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SPIELBERG: Max Verstappen led team-mate Sergio Perez home with a dominant display as Red Bull stormed to a comfortable one-two in Saturday’s wet-dry sprint race at the Austrian Grand Prix. The defending double world champion and series leader added eight points to move into a 70-point lead in the drivers’ title race as he won by 21.102 seconds. Ferrari’s Carlos …

NEW YORK: Panama moved into the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup with a 2-1 win over Martinique on Friday after Costa Rica and El Salvador produced a frantic but goalless draw. The Canalmen have six points from their opening two games in Group ‘C’ with Martinique on three points and El Salvador and Costa Rica on a point each …

LONDON: England all-rounder Moeen Ali should be fit to face Australia in the third Test at Headingley with his finger injury healing well, according to bowling coach Jeetan Patel. Moeen suffered a cut finger in the opening Test at Edgb­aston and was not selected for the ongoing Lord’s clash. “Fingers crossed that in the next couple of days, he gets …

KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board formally reached out to the country’s government earlier this week for it to provide the national team clearance to visit India for the upcoming ICC World Cup. The PCB confirmed Saturday that it wrote to its patron-in-chief Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif along with two relevant government departments after the International Cricket Council (ICC) released the …

Mountaineers Naila Kiani and Samina Baig became the first Pakistani women to summit the 8,125-metre-tall mountain Nanga Parbat — the world’s ninth-highest peak — on Sunday. According to Alpine Club of Pakistan Secretary General Karar Haidri, Naila scaled the mountain at 10:18am today followed by Baig who completed her summit at 11:08am. The women overcame hazardous terrain, severe weather, and …

In a bizarre and one-of-a-kind incident, New Zealand spinner Eden Carson ended up bowling 11 overs in a Women’s ODI match against Sri Lanka in the ICC Championship in Galle on Friday. The on-field umpires and the match officials did not notice the error as Carson went on to give 41 runs in her 11 overs and bagged two important …

The upcoming edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2023 will feature three Pakistan players Azam Khan, Imad Wasim and Mohammad Amir. The players’ draft for the upcoming 11th edition of the CPL took place on Friday, June 30. Left-arm pacer Mohammad Amir and his Karachi Kings’ teammate and captain Imad Wasim, who represented Jamaica Tallawhs in the previous edition of the …

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is likely to send a security team to India to assess the arrangements ahead of the ICC Men’s World Cup 2023. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the anticipated schedule of the Men’s World Cup 2023 last week, creating a buzz around the highly anticipated Pakistan vs India clash. The arch-rivals are set to face each other …

HARARE: Two-time champions West Indies have failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time ever following their shocking defeat against Scotland in the Cricket World Cup (CWC) Qualifier. Put into bat first, the West Indian batting lineup faltered and could only pile a meagre total of 181 on the scoreboard before bundling out in the 44th over. …

BENGALURU: Abdullah Albloushi struck the winner in the extra time to lift Kuwait to edge Bangladesh 1-0 and storm into the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship final. The two sides were inseparable at the conclusion of the regulation time and thus the first semi-final of the ongoing SAFF Championship entered into the extra time. Kuwait ultimately broke the tie …