England 155-9 (20 overs): Malan 50, Maxwell 3-10 Australia 161-5 (18.3 overs): Maxwell 103*, Willey 3-28 Australia won by five wickets Glenn Maxwell hit an unbeaten 103, after taking 3-10, to give Australia a five-wicket win in England’s opening game of the T20 tri-series. Set 156 to win in Hobart after Dawid Malan made 50, the hosts fell to 4-2 ...

Virat Kohli played his ODI career’s longest ODI innings, 159 balls, in the third ODI in Cape Town. The previous longest being 148 balls in his 183 against Pakistan at the 2012 Asia Cup in Dhaka. His innings is also the longest among Indian non-opening batsmen. Kohli’s innings was quite special in many ways. But one of the most significant and rare occurrence, was that ...

London:British Olympic boxer Muhammad Ali has been banned for two years after failing a drugs test. The 21-year-old flyweight tested positive for the anabolic steroid Trenbolone during the World Series of Boxing in Morocco in April last year. Ali argued he may have eaten contaminated meat in Morocco, or had the steroid in his system after having a drink intended ...

Roger Federer has signed up to play at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam next week where he could be crowned world No 1. Federer successfully retained his Australian Open crown with a five-set victory over Marin Cilic last month to find himself just 155 points behind top-ranked Rafael Nadal. But with the Spaniard not scheduled to play ...

LAHORE:The Quaid-e-Azam amateur golf championship will roll into action from February 9 here at gymkhana course. “Country’s top notch amateur golfers will be seen in action during the three-day premier golf activity”, said Director media of the event, Khawaja Pervaiz Saeed while talking to media on Wednesday. He said the event is a step forward to promote golf and to ...

Lahore : The Semi-finals and Final of Brighto Paints Presents Cool & Cool National One day Cup – Regions 2017-2018 will be played as per following detail:- First Semi Final 8th February. Karachi Region (W) Vs Peshawar Region at Pindi Cricket Stadium Rawalpindi Umpires:                        Asif Yaqoob and Rashid Riaz Referee:                        Aziz-ur-Rehman Official Scorer:              Shakeel Ahmed Second Semi Final           ...

LONDON- World number one Rafael Nadal has confirmed he will play in the Wimbledon warm-up event at Queen s Club later this year. Nadal has missed the grass-court tournament in west London for the last two years after suffering a wrist injury in 2016 and then prioritising rest after his French Open victory in 2017. But the Spaniard, who won the ...

Sania Mirza is suffering from a knee injury. HYDERABAD: – Indian tennis star Sania Mirza’s injury has continued to keep her out of tennis court as she will not be able to make comeback at least for two more months. Mirza has not been competing since October, 2017 owing to a knee injury. The 31-year-old said in an interview that ...

Lahore:-Two matches were played on the second day of the 2nd Women Hockey Super League at the National Hockey Stadium, Lahore. First match between Quetta Panthers and Islamabad Shaheen ended in a well contested 1-1 draw. SCORERS: Quetta Panthers: Momal Islamabad Shaheen: Sidra Knwal Holders Lahore Lions, who were held to a 2-2 draw by Karachi Dolphins yesterday, appeared to ...

DHAKA: Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has arrived in Bangladesh to play his first full-fledged competition outside his homeland since serving a five-year ban for spot fixing, an official said Tuesday. He was cleared by the Pakistan Cricket Board to play in the latest edition of the Dhaka Premier League, a popular Bangladesh club franchise which runs until March 20. ...