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LAHORE: With all six teams in fray for the semi-finals, the National T20 Cup’s second leg starts at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore from Wednesday with question marks still hanging over many of the Twenty20 World Cup-bound Pakistan squad. The conditions at the Pindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi during the first leg were relatively tough for batting. But all that …

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The simmering row between the federal government and the Pakistan Olympic Association shows no signs of abating with the Ministry of Inter-provincial Coordination on Tuesday seeking audited financial statements of accounts for the last three years from the POA. Pakistan’s poor performance at this year’s Tokyo Olympics has seen the government and the POA come to war with the …

KARACHI/LAHORE: The government is firmly on the Pakistan Football Federation Normalisation Committee’s side. It is probably the strongest reason why global football body FIFA has extended the mandate of the PFF NC till the end of the year. And it also explains why the court-elected PFF of Ashfaq Hussain Shah has formed a five-member committee to hold talks in order …

New Zealand coach Gary Stead played down suggestions of any tension around their Twenty20 World Cup opener against Pakistan after the Black Caps recently abandoned their limited-overs tour of the South Asian country citing a security alert. New Zealand’s withdrawal dealt a massive blow to Pakistan’s hopes of staging regular international cricket, with England subsequently calling off their men’s and women’s tours. New Zealand …

LONDON: England will only travel to Australia for the Ashes series across December and January if their leading players are in the squad. That was the message from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Monday, with the governing body saying it will announce this week if the tour will go ahead amid concerns about restrictions in place in …

LAHORE: Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez after fully recovering from dengue fever resumed cricket practice here on Monday. The 40-year-old Hafeez who is part of national T20 World Cup squad, was infected with dengue virus last week. Due to the illness, the right-handed batter withdrew from the first leg of the ongoing National T20 Cup in Rawalpindi. After gaining full fitness, …

Lahore: The national men’s cricket team will leave for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on October 15 to take part in ICC T20 World Cup. According to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the squad will leave Lahore on a chartered flight to participate in the competition. Meanwhile, the players participating in the National T20 Cup will move from one bubble to …

KARACHI: Although Sou­thern Punjab, as widely anticipated given the rut they are in, crashed to a sixth straight National T20 Cup defeat, there was a flicker of hope for Pakistan’s Twenty20 Word Cup hopeful Azam Khan. Ridiculed for his lack of form in the previous games of the Rawalpindi leg — which concluded at the Pindi Cricket Stadium on Sunday …

KARACHI: Defending champion and top seed Mohammad Asif and third seed Shahid Aftab consolidated their positions for making it to the knockout round of the NBP 46th National Snooker Championship here at the bank’s sports complex on Monday. Drawn in group ‘A’, four-time national champion Asif won back-to-back matches to stay unbeaten in four outings so far. First, he trounced …

KARACHI: Mohammad Nawaz just couldn’t have hoped for an appropriate moment to showcase his all-round prowess with the Twenty20 World Cup almost on the horizon. The 27-year-old has been the inspiration behind Northern’s resurgence in the National T20 Cup’s first leg at the Pindi Cricket Stadium. And Sunday was no exception as Nawaz excelled with both bat and ball to …