Specsavers County Championship Division One, Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton (day four): Somerset 203: Van der Merwe 60; Harmer 5-105, S Cook 4-26 & innings forfeit Essex 141: Cook 53; Leach 5-32, Van der Merwe 4-41 & 45-1 Somerset (9 pts) drew with Essex (8 pts) Essex were crowned county champions, while Somerset missed out again, as their title decider ...

Batting great Mohammad Yousuf on Thursday threw more shade at Pakistan head coach and chief selector Misbahul Haq, alleging that his appointment was not based on merit and questioning how he would be able to spot first-class talent on the basis of “scorecards” alone. “The head coach will be with the national team then how would he be able to ...

SYDNEY: Australia’s one-day skipper Aaron Finch is keen to play Test cricket again after watching the top order fail to fire during the recent Ashes series. The 32-year-old was dumped after scoring just 97 runs in three Tests as an opener against India last summer, later declaring his chances of padding up again had “probably slipped away”. But he is ...

Milan’s San Siro Stadium unveils MILAN: An oval stadium with interlocked rings or a ´cathedral´ to football inspired by Milan´s Duomo, the two short-listed projects for a new 1.2 billion euro ($1.34 billion) San Siro Stadium were officially unveiled by the city´s two rival clubs on Thursday. AC Milan and Inter Milan — who share the iconic stadium to the ...

KARACHI: The best likely outcome of Friday’s one-day International (ODI) featuring Pakistan and Sri Lanka at the National Stadium would be a mismatch. And that too if the wet weather — that is threatening to affect the game — doesn’t play spoilsport. The Sri Lankans have arrived in Pakistan without almost all of their leading players — including the likes ...

Lahore: An unbeaten century from Sidra Amin, which included a 100-run partnership for the fourth-wicket with Aliya Riaz, helped PCB Blasters beat PCB Challengers by six runs in the final of the National Triangular One-Day Women Cricket Championship 2019 at the Lahore Gymkhana on Thursday. After being put into bat, PCB Blasters scored 216 for five in 50 overs. Sidra, ...

LAHORE: Pakistan’s ODI series against Sri Lanka in Karachi, which commences Friday, marks return of five players to the national squad. They are Abid Ali, the right-handed opener, Iftikhar Ahmed, an all-rounder who bats in the middle order and bowls off-spin, Mohammad Nawaz, a slow left-arm bowler, Mohammad Rizwan, wicketkeeper-batsman, and Usman Shinwari, left-arm fast-bowler. With this series being an ...

DOHA: Dalilah Muhammad says she is relishing the pressure of trying to break her own world record as she aims to add a World Championships gold medal to her 2016 Olympics 400m hurdles crown. The 29-year-old New Yorker stunned the athletics world in July when she obliterated one of the longest-standing records in women´s track and field during the US ...

Wimbledon champion Simona Halep was left disappointed Wednesday after suffering a fresh injury setback in China that forced her to retire from the Wuhan Open with a lower back problem. Halep said the problem that caused her to quit her third-round match felt different to the herniated disc she had suffered at the China Open in Beijing a year ago ...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s head coach Misbah ul Haq has demanded world cricket to actively support Pakistan as it takes another step towards the revival of complete international cricket at home with Sri Lanka ODI and T20I series which will be played in Karachi and Lahore. Misbah told media in Karachi ahead of the series that it is important for world cricket ...