HBL Pakistan Super League: Ihsan, Rossouw power Sultans to crushing win over Gladiators
MULTAN: Ihsanullah was unstoppable, the Multan Sultans were irresistible; the 2021 champions cruising to a comfortable nine-wicket victory to open their account in this season’s HBL Pakistan Super League and showing that Quetta Gladiators have work to do. Since clinching their maiden PSL title in 2019, the Gladiators have failed to reach the playoffs in […]
HBL Pakistan Super League: Zalmi upstage Kings in cliffhanger despite Imad blitz
KARACHI: Imad Wasim, the Karachi Kings captain, was standing tall on the pitch. His uppercut off Salman Irshad flew for six, bringing up his half-century and he was keeping his side in the contest. It brought Peshawar Zalmi head coach Darren Sammy to the boundary ropes for a chat with captain Babar Azam. A game […]
BCCI shifts Dharamsala Test to Indore
New Delhi: The third Test between India and Australia scheduled to be played from March 1-5 has been shifted from Dharamsala to Indore, owing to poor outfield conditions, BCCI said on Monday. That the Test will be shifted was confirmed on Sunday itself after BCCI curator Taposh Chatterjee’s report deemed the re-laid outfield as unfit […]
Real Madrid thrash Al Hilal to secure fifth Club World Cup title
RABAT: Real Madrid won the Club World Cup for a record extending fifth time after beating Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal 5-3 in the final on Saturday, with doubles from Federico Valverde and Vinicius Jr and a goal by Karim Benzema. It was a largely one-sided contest at the Prince Moulay Abdallah stadium, with Real never […]
Messi, Mbappe and Benzema nominated for 2022 FIFA Best Men’s Player
Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema have been named as the finalists for The FIFA Best Men’s Football Player Award in 2022, soccer’s world governing body FIFA announced on Friday. Messi captained Argentina to lift the FIFA World Cup trophy in Qatar last year, beating France in a dramatic final. Messi won the tournament’s […]
‘Future European Super League could have 80 clubs’
BERLIN: A future European Super League could include as many as 80 teams, Bernd Reichart, the chief executive of A22 Sports Management, a company formed to sponsor and assist in the creation of a breakaway football league, said on Thursday. In a statement outlining the preliminary results of talks that A22 had with what it […]
Australia win toss, elect to bat first against India in 1st Test; Suryakumar Yadav to make Test debut
Australian skipper Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bat first against India in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur on Thursday. India’s Border-Gavaskar Trophy title defence begins with first Test at Nagpur today. For India, star batter Suryakumar Yadav will be making his Test […]
Zimbabwe’s Ballance second player to score Test centuries for two countries
BULAWAYO: Gary Ballance became only the second Test batsman after Kepler Wessels to score a century for two countries, hitting an unbeaten 137 for Zimbabwe against the West Indies in Bulawayo on Tuesday. Needing at least 248 runs in reply to a West Indies’ declaration of 447-6 to avoid a possible follow-on, Zimbabwe declared on […]
‘UAE set to replace Pakistan as Asia Cup hosts’
MANAMA: The Asian Cricket Council on Saturday said that a final decision on the venue for the Asia Cup ODI tournament will be taken in March although reports emanating from India suggested that it would be shifted from Pakistan. The Press Trust of India news agency and other sports outlets, citing senior BCCI officials, reported […]
New Zealand taking cautious approach with ‘asset’ Jamieson
WELLINGTON: New Zealand paceman Kyle Jamieson is likely to play only in the opening pink ball Test against England in the two-match series as staff take a cautious approach with the recovering quick. The towering 28-year-old was named in his first Test squad since injuring his back on the tour of England last year, interrupting […]