ISLAMABAD: The National Games torch reached Islamabad on Tuesday, amid the postponement of the much-awaited event which is being held after a gap of seven years. The Games were slated to be held in Peshawar from October 26 to November 1 but on Tuesday, the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) announced that it was deferring the event by two weeks. The ...

KARACHI: Pakistan cricket team’s opening batsman Ahmed Shahzad, on Tuesday, joined the ranks of Virat Kohli and Dwayne Smith in the list of players with the most T20 centuries. Ahmed —who is playing for Central Punjab’s team in the ongoing National T20 Cup — scored an unbeaten 111 off 63 balls against Northern at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium, smashing three sixes ...

Peshawar : The 33rd edition of Pakistan’s National Games is postponed, once again, for the umpteenth time, when it was announced jointly by the Khayber Pakhtunkhwa government and Pakistan Olympic Association. The games were originally scheduled to be held from October 26th in Peshawar with around 12,000 male and female athletes participating in 34 different disciplines. The postponement was announced ...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s fast bowler Mohammad Amir has been included as most expensive Pakistani cricketers in players draft for the inaugural edition of England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) newly introduced “The Hundred” cricket. Thirty-five Pakistani cricketers were among 239 foreign players whose names were released by ECB with Amir as most expensive among all the Pakistanis with a reserve price ...

Karachi: Pakistan socca football team lost its second Socca World Cup game to Romania in Group ‘H’ on Tuesday in Crete, Greece. According to information made available here, Pakistan conceded an own-goal from its player Mohammad Ali, who mistakenly sent the ball into his team’s own goal posts while trying to pass the ball to goalkeeper. That goal had a ...

Faisalabad,: An unbeaten 111 from 63 balls by Ahmed Shehzad helped Central Punjab to a four-wicket win over Northern in the fifth fixture of the ongoing National T20 Cup at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium. Set a target of 223, Central Punjab chased down the total on the penultimate ball of the match. Opener Ahmed played an instrumental role in the run-chase, ...

Karachi: Left-arm-spinner Raza Ali Dar’s astonishing seven-wicket haul went in vain as Central Punjab went down by 19 runs to Northern in the National T20 2nd XI tournament at the National Stadium, Karachi on Tuesday. In the second match of the day, Southern Punjab recorded a three wicket win over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the back of another match winning innings ...

Lahore: Mohammad and Mubasir Khan scored centuries for Balochistan and Northern respectively, while Sindh’s Muhammad Makki and Southern Punjab’s Mohammad Zahid took five-for each on day one of the third round of National U19 Three-Day tournament on Tuesday. At Jinnah Stadium in Sialkot, Balochistan after been put into bat scored 350 for seven in 83 overs against Central Punjab. Mohammad ...

Great Britain’s Alice Tai has been voted September’s Allianz Athlete of the Month following a highly-successful performance at the London 2019 World Para Swimming Allianz Championships on home soil. The 20-year-old was the most successful athlete at the championships, winning all seven of her events, including one world record in the women’s 100m backstroke S8. Tai received 47 per cent ...

Faisalabad: Wahab Riaz’s three for 28 with the ball and an unbeaten 17-ball 42 secured a four-wicket win for Southern Punjab over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at Faisalabad’s Iqbal Stadium in the sixth match of the National T20 Cup. Wahab took the wickets of Sahibzada Farhan (27 off 19), Adil Amin (7 off 12) and Iftikhar Ahmad (0 off 2) to leave Khyber ...