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BERLIN: World Cup winner Andreas Brehme, whose late penalty in the 1990 final against Arg­e­n­tina in Italy handed Germany their third world title, has died at the age of 63, his family said. The attacking full back became an instant Germany football great when his spot kick earned them a 1-0 victory over Diego Mar­adona’s Argentina in the World Cup …

LAHORE: Pakistan’s current and former Test captains, Shan Masood and Babar Azam, are up against each other at the Gaddafi Stadium on Wednesday with both having identical aims of leading their respective sides to their first points of the ongoing HBL Pakistan Super League season. Shan’s Karachi Kings lost their opening game to Multan Sultans on Sunday, when Babar’s Peshawar Zalmi opened …

KARACHI: Upon entering the Gaddafi Stadium to attend the Pakistan Super League match between home side Lahore Qalandars and Quetta Gladiators on Monday night, Faryal was stopped at the venue’s gates by security personnel. “They acted like I’m carrying a weapon with me,” Faryal wrote on X, after expressing her anger and frustration on the social media platform. As a matter …

MULTAN: In a match where momentum swung from one team to another, it was all about who held the nerve. And Multan Sultans did it at the end at the expense of Islamabad United. Both teams were in the game till its final ball, but the Sultans found themselves slightly ahead when it mattered the most to take the game …

ISLAMABAD: Follo­wing recent issues bet­ween the Pakistan Cricket Board and the Ministry of Inter-Provincial Coordination, caretaker Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar on Monday transferred the affairs of the country’s cricket governing body to the Cabinet Division. “Prime Minster in terms of rule 3 of the rules of Business 1973, has been pleased to transfer the administrative control of PCB to from …

AMSTERDAM: Two-time world champion Femke Bol lowered her own world record in the indoor 400 metres at the Dutch national championships in Apeldoorn on Sunday. The 23-year-old, who raced to gold in the 400m hurdles and 4×400 relay at the world championships last year in Budapest, clocked 49.24 seconds, shaving two-hundredths of a second off her previous record set on the same …

LONDON: England’s hyper-attacking “Bazball” approach is coming under intense scrutiny after a crushing Test defeat in India but captain Ben Stokes appears determined to stick to his guns. The visitors slumped to a humiliating 434-run loss in the third match of the series in Rajkot — England’s biggest defeat in terms of runs since 1934. But it was the manner …

LAHORE: The occasion hardly overwhelmed Kha­waja Nafay. Playing only his second HBL Pakistan Super League match, the 22-year-old youngster from Karachi showed immense composure and calculated aggression to help Quetta Gladiators fly past Lahore Qalandars here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Monday. The right-hander crui­sed to an unbeaten 61 off 31 balls with the help of four fours and three …

RAJKOT: India set England a huge target and then skittled the tourists out for 122 to romp to a 434-run victory in the third Test and go 2-1 up in the five-match series on Sunday. India had been in the box seat since grabbing a handy first-innings lead of 126 and they never took their foot off the pedal at …

SHEFFIELD: Brighton and Hove Albion pushed Sheffield United closer to relegation as the Premier League’s bottom club capitulated after Mason Holgate’s dismissal in Sunday’s 5-0 rout at Bramall Lane. Holgate was sent off early in the first half for the United defender’s ugly foul on Kaoru Mitoma. Brighton made the most of Holgate’s exit as Facundo Buonanotte and Danny Welbeck …