Favourites Germany defeat Pakistan
IPOH (Malaysia), March 23: World champion Germany held off a late Pakistan surge to open their campaign to defend the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup with a 4-3 win here Sunday....
Raikkonen posts 1st win in Malaysia
SEPANG (Malaysia), March 23: McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonen cruised to the first win of his Formula One career in Malaysia on Sunday as Ferrari’s world champion Michael Schumacher joined the also-rans....
Three new faces in Davis Cup squad
ISLAMABAD, March 23: With an eye on the future, Pakistan tennis boss, Syed Dilawar Abbas is aiming to create a new Davis Cup team and already he has taken the first...
Intikhab beats seasoned Abjad in thriller
ABBOTTABAD, March 23: Major Asim, Hurr Hussain, Ahmed Jilani and Captain Intikhab qualified for the semi final of the Jashn-e-Azadi Police Cup Squash Tournament in the main round, Shah Zeb Tariq...
Tiwanas steer team to victory
LAHORE, March 23: Three goals by Ahmad Ali Tiwana including a hat trick and two goals by Malik Asif Yar Tiwana enabled SHV Energy to win the G Mueed-ud-Din Memorial Cup...
Agassi sweeps past Chang in straight sets
MIAMI, March 23: Andre Agassi looked almost fully recovered from a shoulder injury as he opened his defence of the Nasdaq-100 title in Key Biscayne with a comfortable victory on Saturday....
Inzaghi bangs winner
MILAN, March 23: Filippo Inzaghi got the winning goal against his old club Juventus as AC Milan kept themselves in the Serie A title race with a 2-1 win over the...
Varsity hockey
LAHORE, March 23: Punjab University and Peshawar University entered the final of the Inter-varsity hockey championship at the Punjab University Old Campus ground on Sunday....
Course concludes
LAHORE, March 23: Around 97 officials were awarded certificates after completing a three-day technical swimming course which ended here on Sunday....
Tendulkar adjudged player of the World Cup
JOHANNESBURG, March 23: India’s superstar Sachin Tendulkar has been named the player of the World Cup even before Sunday’s final against defending champions Australia at the Wanderers here....
Unsung Martyn Australian best-kept secret
JOHANNESBURG, March 23: Damien Martyn is the best kept secret in Australian cricket and he proved it again in Sunday’s World Cup final against India....
India mired in gloom after heavy defeat
NEW DELHI, March 23: A pall of gloom descended on India after its cricket team suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Australia in the World Cup final in Johannesburg...
Anti-war protestors rally at final
JOHANNESBURG, March 23: A group of anti-war protestors dispersed peacefully after rallying outside the Wanderers Stadium where the World Cup final between Australia and India took place on Sunday....
PCB body completes work
ISLAMABAD, March 23: A special committee constituted by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to review the national team’s disappointing performance in the World Cup has completed its job....
Indian man kills son for buying team posters
KOLKATA (India), March 23: An Indian man beat his teenaged son to death with a cricket bat after he learnt the boy had spent his weekly wages on posters of Indian...
India threatened with ICC suspension
JOHANNESBURG, March 23: International Cricket Council (ICC) president Malcolm Gray threatened India with suspension from world cricket here on Saturday in the wake of their players’ World Cup contracts row (partially...
Ruthless Australia create history in one-sided final
JOHANNESBURG, March 23: Australia rewrote the record books on Sunday when they defeated India by 125 runs with 10.4 overs to spare in a one-sided World Cup final at The Wanderers....
‘Aussies played like champions’
JOHANNESBURG, March 23: India captain Saurav Ganguly paid tribute to Australia after his side were crushed in Sunday’s final, saying they had been “far superior”....
Jayasuriya’s resignation rejected
COLOMBO, March 23: Sports Minister Johnston Fernando Sunday rejected the resignation of Sri Lankan cricket captain Sanath Jayasuriya....
Highest scores in annals of World Cup
JOHANNESBURG, March 23: Leading individual scores in World Cup history after Ricky Ponting’s 140 not out for Australia in Sunday’s tournament final against India (* denotes not out):...
Tendulkar breaks a billion hearts
JOHANNESBURG, March 23: It was meant to be Sachin Tendulkar’s day of destiny. It was meant to be Tendulkar versus Lee, immovable object meets unstoppable force. A sporting duel to die...