Irfan and Shujauddin shatter records
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: Irfan Islam of Railways shattered five records and Wapda’s Shujauddin Malik broke four more as the 25th Quaid-i-Azam weightlifting championship made an explosive start Monday at the Pakistan...
Narrow triumph for Jesus & Mary
LAHORE, Nov 12: Four matches were decided on the first day of the Lahore Inter-School girls basketball tournament at the ASIA School courts Monday....
Record purse for Ramazan contest
KARACHI, Nov 12: Club cricket in Pakistan received boost Monday when organizers of the Paragon Cup announced record cash awards worth Rs600,000 for the competition to be played between Ramazan 1...
Haider outpunches Shahid Jan
KARACHI, Nov 12: Featherweight Olympian Haider Ali gave international Shahid Jan a boxing lesson with a 3-0 thrashing on the opening day of national ranking boxing tournament Monday....
Mexico too good for Honduras
MEXICO CITY, Nov 12: Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored two goals and set up the third as Mexico beat Honduras 3-0 on Sunday to qualify for next year’s World Cup finals....
Tariq Aces reign supreme
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: Tariq Aces reigned supreme as they crushed Pre Emptors in the final stanza 68-29 to win the Alcatel Pakistan Open Bridge Championship Sunday with a tally of 181...
Junior karate meet starts
LAHORE, Nov 12: The two-day Quaid-i-Azam All Punjab junior karate championship for boys and girls concluded at the Children Complex Monday....
Uncapped Rudolph named in SA squad
CAPE TOWN, Nov 12: Uncapped opening batsman Jacques Rudolph has been added to the South Africa squad for the second Test against India in Port Elizabeth beginning Friday....
32 ties decided
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: As many as 32 matches were decided in the main round of the PSF national junior squash championship Monday at the POF Complex in Wah....
India is hardest tour: Hussain
LONDON, Nov 12: England captain Nasser Hussain nominated India as the hardest side in the world to beat at home....
Jordan suffers one of worst days ever
WASHINGTON, Nov 12: Michael Jordan said he shot so badly it was funny, but Gary Payton had the last laugh after notching 32 points and 15 assists in the Seattle SuperSonics’...
Packers overcome Bears to share first place in NFL
CHICAGO, Nov 12: Brett Favre passed for 268 yards and two touchdowns and the Packers defense kept the Bears out of the end zone as Green Bay beat Chicago 20-12 Sunday...
Sindh, Punjab women triumph
LAHORE, Nov 12: Sindh Colours and Punjab Whites won their matches in the Fatima Jinnah memorial women hockey tournament at the National Hockey Stadium Monday....
Goalies sparkle in tie match
RALEIGH (North Carolina), Nov 12: Edmonton Oilers goaltender Tommy Salo made a great save in the last minute of overtime to preserve a 1-1 tie Sunday as the Carolina Hurricanes extended...
Mr Bond fancied to complete hat trick
LAHORE, Nov 12: The four-year-old colt Mr Bond is fancied to win feature of the six-event mediocre card of the Lahore Gymkhana races to be run over five furlongs at the Racecourse on...
Odds lengthen on Lewis
LONDON, Nov 12: British bookmakers William Hill have lengthened their odds on Lennox Lewis regaining his world heavyweight titles against Hasim Rahman Saturday from 6/1 ON to 7/2 ON after failing...
Hat trick by Ozair
KARACHI, Nov 12: Forward Ozair Ahmed slammed a brilliant hat trick to steer Aisha Bawany College in the final of inter-collegiate hockey championship after beating Jinnah College 4-0 at YMCA Ground,...
Australia escape defeat in thrilling draw
BRISBANE, Nov 12: Australia hung on for a dramatic draw as gallant New Zealand came within 10 runs of a famous victory in the first cricket Test at the Gabba here...
Underprepared Windies face Murali threat
GALLE (Sri Lanka), Nov 12: A personal duel pitting the magical Muttiah Muralitharan against Carl Hooper and Brian Lara is likely to provide the centrepiece of the first Test between Sri...
Pakistan requests ICC to form special body
KARACHI, Nov 12: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asked the International Cricket Council (ICC) to set up a special committee to deal with pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar’s suspect bowling action....
Pakistan U-19 team announced
LAHORE, Nov 12: A 15-member Pakistan under-19 team for the Nov 18 first one-dayer against Sri Lanka Under-19 was named Monday....
Win-or-lose Record thwarted
BRISBANE, Nov 12: Australia’s draw in the first Test against New Zealand Monday was their first in 24 matches, ending a record sequence dating back more than two years....
Hewitt, Agassi boost hopes
SYDNEY, Nov 12: Lleyton Hewitt and Andre Agassi boosted their hopes of toppling Gustavo Kuerten for the year-end world number one ranking with opening Masters Cup victories on Monday....
Dhaka Test washed out
DHAKA, Nov 12: Persistent rain since Saturday night has forced match officials to declare the first Test between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe a draw....
Multan take command
KARACHI, Nov 12: Multan seize initiative on the opening day of the three-day Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade-II final at Chenab College Ground in Jhang Monday....
Injured Nash heads home
BRISBANE, Nov 12: New Zealand all-rounder Dion Nash has been ruled out of the remainder of his team’s tour of Australia with a recurring injury....
Daniyal and Rafay shine
KARACHI, Nov 12: City School and St Michael’s won their matches in the 6th Dr S.M.A.Shah inter-school cricket tournament by winning their matches Sunday....
CDA tourney
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: Punjab Club were Monday drawn to meet I-9 Club in the opening match of the CDA cricket championship starting at the CRA Ground Wednesday....