Category: Sports

Manchester, United Kingdom, June 16 (AFP/APP):India beat Pakistan by 89 runs via the DLS method in Sunday’s World Cup showdown between the arch rivals in Manchester. Here AFP Sport looks at the key aspects of a game that saw India improve their unbeaten World Cup run against Pakistan to 7-0.

MANCHESTER, June 16 (APP)::Pakistan Skipper Sarfraz Ahmed has won the toss and chose to field first in their fifth match of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2019 tournament against India at Old Trafford here Sunday. The decision to bowl first appears to be motivated by the overcast conditions and exploit any juice in… Continue reading Pak win toss, India to bat first

ISLAMABAD, Jun 15 (APP):Member National Assembly (MNA), Makhdoom Zain Hussian Qureshi will lead the 25-member self-funded Pakistan Parliamentary Cricket Team (PPTC) in the Inter-Parliamentary Cricket World Cup (IPCWC) to be staged in London from July 8 to 15. Parliamentarians teams of Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa will play alongside the… Continue reading Qureshi to lead 25-member Pak Parliamentary team

ISLAMABAD, Jun 14 (APP):Pakistan under 19 team will depart for Durban, South Africa, early Saturday morning for a series of seven 50-over matches to be played from June 22 to July 7 in Pietermaritzburg and Durban. The series is part of the side’s preparation for next year’s ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2020, which will… Continue reading Pakistan U19 to depart for South Africa on Saturday

LAHORE, Jun 14 (APP):Pakistan U19 cricket team would depart for Durban, South Africa, tomorrow morning, Saturday for a series of seven 50-over matches to be played from 22 June to 7 July in Pieter maritzburg and Durban. The series is part of the side’s preparation for next year’s ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2020, which… Continue reading Pakistan U19 cricket team to depart for South Africa

LAHORE, Jun 14 (APP):The Punjab government, laying special focus on promotion of sports and giving importance to youth affairs, has earmarked Rs 4,000 million in the budget 2019-20, doubling the amount, allocated in the financial year 2018-19. Compared to previous year’s budget allocations of Rs 2,000 million, the provincial government, under its vision, has attached… Continue reading Punjab ‘Sports and Youth Affairs’ budget doubled

LAHORE, Jun 14 (APP):The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday announced a comprehensive and busy National Cricket Academy programme 2019-20, which will commence here the next week and culminate next year around the same time. The NCA Programme 2019-20 has been broken into four different categories, namely: Player Skills and Training, Youth/Talent Hunt and Skills… Continue reading Busy National Cricket Academy programme 2019-2020 announced

ISLAMABAD, June 14 (APP):Federal Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC) Dr Fehmida Mirza will award cash incentives to sports persons on June 20, who won medals and brought laurels for country in sports events. A sum of Rs32.600 million will be distributed amongst the 83 medal winners both male and female in the cash incentive… Continue reading Dr Fehmida to award cash incentives to sportspersons on June 20

PESHAWAR, Jun 14 (APP):The 11th Janshan-e-Dir Upper Royal Shakir Sports Festival will be commencing from June 20, 2019 under the aegis of District Administration and District Sports and Youth Officer Dir Upper at Dir Upper Sports Complex. This was stated by District Sports and Youth Officer Mukhtiar Hussain while talking to APP here on Friday.… Continue reading 11th Janshan-e-Dir Upper Royal Shakir Sports Festival from June 20

LAHORE, Jun 14 (APP):Top seed Tayyab Aslam set a showdown with Danish Atlas in the final of the FMC international squash championship after winning their respective semi-final ties in contrasting style here on Friday at the Punjab Squash Association Complex. Tayyab lived up to pre-tournament predictions of making it to the final with ease and… Continue reading Tayyab to meet Danish in final of FMC international squash

LAHORE, Jun 14 (APP):All-Punjab Age Group Swimming Championship is set to commence under the auspices of Sports Department Punjab and with the collaboration of Punjab Swimming Association tomorrow, Saturday at Gujrat Gymkhana Club Swimming. Director General Sports Punjab, Nadeem Sarwar will grace the occasion as the chief guest. All the arrangements have been completed to… Continue reading Punjab age group swimming to get underway

LAHORE, Jun 14 (APP):Suneyah Osma won the gross event and Ayesha Hamid emerged as the net winner in Summer Ladies Golf tournament here on Friday at Royal Palm club course. On a extremely hot day Suneyah of Garrison Golf Club showed plentiful and exuberant golfing talent to come first in this initiative launched by the… Continue reading Suneyah wins gross, Ayesha net winner in Ladies Golf

LAHORE, Jun 14 (APP):Punjab Inter-Division (Open) Snooker Championship will be organised here on June 17-19 at Nishtar Park Sports Complex, Gymnasium Hall. All the nine divisional teams of Punjab province will feature in the Punjab Inter-Division (Open) Snooker Championship being held under the aegis of Sports Board Punjab with the collaboration of Punjab Snooker Association.

TAUNTON, Jun 13 (APP)::Pakistan Captain Sarfraz Ahmed has said that failure to stick to the game plan and more mistakes in the field cost Pakistan team the match while Australians executed their game plan better than us. Talking to APP prior to team’s departure for Manchester here Thursday, he said a game of cricket was… Continue reading “We made more mistakes than Australia”: Sarfraz Ahmed

ISLAMABAD, Jun 13 (APP):Encouraging the green-shirts for their upcoming clash against India at Old Trafford, former Skipper Waqar Younis on Thursday said Pakistan have to give an ‘A plus’ performance if they want to stay in the 2019 Cricket World Cup. He said Pakistani players must display the same show as they had put up… Continue reading Pakistan must perform ‘A plus’ if they want to stay in 2019 CWC: Waqar

LAHORE, Jun 13 (APP):Tayyab Aslam, Zahir Shah, Ammad Fareed and Danish Atlas Khan breezed into the quarter finals of the FMC International Men Squash Championship after winning their respective ties here on Thursday at Punjab Squash Association complex. Eight seed Danish Atlas caused the biggest upset of the day when he outclassed second seed Asim… Continue reading FMC International Men Squash Championship reached to QF stage

LAHORE, Jun 13 (APP):High powered inquiry committee of Pakistan Hockey Federation will meet on June 15 to probe into the affairs of Karachi hockey association at Karachi’s Abdul Sattar Edhi stadium. The Inquiry Committee has been setup to resolve controversy is raging in the KHA regarding the bonafide of the office bearers of the body,… Continue reading PHF inquiry committee meets on June 15

LAHORE, Jun 13 (APP):Chairman, Pakistan Cricket Board, Ehsan Mani has said that six provinces will replace the regional and departmental cricket teams in the proposed new domestic structure to help produce quality cricketers on pattern of cricket Australia and England. “We have proposed the representation of six provincial teams in the recommendations made in the… Continue reading Six provinces to replace regional, departmental cricket, Chairman PCB