Star striker David Villa, Wednesday announced he will retire next month, ending a glittering career in which he won the World Cup, European Championships and Champions League. The 37-year-old Vissel Kobe striker said he will call it a day at the end of the 2019 J-League season after a 19-year career that took in Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Valencia while ...

West Indies batsman Nicholas Pooran has been banned for four T20 internationals for tampering with the ball in a one-day match against Afghanistan, cricket´s world body announced Wednesday. Pooran admitted to “changing the condition of the ball” after video footage showed him scratching the surface of the white ball with his thumbnail in Lucknow on Monday. “He will now miss ...

KARACHI: Captain of the national women’s football team Hajra Khan has expressed anger over the lack of professionalism displayed during the ongoing National Games in Peshawar. In a series of Tweets, Khan, who is leading the Army’s women team, highlighted Pakistan Football Federation’s failure to inform her team regarding a change in a match schedule after which she was left ...

Lahore:Ashfaq Ahmed joined Sami Aslam and Imran Butt in crossing the 600-run mark with his fourth tournament century, eighth overall, which helped Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to collect maximum batting points against Southern Punjab on the penultimate day of the four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy fixture in Abbottabad on Wednesday. Ashfaq started at the overnight score of 81 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s 162 for ...

Lahore:Half-centuries by Umar Akmal and Usman Salahuddin helped Central Punjab add 227 runs to their total on day three of their four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy fixture against Balochistan before play had to be called-off early due to bad light at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium. Central Punjab were 255 for six, after resuming their innings at 28 for two, before stumps were ...

Lahore: A fascinating duel between World No.1 Babar Azam and one of the modern day greats Dale Steyn is on the cards for the HBL Pakistan Super League 2020 as the South African speedster is among the 28 international crowd-pullers to have registered to date in the Platinum category for one of the premier and most-watched leagues on the planet. ...

(Ajman) UAE:The 2nd International T-20 between Pakistan and England was played today at Ajman Oval Cricket Ground, Ajman. In the morning, once again Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl first. Pakistan’s moral with the yesterday victory was high. England top order again failed and Pakistani bowlers, bowled with some serious pace and variation and didn’t allow England middle ...

Karachi:Northern U19 cricketer Shiraz Khan has been fined 50 per cent of his match fee for a level 2 offence relating to throwing a ball (or any other item of cricket equipment such as water bottle) at or near a player, player support personnel, umpire, match referee or any other third person in an inappropriate and/or dangerous manner during a ...

Lahore:Bismah Maroof has been retained as captain and Iqbal Imam has been appointed as the head coach of Pakistan national women’s team until next year’s ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, which will be held in Australia from 21 February to 8 March. Prior to the Australia event in December, the Pakistan national women’s cricket team will take on England in ...

Consistent performances in the ongoing domestic season have earned Swat-born all-rounder Mohammad Mohsin a place in the Pakistan side for the ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. Mohsin, a leg-spinner and a left-handed batsman, started his career in 2011 with U19 cricket. In 2013, he played a Senior Inter-District tournament which helped him graduate to first-class cricket. Mohsin made his first-class ...