Barcelona star Lionel Messi has added even more trophies to his massive collection after receiving two awards from Spanish sports newspaper Marca on Monday. The Argentine, following the Catalan giants’ 4-0 victory over Deportivo on Sunday, was pictured celebrating with the Pichichi award and the Alfredo Di Stefano award at a ceremony in Barcelona. The Pichichi trophy, named after the ...

WHANGAREI (New Zealand): The West Indies will hope short-form master Chris Gayle can inspire a misfiring batting line-up in the One-day International series against New Zealand starting on Wednesday. The tourists meekly surrendered with the bat as they slumped to a 2-0 Test series whitewash against the Black Caps, and need a major improvement in the three ODI games. Gayle, ...

KARACHI: Uncertainty over next year’s Asia Cup host will continue as the ACC meeting in Dubai could not decide on the fate of the tournament in India. There were reports that BCCI could lose hosting rights of next year’s Asia Cup if it refuses to host Pakistan. Some reports had even suggested that India is going to withdraw from hosting the tournament. Sources ...

KARACHI: A day after stepping down as head coach of the Pakistan hockey team, the former center-half, Farhat Khan, has returned to Pakistan hockey management in the role of selector. An official of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) confirmed that Farhat has been added to Pakistan hockey’s selection committee which now has five members. “Pakistan Hockey Federation has inducted Farhat Khan ...

Pakistan Throwball Teams are participating in World Throwball Championship 2017 kuala Lumpur Malaysia & Students Olympic Asian Games 2017 at Johor Bahru Malaysia. The Schdule as under: 1. Pakistan Students teams are participating in Students Olympic Asian Games 2017 at Johor Bahru Malaysia from 22nd to 24th December 2017. Age Group Boys & Girls (U-17 & U-19). The Pakistan Teams  ...

Lahore : The Final of Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2017-2018 will be played between SNGPL and WAPDA from 21st to 25th December 2017 at National Stadium Karachi. The match officials for the final will be:- Umpires:                   Ahsan Raza and Khalid Mahmood Sr. TV Umpire:                Ahmed Shahab Reserve Umpire:       Aaley Haider Referee:                     Iftikhar Ahmed Official Scorer:          Imran Ali Press Scorer:            Salman Hussain Prize ...

LAHORE:  Chairman Steering Committee Sports Punjab Hanif Abbasi has said that Punjab govt has taken effectives measure to provide sports facilities to talented youth of the province. Dozens of sports projects have been completed and several new international standard projects are being launched across the province; he said this while addressing Sports Board Punjab’s Project Management Unit meeting at National ...

LAHORE : The qualified Punjab coaches, on Tuesday, continued to impart strenuous training to provincial teams for the preparation of Quaid-i-Azam Inter-Provincial Games being staged at Islamabad from December 25-29, 2017. The hectic camp training activity is under way at different venues of the city on the instructions of Secretary Sports Punjab Muhammad Aamir Jan. The coaches taught the players ...

Islamabad : The opening ceremony of the main round of Pakistan Open Mens’ Squash Championship was held at Mushaf Squash Complex, Islamabad today. Air Marshal Shahid Akhtar Alvi, Senior Vice President Pakistan Squash Federation was the chief guest at the occasion. High ranking PAF officers and squash lovers from all walks of life witnessed the match between Nafizwan Adnan and ...

SYDNEY: Steve Smith has broken English hearts and smashed records with his phenomenal Ashes batting and is being acclaimed as the best Australian batsman since the greatest of all, Don Bradman. That is rarefied company for the quirky 28-year-old skipper, who led Australia to reclaiming the Ashes with an imperious 239 — his highest Test score — in Australia´s mammoth ...