*ISLAMABAD - Cricketing website ESPNCricinfo has picked Pakistani cricketers Shahid Afridi and Umar Gul for their all-time Twenty20 International team of the last 25 years.* The team was picked by a jury comprising Ian Chappell, Sanjay Manjrekar, John Wright, Dav Whatmore and Mark ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's named separate squads for the Twenty20 tri-series and a five-match one-day international series to be played in Zimbabwe next month. Australia will be the third team in the Twenty20 tri-series starting July 1. Squad (Twenty20): Sarfraz Ahmed (captain), Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad ...

ISLAMABAD: The 37th edition Hockey Champions Trophy will kick off in grand manner as Pakistan take on arch-rivals India Saturday in the Netherlands. Six teams including Australia, Argentina, Belgium, the Netherlands, India and Pakistan are participating in the mega event. APP

LONDON - Lionel Messi could retire from international football if Argentina crash out of the World Cup, according to his former team-mate Pablo Zabaleta. Messi cut an isolated figure as Argentina fell to a humbling 3-0 defeat to Croatia in their Group D clash on Thursday, making a premature exit ...

DUBAI - India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan 36-20 in the inaugural Kabaddi Masters Championship, here on Friday. The event is organised by the International Kabaddi Federation in partnership with Star India Pvt Ltd and Dubai Sports Council. At the packed Al-Wasl Sports Complex, Indian skipper ...

LAHORE: Sahibzada Farhan and senior all-rounder Muhammad Hafeez have been roped in as Pakistan announced a 15-member T20 squad for the triangular series featuring Australia, Zimbabwe and Pakistan. The National Selection Committee headed by Inzamam ul Haq after consultation with Captain Sarfraz ...

TEHRAN - Iranian women fulfilled their dream after they were finally allowed inside Azadi football stadium in Tehran on June 20, after 39 years. This is the first time since 1979 Iranian women were allowed to watch football in the same stadium as men. Iranians, including women, were welcomed by ...

MOSCOW – A 15-year-old Pakistani boy conducted the coin-toss for the match between Brazil and Costa Rica on Friday at the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia. Ahmed Raza, who hails from Sialkot, is the son of Shabbir Ahmed, a football-maker whose family has been hand-stitching footballs for the ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will be reducing the number of central contracts of players with an aim to improve players’ superiority instead of their numbers. Talking to APP, a PCB official said board wants to reduce the central contracts from 35 to 25 or 24. “PCB had awarded ...

NEW DELHI - Indian and Pakistani legends Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Younis on Friday joined calls to scrap the practice of using two new balls in one-day international cricket following a string of mammoth scores. Tendulkar, the highest scoring batsman of all time, who retired in 2013, tweeted ...