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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 …

LAHORE: For all the grit and character that he showed here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday night, Rassie van der Dussen found himself stranded on the non-striker’s end just when he should have been on the opposite side. The South African had fought hard to take his team, Lahore Qalandars, to touching distance of their first win of the …

RANCHI: Spinner Sho­aib Bashir took four wickets to lead England’s bowling charge and put India on the back foot at 219-7 on day two of the fourth Test on Saturday. The rookie off-spinner rattled the Indian reply to England’s first innings of 353 in a marathon spell of 31 overs unchanged spread over three sessions in Ranchi. Wicket-keeper/batsman Dhruv Jurel, …

MANCHESTER: Manchester United’s air of optimism was punctured as Alex Iwobi’s 97th minute winner handed Fulham their first win at Old Trafford since 2003, while Aston Villa surged clear in fourth by beating Nottingham Forest 4-2 on Saturday. The completion of Jim Ratcliffe’s minority stake in United this week and a spell of good form had brought hope of a …

LAHORE: The game seemed to be in the bag for Lahore Qalandars, a partisan home crowd at the Gaddafi Stadium on Saturday cheering them on for a long awaited first victory of this HBL Pakistan Super League season, only for the Karachi Kings to brutally snatch it away at the death. When Mir Hamza’s edge off the last ball flew …