Sports

KARACHI: The newly elected Federal Government of Pakistan is likely to consider reviving departmental sports in the country, sources claimed. According to the details, the government is considering reinstating all departmental sports teams, which were shut down by the former ruling government. The government may further issue an instruction regarding the revival of the departmental and also for the formation …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has completed the inquiry regarding the team’s dismal performance in the recently held ICC Under-19 World Cup 2022. According to the details, the junior team’s Head Coach Ijaz Ahmed and Chief Selector Saleem Jaffar appeared before the inquiry committee, which included PCB CEO Faisal Hasnain, Nadeem Khan, the director of the National High-Performance Center …

LAHORE: The Indian Baseball Team will travel to Pakistan next year to compete in the South Asian Games, scheduled to be held here. The Confederation of Professional Baseball/Softball in India (CPBI) has confirmed the side’s participation in the upcoming South Asian Games. In a letter to the Pakistan Olympic Association, CPBI Secretary Manoj Kohli affirmed on behalf of his federation …

KARACHI: Seven horses are in contention for the Summer Cup which stands out prominently in a small four-race card drawn for the Gymkhana race meeting being held at the Karachi Racecourse on Sunday. The Summer Cup, which is the third race of the program, is also the day’s feature event under top combined scale order I, II and III and …

ROUBAIX: Italian champion Elisa Longo Borghini won the second edition of the women’s Paris-Roubaix after a solo raid of more than 30 kilometres on Saturday. Longo Borghini attacked in a cobbled sector after catching a breakaway group of three and never looked back as her Trek Segafredo team-mate and compatriot Elisa Balsamo was disqualified for taking an illegal tow from …

LONDON: Liverpool reached the FA Cup final as Sadio Mane’s double inspired a 3-2 win over Manchester City that kept alive their quadruple bid and shattered their rivals’ treble hopes. Jurgen Klopp’s side are chasing an unprecedented clean-sweep of the four major trophies in a single season. They remain on course to achieve that incredible target after a scintillating first …

LONDON: Former England captains say talismanic all-rounder Ben Stokes should fill the vacuum left after Joe Root resigned as Test skipper. The 30-year-old Stokes — presently nursing a knee injury — can take the England job with an easy conscience as he had said he would turn it down if his good friend Root was sacked. Root, though, walked of …

LAHORE: The national hockey team’s head coach is satisfied with the efforts made by the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) for uplifting the game which currently is in dire straits. However, at the same time Siegfried Aikman remains adamant the country instead of remaining in its glory-filled past must look at hockey on modern lines, which has over the years changed …

LAHORE: A former director development at Pakistan Cricket Board’s National Cricket Academy, now revamped as the High Performance Centre, believes that the ill-planned restructuring of domestic cricket has destroyed the system. During the tenure of Ehsan Mani as PCB chairman, the country’s cricket governing body dissolved the departmental cricket system as well as the 16 regions on instructions of former …

PARIS: Favourites Barcelona were sensationally knocked out of the Europa League by Eintracht Frankfurt in the quarter-finals on Thursday, while West Ham United and Rangers joined RB Leipzig in qualifying for the last four. Serbian international winger Filip Kostic scored twice either side of a Rafael Santos Borre strike at the Camp Nou for Frankfurt, who survived a late fightback …