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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…

West Indies legend Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been appointed head coach of the USA women’s national team. The 47-year-old played 164 Tests, scoring 11,867 runs, in an international career spanning 21 years. Only Brian Lara has scored more runs for West Indies than Chanderpaul’s 20,988 across all three formats. He will…

The next Africa Cup of Nations will be played in Ivory Coast in 2024, and not 2023, Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Patrice Motsepe said on Sunday. The tournament was to be hosted in June-July 2023, which is the height of the rainy season in Ivory Coast. “We cannot…

Alice Davidson-Richards has won a recall to England’s ODI squad in the wake of her century on Test debut, while there are maiden call-ups for Issy Wong and Lauren Bell for the 14-woman group to take on South Africa. Davidson-Richards made her only previous ODI appearance more than four years…

New Zealand allrounder Mitchell Santner tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday, and did not fly out to Ireland with the rest of the squad on Sunday evening from Auckland. His departure will be delayed until next week, once he recovers and tests negative. The tour starts with the first ODI on July…

Mitchell Starc has become the first Australian star to confirm he won’t play in this summer’s Big Bash League as negotiations loom on future player availability. This summer shapes as crucial for the competition out of the Covid-19 pandemic, with Cricket Australia desperate to have as much top-line talent playing as…

India captain Rohit Sharma is out of isolation after having tested negative for Covid-19 and will now be available for the white-ball series against England, beginning with the first T20I in Southampton on July 7. Rohit missed out on the ongoing rescheduled fifth Test against England after he had tested positive during the four-day warm-up…

Birmingham Bears made certain of a place in the T20 Blast quarter-finals with a 31-run victory over Yorkshire. Paul Stirling made 81 off 41 balls in their 238-5 at Headingleyand the Vikings were all out for 207 in reply. Somerset, Essex Eagles and Hampshire won their games to join Surrey…

Ashton Agar’s hopes of an Australian Test recall in Sri Lanka are over after failing to recover from a side strain. Agar was ruled out of the second Test on Saturday morning with Australia bringing Jon Holland into their 17-man squad. He had been considered a serious chance of playing in the…

As the morning unfolded on Saturday, and England worked their way through India’s lower order, they may have entertained thoughts of restricting India to under 400. The second new ball was only a few overs old, and James Anderson had just dismissed the centurion Ravindra Jadeja. India were 377 for 9…

Former Scotland and Rangers goalkeeper Andy Goram has died after “a short battle” with cancer at the age of 58. Goram was capped 43 times for his country at football and four times at cricket – the only Scot to have played at the top level at both sports. He…