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The New Zealand cricket team will play three ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League ODIs and five T20Is on their first tour of Pakistan in 18 years, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Thursday while announcing the schedule of the upcoming tour. According to a handout released by the cricket board, the ODIs will be played at the …

The entire nation is praising Arshad Nadeem after his tremendous achievement of making it through to the final of the men’s javelin toss at the Tokyo Olympics. The athlete is that much closer to winning a medal for Pakistan and our celebrities are taking to social media to cheer Nadeem on. The 24-year-old thrower from Mian Channu, Khanewal made it to the …

The celebrations started simultaneously in Tokyo and across India for a bronze medal that’s taken 41 years to forge. For the most successful nation in Olympic field hockey competition, India’s 5-4 victory over Germany in the bronze-medal match at the Tokyo Games was celebrated like a gold. It was India’s 12th Olympic medal in the sport, but its first since …

LAHORE: Dr Najeebullah Soomro has been appointed as chief medical officer of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in place of Dr Sohail Saleem who resigned in the backdrop of some Covid-19 cases that emerged during the Karachi leg of the Pakistan Super League-6 earlier this year. Dr Sohail quit the post much before the report of the inquiry committee appointed …

NOTTINGHAM: Batters on both sides are set to face a stiff examination when an England side missing Ben Stokes takes on India in the first Test at Trent Bridge in Nottingham starting on Wednesday. Although England captain Joe Root boasts an impressive Test average of 48.68, the next best in his side belongs to opener Rory Burns, with 33.23. Zak …

LAHORE: Ahsan Ramzan displayed an excellent show of power to claim first SGL Under-17 National Snooker Championship title with a crushing 5-2 victory over Hamza Ilyas 5-2 in an all-Punjab final at the Pakistan Sports Board Coaching and Training Centre here on Tuesday. Ahsan also qualified for the World Under-17 Championship at Qatar in December after clinching the best-of-nine decider …

Arshad Nadeem on Wednesday kept Pakistan’s hopes of its maiden medal at Tokyo Olympics alive as he went through to the final of the men’s javelin with a throw of 85.16 metres. The feat made him the first Pakistani to qualify for the final of any track and field event at the Olympics. Nadeem’s throw was third-best of the day …

TOKYO: Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah made history with the first women’s Olympic sprint “double-double” on Tuesday, as superstar gymnast Simone Biles stared down the dreaded “twisties” to bravely win bronze on a day that saw world records smashed and organisers investigate Belarus’ treatment of an athlete now in diplomatic protection. Thompson-Herah’s blistering 200 metres win, following her brilliant 100m victory, made …

GEORGETOWN: Pakistan maintained their winning streak over the West Indies as rain had the final say yet again with the scheduled final encounter of the four-match Twenty20 International series abandoned as a no-result at the Providence Stadium in Guyana on Tuesday. Just one of the scheduled matches reached a conclusion on the field of play with the tourists defeating the …

Pakistanis were all praises for Arshad Nadeem on Wednesday after he went through to the final of the men’s javelin at the Tokyo Olympics with a throw of 85.16 metres. Nadeem’s throw was third-best of the day behind India’s Neeraj Chopra (86.65m) and world leader Germany’s Johannes Vetter (85.64m). The 24-year-old thrower from Khanewal finished above Germany’s Julian Weber and Czech’s Jakub …