Category: Sports

  • National U16 Hockey Championship begins today

    Teams from Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir had not turned up so far, Organizing Secretary and Secretary Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Hockey Association Syed Zahir Shah told APP soon after attending a meeting of team managers, umpires and technical officials at the Qayyum Sports Complex. He said all other teams had reached Peshawar. He said the…

  • Wasim, Waqar, Ijaz, Moin also fixed matches: Majeed

    LONDON: Mazhar Majeed, a sports bookie, claimed that spot/match fixing was a ‘centuries’ old practice and named former Pakistan cricket stars Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Ijaz Ahmed and Moin Khan as alleged participants. The sports agent accused of taking bribes to fix matches said Australian cricketers were “the biggest” culprits and that some of Pakistan’s…

  • CLT20 final: Explosive top-order puts RCB ahead of Mumbai Indians

    Royal Challengers Bangalore took batting pyrotechnics to a different level in the last two games to keep some good interest going for the Indian audience. An all-IPL final was the fillip the Champions League required to boost its sagging morale. Cricket as a sport has been built on inter-country rivalry and even for a matured…

  • ICC warns Sri Lanka over Galle’s ‘poor’ pitch

    COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s cricket board (SLC) has been officially warned for the “poor” quality of the pitch at Galle, which hosted the first test in their recent series against Australia, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Friday. The SLC was in line for a sanction after the pitch was criticised as “too dry” by…

  • Pakistan players “betrayed cricket” with bribes: court

    LONDON: Three Pakistan cricketers, driven by greed, betrayed their team mates and the sport of cricket itself by taking bribes to fix incidents during a test match against England last year, a London court heard on Wednesday. The plot was orchestrated by Pakistan captain Salman Butt and his agent Mazhar Majeed and involved the team’s two opening…

  • Hong Kong Super Sixes, Abdul Razaq leads

    Abdul Razzaq; an All Rounder of Pakistani Cricket team; age 31 years old was dropped from the national cricket since the World Cup 2011, now he will leads Pakistan second team in Hong Kong super sixes which will be started from 28 October 2011. Umar Akmal and Sohail Tanveer two more dropped players from the…