Muhammad Yousuf & Younis Khan suspended indefinitely from playing cricket, others heavily fined

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday slapped banned and imposed heavy fines on a number of its top

Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram & Ijaz Ahmed are being utilized after clearance: Ijaz Butt

LAHORE: Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, has promised to take “more than significant” action against leading Pakistan players in the aftermath of inquiry

Pakistan beat Hong Kong to enter 2nd round of Davis Cup

Pakistan entered the second round of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group II after defeating home side Hong Kong, China 3-1 in a tie that concluded on Sunday.
The win came with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi’s straight-set drubbing of Hiu-Tung Yu and gave Pakistan an unassailable lead in the rubber.
Qureshi beat Yu 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the reverse singles [...]

Sialkot Stallions, Faisalabad Wolves set-up Twenty20 final

Hafeez scored 100 with the help of 18 boundaries (16 fours, two sixes) in his 53-ball ton to help Wolves beat Lahore Lions, while Stallions overcame a late Karachi Dolphins surge.

FIFA rules out goal-line assistants in World Cup 2010

ZURICH: The International Football Association Board has rejected the introduction of goal-line technology, sparking an angry reaction from some football managers.
The decision was taken after a presentation of experiments during which cameras were placed on the goal posts and electronic chips inserted in the ball to determine if it had crossed the goal line. Hawk-Eye [...]

France, Czech Republic & Croatia through in Davis Cup Tennis

MADRID: Doubles specialists Michael Llodra and Julien Benneteau combined to fire France into the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup on Saturday with a battling four-set win over Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber and Christopher Kas in Toulon.
The victory gave the nine-times winners an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five tie and set up a last-eight clash against [...]

England sweeps ODI series after Kieswetter’s maiden ton

CHITTAGONG: Craig Kieswetter smashed a maiden century as England posted a comfortable 45-run win over Bangladesh in the third and final one-day international on

Spirited Zimbabwe stun West Indies in the first ODI

PROVIDENCE: Shingirai Masakadza held his nerve in the final over to help Zimbabwe earn a two-run victory over West Indies in the first One-day International here on Thursday.

Masakada, on his ODI debut, collected three wickets – two in the final over – for 36 runs from three overs, as Zimbabwe successfully defended a target score [...]

Pakistan virtually out of Hockey World Cup 2010

NEW DELHI: Captain Barry Middleton and Jonty Clarke scored twice each to lead England over Pakistan 5-2 in the field hockey World Cup.
Ashley Jackson also scored for England, which blew a 2-0 halftime lead when Shakeel Abbasi and Rehan Butt scored in a four-minute span to level.
Middleton broke the deadlock in the 52nd minute to [...]

History-making Winter Olympian Muhammad Abbas returns home

KARACHI: Pakistan’s first Winter Olympian returned home on Wednesday to a warm welcome after participating in the 2010 Vancouver Games. Skier Muhammad

Kamran Akmal & Rana Naved suspected of match-fixing: PCB

KARACHI: Two Pakistan cricketers are under investigation for suspected match-fixing, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ejaz Butt announced. “We suspect 2

Pakistan announces provisional squad for World Twenty20

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Friday announced a provisional 30-man squad for the ICC World twenty20 to be played in April-May this year.
The squad includes seven players who have not been previously selected for a major international tournament. Controversial fast blower Shoaib Akhtar has been overlooked by the selectors.
While squad has been announced, the [...]

No Pakistan team will participate in Champions League: Ijaz Butt

LAHORE: Ijaz Butt, the chairman of PCB, has said no Pakistani team will participate in the Champions League Twenty20 this year.
“I have already spoken to Lalit Modi about this and there is no chance of any team from Pakistan playing in the Champions League this year,” Butt was quoted as saying by PTI. “After the [...]

Tendulkar sets world record with double-century in ODIs

GWALIOR: India’s Sachin Tendulkar became the world’s first batsman to smash a double-century in one-day internationals, achieving the feat against South Africa on Wednesday.
The 36-year-old was unbeaten on 200 in the last over.
Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe’s Charles Coventry had jointly held the record with 194.
Anwar made that score against India in May 1997 while [...]

Shahid Afridi apologizes & likens himself to Tiger Woods

KARACHI: Pakistan’s enterprising all-rounder Shahid Khan Afridi said on Monday that he was deeply hurt and disappointed the way a smearing campaign was launched against him after the ball biting incident during the final ODI against Australia at the WACA.
“I made a big mistake in frustration and faced the punishment for the same,” he told [...]

India beat South Africa by one run in thrilling first ODI

JAIPUR: India overcame the absence of four top stars to beat South Africa by one run in a thrilling one-day international on Sunday and take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
Wayne Parnell was run out off the final delivery, attempting a second run that would have tied the match, to leave the Proteas on [...]

Razzaq steers Pakistan to win over England in 2nd T20 match

DUBAI: Abdul Razzaq single-handedly changed the course of the match with a brilliant innings as Pakistan beat England by four wickets to level their two-match Twenty20 series 1-1 here on Saturday.
At the Dubai Sports City stadium, England scored 148-6 from their 20 overs after being put in by Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik, who was second [...]

England score emphatic Twenty20 win over Pakistan

DUBAI: Eoin Morgan and Kevin Pietersen put on a record fourth wicket century partnership as England beat World Twenty20 champions Pakistan by seven wickets here Friday in the first of their two-match Twenty20 series.
At Dubai Sports City, England were in trouble at 18-3 chasing Pakistan’s modest total of 129-8, but Morgan (67 in 51 balls) [...]

India scores dramatic win over South Africa in the final Test

KOLKATA: India defied an unbeaten century from Hashim Amla to crush South Africa by an innings and 58 runs in the final Test on Thursday to draw the series 1-1.
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh claimed 5-59 as the tourists, trailing by 347 runs on the first innings, were bowled out for 289 in their second knock with [...]

David Dwyer to rejoin Pakistan for World Twenty20

LAHORE: Australian-born Pakistan fitness trainer David Dwyer, who recently quit his post, will temporarily rejoin the team before the World Twenty20 Championship in the Caribbean later this year.
Dwyer, who has overseen a massive rise in the fitness of Pakistan’s cricketers, will link up with the side in Lahore from early April to begin work. The [...]