LUCKNOW: Indian cricket star Virat Kohli was fined on Tuesday for the second time in this IPL season after a post-match altercation with former national team-mate Gautam Gambhir in Lucknow on Monday. Both were docked their entire match fee, the Indian Premier League said, while Afghanistan pacer Naveen-ul-Haq was fined 50 percent of his for breaching the league’s code of …

GENEVA: Europe’s top football nations face a broadcast blackout for this year’s Women’s World Cup unless media can improve on their “disappointing” offers for the rights, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said. Offers from “Big 5” European countries were not acceptable to football’s world governing body and a “slap in the face” of the players and “all women worldwide”, Infantino said. …

NEW DELHI: India overtook Australia on Tuesday to go number one in new Test rankings issued by the International Cricket Council (ICC), while also retaining the top position in T20s. England remained number three in Tests but reduced the gap behind the top two teams significantly, the rankings published by the ICC showed. England have won 10 out of 12 …

HOVE: Australia great Steve Smith says winning a Test series in England would be a “bucket list” achievement as he prepares for potentially his final overseas Ashes series with a stint at county club Sussex. The star batsman turned down a chance to play in the lucrative Twenty20 Indian Premier League to appear in three County Championship matches for the …

ISLAMABAD: Inflation in Pakistan surged to a record 36.4 per cent in April from a year earlier, driven mainly by skyrocketing food prices and rising energy costs, official data showed on Tuesday. The finance ministry in its recent report projected that inflation would rem­ain in the range of 36-38pc mainly due to the rupee’s depreciation and rising administered prices, which …

ISLAMABAD: For the eighth month in a row, Pakistan’s merchandise exports shrank by 26.68 per cent year-on-year to $2.12 billion in April, data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday. In the first 10 months (July to April) of 2022-23, exports were down 11.71pc at $23.17bn compared to $26.24bn in the corresponding period last year. The export …

The remains of an Australian man who went missing on a fishing trip in crocodile-infested waters have been found inside two of the reptiles, police said on Wednesday. The 65-year-old victim, named in Australian media as Kevin Darmody, had gone fishing on Saturday in far north Queensland as part of a group, who shooed away a crocodile so they could …

KARACHI: The last time Fakhar Zaman played an international match here at the National Stadium, he scored a century against New Zealand. The knock, however, turned out to be in losing cause as late fireworks by Glenn Phillips sealed a 2-1 One-day International series win for the visitors on a peak winter night in the metropolis. Fast-forward three months, the …

Paris St Germain forward Lionel Messi will not have his contract renewed at the club following an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia, French sports daily L’Equipe reported on Tuesday. Messi signed an optional third-season clause in his contract when he first arrived in 2021. Club officials have decided not to activate it, the report said. The 35-year-old was suspended for two weeks …

Ben Affleck could not join his wife Jennifer Lopez at Met Gala 2023 as he had to go for work. The Air director ditched his wife as he had “work commitments he could not get out of” as per report published by Daily Mail. He accompanied Lopez at Met Gala 2021 right after they reconciled their romance following 2004 breakup, however, he could …