The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced on Friday (11 October) the appointment of two-time Paralympian Dr Mike Peters as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) following an extensive six-month long global search. Peters, a Football 7-a-side player who captained USA at the Atlanta 1996 and Athens 2004 Paralympic Games, joined the IPC in March 2015 as Chief of Staff and ...

The trials to select the final lineup for the Olympics Qualifier were held today at National Hockey Stadium, Lahore. After the conclusion of the trials at National Hockey Stadium, Lahore. 19-member Pakistan hockey team for the Olympic 2020 qualifiers, has been named.35 camp players were tested in five sessions of 15 minutes each.The trials were observed by the national selection ...

Karachi: Pakistan Socca Team Wednesday left for Crete, Greece to participate in the second edition of Six-a-side Socca World Cup, which will run from October 12 to 20. Pakistan has been placed in Group ‘H’ along with Slovenia, Germany, Hungary and Romania. Pakistan will open their World Cup campaign with a match against Slovenia on October 14. The team will ...

Bahawalpur Deers won the toss and put Peshawar Panthers into bat. Peshawar Panthers took a brisk start. Openers Muhammad Akram and Badar Munir played aggressive strokes, but Badar Munir’s wicket proved a turning point, he was caught by Matiullah on the bowling of Shafiullah. He made 47 runs off 28 balls. Mohsin Khan and Muhammad Akram couldn’t last longer, Akram ...

Faisalabad:The upcoming National T20 Cup not only presents an opportunity to the fans to witness action-packed cricket, but it also serves chances to the players to bag lucrative prize money. After the restructuring in the domestic structure, the winning prize money for the tournament has seen a 100 per cent surge as the team to be crowned the champions of ...

Lahore:England and Wales Cricket Board Chief Executive Tom Harrison and Cricket Ireland Chief Executive Warren Deutrom have described their visits to Islamabad and Lahore as successful and termed some of the initiatives taken by the local authorities as impressive. Speaking in the 16-minute sixth episode of the PCB Podcast, which is available here, Harrison said he was taking all the information ...

Lahore: Central Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Southern Punjab scored victories over Sindh, Balochistan and Northern, respectively, on day three of the fifth round of three-day non-first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy tournament on Thursday. At NBP Sports Complex, Karachi, Sindh after resuming their second innings on 50 for the loss of four wickets were dismissed for 115 giving Central Punjab 243 runs to win ...

Faisalabad: With Pakistan’s three-match T20I series against Australia in early November and the player draft for the next year’s HBL Pakistan Super League after it, the upcoming National T20 Cup in Faisalabad throws opportunities to many up-and-coming cricketers to leave a mark. Like it has been the case in the four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, any performance in this year’s edition of ...

Karachi: Pakistan women team’s training camp for the upcoming home series against Bangladesh has been scheduled from 13to 23 October at the Lahore Country Club, Muridke. The purpose of the camp is to prepare the players for the important home series, which is the second home assignment for the women team following the T20I series against the West Indies held in ...

Another inexplicable display of Sunday league fielding and irresponsible batting saw Pakistan lose to Sri Lanka by 13 runs in the third and final T20I at the Gaddafi Stadium Lahore on Wednesday. The result heaped on the world’s top-ranked T20I side the embarrassment of being whitewashed 3-0 on their own turf by a side that had not only left as ...