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Karachi, July 24: Lahore’s Bata Football Club overcame Gujrat’s Al-Zaki Football Club on penalty kicks in the summit clash of Leisure Leagues Punjab Region Small-sided Football Championship at K21 Football Ground in Lahore. Lahore has now qualified for the Leisure Leagues National Championship, which will be held on July 28 in Karachi. Karachi’s Abdul FC and Gawadar have already qualified ...

Goals from Tammy Abraham and Ross Barkley saw Chelsea grab a 2-1 victory against Barcelona on Tuesday in an exhibition match in Japan. World Cup-winning French striker Antoine Griezmann and former Ajax midfielder Frenkie de Jong made their unofficial debut for the Spanish giants, pleasing some 51,126 fans who cheered every move during the star-studded game. Chelsea striker Abraham opened ...

LAHORE : The initial script of Punjab’s first ever sports policy has been finalized. The project of School of Sports Sciences has also been included in the sports policy; this was disclosed by Punjab Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and Tourism RaiTaimoor Khan Bhatti while addressing an important meeting at National Hockey Stadium on Tuesday. The meeting was attended by ...

HOUSTON (Texas): Bayern Munich spoiled Eden Hazard’s Real Madrid debut, downing the Spanish giants 3-1 in an entertaining International Champions Cup match on Saturday despite goalkeeper Sven Ulreich’s sending off. Real, who started with a full-strength side that inclu­ded a debut for former Chel­sea attacking midfielder Hazard went 1-0 down after just a quarter of an hour. David Alaba cut ...

The women’s world rankings were unchanged at the top on Monday with Ashleigh Barty of Australia at number one after leading players took the week off post-Wimbledon. Japan’s Naomi Osaka is second with Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic third and Romania’s Wimbledon champion Simona Halep fourth. Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands rounds out the top five. In the final ...

Karachi:The 65th Air Marshal (R) Muhammad Nur Khan National Hockey Championship 2019 will commence at Abdul Sattar Edhi Hockey Stadium, Karachi from (Today) July 23 to August 4, 2019 in which 20 teams will be seen in action. Opening ceremony of the Hockey Championship will be on 4:30 PM at Abdul Sattar Edhi Hockey Stadium Karachi. Air Vice Marshal Noor ...

Karachi: Gawadar football team cruised into Leisure Leagues National Championship after winning Balochistan Regional Leisure Leagues Championship, which was recently held in Quetta. Gawadar won the final game against host Quetta by 3-1 score at Al-Muntazir Futsal ground in Quetta. Gawadar became the second team to qualify for the Leisure Leagues National finals. Earlier, Karachi’s Abdul FC qualified for the ...

Karachi:  Final match and Prize Distribution Ceremony of 2nd Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) Open Tennis Championship 2019 was held at Defence Authority Club, Karachi. General Zubair Mahmood hayat, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee graced the occasion as Chief Guest.     The final match of the tournament was played between Aqeel Khan and Muzammil Murtaza very sensational ...

Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao rolled back the years to become the oldest welterweight champion in boxing history with a thrilling split decision victory over WBA champion Keith Thurman on Saturday. The 40-year-old Pacquiao, 10 years older than the previously undefeated Thurman, delivered a vintage performance before a sell-out MGM Grand Garden Arena crowd of 14,356 which included former welterweight king ...

Akane Yamaguchi defeated PV Sindhu in the final on Sunday in straight games to clinch the Indonesia Open 2019 title. In the first game, PV Sindhu was leading 11-8 at one stage but Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi came back strongly and won nine consecutive points to take the first game 21-15. In the second game, Sindhu was playing catch-up throughout. At ...