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DHAKA: Grief-stricken New Zealand have postponed a tour of their youth cricket team to Bangladesh, saying they were still in a ‘state of shock’ following the Christchurch mosques terror attack earlier this month. The New Zealand U-19 cricket team was scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on April 10 to play five youth one-day matches against Bangladesh. But the Bangladesh Cricket Board chief …

World champions Australia completed a 5-0 whitewash over Pakistan with a clinical 20-run win in the fifth and final one-day international despite a brilliant hundred from Haris Sohail in Dubai on Sunday. Sohail scored a 129-ball 130 for his second one-day international hundred but failed to take Pakistan past Australia’s imposing 327-7, finishing at 307-7 in 50 overs. Australia’s total …

SYDNEY: Australia’s top bowlers on Sunday lashed out at ‘false’ and ‘inflammatory’ claims they were planning a Test boycott if David Warner had not been kicked off the team in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal. Warner was widely seen as the instigator of the plot to use sandpaper to alter the ball during the third Test in Cape Town …

  Urooj Mumtaz Khan may have left the Pakistan women’s cricket team long ago. But there have been things about her that have not let people forget this former national captain who, as an all-rounder, always led her team from the front. She is intelligent, well-educated (she’s a dental surgeon by profession), energetic, dependable, trustworthy, respectful, graceful and poised, though …

DUBAI: Abid Ali made a dream international debut with a century against Australia in Dubai on Friday, but expressed deep disappointment at Pakistan not winning the fourth One-day International. The 31-year-old from Lahore was rewarded for his high run scoring in domestic cricket, as well as for Pakistan ‘A’, and he grabbed the opportunity with a well-crafted knock 112 off …

DUBAI: Australia are one win away from a One-day International series whitewash against Pakistan after the hosts were left to rue a batting collapse on Friday night that ranks among the all-time great chokes in cricket history. Abid Ali — on debut — and Mohammad Rizwan both posted centuries for Pakistan and they were well placed to win the fourth …

Unbeaten Oleksandr Gvozdyk retained his World Boxing Council light heavyweight title on Saturday with a fifth-round technical knockout of Doudou Ngumbu, who was halted by a right leg injury. Ukraine’s Gvozdyk, making his first defense of a title he won with a devastating knockout of Adonis Stevenson in December, improved to 17-0 with 14 knockouts. Although Gvozdyk had some trouble …

Madrid: Lionel Messi continued his remarkable run of form with a second-half double as Barcelona continued their march towards the La Liga title on Saturday with a 2-0 win over Espanyol. The visitors gave their city rivals a tough game at the Camp Nou, but Messi´s chipped free-kick with 19 minutes to play and a late second sent the reigning …

Miami: Ashleigh Barty´s transformation is complete after the Australian defeated Czech fifth seed Karolina Pliskova 7-6 (7/1) 6-3 Saturday to win the biggest singles title of her career at the WTA Miami Open. The 22-year-old Aussie quit tennis five years ago after finding the mental grind of the tour too much to bear, turning to professional cricket in a bid …

Sydney: Australia’s top bowlers Sunday lashed out at “false” and “inflammatory” claims they were planning a Test boycott if David Warner had not been kicked off the team in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal. Warner was widely seen as the instigator of the plot to use sandpaper to alter the ball during the third Test in Cape Town last …