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Shoaib, 25 others clear dope tests
LAHORE, July 30: Shoaib Akhtar moved another step ahead in getting a place in the national side when he along with 25 other probables cleared the dope test, essential to be...
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Pakistan contingent leaves for Beijing today: ‘Doping not an issue for hockey squad’
ISLAMABAD, July 30: Pakistan’s only medal hope, the hockey squad, will be leaving with a 34-member contingent from here for Beijing on Thursday night to participate in the Olympic Games scheduled to be held from Aug 8 to 24....
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Selvey questions players’ reluctance to tour Pakistan: Champions Trophy
LONDON, July 30: Former Test fast bowler and leading English cricket writer Mike Selvey has questioned the reluctance of players from England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to travel to...
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‘Discord among boards can be end of cricket’
SYDNEY, July 30: Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has warned a split between the game’s administrators in Asian and Western nations might have disastrous consequences....
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England top-order crumbles against SA in third Test
BIRMINGHAM (England), July 30: England slumped to 173 for six at tea against South Africa on the first day of the third Test on Wednesday as out-of-form batsmen Michael Vaughan and Paul Collingwood failed to reach double figures....
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PHF’s cash incentives for hockey team
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hockey players will get attractive cash bonuses for winning their matches at the Beijing Olympics, Pakistan Hockey Federation chief Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali announced here on Wednesday....
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Sri Lanka wary of India backlash in Murali den
GALLE (Sri Lanka), July 30: Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene says his team is well-prepared for India’s expected fightback in the second Test starting here on Thursday....
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Ashwell Prince compares himself to soccer stars
BIRMINGHAM, July 30: South Africa vice-captain Ashwell Prince could have excelled at soccer instead of cricket given his belief that he has the temperament of Paul Scholes and the pace of Michael Owen....
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Aussies meet India to resolve T20 issue
MELBOURNE, July 30: Australia cricket officials met with their India counterparts on Wednesday as they attempt to resolve which international Twenty20 competition its state teams will compete in....
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Pattinson set for Victoria move
MELBOURNE, July 30: Fast bower Darren Pattinson is set to end his international career with England after a single Test to play his future cricket for Victoria in Australian first-class competition....
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Dalmiya wins election to control CAB
KOLKATA, July 30: Jagmohan Dalmiya has been elected president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB)....
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Faltering Federer almost leaves door ajar for Nadal
CINCINNATI (Ohio), July 30: Roger Federer came close to suffering three successive losses for the first time in five years before scrambling to a 6-7, 7-6, 6-0 win over Robbie Ginepri at the Cincinnati Masters Series on Tuesday....
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Spain confident of continuing victories in Olympics
MADRID (Spain), July 30: Spanish athletics federation president Jose Maria Odriozola believes his country’s recent sporting success can carry over to the Beijing Olympics....
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PIA recover to beat Pakistan Steel in PPFL
KARACHI, July 30: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) who lost their previous two Pakistan Premier Football League (PPFL) matches – to Karachi Port Trust and Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad – made a...
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Spikers undergoingtraining for Asian junior event
ISLAMABAD, July 30: Seventeen volleyball junior players are undergoing training at the Liaquat Gymnasium for the 14th edition of Asian Junior Men’s volleyball championship scheduled to be held in Tehran, Iran, from Aug 23 to 31....
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U-14 basketball postponed
KARACHI, July 30: The Karachi City District Amateur Basketball Association (KCDABA) has postponed the under-14 basketball tournament due to rains in the city....
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Zone-IV lift U-15 crown
KARACHI, July 30: Zone-IV won the KCCA Inter-zonal Under-15 Cricket Championship as they outplayed Zone-V by 154 runs in the final at the Asghar Ali Shah Stadium on Tuesday....
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Aamir, Waqar enter quarter-finals: Junior Squash
LONDON, July 30: Top seed Aamir Atlas Khan and compatriot Waqar Mehboob were through to the quarter-finals of the World Junior Mentrade’s Squash Championship, being contested in the Swiss city of Zurich....
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Independence Day events at KRC
KARACHI, July 30: The Karachi Race Club (KRC), like previous years, has chalked out an elaborate programme to commemorate Independence Day which, among others, envisage three cup races....
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Women soccer trials
LAHORE, July 30: Two-day trials to select a Punjab women’s soccer team for next month’s 4th National Women’s Football Championship will be held here at the Punjab Stadium from Aug 4....
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Powell runs fastest 100 metres, Isinbayeva breaks own record
MONACO, July 30: Russian Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own women’s world pole vault record on Tuesday when she cleared 5.04 metres at her third attempt at the Monaco Grand Prix....
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Disabled cricketers win
KARACHI, July 30: Disabled Cricket Club thrashed New Faisal Cricket Club by eight wickets in the KCCA Zone-II ‘B’ Division League at the TMC Ground said a news release on Wednesday....
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Tabish annexes double crown
KARACHI, July 30: Promising Tabish Khursheed annexed a double crown in the Islamia Club Juniors’ Open table tennis tournament which concluded on Wednesday....
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