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LENS: RC Lens made another step towards qualification for next season’s Champions League with a 2-1 comeback home victory in Ligue 1 against Stade de Reims on Friday despite being reduced to 10 men early on. In front of a packed house, Lens also closed to within three points of Paris St Germain in the title race. Seko Fofana struck …

KARACHI: Filly Prin­cess Sadia looks fancied to clinch the Liberty Cup when it takes place in the Gymkhana race meeting here at the Karachi Racecourse on Sunday. With two back-to-back wins under her belt, she is on course to complete a hat-trick should she maintain her form in a field of six horses in the four-furlong race under top scale …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Shaheens defeated Zimbabwe ‘A’ by an innings and 41 runs on the last day of the second four-day match at the Mutare Sports Club in Mutare on Saturday. The victory gave the Shaheens a 2-0 clean sweep in the four-day matches series. Shaheens won the first four-day match by eight wickets at the Kwekwe Sports Club in Kwekwe …

LAHORE: An impressive unbeaten century by Shahzaib Khan inspired Pakistan U-19 to an emphatic eight-wicket win over Bangladesh U-19 in the fourth youth one-day match at the Shaheed Kamruzzaman Stadium in Rajshahi on Saturday. The big victory gave the tourists an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the five-match series. Pakistan comfortably won the first two one-dayers in Chittagong before Bangladesh came …

The chairman of Pakistan’s cricket board is demanding his side’s World Cup games are moved out of host country India if their arch-rivals refuse to travel to Pakistan for September’s Asia Cup, a report said Friday. Arrangements for the one-day international World Cup, which is due to start in October, remain shrouded in mystery, with the Board of Control for Cricket …

MUTARE: Pakistan Shaheens were on the cusp of an innings win over Zimbabwe ‘A’ at the close of the third day’s play of the second four-day match at the Mutare Sports Club in Mutare. At stumps, Zimbabwe ‘A’ were still trailing by 78 runs in their second innings with just three wickets in hand. Earlier, resuming their first innings at …

KARACHI: From months, it is now down to days. At long last, the Pakistan Football Federation Normalisation Committee has announced the election process of the country’s crisis-riddled football governing body is set to begin. The mandate given to the Haroon Malik-led PFF NC by FIFA is due to expire at the end of next month with Friday’s announcement suggesting that …

ST. JOHN’S: Daren Sammy, the only man to lead his side to two T20 World Cup titles, was on Friday appointed the new head coach of West Indies’ white ball teams, the country’s cricket board (CWI) announced. The 39-year-old from St Lucia captained West Indies to victory over Sri Lanka in the 2012 T20 World Cup final and again in …

Pakistan have appointed former New Zealand all-rounder Grant Bradburn as the head coach of their men’s team on a two-year deal after a successful spell as consultant, the country’s cricket board (PCB) announced on Saturday. He will lead the team’s coaching panel for the next two years. Bradburn served as the head coach of the side during the recently concluded home …

LAHORE: While India led in the first round of both the Open Team and Women’s events semi-final, Pakistan and UAE, competing each other in these categories are ahead in one event apiece on the penultimate day of the BFAME Bridge Championship here at a local hotel on Thursday. In the Senior Team section, India and Pakistan qualified for the final …