Trescothick spares England’s blushes with a century
RAWALPINDI, Oct 31: Marcus Trescothick stuck to his crease all day to score an unbeaten century saving his Ashes-winning England side blushes on the first day of three-day warm-up against a Pakistan Cricket Board’s Patron’s XI on Monday....
Substitutes won’t be an issue, says Woolmer
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer said on Monday the regular use of substitutes would not be an issue during the home series against England....
Dhoni rains sixes as India outclass Sri Lanka
JAIPUR (India), Oct 31: Mahendra Dhoni slammed a blistering 183 not out as India scored a superb six-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the third One-day International at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium here on Monday....
Gibbs and Boje slam door on India tour
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 31: Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje will not tour India with South Africa in November because they fear being detained by Indian police. Indian police want to question both...
European Soccer: AC Milan end Juventus’s perfect record
LONDON, Oct 31: Juventus’s perfect start to the season came to a halt when they were beaten 3-1 by AC Milan at the weekend but Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Olympique Lyon continued dominating their respective leagues....
Pakistani shuttlers make last eight
LAHORE, Oct 31: Pakistani shuttlers made it to the quarterfinals of five events of the Asian Satellite badminton tournament in Delhi, which concluded recently. Secretary Pakistan Badminton Federation (PBF) Aamir Hayat...
Lahore Ravi defeat Quetta
KARACHI, Oct 31: Lahore Ravi pulled off a 45-run victory over hosts Quetta in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Silver League match at the Bugti Stadium in Quetta on Monday....
Power, White to clash for top prize
KARACHI, Oct 31: Top seeds Jonathon Power and John White will meet in the final of the Suburban Collection Motor City Squash Open at the Birmingham Athletic Club in Detroit, USA,...
Hyderabad seal first victory
KARACHI, Oct 31: Hyderabad recorded their first win of the season with a comfortable seven-wicket success over Islamabad in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Silver League fixture at the Niaz Stadium in Hyderabad on Monday....
Quaid Trophy: Champions suffer 2nd defeat
LAHORE, Oct 31: Peshawar, the reigning Quaid-i-Azam Trophy champions, suffered their second straight defeat after going down to Lahore Shalimar by 140 runs in the Gold League match at the LCCA Ground on Monday....
Abbottabad fall short
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Spurred by a century from Ashraf Ali, Abbottabad made a gallant chase but in the end fell short as they lost by 39 runs to Karachi Harbour in...
Paceman Sohail wrecks Multan
RAWALPINDI, Oct 31: Rawalpindi routed Multan by 290 runs in their Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Gold League match on Monday, paceman Sohail Tanvir wrecking the visitors with 6-41 at the KRL Stadium....
Golf: Pettersson holds nerve to grab first title
TORONTO, Oct 31: Sweden’s Carl Pettersson battled his way to final round even-par 71 to claim a one-shot victory over American Chad Campbell and his first career U.S....
China dominates as rivals put up dismal show
MACAU, Oct 31: China’s spectacular start to the East Asian Games continued on Monday as the Asian giant bagged another 10 gold medals to put further daylight between it and its closest rivals....
Rusedski sails through Paris injury jinx
PARIS, Oct 31: Greg Rusedski and Feliciano Lopez struck a blow for the dying art of serve and volley at the injury-jinxed Paris Masters on Monday as the 2,082,500-euro tournament saw two more players limp out of action....
Masroor, Atif put Cantt CC into final
KARACHI, Oct 31: Opener Mohammad Masroor scored a breezy half-century and off-spiner Atiq Maqbool took three wickets to help Cantt Sports CC qualify for the final of the 20th Karachi Gymkhana...
Ameer and Naeem inspire Omar CC
KARACHI, Oct 31: Fine batting by Ameer Mukhtar and Naeem Ahmed Khan inspired Omar CC to reach final of the Aga Khan Gymkhana Ramazan cricket tournament with a 14-run win over AKG Blues at the AKG Ground on Monday....
DHA (B) lift trophy
KARACHI, Oct 31: DHA (B) lifted the Kaniz Fatima Memorial cricket trophy beating AOCC by 18 runs in the final played at DHA Ground on Monday, according to a DHA press release....
Ashraf, Masood elected president, secretary
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Ashraf Qureshi has been elected as the president of Rawalpindi Cricket Association (RCA) and Masood Anwar as the secretary....
Punjab Games likely to be postponed
LAHORE, Oct 31: The second India-Pakistan Punjab Games are likely to be postponed after the Punjab Olympic Association (POA) decides to close down all the training camps set up for preparing...
Shahid shines
KARACHI, Oct 31: AKU Staff ‘A’ won the AKU Sports Centre 1st Twenty20 Ramazan Festival cricket tournament with a 49-run defeat of Cougars Apparel Net in the final on Sunday....
Gulfaraz XI triumph
KARACHI, Oct 31: Gulfaraz XI crushed Munawwaruz Zaman XI by a tennis score of 6-2 to lift the Ramazan Hockey Khursheed Benefit title at UBL Sports Complex on Monday....
U-19 trials
LAHORE, Oct 31:Two-day trials to select Pakistan U-19 cricket team for the first Afro-Asian tournament started at the Qadhafi Stadium on Monday. All the 43 probables appeared in the trials conducted by national junior selection committee headed by Iqbal Qasim....
Ravi, Pindi lead
LAHORE, Oct 31: Lahore Ravi (27 points) and Rawalpindi (18 points) are the leaders of Pool ‘B’ and ‘A’ after the conclusion of the third round of the national Inter-region U-19 three-day tournament....