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Significant centuries, but for different reasons, from Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith gave Australia control on the opening day of the second Test in Galle. Labuschagne made his first Test hundred overseas and Smith just his second in 32 innings overall, going back to 2019, to form the centrepieces of a measured display by…

Shahzb Khan’sall-round performance helped Khyber Pakhtunkhwa U19 Whites to a five-wicket win over Central Punjab U19 Blues and clinch the National U19 Cup title here at the Rana Naveed Cricket Academy in Sheikhupura on Friday.Chasing 215 to win, last year’s finalist Khyber Pakhtunkhwa U19 Whites achieved the target in the…

Rafael Nadal will have a scan on an abdominal injury before his Wimbledon semi-final after it almost forced him to retire from his last-eight match. The Spaniard, who faces Nick Kyrgios on Friday, said he ignored calls from his dad and sister to quit as he struggled with his movement…

Jordan Thompson bowled a superb final over as Yorkshire beat Surrey by one run to reach Finals Day in a thrilling quarter-final at The Oval. Jamie Overton’s 40 in 21 balls left only 13 needed from 12 balls but first Matt Revis and then Thompson held their nerve to send…

Sri Lanka have been hit by three more Covid-19 cases on the eve of the second Test against Australia, with Dhananjaya de Silva, Asitha Fernando and Jeffrey Vandersay ruled out of the game in Galle. It is understood that the trio had all reported feeling unwell which led to the…

Two unbeaten sides will clash against each other when Central Punjab U19 Blues take on the last year’s finalist Khyber Pakhtunkhwa U19 Whites in the final of the National U19 Cup on Friday at the Rana Naveed Cricket Academy in Sheikhupura. Both teams topped their pools in the 12-team 50-over…

A member of the player support personnel of the Pakistan Test squad is in isolation after he tested positive for Covid-19 in the on-arrival Rapid Antigen test. Malang Ali, the masseur, will now undergo five-day isolation and will be allowed to come out of isolation upon returning a negative RAT…

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa U19 Whites beat Balochistan U19 Whites by 10 wickets at the Saeed Ajmal Academy in Faisalabad today to make it to the final of the National U19 Cup. The other finalist team was Central Punjab U19 Blues who topped Pool A after their final group match against Sindh…

Pakistan cricket team reaches Colombo Sri Lanka The team led by Babar Azam left Lahore on Tuesday morning. The team arrived in Colombo on a Dubai commercial flight. The team will start training on Thursday. The two Test matches against Sri Lanka will be played on July 16 and 24.

After a series of successful meetings between Kashmir Premier League (Pvt.) Limited management and the Franchisees, the formation of the League Council has been completed for smooth running of the League’s upcoming and future seasons.In future, all commercial and operational matters related to KPLPL and its tournaments would be managed…

Italy’s Riccardo Fraccari and Malaysia’s Dato Beng Choo Low have won the elections in the Congress of World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) in Taiwan with an overwhelming majority for the next six years. Riccardo Fraccari has been re-elected president while Miss Beng Choo Low has been re-elected as Secretary General…

Murad Ali and Mahoor Shahzad clinched the singles title in the All Pakistan National Ranking Badminton Tournament played in Bahawalpur in collaboration with the Pakistan Army 31 Corp Bahawalpur. Raja Muhammad Hasnain & Raja Zulqarnain Haider won the men doubles title and Mahoor Shahzad & Ghazala Siddique took the women…

Sri Lanka have called up spinners Maheesh Theekshana, Dunith Wellalage and Lakshitha Manasinghe for the second Test against Australia in Galle. All three are uncapped at Test level and at least one is set to play on Friday after Lasith Embuldeniya was dropped from the squad and fellow left-arm spinner…

Simona Halep needed just 60 minutes to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals as she thrashed fourth seed Paula Badosa in a devastating display. Halep, champion in 2019, claimed a 6-1 6-2 win against the error-strewn Spaniard on her return to Centre Court. The Romanian is the only Grand Slam winner left…

Pakistani mountaineer Shehroze Kashif, who is also the youngest in the country’s climbers’ community, has set another record by becoming the youngest mountaineer to summit Nanga Parbat. Nanga Parbat is the 9th highest peak in the world, and one of the 14 8-thousander mountains across the globe which scales up…

New Zealand Cricket (NZC) and the players’ association have agreed a five-year deal which sees men and women players receive equal pay. The deal means all players will be paid the same match fees at international and domestic level. Male players will earn higher retainers because they play more matches…

England came to Edgbaston having gunned down targets of 277, 299 and 296 in their last three Test matches. On Tuesday they made it four in a row, pulling off their highest successful chase in Test cricket as Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow completed sparkling unbeaten hundreds, making India’s celebrated…

A career-best four-wicket burst from Renuka Singh followed by clinical half-centuries from Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma helped India dominate the second ODI for a 10-wicket win and gain an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. Chasing 174, India made sure they learnt their lessons from their first outing when they scrapped home to a four-wicket victory…

Rovman Powell plundered six sixes in a 28-ball 61 not out as West Indies’ 193 for 5 proved too much for Bangladesh to chase down in their second T20I on Sunday. Bangladesh scored 158 for 6 in reply as West Indies won by a comfortable 35 runs to take a…

Rehan Ahmed, the 17-year-old legspinner, has won an England Lions call-up for two 50-over games against the touring South Africans next week after a breakthrough season for Leicestershire in the T20 Blast. Ahmed starred for England at the Under-19 World Cup this year, taking 12 wickets in four games and…

Somerset have signed Pakistan batter Imam Ul Haq for their final four County Championship matches of the season. The 26-year-old replaces Australia’s Matt Renshaw who is returning home to prepare for the upcoming domestic season with Queensland. Ul Haq has played in 14 Tests for Pakistan with a top score…