LAHORE : Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh has said that snooker is quite popular game in Pakistan and Sports Board Punjab will organsie first SBP Snooker Championship to trace fresh talent in this game; he said this during his meeting with 2-time World Snooker Champion Muhammad Asif at National Hockey Stadium on Monday. Muhammad Asif, who is the ...

LAHORE : A delegation of newly-appointed Tehsil Sports Officers (TSOs) and Divisional Coaches called on Secretary Sports Punjab Ehsan Bhutta and Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh at Punjab Stadium on Monday. Director Admin Javed Chohan, Director Sports Hafeez Bhatti and Deputy Director Shahid Nizami were also present on this occasion. All the 42 Tehsil Sports Officers (TSOs) and ...

LAHORE: The four-member athletics team which is due to participate in Standard Chartered Marathon 2020 in Dubai, met with Punjab Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti at National Hockey Stadium on Monday. The 4-member team includes Asmatullah Niazi, Amir Khan, Amir Shahzad and Naseem Masih and the Standard Chartered Marathon 2020 will be organised in Dubai ...

London:All-rounder Georgia Elwiss has been recalled to the England squad for the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia in February and March. Elwiss replaces spinner Kirstie Gordon in the one change to the squad from the recent series win over Pakistan. Heather Knight’s side, beaten finalists in 2018, are aiming to win the event for the first time since 2009. ...

LAHORE: Pakistan all-around Mohammad Hafeez, who was recalled for the Bangladesh series yesterday, said that he will retire from international cricket after the Twenty20 World Cup later this year to end his career on a good note. The 38-year-old was Thursday recalled to Pakistan’s Twenty20 series against Bangladesh starting in Lahore from January 24. Hafeez has been one of Pakistan’s ...

Lahore : Five members of Bangladesh’s coaching staff will not be going to the first leg of Bangladesh’s tour of Pakistan later this month. According to BCB’s cricket operations chairman Akram Khan, Neil McKenzie, the white-ball batting coach, is among those who have withdrawn alongside fielding coach Ryan Cook. The BCB preferred not to use Daniel Vettori, who is contracted ...

Lahore:Spectators’ convenience was once again at the forefront, when the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced ticket prices for the upcoming international matches against Bangladesh. To enable the cricket fans to pack the Gaddafi Stadium and enjoy the three T20Is between the Asian neighbours on 24, 25 and 27 January, the PCB has reduced the ticket prices from the Sri Lanka ...

Hong Kong:An intense ten-round Saxo Markets Premiership league comes to a close on Saturday with a Hong Kong rugby classic match-up between defending league champions Natixis HKFC and Societe Generale Valley when they do battle at 15.00 at Happy Valley with league honours at stake. The stage is set for some fitting final fireworks as the two deepest sides in ...

Lahore:Twenty-six U13 players have been invited at the Inzamam-ul-Haq High Performance Cricket Centre in Multan for a two-week-long coaching programme, which commences Monday. The players have been selected by the national junior selection committee, headed by Saleem Jaffer, on the basis of their performances in the PCB U13 Catch em Young National One-Day Tournament 2019-20. Over the course of programme, ...

Lahore:Pakistan, who won their second and last ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 14 years ago, will launch their Group C campaign in the 2020 edition when they will take on Scotland in Potchefstroom, South Africa, on Sunday, 19 January. They will then take on Zimbabwe and Bangladesh on 22 and 24 January, respectively. If Pakistan tops Group C, they will ...