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| June 19, 2007 | Tuesday | Jamadi-us-Sani 03, 1428 |
World Cup format to be discussed at ICC forum
BHURBAN, June 18: The format of the 2011 World Cup cricket tournament will be discussed with the International Cricket Council (ICC), it was decided at the first meeting of the Central Organising Committee of the 2011 edition here on Monday....
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Lawson feels honoured to be Pakistan candidate
BHURBAN, June 18: Former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson said on Monday he was honoured to be a candidate to coach Pakistan, saying it was one of the top jobs in world cricket....
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Senator queries PCB chief again
LAHORE, June 18: Senator Enver Baig, a member of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Sports has asked the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to inform the committee whether its Chairman Dr Nasim...
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Brilliant Collingwood puts England in driving seat
CHESTER-LE-STREET (England), June 18: Paul Collingwood''s magnificent hundred on his Durham home ground left England with the advantage in the fourth and final Test against the West Indies here on Monday....
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Asian Central Zone volleyball begins today
ISLAMABAD, June 18: Pakistan take on Sri Lanka in the inaugural match of the second Asian Central Zone Men’s Volleyball Championship which opens here on Tuesday at the Pakistan Sports Complex....
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Atapattu facing disciplinary action
COLOMBO, June 18: Former captain Marvan Atapattu faces possible disciplinary action after opting out of Sri Lanka’s forthcoming cricket Test series against Bangladesh. Atapattu, 36, was recalled to the Test squad...
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Ashraful wants BD to improve Test show
COLOMBO, June 18: Bangladesh aim to improve their Test performance in the series against Sri Lanka which gets underway here next week, new captain Mohammad Ashraful said on Monday....
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Wipa wants Zimbabwe tour scrapped
BRIDGETOWN (Barbados), June 18: West Indies’ planned A tour to Zimbabwe should be cancelled because of player safety concerns, the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) said....
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Vaughan quits ODI captaincy
CHESTER-LE-STREET, June 18: Michael Vaughan resigned as England''s one-day captain with immediate effect here on Monday. But Vaughan, in a statement issued by the England and Wales Cricket Board after close...
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Aisam hopes to do well at Wimbledon
LAHORE, June 18: Pakistan’s tennis star Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi will be appearing in the forthcoming Wimbledon championships which start from June 25....
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Tait to undergo surgery
SYDNEY, June 18: Australian pace bowler Shaun Tait expects to be back in action by mid-August after he undergoes arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow on Tuesday....
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Cabrera holds off Woods, Furyk to win first major title
OAKMONT (Pennsylvania), June 18: Argentina''s Angel Cabrera held off Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk to become the second South American to win a major title with a one-shot victory at the US Open on Sunday....
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Second successive win for Hamilton at US Grand Prix
INDIANAPOLIS, June 18: British rookie Lewis Hamilton won the US Grand Prix on Sunday to take his second victory in a row and forge 10 points clear of McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso in the Formula One championship....
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Real Madrid end four-year title drought in heart-stopping finale
MADRID, June 18: Real Madrid ended their four-year trophy drought when they won the league title for the 30th time after a dramatic 3-1 comeback victory over Real Mallorca at the Bernabeu on Sunday....
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Zanjeer outclasses Noor to grab feature event
LAHORE, June 18: Four-year-old roan gelding Zanjeer grabbed back-to-back titles winning the Makran Plate Class-IV Division I,II,III, a race of 1100m during the Day/Night Lahore Summer Meeting at the Lahore racecourse on Sunday....
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Roddick stages great escape to lift crown
LONDON, June 18: Andy Roddick staged a great escape to win his fourth Queen''s Club trophy in five years with a dramatic 4-6, 7-6, 7-6 win over France''s Nicolas Mahut on Sunday....
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Zone-I, Zone-V in easy wins
KARACHI, June 18: Zone-V and Zone-I scored comprehensive victories in the latest round of Karachi region fixtures in the PCB Inter-district Under-19 Cricket Championship on Monday....
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Sindh juniors’ hockey trials commence
KARACHI, June 18: Trials to select two Sindh Under-19 teams for the National Junior Hockey Championship commenced at the Hockey Club of Pakistan (HCP) Stadium on Monday....
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NBP to launch academy
KARACHI, June 18: The work for establishing the National Bank Cricket Academy is in the final stages and hopefully it would start functioning by the last week of July, said an NBP official....
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Humair, Salman shine
KARACHI, June 18: ABN-Amro Bank defeated Roche Pakistan by 26 runs in a match of the sixth AKU Sports Centre cricket tournament at the AKU Sports Centre Ground on Sunday....
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