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LONDON: Manchester City beat Sheffield United 1-0 at Bramall Lane on Saturday with Kyle Walker scoring against his boyhood club to extend the home side’s winless start to the Premier League season to seven games. Walker, who was raised in Sheffield and came through the Blades’ youth system, marked his 100th league appearance for City with a goal in the …

IMOLA: Valtteri Bottas powered to pole position for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola on Saturday with the Finn’s team-mate and Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton locking out the front row for dominant Mercedes. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen qualified third, after a power unit scare in the second phase sent mechanics scrambling to fix his car, with AlphaTauri’s Pierre …

MILAN: Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo has tested negative for coronavirus after nearly three weeks but Serie A clubs Atalanta, Sassuolo, Crotone and Parma on Friday revealed new cases. Ronaldo first tested positive for Covid-19 on Oct 13 while playing with Portugal. “Ronaldo carried out a check with a diagnostic test [swab] for Covid-19. The exam provided a negative result,” the …

DUBAI: Pakistan’s Aleem Dar will surpass Rudi Koertzen’s record of most One-day Internationals as an umpire in the second match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe at Rawalpindi on Sunday, which will be his 210th ODI. The 52-year-old, who played first-class cricket in Pakistan for over a decade as an all-rounder before taking up umpiring, had also made his ODI debut in …

KARACHI: Former Pakistan opener Imran Farhat overcame a bout of cramps to score his 38th first-class century before Southern Punjab picked up late wickets against Balochistan on a fluctuating first day of the second-round Quaid-e-Azam Trophy fixture here at the National Stadium on Saturday. Elsewhere, ex-Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed came to Sindh’s rescue against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while sharing a century …

Off-spinner Iftikhar Ahmed took a maiden five-wicket haul as Pakistan skittled Zimbabwe for 206 in the second one-day international in Rawalpindi on Sunday. The 30-year-old finished with 5-40 as Zimbabwe — who won the toss and opted to bat — lost their way from a well-set 3-120 after the halfway mark and were bowled out in 45.1 overs. Left-hander Sean …

Pakistan won by 26 runs against Zimbabwe in the series-opening one-day international at the Pindi Cricket Stadium on Friday. Pakistan lead the three-match ODI series 1-0. Zimbabwe were all out for 255 runs with two balls remaining. Shaheen Shah Afridi and Wahab Riaz starred among bowlers as they picked five and four wickets respectively. All-rounder Imad Wasim also took one …

Recently retired UFC fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov has slammed French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent Islamophobic comments that have sparked outrage in the Muslim world. The MMA star, taking to Instagram, shared a photo that has a boot print over the face of the French president. “May the Almighty disfigure the face of this creature and all its followers, who, under the …

Pakistan were two for 92 in 19 overs in their series-opening one-day international against Zimbabwe at the Pindi Cricket Stadium on Friday. Earlier, captain Babar Azam had won the toss and elected to bat. Both teams are opening their World Cup Super League campaigns after the International Cricket Council introduced the competition to bring context to ODI cricket. The top …

MELBOURNE: Highly-touted all-rounder Cameron Green has been selected in Australia’s One-day International and Twenty20 International squads for the upcoming series against India, while Moises Henriques earned a recall. The 21-year-old Green averages 52.23 with the bat and 21.53 with the ball from 17 first-class matches for Western Australia, and former Test captain Greg Chappell has described him as the best …