Category: Sports

ON a scale of one to ten, Pakistan would get barely half a mark for the manner in which they got repeatedly humiliated by a second-string Sri Lanka in the recent T20 series. New head coach-cum-chief selector Misbah-ul-Haq now finds himself in a vulnerable state of mind while skipper Sarfraz Ahmed has hardly appeared to […]

SINGAPORE: Neymar became the youngest player to make 100 appearances for Brazil on Thursday but the Paris St Germain forward had to settle for a 1-1 draw as he failed to score in a friendly with Senegal in Singapore. Roberto Firmino opened the scoring for the Copa America champions after eight minutes when he ran […]

LONDON: England fast bowler James Anderson has swapped the cricket nets for the facilities at the training ground of Premier League champions Manchester City in a bid to recover from a calf injury, the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday. Anderson sustained the injury playing for Lancashire in July and managed only four overs in […]

TOKYO: Wales weathered a furious Fijian onslaught to reach the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday, sending Australia through in the process, as Scotland thrashed Russia to set up a showdown with hosts Japan. With approaching Typhoon Hagibis threatening to cause havoc with this weekend’s final pool games, the Welsh found themselves in a storm […]

PUNE: India cricket skipper Virat Kohli on Wednesday called for a change in the points system for the new World Test Championship, saying that an away win should get double the reward. He insisted that the new championship has already improved standards in Tests. “If you would have asked me to make the points table, […]

Inexperienced Sri Lanka completed a 3-0 clean-sweep in their Twenty20 series with world number one Pakistan on Wednesday with a 13-run victory in Lahore. Chasing a modest 148-run target, Pakistan were on course for victory with Haris Sohail’s 50-ball 52 with four boundaries and a six but leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga turned the tables with 3-21 […]

BERLIN: Germany’s 2014 World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger on Tuesday announced his retirement at the age of 35, following the end of the American MLS season, ending an 18-year professional career. Schweinsteiger, who has played for Chicago Fire since 2017, is among the most decorated German footballers, having won many titles with Germany’s Bayern Munich […]

ISLAMABAD: Disappointed with Pakistan team’s poor performance against a second-string Sri Lankan side who beat them 2-0 in the three-match Twenty20 home series, former skipper Ramiz Raja believes the green-shirts need a power-hitting coach to correct the players’ direction in the game’s shortest format. Pakistan were stunned by Sri Lanka who won the first T20 […]

We’re a strange bunch. We really are. When we love our heroes, we put them on the pedestal all the way to the PM House. And the ones we hate, we hate with such a passion that we don’t just rejoice when they fail, we want them to fail so we rejoice. That is the tragedy called […]

Iranian women fans are free to enter a football stadium on Thursday for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the Islamic republic over its controversial male-only policy. Iran has barred female spectators from football and other stadiums for around 40 years, with clerics arguing they must be shielded from the masculine […]