Category: Sports

KARACHI, Jan 03 (APP):KARACHI, Jan 3 (APP): The schedule of the Fifth Edition of Blind Cricket World Cup has to be changed because of the Indian Foreign Ministry’s `verbal denial’ to its team’s clearance, announced Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC) on Wednesday. It said that `Despite numerous earnest efforts of Cricket Association of the Blind in India (CABI)… Continue reading Blind Cricket World Cup re-scheduled from Pakistan to UAE on India’s `Verbal denial’

LAHORE, Jan 03 (APP):Barry’s and Rijas/Green Orchard carved out impressive victories in Lt Gen (retd) Shah Rafi Alam Memorial Polo Cup here on Wednesday at Lahore Polo Club (LPC) ground. Hernan Pieres guided Barry’s 6½-4 triumph over Outfitters in the first encounter of the day. Hernan Pieres was top scorer from the winning side with… Continue reading Lt Gen Shah Rafi Alam Memorial Polo Cup : Day2

LAHORE, Jan 02 (APP): Punjab Sports Minister Jahangir Khanzada and Secretary Sports Punjab Muhammad Aamir Jan will inaugurate Sports Board Punjab’s first lawn tennis academy here on Wednesday (tomorrow). Expert coaches will impart modern training to young players at the state of art tennis court. The inaugural ceremony of modern lawn tennis academy will be held… Continue reading Punjab Sports Minister to inaugurate tennis academy

PESHAWAR, Jan 02 (APP):Peshawar Blues clinched the trophy of the first phase of the ongoing Pakistan Super League Cricket Championship jointly organized by Peshawar Zalmi and Elementary Education Khyber Pakhtunkhwa here at Hayatabad Sports Complex ground on Tuesday. Peshawar Blues won the toss and made 193 runs for the loss of three wickets in the allotted 20… Continue reading Peshawar Blues win first phase of Pakistan Super League Championship

LAHORE, Jan 02 (APP): The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) said on Tuesday that as per the constitution of the PHF all congress members have been invited to attend congress meeting on Wednesday (tomorrow) except for those from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. “This is entirely due to the reason that there are two parallel associations in KPK and the case… Continue reading PHF invites members to attend meeting as per its constitution

PESHAWAR, Jan 02 (APP):Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Football Association and former national team skipper Basit Kamal has said that they have completed a process of new club registration and players transfer well before fixing of the date. Talking to APP, Basit Kamal said that they got registration of new clubs and some of the players transfer… Continue reading KP Football Association completes Cub registration, players transfer

ISLAMABAD, Jan 2 (APP):Pakistan cricket head coach Mickey Arthur feels that players have acclimatised well with the conditions in New Zealand, before the team kicks off its tour with a 50-over warm-up match against New Zealand XI in Nelson on Wednesday. A day before Pakistan’s practice match, Arthur said the team is looking forward to… Continue reading Coach Arthur confident of good results in New Zealand

ISLAMABAD, Jan 2 (APP):Pakistan’s young spin sensation Shadab Khan has joined Hong Kong Island United for the next season of HKT20 blitz. An announcement from the management of Hong Kong Island United said that Shadab Khan has joined the team as the vice captain – the second Pakistani player to join the team after pace… Continue reading Shadab Khan joins Hong Kong Island United for HKT20 blitz

KHANEWAL, Jan 2 (APP)::Trials for the 36th National Boxing Championship will be started at Wapda Sports Stadium, Lahore from Wednesday, January 3. Media Coordinator of Punjab Boxing Association Pervez Raja, said here Tuesday that players between 19 and 40 years of age would be selected during the trials. Candidates must have ID cards and Pakistan… Continue reading Trials for Boxing Championship from tomorrow

ISLAMABAD, Jan 1 (APP):The year 2017 proved to be a blessed for Pakistani Cricket, as Pakistan Cricket team has made it their year by going on to host successful events in the country and won some big tournaments that has also put them under the spotlight. A report aired by a private news channel said,… Continue reading 2017 extraordinary successful year for Pakistani cricket

ISLAMABAD, Jan 1 (APP):Karak district administration, for the first time in cricket history, organized a match for dwarf players. According to private news channel, the administration has organized a 10-over match where several teams participated including Peshawar Zalmi and Karak Zalmi. Karak Zalmi won the match. A large number of spectators thronged the ground and… Continue reading Karak administration holds dwarf cricket match

MULTAN, Dec 30 (APP)::Crescent Cricket Club won the 58th All-Pakistan Cricket Tournament 2017-18 match by defeating Khudad Gymkhana Club with 80 runs. The match was played at District Sports Ground on Saturday. Playing first, Crescent Cricket Club scored 222 runs for loss of ten wickets. Farhan Pervaiz from Crescent Club scored 67 runs, Hasan Nawaz… Continue reading Crescent Club wins match of 58th All-Pakistan Tournament

PESHAWAR, Dec 29 (APP):The 10 time record holder of winning Pakistan Open Jansher Khan suggested Pakistan Squash Federation to close down the National Academy for Squash looking after the poor performance of the players in the mega Pakistan Open. “There is no need of such academy as the performance of the Academy players deteriorated instead… Continue reading Jansher for closing of Pakistan National Squash Academy due to poor performance of players

LAHORE, Dec 29 (APP): Leonine Global Sports, owners of inaugural PSL Champions Franchise Islamabad United has introduced Sports Management as a higher education academic course of study here at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). The course, the first of its kind offered at the higher education level in Pakistan, titled “Introduction to Sports… Continue reading Islamabad united launches first ever sports management course

LAHORE, Dec 29 (APP):Pakistan Cricket Board as per the decision taken at the PSL Franchise Stakeholder Meeting held here last month, has allowed inclusion of eight players to the respective squads on Friday. According to a PCB spokesman, “Player have been made part of different squads in different categories “. Following are the names of… Continue reading PSL 2018 Squad expansion

LAHORE, Dec 28 (APP):Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Thursday, “It has come to the attention of the PCB that an utterly false, frivolous and malicious fake news about initiation of NAB investigation against PCB chairman, Najam Sethi, was published in a local tabloid from which some news channels have picked up the fake news… Continue reading Malicious propaganda against PCB chairman