A century by Babar Azam set up a three-wicket, last-ball win for Pakistan in the first one-day international against South Africa at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Friday. The Pakistan captain hit a stroke-filled 103 off 104 balls but his dismissal started a collapse in which fast bowler Anrich Nortje took four wickets in four overs. Rassie van der Dussen …

MIAMI: World number one Ashleigh Barty bucked the upset trend at the Miami Open on Thursday, rolling into the women’s final as men’s second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas was toppled by Hurbert Hurkacz. Australia’s Barty fired 27 winners in a 6-3, 6-3 victory over fifth-seeded Ukrainian Elina Svitolina to return to the title match of a tournament she won when it …

NORTH SOUND: Determination and good fortune paid off for Sri Lanka’s openers with Lahiru Thirimanne and captain Dimuth Karunaratne taking their team to 93 without loss at lunch after a rain-shortened first session of the last day of the second and final Test against the West Indies and the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Friday. Karunaratne will resume …

KARACHI: Top-order young Pakistani batsman Haider Ali has been picked up in the top category of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) season 2021.  According to the details, Haider has been picked up by Jamaica Tallawahs for $70,000 (PKR 1 crore 7 lacs). With the bonus, the young batter can earn up to $1 lac 10 thousand. Haider showed his class …

BELGRADE: The captain’s armband which Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo threw away angrily during a World Cup qualifier against Serbia was bought by a betting company at a charity auction to help fund life-saving surgery for a six-month-old baby. Serbia’s Mozzart said in a statement on Friday that it paid 7.5 million dinars ($75,150) for the armband picked up by a fireman …

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank is working with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to prepare a programme that will help the latter respond to the post Covid-19 recovery agenda and deal with longstanding deficiencies in the public finance management. The programme, titled Spending Effectively for Enhanced Development (Speed), will support selected actions of public financial management strategy, health policy and education sectoral …

KARACHI: Students of the NED University of Engineering & Technology have developed Pakistan’s second Formula Electric Sports car at a cost of around Rs3.5 million.  One of the students while detailing the creation said that actually, it was a dream of his seniors of the engineering department to develop Pakistan’s second Formula Electric Sports car, first one was made by …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) announced on Friday that broadband subscriptions in the country had reached 100 million. The PTA said there were fewer than 2m subscriptions in 2012, but after the introduction of 3G service the figure jumped to 16m in 2014 and now stood at 100m.   The telecom sector regulator claimed that currently around 87 per …

ISLAMABAD: The month of March saw an increase in the exports of value-added and non-traditional products owing to the government’s support for the sector, data released by the Ministry of Commerce showed. The commerce ministry added that the country’s overall exports remained above the $2 billion mark for the sixth consecutive month in March since 2011. Cements exports posted a …