Chinese dominate as top seed crashes out
SURABAYA (Indonesia), Aug 30: All England champion and top seed Camilla Martin of Denmark crashed out of the quarterfinals of the 170,000-dollar Indonesian Open Friday....
Jansher gets offer from Holland
LAHORE, Aug 30: Jansher Khan has received an offer from a club in Holland to represent it in the Dutch League and to conduct a coaching clinic there....
‘Dance of Coaches’ rocks Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 30: Five of the 26 teams in the Brazilian championship have sacked their coaches this week with Flamengo, the country’s most popular club, becoming the latest to...
Pakistan’s Rashid-Sultan fighting for survival
TORONTO, Aug 30: Having missed out in the Mixed Pairs and the Power Rosenblum Cup, Zia Mahmood, a Pakistani American, is making a determined effort to make it third time lucky...
Mirpurkhas emerge champions
HYDERABAD, Aug 30: Mirpurkhas has become new Sindh karate championship after securing three gold medals while Karachi and Hyderabad finished second and third in the recently concluded First G.M. Qureshi Advocate...
Zidane named most valuable player
MONACO, Aug 30: France’s Zinedine Zidane, whose spectacular goal clinched Real Madrid’s ninth European Cup as they beat Bayer Leverkusen in May, was named the most valuable player in the Champions...
Saleh eliminates Yousuf, meets Khurram in final
KARACHI, Aug 30: Fancied Saleh Muhammad sent Muhammad Yousuf crashing out of the Karachi Club Open snooker championship to set up date with Pakistan number one Khurram Hussain Agha in Saturday’s...
Raikkonen pushes Ferrari down
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS (Belgium), Aug 30: Kimi Raikkonen pushed dominant Ferrari down the timesheets as McLaren led the way in Friday’s practice for the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix....
Malaysian Ong loses after titanic battle
HONG KONG, Aug 30: Asia’a top-ranked player Ong Beng Hee of Malaysia was disappointed after narrowly losing a marathon quarterfinal tussle to Australia’s world number four Stewart Boswell at the US$100,000...
ICC extends India’s deadline
NEW DELHI, Aug 30: India’s embattled cricket chiefs Friday received unexpected support from the sport’s world governing body as the sponsorship row headed towards a weekend climax....
Scotland want to sign Dravid
LONDON, Aug 30: Scotland are hoping to sign Indian vice-captain Rahul Dravid to play for them when they make their debut in England’s one-day Norwich Union Cricket League next summer....
Waqar’s gutless men suffer worst defeat
NAIROBI, Aug 30: Matthew Hayden scored faster than a run-a-ball to lash 146 and Jason Gillespie took five for 22 as Australia crushed Pakistan by 224 runs in the second match...
Langer takes first round lead
MUNICH (Germany), Aug 30: German veteran Bernard Langer fired an eight-under-par 64 to take a one-shot lead after the first round of the 1.8-million-dollar Munich Open Thursday....
Blackwell gets England call for Trophy
LONDON, Aug 30: England called up uncapped all-rounder Ian Blackwell for their ICC Champions Trophy squad Friday as a replacement for the injured Andrew Flintoff....
Pakistan face Germany today
KARACHI, Aug 30: Pakistan face a stiff challenge when they meet world and defending champions Germany in the opener of the 24th Champions Trophy hockey tournament which begins Saturday in Cologne,...
Heavyweights splash into third round
NEW YORK, Aug 30: A host of heavyweights dodged rain drops and got down to work on Thursday, splashing into the third round of the US Open on a sodden day...
FATA names squad
PESHAWAR, Aug 30: A 14-member FATA squad led by right- arm pacer Muhammad Riaz Afridi was announced Friday for the first match of the three-day Under-19 Grade-I cricket championship kicking off...
Kenya’s Modi ruled out
NAIROBI, Aug 30: Kenya’s middle order batsman Hitesh Modi has been ruled out of his team’s second triangular one-day international against Pakistan Sunday....
HDCA U-19 team
HYDERABAD, Aug 30: Hyderabad District Cricket Association Friday announced a 16-member squad for Under-19 Championship. The team play its first match against Badin at Niaz Stadium on Sept 1....
Hat trick by Ameer
KARACHI, Aug 30: Ameer Ali grabbed five for 16, including a hat trick, to inspire Aga Khan Gymkhana to a narrow five-run victory over Dawn Sports in the 1st all-Karachi Liaquatabad...
Title for ABCC
KARACHI, Aug 30: Adult Blind Cricket Club (ABCC) clinched the second Jashn-i-Azadi All-Pakistan Blind cricket tournament when they defeated Karachi Cricket Association of Blind (KCAB) by 64 runs at Asghar Ali...
Junior squash
LAHORE, Aug 30: The Lahore city junior squash championship for boys will be held at the Punjab Squash Complex here from Sept 2 to Sept 6. The competitions for Under-13 and 15...