Your Pleasure should not let backers down
KARACHI, June 21: The four-year-old colt Your Pleasure, after his splendid victory last week, should not let the racing fans down, when the Summer Gymkhana Race Meeting gets under way at...
Chandnas remain unbeaten
KARACHI, June 21: Chandnas and Lipton took early lead in Karachi Gymkhana Summer Bridge Tournament which commenced at KG Bridge Hall on Friday evening....
Honest Bird on course for fourth victory
LAHORE, June 21: With a fine hat trick to his credit, five-year-old brown colt Honest Bird will be vying to make it four in-a-row when the Lahore Gymkhana meeting gets under way at the Racecourse on...
TWA officials
LAHORE, June 21: Muhammad Jamil Rana and Arshad Sattar have been elected as president and secretary of the Lahore District Tug of War Association by the general council on Saturday. Office...
Marina Cup
KARACHI, June 21: One-day Marina Cup Sailing Championship will be held at DHA Marina Club on Sunday....
PDHA issues notices
PESHAWAR, June 21: Secretary of Peshawar District Hockey Association (PDHA) Hidayat Ullah Khan has issued notices to three hockey clubs to clear their position regarding formation of parallel hockey body in...
Mannan to lead
KARACHI, June 21: Mannan Aftab will lead the Zone-I team on Saturday for the final match of the KCCA Inter-zonal Under-15 cricket tournament on Sunday at TMC Ground....
Goosen closes gap on Baird
HARRISON, New York, June 21: South African Retief Goosen closed the gap on overnight leader Briny Baird to one stroke with a five-under-par 66 in the second round of the $5...
Govou goal puts hosts France into semifinals
ST
ETIENNE (France), June 21: France striker Sidney Govou fired the holders into
the Confederations Cup semifinals with an unconvincing 2-1 win over Japan in
Group A on Friday.
Champion Lewis remains mystery
LOS ANGELES, June 21: While Mike Tyson’s life has been on full display, played out in tabloids and courtrooms, his last conqueror, world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, remains very much boxing’s...
Williams snatches shock 100m win over Montgomery
PALO ALTO (California), June 21: Bernard Williams upset world record holder Tim Montgomery to claim a stunning win in the men’s 100 metres at the US championships on Friday....
Favourites march into last four
LAHORE, June 21: Second seed Omar Zeeshan, Waqas Ahmad and Ahsan Qamar were taken to the distance before booking their places in the semifinals of the sixth All Pakistan Ameer Abdullah...
Brilliant hat trick by Ismail
KARACHI, June 21: Ismail Baba slammed a brilliant hat trick to propel Baloch Mohammadan to a 4-1 victory over Pakistan Petroleum in the KASB Premier League at CDGK ground on Saturday....
Algeria in Nations Cup finals
JOHANNESBURG, June 21: Algeria qualified for the African Nations Cup finals with a 1-0 win over Namibia in Blida on Friday thanks to a goal from Nasreddine Kraouche....
Sampras heads list of absentees
LONDON, June 21: The tennis carnival rolls into Wimbledon on Monday but for the first time in 15 years Pete Sampras will not be walking through the All England Club gates....
England outplay Australia for historic triumph
MELBOURNE, June 21: England completed a momentous week by vanquishing the world champion Wallabies 25-14 for their first rugby victory in 40 years in Australia here on Saturday....
Hockey trials
SUKKUR, June 21: Trials to select players Sukkur District Hockey Coaching Camp for U-14 and U-17 players will be held on June 22 at Jinnah Municipal Stadium at 8.00 a.m....
Part World Cup compensation for three nations
LONDON, June 21: England, New Zealand and Sri Lanka are to receive part of their World Cup revenue withheld by the International Cricket Council (ICC), the sport’s ruling body said on...
Rusedski captures 13th career title
NOTTINGHAM, England, June 21: Briton Greg Rusedski put nine months of injury misery behind him to win the Nottingham Open on Saturday....
‘Six weeks not enough to polish cricketers’
LAHORE, June 21: Chief coaches of the Faisalabad and Lahore regional academies agree that six-week duration is not enough to polish players for international cricket, but it is sufficient to remove the basic flaws of...
Zone-V Whites in U-15 final
KARACHI, June 21: Zone-V Whites qualified for the final of the KCCA Inter-zonal Under-15 cricket tournament with a 37-run victory over Zone-III Whites at TMC Ground on Friday....
Aussie blueprint impractical: ICC
LONDON, June 21: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Saturday dismissed as impractical the new proposal by the Australian Cricketers Association to have a rolling one-day world championship....
Proposal for joint team
MUMBAI, June 21: Saurav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag, Mohammed Kaif, Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh and Pathiv Patel have all verbally agreed to play in the proposed Sahara Peace Cup —...
Dippenaar’s century seals easy victory
LONDON, June 21: Boeta Dippenaar’s 101 not out off 90 balls guided South Africa to a 153-run win over Sussex under the Hove floodlights on Friday as the tourists continued their...
Collymore pegs back Sri Lanka
GROS ISLET (St Lucia(, June 21: Fast bowler Corey Collymore grabbed a maiden five-wicket haul to lead a West Indies fightback in the opening Test against Sri Lanka at the Beausejour...
U-14 trials
PESHAWAR, June 21: Pakistan Steel Mills has come out with another step of national service by announcing to select Under-14 probables for football for four-year terms....