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SYDNEY: Virat Kohli blasted 85 but it wasn’t enough to prevent Australia from fighting off a Twenty20 International series sweep with a thrilling 12-run victory in the final match in Sydney on Tuesday. While Kohli was at the crease in his imperious 61-ball knock, India had hopes of pulling off victory, but when he fell to a sensational diving outfield …

South Africa cricket team will tour Pakistan early next year after a period of 14 years to play two ICC World Test Championship fixtures and three Twenty20 Internationals, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Wednesday. The Proteas will first come to Karachi on January 16 where they will start the tour off with the first Test at the National …

SYDNEY: With a mounting injury toll and all the momentum with India, Australia may press more Test players into duty for the day-night tour match against Virat Kohli’s team, head coach Justin Langer said. Australia slumped to a six-wicket defeat in the second Twenty20 International against India on Sunday, surrendering the three-match series with a game to spare and notching …

THE Athletes Commission of Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) primarily works on the development of athletes’ skills and their adaptation to sporting characteristics. The Commission recently organised the first ‘National Athletes Forum’ in Lahore, the central idea of which was to educate athletes regarding sports injuries, remedial solutions, doping, etc and to provide guidance and knowledge to them for a better …

LONDON: Manchester United will travel to RB Leipzig for Tuesday’s Champions League match confident they can reach the knockout stages but knowing they have made life unnecessarily hard for themselves. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team looked certain to ease out of the group phase after an impressive win at Paris Saint-Germain followed by a 5-0 hammering of RB Leipzig at home. …

KARACHI: The new domestic season has crossed the half way stage but the competing players who signed the contracts with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) are still waiting their monthly payments under fresh contracts which commenced three months ago. A number of players in regional outfits, on condition of anonymity, confirmed to this correspondent that they had not been paid …

It’s Amir (king) Khan’s birthday today and unlike the usual, where we’d get a dose of fun-filled pictures from a grand celebration, this year is a little different. The boxer, who makes headlines both based on his professional achivements as well as his personal life, turned 34 today. Here are some lesser known facts you might have not known about …

LAHORE: Punjab Sports Minister Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti has assured to allocate space for first ever baseball stadium in Lahore. The assurance was given to a joint delegation of Pakistan Federation Baseball (PBF) and Punjab Baseball Association (PBA) headed by Syed Fakhar Ali Shah during a meeting. Sheikh Mazhar Ahmed, Secretary PBF said that the president briefed the minister that …

The Pakistan cricket squad has been allowed to leave managed isolation to begin its preparation for Twenty20 and Test series against New Zealand. All members of the squad tested negative on the 12th day of their 14-day stay in isolation and were allowed to travel to the South Island resort of Queenstown, where they can now train as a group. …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan International Squash Tournaments for men and women is going to start from Monday here at the Mushaf Squash Complex. The five-day event — which being participated by a number of top players — is being organised by Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) in collaboration with Pakistan Air Force. According to a PSF media release, the men’s event has …