SAO PAULO: Ferrari team-mates Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc faced the wrath of team chief Mattia Binotto after their self-inflicted collision and double retirement in Sunday´s Brazilian Grand Prix. The pair were battling for fourth position following the first safety car re-start in a tumultuous race when they clashed as Vettel retaliated after being passed through the Senna S curves. …

BRISBANE: Australia captain Tim Paine has taken a dig at England all-rounder Ben Stokes for taking a “cheap shot” at David Warnerand claimed that the batsman has done so to boost sales of his new book. In his book, which is being serialised in a British newspaper, he claims Warner´s sledging motivated Stokes during his match-winning heroics in the third …

LUCKNOW: Afghanistan’s teenage opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz hit an attacking half-century to clinch the series over West Indies in the third Twenty20 international on Sunday. Gurbaz hit 79 off 52 balls as Afghanistan posted 156 for eight, a total their bowlers defended by restricting the West Indies to 127-7 in Lucknow. They won the series 2-1 after losing the opening game …

KARACHI: Pakistan has achieved the 10th position out of 16 Asian countries with regards to quota places for the Tokyo Olympics 2020. According to the list issued by the Asian Shooting Confederation (ASC), Pakistan won three quota places to take 10th position out of 16 countries in shooting in Asia. China tops the list with 25 quotas and India is …

MELBOURNE: Fast bowler James Pattinson has departed the Australian camp to return to his home state Victoria in the wake of his one-Test ban for personal abuse of an opponent. Pattinson was handed the ban when he admitted abusing a Queensland player during a domestic match last week. He had been vying with Mitchell Starc for the third pace-bowling spot …

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has released the preliminary list of Gold Category foreign players for the Pakistan Super League (PSL) Player Draft 2019. The list of over 325 local players, added in Gold, Silver and Emerging categories, has also been released by the PCB. PSL 2020 has attracted some of the world’s very best players. In the Gold category, 48 …

QUETTA: Two brothers were shot dead by unidentified attackers in the Killi Shabo area of the provincial capital on Sunday. According to police, the armed men targeted Daro Khan and Abdul Aziz when they were going home in a car. They said the attackers were riding two motorcycles and used automatic weapons for targeting the two brothers. One of the …

RAWALPINDI: Rejec­ting speculation that the government and the Sharif family have struck a political deal, Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Sunday said the Lahore High Court (LHC) gave both parties a face saving. “PTI government did not want to let Nawaz Sharif go abroad without submitting indemnity bond, but the LHC gave relief to him which is a win-win situation …

The Supreme Court, while hearing a petition concerning a shortage of funds to pay provident funds and gratuities to former Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) employees, on Monday barred the government from selling land owned by PSM to generate funds to do so. A two-member bench, headed by Justice Gulzar Ahmed, has been hearing the case. The case had been presented …

BAHAWALPUR:  Police in Chiolistan has arrested two Indian nationals for entering the country illegally, said reports on Monday. District police officials says that both Indians entered Pakistan without proper documentation. A case has been registered by the law enforcement agencies against the apprehended, who have been identified as Prashant and Darilal from the Indian states Madhya Pradesh and Hyderabad, respectively. …