NEW DELHI: A lawyer for one of the Indian cricketers accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars for spot-fixing said on Wednesday that police were seeking to tarnish her client’s reputation.
Rebecca John said police involved in the ...
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan: Unknown gunmen dragged the father of Afghanistan’s cricket captain from his car on the outskirts of Jalalabad city and have taken him hostage, officials said on Wednesday.
Mohammad Nabi, who took over the captaincy of the ...
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SYDNEY: Australian batsman David Warner was on Wednesday found guilty of breaching Cricket Australia’s code of behaviour over a Twitter tirade at two journalists and fined Aus$5,750 (US$5,608).
Cricket Australia said the explosive opener had ...
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LEEDS, England: New Zealand wicketkeeper BJ Watling was ruled out on Wednesday of the second and final Test against England at Headingley starting on Friday.
Watling injured his knee during New Zealand’s 170-run first Test defeat at Lord’s last ...
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Syed Khalid Mahmood
KARACHI: The quartet of Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Sajjad, Hamza Akbar and Mohammad Majid Ali will be flying out of Karachi on Thursday (today) to take part in two snooker tournaments to be staged in Doha, Qatar.
They will stay there for another ...
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SYDNEY: Australia are rightly underdogs for the upcoming Ashes series in England but will do everything they can to bring the coveted urn back home, skipper Michael Clarke said on Wednesday.
There was more talk of aspiration than expectation as ...
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our correspondent
KARACHI: Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) under Lt General (retd) Arif Hasan has directed the affiliated units of the Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) not to feature in the 45th National Athletics Championship being held in Islamabad from ...
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Syed Intikhab Ali
KARACHI: The elections for offices of Karachi City Cricket Association (KCCA) and its zones are to be delayed because PCB scrutiny committee chairman Jalil Khan has yet to visit the city.
Jalil is likely to visit the city next month to inspect ...
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our correspondent
KARACHI: Southend Dolphins edged out KASB Bank by five runs, while Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) B and Pakistan International Container Terminal (PICT) played out a tie in the latest round of matches in the 2nd Super Cup Multinationals Twenty20 Cricket ...
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GENEVA: Former Olympic champion Koji Murofushi lost his appeal on Wednesday against disqualification from an election to become an IOC member representing athletes, a setback for Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Games.
The Court of Arbitration for ...
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KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is holding trial matches for U19 players at Diamond Cricket Ground in Islamabad from May 26 to June 1 in order to select the squad for the upcoming events. The Selection Committee has chosen 74 players to ...
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LONDON: British boxer Audley Harrison has announced that he is coming out of retirement, only three weeks after declaring that he had decided to turn his back on the sport.
The 41-year-old, a gold medallist at the 2000 Olympics, decided to bow ...
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KARACHI: Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) is organising National Ranking Boxing Championship in Hyderabad from June 20.
PBF has asked four provinces, Army, Islamabad, FATA, Police, Navy, KESC, KPT, Rangers and HEC to send their pugilists for the ...
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MONACO: Words and hats may have to be eaten along with the usual can apes and caviar if Lewis Hamilton wins the glamour race of the Formula One season in Monaco this weekend.
The sceptics who doubted McLaren’s 2008 world champion would stand on ...
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Alam Zeb Safi
KARACHI: National Bank dethroned heavyweight Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) when they shocked them 4-3 in penalty shootout after a nail-biting finish in the quarter-final of the National Football Challenge Cup at the Dring Stadium in Bahawalpur ...
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BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund’s Germany stars Mario Goetze and Mats Hummels both remain doubtful for Saturday’s Champions League final against Bayern Munich at Wembley, as they struggle to recover from leg injuries.
Goezte, 20, tore his hamstring in ...
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MADRID: Manager Manuel Pellegrini, strongly linked to the vacant Manchester City post, is leaving Malaga at the end of the season, the Chilean announced on Wednesday.
“Professionally, I am living my last hours in Malaga,” he said at a function ...
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KUALA LUMPUR: Claims of match-fixing in a Malaysian league fixture will be investigated by the country’s Football Association (FAM) and sports minister on Thursday, local media reported, with the police urged to protect players from ...
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SAO PAULO: Everywhere you look and everywhere you go, there appears to be some sort of reference about Neymar.
It might be in one of the dozens of television commercials or on billboards by sponsors that make him by far the best paid athlete in ...
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LONDON: Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers says controversial striker Luis Suarez will not be sold, as the Merseyside club target Champions League qualification next season.
The Uruguayan missed the last four games of Liverpool’s season after ...
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BERLIN: Bayern Munich are out to exorcise the ghosts of losing the 2012 Champions League final at home to Chelsea when they take on Borussia Dortmund on Saturday at Wembley for the European title.
This will be Bayern’s third European final in ...
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VIRGINIA WATER, England: The feud between world number one Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia deepened when Woods described the Spaniard’s “fried chicken” jibe as “wrong, hurtful and inappropriate” on Wednesday.
Garcia made a comment at Tuesday’s ...
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KARACHI: Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) is organising the third edition of Prof Syed Fida Hussain Shah PHF Inter-Academy Hockey Championship from June 17-29 at Iqbal Khan Hockey Stadium in Abbottabad.
Muhammad Saleem Raza, District Officer ...
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Waqar Hamza
KARACHI: The Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) is going to lodge an appeal with the board of directors of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) for Davis Cup re-match against New Zealand. “We had a meeting on the 17th of this month at PTF ...
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LONDON: Andy Murray will miss the French Open with the back injury that flared up at the Rome Masters, the world number two announced on Tuesday.
After meeting with medical specialists Murray has decided to skip the second Grand Slam of the ...
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our correspondent
KARACHI: Top seeds Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer faced another upset defeat on Wednesday, as they fell against qualifiers in the men’s doubles quarter-finals of Open de Nice, France.
Aisam and Rojer, ranked 9th and 10th, ...
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HULL, England: World number one Ramy Ashour won a fierce battle of words as well as deeds with his compatriot Omar Mosaad during a hot-tempered opening win in the British Open on Tuesday.
A dispute over a let decision in the second game of a ...
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our correspondent
KARACHI: Maheen Aftab reached the final of under-14 girls event in the 2nd NBP Open National Juniors and Seniors Tennis Championship at Karachi Gymkhana on Wednesday.
Maheen beat Rida Khan 6-0, 6-1, in the semi-final. In the first round Maheen ...
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PARIS: World No 7 Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina has pulled out of next week’s French Open tennis after failing to recover from a virus, organisers said on Wednesday.
Del Potro, who reached the quarter-finals at the claycourt grand-slam ...
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National Juniors and Seniors Open from May 29
By our correspondent
KARACHI: Indus Pharma is organising National Juniors and Seniors Open Tennis Championship with a prize purse of Rs30,000 from May 29 to June 4 at Karachi ...
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