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Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova enjoyed the perfect preparation for the Championships as she beat Jelena Ostapenko to win at Eastbourne. The 32-year-old, who won at the All England Club in 2011 and 2014, was in superb form to take the final 6-3 6-2. Taylor Fritz saw off fellow American…

Legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay has broken into Sri Lanka’s Test squad for the upcoming series against Australia on the back of his performances in the ODIs. Having missed the Bangladesh Tests through injury, opener Pathum Nissanka also returns to the Test fold, and is expected to slot back into the starting XI. Allrounders Kamindu Mendis…

The SriLanka-bound Pakistan Test squad members have reported in Islamabad for their preparations camp for the two ICC World Test Championship fixtures next month. The squad will train at the Pindi Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi from 26 June till 1 July. Players who are in England for county cricket –…

Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi said that world’s youngest mountaineer Shehroze Kashif is our national hero and our youngsters must take inspiration from him; he said this during his meeting with Shehroze Kashif at National Hockey Stadium on Saturday. Shehroze Kashif, who is also Sports Board Punjab’s Goodwill…

Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi visited hockey training camp at National Hockey Stadium Pitch-2 on Thursday evening. Director General Sports Punjab Muhammad Tariq Qureshi was warmly received upon reaching National Hockey Stadium Pitch-2 and then introduced with all camp probables and coaches who also had group photographs with…

Hockey as a national game, having the most decorated history in the sports book of Pakistan, is nowhere close to its former glory. To revive the Hockey culture and to uplift the hockey as a national game, for the first time in history of Pakistan PHF has taken an initiative…

Pakistani athletes have won three more medals — one silver and two bronze — on Friday to finish in overall third position in the fourth Mas-Wrestling World Championship in Russia. According to Nawab Furqan Khan, the president of the Pakistan Mas-Wrestling Federation, Pakistan’s Ali Azhar had to settle for the…

Shahzeb Khan of Pakistan won the bronze medal in the Asian Taekwondo Championship in Korea. In the 54th category on the first day of the championship, Shahzeb of Pakistan defeated the Thai player in the quarter finals and qualified for the semi finals. In the semi-finals, Pakistan’s Shahzeb lost 2-0…

World’s youngest champion mountaineer Shehroze Kashif called on Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Asadullah Faiz at Punjab Stadium on Friday.Secretary Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Asadullah Faiz expresses his best wishes for Shehroze’s next expedition. Shehroze Kashif, who is also Sports Board Punjab’s Goodwill Ambassador, will leave to scale…

Lahore: Chairman PCB Ramiz Raja has announced a number of new projects to improve infrastructure and incentives for the players of the national men & women team expending a record PCB budget of 15 billion in the fiscal year 2022-23. Addressing a lenthy press coference here at Gaddafi stadium on…

Adil Rashid will miss England’s white-ball series against India and the latter stages of Yorkshire’s T20 Blast campaign in order to make the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Rashid is a practicing Muslim and decided earlier this year that he had reached the right time in his life to make the pilgrimage,…

Worcestershire hope that Mohammad Hasnain will help them “blast teams out” after securing his services for the final six games of the County Championship season as their second overseas player. Hasnain, 22, has only played six first-class games in his career but has won 26 Pakistan caps in limited-overs internationals and was…

Australian domestic team Melbourne Renegades Former fast bowler Cameron Stevenson has been named in the US T20 squad for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier B tournament in Zimbabwe. The tournament will be played from July 10 to 17. Cameron Stevenson has been named in the squad due…

The four-day skill camp for Karachi-based women players concluded today at the Hanif Mohammad High Performance Centre, National Stadium. National team’s head coach David Hemp flew in from Lahore to work with national, emerging and academy players on a one-on-one basis with the help of national team’s bowling coach Saleem…

The PCB Governing Board meeting approved next year’s budget and players’ central contracts. Chairman Rameez Raja will announce the details in a press conference on Friday. The meeting was chaired by PCB Chairman Rameez Raja and lasted for more than four hours. The participants included Chief Executive Faisal Hasnain, Chief…

The schedule of Test series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka has been announced. Following delays, the Sri Lanka Cricket Board has now announced the dates and venues for the Test series. The national team is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on July 6, while the three-day warm-up match will…

The 69th meeting of the Board of Governors (BoG) of the Pakistan Cricket Board will be held on Thursday, 23 June, at 1130, at the National High Performance Centre in Lahore. Some of the matters that will be discussed are: Chairman, CEO, COO and CFO’s reportsPCB Annual Budget for the 2022-23 financial yearBoG…

Pakistan Cricket Board today announced 19 and 11 teams of the Central Punjab and Northern cricket associations for the City Cricket Association Tournament 2022-23. The squads are available here. After today’s announcement, the PCB has unveiled all 93 City Cricket Association sides (Balochistan 13, Central Punjab 19, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 19, Northern…

International paragliders Thomas de Dorlodot from Belgium and Horacio Llorens from Spain arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday to experience local paragliding sites and interact with communities. The Belgian Embassy in Islamabad welcomed the two aerial adventurers and is currently hosting them. Belgian athlete De Dorlodot has been flying for over 20 years since the age…

Training camp for women cricketers begins in Karachi. Head Coach David Hemp will be coaching in the camp. A camp has been organized for the national women cricket players from Sindh under the auspices of PCB. The national women cricketers participated in batting, bowling and physical exercises at the training…

Sindh Boxing Association and Balochistan Boxing Association jointly won the Karachi Chaman Dosti Boxing Series 6 Gold Medal. Former International Boxer Mir Waiz Khan was the Chief Guest at the inaugural function of this event which was held at Akbar Boxing Club Chaman. Manager Fateh Mohammad and a number of…