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MELBOURNE: Andy Murray is still hoping to make it to one more Wimbledon tournament before his problematic hip forces him into retirement. For now, he’s only committing to the Australian Open. In an emotional news conference on Friday, when a tearful Murray had to leave the room shortly after his first attempt to get it started, and needed to pause …

SYDNEY: Alex Carey will be given the opportunity to push for a top order spot at the World Cup when he opens the batting with Australia captain Aaron Finch against India in the first of three One-day Internationals in Sydney on Saturday. The 27-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman has played just six previous ODIs and typically batted in the middle order, where he …

IN any sport — be it cricket, hockey or football — success and failure depends on how a team or an individual plans for the contest. The team and the management do a lot of homework on how to tackle the situation and that includes the knowledge of the opposition, fitness of the team and tactics to be used for …

LAHORE: The rehabilitation programme of injured Pakistan batsman Haris Sohail will begin at the National Cricket Academy here from Monday, after he arrives from South Africa. The recurrence of the longstanding knee injury, which has kept Haris away from cricket in the past, came to the fore during the ongoing tour and forced him out of the Test and ODI …

MELBOURNE: Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are aiming for the same record from opposite sides of the draw, leaving open the prospect of them playing in the final for a seventh Australian Open title. Top-ranked Djokovic and defending champion Federer enter the season-opening major equal with Roy Emerson, who won his six Australian singles championships between 1961-67, before the Open …

DUBAI: Sri Lankan cricketers have been granted a 15-day amnesty to report previously undisclosed information relating to corruption in the sport, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Wednesday. The amnesty will apply to all participants under both the ICC and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) anti-corruption codes who have previously failed to report information relating to wrongdoing. Players can be …

KARACHI: Pakistan’s most successful Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq, who retired from the international arena in June 2017, will feature in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Grade-II Cricket Tournament that starts from Friday at five venues in three cities. The seasoned campaigner of 276 international appearances with a combined tally of 11,132 runs will once again play for Faisalabad — one of the 10 …

CAPE TOWN: South Africa have named uncapped batsman Rassie van der Dussen in their 14-man squad for the first two contests of the five-match One-day International home series against Pakistan as they explore options ahead of this year’s World Cup. Van der Dussen, 29, was the highest scorer in the recent Mzansi Super League domestic T20 competition, averaging almost 60 …

JOHANNESBURG: Stand-in South African captain Dean Elgar said on Thursday he had given a “blunt message” to his players ahead of the third and final Test against Pakistan, starting here at the Wanderers Stadium on Friday. “I spoke to the team yesterday and I told them that any complacency needs to be ironed out,” said Elgar, who is standing in …

HAVING already lost the Test series against South Africa, Pakistan will find it hard to motivate themselves to regroup and bounce back to end the three-match rubber 2-1 after the disappointments they encountered in the opening two Tests. The Wanderers, the venue of the third Test starting today, is not a place where I would expect Pakistan to look impressive …