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January 6, 2002 Sunday Shawwal 21, 1422 Four changes in hockey team LAHORE, Jan 5: Four changes were made in the team which took a poor fourth position in the 23rd Champions Trophy, for its next competition  of  the six-nation hockey tournament to be held... Daring Eagle storms home LAHORE, Jan 5: Showing magnificent speed, the bay filly Daring Eagle stormed home to win the New Year Cup run over the sprinting distance of five furlongs at the Racecourse on Saturday.... Proteas taught lesson: Pollock SYDNEY, Jan 5: South African cricket captain Shaun Pollock said his team would benefit from the lessons they learnt during their 3-0 series thrashing by Australia.... Naseer selected for Hong Kong meet LAHORE, Jan 5: Naseer Ahmad will take part in the eighth Asian Marathon Race to be held in Hong Kong on Feb 24.... 20 wickets fall on first day KARACHI, Jan 5: Bowlers dominated opening day’s play in the Patron’s Trophy grade-II match between Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) and University Grants Commission as 20 wickets fell in the three-day... Pakistanis Qualify for semis KARACHI, Jan 5: Five Pakistani players qualified for the pre-finals of various age categories in the ongoing British Open Junior Squash Championship, reports received here from Sheffield said Saturday.... Wapda fail to reach final LAHORE, Jan 5: Wapda struggled to beat Police 18-16 in the last league match of the Morven Gold National Inter-department baseball championships at the Iqbal Parks Sports Complex on Saturday.... West Brom shock Sunderland LONDON, Jan 5: West Bromwich Albion sprung the first upset of the English FA Cup third round Saturday when they beat Premier League Sunderland 2-1 at the Stadium of Light.... Hard Press fancied to lift Quaid-i-Azam Gold Cup KARACHI, Jan 5: Hard Press, a five-year-old Lahore-based thoroughbred bay from Harmon’s Jewel out of Preska, is fancied to lift the Quaid-i-Azam Gold Cup, contested by 16 of the best racehorses... Ziauddin and Malik elected HYDERABAD, Jan 5: Brig (retd) Rasheed Ali Malik and Syed Ziauddin have been elected as President and Secretary of Sindh Amateur Basketball Association respectively for the term of next four years.... Spaniards stun Americans PERTH (Australia), Jan 5: Spain’s Tommy Robredo and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario pulled off a supreme team performance to score a dramatic 2-1 victory over the top-seeded US in the Hopman Cup final... Toms and Perry share lead KAPALUA (Hawaii), Jan 5: Stiff Kona breezes got the attention of the 32-player field Friday at the Mercedes Championships, turning the Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort into a turbulent track.... Williams returns from break with bang GOLD COAST (Australia), Jan 5: World number three Venus Williams warmed up for the Australian Open with a 7-5 6-2 victory over Justine Henin in Saturday’s final of the Australian women’s... Jordan tops 30,000-point mark in Wizards’ win WASHINGTON, Jan 5: Michael Jordan did not let sentiment stand in the way as he became the fourth NBA player to score 30,000 points, reaching the milestone on Friday night as... Ahmad slams hat trick LAHORE, Jan 5: Four goals by Ahmad Ali Tiwana including a hat trick, enabled 1st Law Company to win the Christmas Cup Polo Tournament, defeating Olympia in the final 5-3 at the... Wild triumph in powerplay ST. PAUL (Minnesota), Jan 5: Andrew Brunette and Lubomir Sekeras scored two powerplay goals in the first period to guide Minnesota Wild to a 2-1 victory over the Nashville Predators Friday.... FIH official due today KARACHI, Jan 5: Mohammad Tayyab Ikram, Project Manager of International Hockey Federation (FIH), is due to arrive in Pakistan Sunday on the invitation of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) to help improve... Japanese Extends advantage ATAR (Mauritania), Jan 5: Japan’s Hiroshi Masuoka opened up a commanding lead after the 383km ninth stage of the Paris-Dakar Rally from Zouerat to here on Saturday.... Australia sweep series SYDNEY, Jan 5: Australia thrashed South Africa by 10 wickets on Saturday to win the third and final Test and complete their first series cleansweep over the Proteas in 70 years.... Jayasuriya piles more agony on Zimbabwe KANDY (Sri Lanka), Jan 5: Sri Lanka, boosted by Muttiah Muralitharan’s haul of nine for 51 and then by a superb 139 from captain Sanath Jayasuriya, took complete control of the... Younis and Youhana hammer centuries SAVAR (Bangladesh), Jan 5: Unbeaten centuries by Younis Khan and Yousuf Youhana helped Pakistan reach 312-3 declared on the first day of the three-day tour match against Bangladesh A on Saturday.... Tabish spins Karachi ‘W’ to emphatic victory KARACHI, Jan 5: Off-spinner Tabish Nawab captured six for 39 as Karachi Whites coasted to a 98-run victory over Karachi Blues in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade-I cricket clash at KCCA Stadium... Muralitharan rates Oval performance better KANDY, Jan 5: Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan claimed the fifth-best innings figures in Test history against Zimbabwe on Saturday but rated his bowling return against England three years before as a... Lloyd wants WICB to reconsider decision ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: Cricket legend Clive Lloyd said Saturday he hoped the West Indies would reconsider their demand for this month’s Test series against Pakistan to be played on neutral grounds... Sindh hold Balochistan to draw KARACHI, Jan 5: Rest of Balochistan (RoB) forced an honorable draw in their Quaid-i-Azam Cricket Trophy match against Rest of Sindh (RoS) at National Stadium Saturday, thanks to an attacking 65... `India not to host ICC Knock-Out KARACHI, Jan 5: India has expressed its inability to host this year’s ICC Knock-Out tournament scheduled for September, a top Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official said.... Pindi crush Islamabad RAWALPINDI, Jan 5: Rawalpindi mopped up Islamabad’s tail in just eight overs Saturday for a 115-run victory in their Quaid Trophy Grade-I match at the KRL Stadium.... Pakistan to invite New Zealand for short tour KARACHI, Jan 5: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will next week write to New Zealand Cricket (NZC) reminding them of their commitment along with the proposed dates for rescheduling the series...

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