KOLKATA: Afghan teenager Rashid Khan plundered quickfire runs and took three crucial wickets Friday to take Sunrisers Hyderabad into the Indian Premier League final at the expense of Kolkata Knight Riders. The 19-year-old twice turned the game around at Kolkata´s home Eden Gardens when it seemed Hyderabad — who eventually won by 14 runs — could crash out of the ...

KIEV: Cristiano Ronaldo responded to his worst run of domestic form at Real Madrid with a record-smashing scoring streak in the Champions League and in Saturday´s final he can join the club´s iconic forward Alfredo di Stefano on five European Cup triumphs. Ronaldo, 33, leads the competition´s scoring charts for a remarkable fifth year in a row and a goal ...

A covert investigation has exposed a plot to fix England’s Test against Sri Lanka in Galle later this year. An undercover journalist, posing as a businessman looking to place bets, caught a match fixer and the groundsman in Galle agreeing to rig the outcome of England’s first Test on Sri Lanka tour scheduled on November 6, the Telegraph revealed. The “wicket ...

Karachi:—A Brilliant All round display from first class cricker Ramiz Aziz as holder Doller East clinched a 40-run victory over Zee State in the 31st Aga Khan Ramazan T20 Cricket Tournament at the Aga Khan Gymkhana Ground here on friday. Doller East  first success in the competition after a the loss vs jaffer Brothers  in Group “A”, the victory was ...

KARACHI:   The duo of Sami-ur-Rehman and Asif Ali shone with the bat and ball as Omar Associates stormed into the quarterfinals of 5th Naya Nazimabad Ramadan Cup T20 Cricket Tournament when they whipped National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) by 40 runs on Friday nigh Opener Sami banged 61 and left arm spinner Asif Ali captured three wickets to play key ...

KARACHI:  Experienced   batsman Triq Haroon scored a fine timely half century as Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) sailed inot the last eight round of 5th Naya Nazimabad Ramadan Cup T20 Cricket Tournament with an emphatic six wickets success over Rehman Foundation on Thursday night.  Fancied SSGC chasing a modest 106 runs winning total, lost three top wickets with 25 runs ...

LONDON:- Pakistan were 350 for eight in reply to England s first-innings 184, a lead of 166 runs, at stumps on the second day of the first Test at Lord s on Friday. Mohammad Amir was 19 not out and Mohammad Abbas unbeaten on nought after four Pakistan batsmen made fiftties, Babar Azam top-scoring with 68 before retiring hurt. This ...

Devon Smith is back in West Indies’ Test squad after a gap of nearly three years. The selectors have also called up the uncapped wicketkeeper-batsman Jahmar Hamilton for the home Test series against Sri Lanka, which starts on June 6. With only 13 players in the squad, four players who made the trip to New Zealand for West Indies’ last ...

Sri Lanka batsman Dhananjaya de Silva has withdrawn from the tour of West Indies after his father was killed by an as-yet unidentified gunmen on Thursday night. Sri Lankan Police confirmed that Ranjan de Silva, Dhananjaya’s father, was shot dead in Rathmalana – just south of Colombo – at around 8:30 pm. Ranjan was a councillor in the Dehiwala-Mt. Lavinia ...

Reigning European champion Natasha Gale has been suspended by GB Boxing because of “unacceptable conduct” and will not defend her title next month. Gale has been left out of the seven-strong British squad for the event, which begins on 5 June in Sofia. BBC Sport understands there are worries around middleweight Gale’s behaviour towards her team-mates and staff. “There’s a ...