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BEIJING: Innovative American freestyle skiers Alex Hall and Nick Goepper landed jaw-dropping tricks on the Secret Garden slopestyle course and won the gold and silver medals at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday. Hall clinched the gold on the first of three runs when he defied gravity with a trick called right double 10 pretzel one. He spun 900 degrees one …

KOLKATA: India overcame a mid-inni­ngs blip to beat West Indies by six wickets in the first T20 here at the Eden Gardens on Wed­n­­esday. Chasing 158, the hosts, who swept the preceding ODI series 3-0, got off to a flying start before West Indies made a brief comeback. Suryakumar Yadav and Venkatesh Iyer then added 48 runs in 4.2 overs …

MELBOURNE: Australia fast bowler Michael Neser has been ruled out of next month’s Test tour of Pakistan due to a side strain and will be replaced with uncapped Mark Steketee, the country’s cricket board said on Wednesday. Cricket Australia said Neser, who earned his first test cap during the Ashes, picked up the injury during Queensland’s Marsh One-Day Cup loss …

Karachi Kings fans might be some of the unhappiest people on Earth these days. Their team has been knocked out of the PSL 7 play-offs and after Wednesday night’s seven-wicket loss to the Multan Sultans, the Kings now have eight consecutive defeats in a row, a first in PSL history. As if things weren’t bad enough, fans saw their favourite captain, Babar …

LAHORE: Islamabad United will be without captain Shadab Khan and pacer Zeeshan Zameer against Peshawar Zalmi in their HBL Pakistan Super League match scheduled for Thursday at the Gaddafi Stadium. It is a big blow for United as the tournament enters its final stretch with Shadab being the leading wicket-taker of the tournament. He also had two half-centuries in six …

LAHORE: Multan Sultans rebounded swiftly from the first defeat of their campaign. Karachi Kings just can’t even get a consolation win. Sultans’ seven-wicket victory over the Kings on Wednesday night was a predictable outcome in the HBL Pakistan Super League clash between the sides who sit top and bottom of the standings. But the Kings had their moments at the …

MUMBAI: India will use the three-match home series against West Indies to identify players for this year’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia and work towards building a bigger talent pool, captain Rohit Sharma said on Tuesday. The hosts take on West Indies at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens in a series starting from Wednesday after blanking their Caribbean opponents 3-0 in 50-overs …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has fined Karachi Kings’ all-rounder Imad Wasim 5 per cent of his match fee for a Level I breach of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) code of conduct during his side’s one-run defeat against Islamabad United here at the Gaddafi Stadium on Monday night. “Imad was found to have violated Article 2.5 of the …

PSL matches are eventful but Ben Cutting and Sohail Tanvir made Tuesday’s Peshawar Zalmi and Quetta Gladiators match one of the funniest this PSL season. Both players flipped each other off during the match, leaving spectators and Twitter users in fits. What you may not know is that the two go way back, precisely four years back when Tanvir stuck …

American Olympic great Simone Biles said it was “THE EASIEST YES” when her fellow elite athlete Jonathan Owens popped the question on Valentine’s Day. “I can’t wait to spend forever and ever with you, you’re everything I dreamed of and more! Let’s get married FIANCE,” the excited gymnast posted on Instagram. Biles, 24, and Houston Texans safety Owens, 26, have …