LAHORE: Former Pakistan skipper Intikhab Alam and ex Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Khalid Mahmood on Monday lauded the Pakistan team for its fine performance in defeating South Africa 2-0 in the Test series. “No doubt credit must be given to Pakistan and there are some excellent individual performances of batsmen Fawad Alam, Mohammad Rizwan and pacer Hasan Ali, which made …

MELBOURNE: Novak Djo­ko­vic served a reminder of why he’s the greatest Austra­lian Open champion in history as he demolished France’s Jeremy Chardy in straight sets in round one on Monday. The eight-time winner’s 6-3, 6-1, 6-2 win showed that normal service had resumed at Rod Laver Arena after the year’s first Grand Slam was delayed three weeks over the coronavirus. …

RAWALPINDI: Babar Azam attributed Pakistan’s series-clinching victory in the second Test against South Africa at the Pindi Cricket Stadium on Monday to the excellent camaraderie within the squad. Speaking to reporters during the virtual media conference moments after Pakistan sealed a 95-run win to seal the two-match series 2-0, Babar said the self-belief was the key to his side bouncing …

Pakistan, for the first-time ever, clean swept South Africa 2-0 in their Test series on Monday. These are the five takeaways from the series: The handicap is finally lifted For the past decade or so, Pakistan had played international cricket with a major handicap. That disability is no more. No disrespect to Sri Lanka, West Indies, Bangladesh and even Zimbabwe but their …

Joe Root led England to an emphatic 227-run win over India in the opening Test on Tuesday, boosting their hopes of securing a rare series win against the hosts on their own patch. The victory has also propelled England to the top of the ICC World Test Championship standings chart with 442 points. Spinner Jack Leach claimed four wickets and …

Head coach Misbahul Haq has his eye on a top-three world ranking for the national side in all formats of the game following their first Test series win over South Africa since 2003. Pakistan earned a hard-fought 95-run victory in the second Test in Rawalpindi on Monday to claim the two-match series 2-0. Misbah — whose position as head coach was in …

As England crushed India by 227 runs in the opening test at Chennai’s M. A. Chidambaram Stadium on Tuesday to go 1-0 up in the four-match series, former and current cricketers and sports analysts took to Twitter to gush over captain Joe Root and his team’s incredible performance, terming it “one of the best Test wins” and a “complete victory”. …

NEW YORK: Tesla helped push bitcoin to an all-time high on Monday after the carmaker anno­unced a $1.5 billion investment in the digital money and plans to accept the cryptocurrency from customers buying its electric vehicles. The announcement comes on the heels of a cheeky social media embrace of bitcoin by iconoclastic Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and marks the latest …

cp ISLAMABAD: The Secu­ri­­ties and Exchange Com­mission of Pakistan (SECP) enrolled 2,201 companies in January, taking the total number of registered companies to 134,797. Out of new incorporations, 98 per cent were registered online and around 30pc applicants completed registration process in the same day. Around 69pc companies were registered as private limited companies, while around 28pc as single member …