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KARACHI: Karachi Kings captain Shan Mas­ood is unfazed by the apparent lack of big individual contributions from his team-mates. The batter, instead, is proud of how they have showed up when needed the most. The former HBL Pakis­tan Super League (PSL) champions have kicked off this year’s campaign with two wins out of the three they have played so far …

A one-for-the-ages 5-fer by Peshawar Zalmi’s Arif Yaqoob helped them script one of the most amazing comebacks in the history of the Pakistan Super League to beat the Islamabad United by 8 runs, with him taking four wickets and conceding just two runs in the 19th over of their match on Monday at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium. Yaqoob picked up a …

PARIS: Organisers of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris may be feeling a little queasy over their commitment to hold open water swimming in the scenic but often polluted Seine. Last August, the marathon swimming test events were cancelled because the water was too dirty, as were the swimming legs on two of the four days of triathlon and para-triathlon …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) has been advised to ban Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) general secretary retired Lt. Col Shahjehan Mir from travelling with athletes as manager for future international events. The recommendation came on Monday from a three-member committee, which was set up to probe a recent controversy which saw two Pakistani athletes fail to participate in the Asian …

LAHORE: Multan Sultans pacer Mohammad Ali, who is currently leading the fast bow­ling charts of the HBL Pak­istan Super League with 13 wickets, has emphasised that he always strives to play his own game rather than co­m­paring himself with others. Speaking to reporters after a training session at the LCCA ground here on Monday, on the eve of their match …

LAHORE: Babar Azam knew he had to lead the charge for his team and on Monday, he showed a different side to his game. Never the player who goes for unconventional extravagance that has become the hallmark of the Twenty20 game, the Peshawar Zalmi skipper showed he can mix flair with his finesse. The crowd at the Gaddafi Stadium, which …

Fast bowler Mohammad Ali picked up three wickets for 19 runs as Multan Sultans ended Quetta Gladiators’ winning streak in the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) on Sunday. It was a game of ebbs and flows before Sultans’ bowlers found their mojo and clawed their way back into the game to win it by 13 runs at the Multan Cricket …

Peshawar Zalmi handed Lahore Qalandars their fifth consecutive defeat of the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) on Sunday despite the fireworks from the latter’s Rassie van der Dussen, who scored a brilliant hundred. In the end, Lahore fell short by 8 runs while chasing 212 as Peshawar moved to 4th on the points table. Dussen kept Lahore in the game …

AUCKLAND: A “clinical” Austr­alia beat New Zealand by 27 runs in the rain-shortened third Twenty20 Int­ernational in Auckland on Sunday to complete a clean sweep of the series. Responding to Australia’s 118-4 from 10.4 overs, New Zealand scored 98-3, falling short of a target adjusted to 126 off 10 overs under the Duck­worth-Lewis-Stern method at Eden Park. The required run-rate …

MULTAN: A swashbuckling half-century from Reeza Hendricks backed by pacer Mohammad Ali’s precise bowling steered Multan Sultans to a 13-run victory over Quetta Gladiators here at the Multan Cricket Stadium on Sunday. The win — the fourth in five games for Sultans — kept the Mohammad Rizwan-led on top in the six-team league. Gladiators are second on the table with …