thrashed them 6-1 to seal a 10-5 aggregate victory and […]

LAHORE: While acknowledging that competing against Australia on their soil has always been a challenging task, newly-appoi­nted Twenty20 captain Babar Azam on Friday said Pakis­tan’s pace bowling depart­ment for the forthcoming tour Down Under is strong and dependable. The Pakistan squad is set to leave for what is expected to be an arduous tour of […]

LAHORE: The first of the three international T20 matches between Pakistan and Bangladesh women’s teams will be held here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Saturday. “This is the first time we will be playing at home and the girls are pretty charged up for the match,” said Pakistan captain Bismah Maroof. In the last T20 […]

KARACHI: UEFA Champions League winners Kaka, Luis Figo, Carles Puyol and Nicolas Anelka will be in Pakistan next month for the World Soccer Stars exhibition tour, which was earlier scheduled to be held in April. The event was earlier postponed due to what organisers cited was “a change in business economy” of the country but […]

LAHORE: The two surprise selections in the Pakistan Twenty20 team for the tour of Australia, leg-spinner Usman Qadir and middle-order batsman Khushdil Shah, have vowed to play aggressive cricket Down Under. “Australians have mastered the art of playing pace and spin so I’ll try to go on the attack against them,” said Usman, the son […]