LAHORE : Punjab Parliamentarians cricket team defeated Sindh Parliamentarians by 35 runs in an exhibition cricket match at Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday. Captain of Punjab Parliamentarians cricket team Punjab Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and Tourism Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti received the winners’ trophy while runners-up trophy was received by Sindh team skipper Jamal Siddiqui. Batting first Punjab Parliamentarians cricket ...
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Punjab govt to continue to extend every kind of cooperation for the holding of sports activities across the province: Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and Tourism Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti said Punjab govt as per the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan will continue to extend every kind of cooperation for the holding of sports activities across the province; he said this while talking on the closing day of 2-day 4th National Youth and Junior Athletics Championship ...
Read More »Zeeshan Ashraf’s ton puts Southern Punjab in driving seat
Karachi: Southern Punjab opener, Zeeshan Ashraf scored his first century of the first-class season to put his team in the driving seat against winless Sindh on day-one of the four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy ninth round match at the National Stadium on Monday. Sohaib Maqsood also produced a classy knock of 81 runs to see Southern reach 344 for five at stumps. ...
Read More »Abbas and Shamyl score half-centuries
Lahore:Northern v Central Punjab, Shalimar Cricket Ground, Islamabad Opening batsman Shamyl Husain scored a half-century to help Northern score 251 for seven in 80 overs against Central Punjab at Shalimar Cricket Ground in Islamabad on day-one of the first round of the PCB-PEPSI National U16 Three-Day tournament matches on Monday. Opting to bat first, Northern scored 251 for seven in ...
Read More »Imran Butt’s century takes Balochistan to respectable tally against Northern
Karachi:Balochistan’s Imran Butt stroked his third century of the tournament on the opening day of his side’s four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy fixture against Northern at Karachi’s UBL Sports Complex. The right-handed opener scored 124 runs from 150 balls and led Balochistan’s way to 271 for eight in 84 overs after Northern, the visiting team, decided to not to contest the ...
Read More »Athletics is mother of all sports, says Secretary Sports Punjab Nadeem Mehboob
LAHORE: Secretary Sports Punjab Nadeem Mehboob said athletics is rightly portrayed as mother of all sports. And the countries which excelled in athletics usually produced wonderful results in other sports as well; he said this while talking on the inaugural day of 2-day 4th National Youth and Junior Athletics Championship at Punjab Stadium on Monday. President Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) ...
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa take on Southern Punjab in Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Second XI final
Lahore:Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will take on Southern Punjab in the final of Quaid-e-Azam Trophy Second XI three-day tournament, the four-day affair will be played at the State Bank Stadium in Karachi on Tuesday. The two sides have played each other twice in the round-robin stage of the tournament, both matches ended in a draw at the Hayatabad Sports Complex in Peshawar. ...
Read More »Zafar Gohar, Bilal Asif engineer Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s batting collapse
Lahore:Central Punjab’s spinners spun the web around Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s batsmen on day one of the four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy ninth round fixture at Karachi’s NBP Stadium. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, after winning the toss and electing to bat, were 227 for eight in 90 overs as Zafar Gohar and Bilal Asif shared seven wickets between them. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa lost seven wickets for ...
Read More »Neil Wagner five-for leads New Zealand to crushing win
New Zealand 615 for 9 dec (Watling 205, Santner 126, de Grandhomme 65, Williamson 51) beat England 353 (Stokes 91, Denly 74, Burns 52, Southee 4-88) and 197 (Wagner 5-44) by an innings and 65 runs New Zealand marked the arrival of Test cricket in Bay of Plenty with an emphatic victory over England. These are times of rich promise ...
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