Karachi: With 120 points in the bag before the tenth round of the Quaid-e-Azam trophy, Central Punjab followed a perfect script to settle for a draw in their last round fixture, of the premier four-day first class tournament, against Southern Punjab. On the fourth and final day at the State Bank Stadium on Thursday, Central Punjab’s openers Salman Butt and ...

Karachi: Northern confirmed their place in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final with a thrilling 39-run win over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the fourth and final day of the 10th round game at the UBL Sports Complex in Karachi on Thursday. Captain Nauman Ali led from the front taking four wickets for 72 runs in 28 overs while Sadaf Hussain chipped in with ...

Karachi: Sindh’s Fawad Alam scored his fourth century of the season and Balochistan’s Imran Butt also continued his run of form with another ton on the final day of four-day tenth-round of first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match at the National Stadium on Thursday. Balochistan had reached 181 for one in 26.2 overs in their second innings when the match ended in ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa U16 v Sindh U16, Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad At Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad, Mohammad Farooq’s unbeaten 64 helped Khyber Pakhtunkhwa beat Sindh by eight wickets. Resuming their innings from the overnight score of 18 for one in chase of 105 runs,  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa overhauled the target in 36.1 overs for the loss of two wickets. Northern U16 and Khyber ...

ISLAMABAD:Two Pakistani coaches, Muhammad Nameer Shamsi and Nauman-ul-Haq have completed an International Tennis Federation (ITF) Level-II Coaching Course, Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) said on Wednesday. The ITF Coaching Advanced Players (CAP) course was held in Tehran in September, this year. A total of 23 candidates from the West and Central Asia Region took part in the course, but only five ...

ISLAMABAD:A 12-member Pakistan judo outfit flew out to Nepal on Thursday to take part in the ongoing 13th South Asian Games 2019. The four-day judo contests of the prestigious sports event will commence on Saturday in Kathmandu, said a press release issued by Pakistan Judo Federation (PJF). Senior Vice President Pakistan Olympic Association, Syed Aqil Shah along with Pakistan Sports ...

PESHAWAR:Humam Ahmad in Under-15 and Abbas Nawaz and Noor Zaman in the Under-17 categories advanced to next round in the ongoing All Pakistan National Junior Boys Squash Championship being played here at PAF Hashim Khan Squash Complex on Thursday. Former World Champion Qamar Zaman was the chief guest during the first round matches where in top seeded Humam Ahmed of ...

Bob Willis, the former England captain and fast bowler who will be forever synonymous with England’s 1981 Ashes victory, has died at the age of 70 after a short battle with cancer. Willis claimed 325 wickets in a 90-Test career that began on the Ashes tour in 1970-71, when he was called up as a 21-year-old as a late replacement ...

LAHORE:Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh presided over an important Monthly Progress Meeting at National Hockey Stadium on Thursday. Director Admin Javed Chohan, Project Director PMU Akram Soban, Deputy Director Planning Rauf Bajwa and all Divisional Sports Officers attended the meeting. The meeting was convened to review the development sports schemes across the province. The projects of hotel, parking ...