(AFP) SYDNEY: World Cup big guns Australia, England and India get their final preparations for next month’s tournament under way when the one-day international tri-series begins in Sydney on Friday. Australia, England and India one-day international tri-series The Australians face England at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the first match ...
Read More »Chasing 445, India 112/4 on Day 4 as England eye big win
India, chasing 445 for victory, were 112-4 at the close of the fourth day of the third test against England in Southampton on Wednesday India’s batting capitulation continued in the Southampton Test as chasing a stiff 445 to win, the visitors were reeling at 112/4 at stumps on Day 4 ...
Read More »Visas issued to Pakistani players for Professional Kabaddi League in India
Pakistani players have been granted visas for taking part in Professional Kabaddi League in India. Pakistani wrestlers will be putting their skills on display during the Kabaddi League. 8 teams will participate in the event which is going to start from July 26. Pakistani players will leave for India today ...
Read More »Pakistan now part of cricket’s ‘Big Four’: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)
KARACHI: Pakistan now have the opportunity to have a major say in the affairs of international cricket after securing considerable concessions from the ‘Big Three’ India, Australia and England in the backdrop of the ICC’s Annual Conference in Melbourne, Australia, PTVSPORTS News reported. Pakistan will now receive the most in ...
Read More »World Cup begins today
KARACHI: The World Cup hockey tournament starts in the Hague on Saturday. The ADO Den Haag football stadium, equipped with artificial turf and big screen monitors for the occasion, will host the matches. Some 15,000 people are expected to attend the tournament daily and tickets of most of the matches ...
Read More »Wasim Akram Pakistani cricketers put through boot camp
KARACHI: Former Pakistan great Wasim Akram on Thursday said players heading for the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand should sweat it out at a boot camp to boost their chances of victory. Pakistan are in Group B of the World Cup alongside arch-rivals India, South Africa, the ...
Read More »Cricket: Wisden Almanack laments ‘divide and rule’ International Cricket Council (ICC)
LONDON: International cricket is set for a future of ‘colonial-style divide and rule’, and will be ‘holding its breath’ over the extent of Indian influence, according to the 2014 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack published on Wednesday. In February, changes to the governance of the International Cricket Council (ICC), handed majority ...
Read More »Pakistan Street Child football team out of Street Child World Cup (SCWC) tile race after losing to Burundi in semi final
RIO DE JANEIRO: Burundi, a small landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of Southeast Africa, dashed the hopes of Pakistan Street Child football team on Saturday with a 4-3 close victory and reached the finals of the Street Child World Cup (SCWC). The spirited Pakistani side gained a ...
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