Saleh routs Yousuf in final
KARACHI, May 14: Top seed Saleh Mohammad, the present world amateur number two snooker cueist, held his top billing by swamping the former world and Asian snooker champion Mohammad Yousuf 6-2,...
Ghulam topples top seed Waqas to reach final
KARACHI, May 14: Bespectacled Ghulam Abbas Panju, a youngster from the Karachi Grammar School, forced his way into the final of the Boys under-15 final, toppling the top seed Waqas Malik...
Karrar spearheads KPT brigade into finals
KARACHI, May 14: Lightweight Karrar Hussain led the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) onslaught with an impressive victory over KESC’s Mohammad Asif to storm into national junior boxing championship finals along with...
Regional Academy ground’s condition not up to mark
HYDERABAD, May 14: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Regional Academy ground in Hyderabad is serving all purposes except cricket. Although close to Rs 2 million has been spent under PCB’s infrastructure...
Chibhabha and Gripper lift Zimbabwe ‘A’
KARACHI, May 14: Half-centuries by Trevor Gripper and Justice Chibhabha guided Zimbabwe ‘A’ to 164 for five on the second day of the second unofficial Test against Pakistan ‘A’ at the...
Three more golds for Raheela
LAHORE, May 14: Raheela Bano continued her winning streak as she claimed three more gold medals, enabling defending champions Wapda to take an unbeatable aggregate eight gold medals on the penultimate...
Punjab clinch U-17 title
LAHORE, May 14: Punjab won the Inter-provincial Under-17 badminton team event championship beating Fata 3-2 at Islamabad. According to the results released by the Sports Board Punjab, Fata got off to...
Asian under-15 squad arrives
KARACHI, May 14: An Asia Selected Under-15 cricket squad arrived here on Saturday in the city to play three matches series with local U-15 outfits. The squad comprises players of some...
Savabeel on course for third straight victory
KARACHI, May 14: Murtaza R. Hussain who owns a string of well bred horses, should have another victory on Sunday afternoon, when his three-year-old bay filly Savabeel is on song to...
Fans vow to fight Manchester United takeover
LONDON, May 14: Die-hard supporters of Manchester United pledged on Saturday to keep fighting a takeover by US billionaire Malcolm Glazer as he edged nearer to gaining full control of the...
Brummell poised to land second win in a row
LAHORE, May 14: Three-year-old colt, Brummell, will be seen in action to make it two in a row when he contests the Midas Cup during the Lahore Summer Meeting at the...
Indonesia beat Denmark to reach final
BEIJING, May 14: Indonesia powered their way into the Sudirman Cup final with a 3-0 win over Denmark on Saturday. The Indonesians on Sunday will face the winner of the later...
Woods misses cut after record spell
IRVING (Texas), May 14: Tiger Woods’s record run of 142 successive cuts came to an end as Sean O’Hair and Brett Wetterich tied for the second-round lead at the Byron Nelson...
Sweet revenge for Obikwelu in Qatar
DOHA, May 14: Olympic 100 metres silver medallist Francis Obikwelu exacted his revenge on gold medallist Justin Gatlin at the Qatar IAAF Super Grand Prix here on Friday. Portugal’s Nigerian-born sprinter...
HEC to host athletics meet
KARACHI, May 14: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) will play host to the 40th National athletics championship in December, but its venue will be decided later, according to the annual calendar...
Rossi claims Le Mans pole
LE MANS (France), May 14: World champion Valentino Rossi grabbed pole position for the French Grand Prix with a spectacular late lap in Saturday’s MotoGP qualifying. The Italian clocked the best...
Szabo retires
BUCHAREST, May 14: Former Olympic 5,000 metres champion Gabriela Szabo is retiring from athletics, the 29-year-old Romanian said on Saturday. “Everything has to come to an end..,” Szabo said. “Too much...
Amir Atlas sails into semifinals
ABBOTTABAD, May 14: Amir Atlas continued his winning streak as he joined Khayal Muhammad and Arshad Iqbal Burki for a berth in the semifinal of the President PSF Cup squash to...
Bullish Luck triumphs
HONG KONG, May 14: Bullish Luck raced to victory in the Champions Mile on Saturday, ending the winning run of stable companion and local hero Silent Witness, the red-hot favourite to...
Federer faces Gasquet in Masters final
HAMBURG (Germany), May 14: Top seed Roger Federer shrugged off a sleepy start to reach the final of the Hamburg Masters with a 6-3 6-4 victory over Russian Nikolay Davydenko on...
Pietersen improves his Test prospects
LONDON, May 14: Kevin Pietersen hit his first century for Hampshire on Friday, boosting his hopes of selection for England’s first Test against Bangladesh at Lord’s later this month. The South...
Trio slam century
KARACHI, May 14: Imran Umar slammed a superb 175 to steer Tapal CC to their third victory in the KCCA Centenary Inter-club cricket tournament when they thrashed Shalimar CC by 78...