Category: Sports

ISLAMABAD, Apr 14 (APP): A four-member Pakistan tenpin bowling team will participate in the World Tenpin Bowling Youth Championship 2016, scheduled to be held from July 24 to August 3 at Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. Pakistan team includes Pakistan number 1 Ahmer Abbas Saldera, Ali Suria, Daniyal Shah and Yaseen Jan, Pakistan Tenpin Bowling Federation (PTBF)… Continue reading Four-member team to feature in World Youth Bowling C’ship

ISLAMABAD, Apr 14 (APP): Middle-order batsman Haris Sohail is recovering well from once career-threatening knee injury and has vowed that he will soon make a comeback in the national side, may be in the later part of England tour this summer. “My recovery is a little slow but I am getting better day by day and… Continue reading Haris vows to make comeback to national team

ISLAMABAD, Apr 14 (APP): Worcester’s Old Elizabethans (OEs) have secured a Pakistan batsman Nasir Jamshed in their bid for promotion from Birmingham and District Premier Cricket League Division Two. The capture of Nasir Jamshed, 26, is a real coup for the club as his one-day international batting average is a healthy 31.51 with three centuries. The… Continue reading Worcester club Old Elizabethans sign Nasir Jamshed

ISLAMABAD, Apr 13 (APP): Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has finalized the names for top positions in team management as Mohsin Hasan Khan, Iqbal Qasim and Dean Jones are most likely to be given key roles but has revealed that Moin Khan is currently not in plans of the board. A PCB official, on condition of anonymity, told… Continue reading Moin Khan not in PCB’s plans, Board makes up mind on appointments

ISLAMABAD, Apr 12 (APP): Aggrieved at the current state of affairs of Pakistan cricket, erstwhile quickie Muhammad Zahid feels former national stars should come forward to rescue the game in the country. Zahid said the ex-cricketers should go to smaller cities and train young players. Speaking about the coach for the national team, Zahid said… Continue reading Zahid asks ex-cricketers to play role to rescue cricket

LONDON, April 12, (APP/AFP) – Wayne Rooney made his long-awaited return from a knee injury on Monday as the Manchester United captain featured for the club’s Under-21 team after two months on the sidelines. Rooney played for 61 minutes against Middlesbrough at Old Trafford in his first outing since February 13 as United manager Louis van… Continue reading Football: Rooney returns after injury lay-off

ISLAMABAD, Apr 11 (APP): Former Captain Aamir Sohail has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to improve domestic circuit in the country instead of appointing a new foreign coach. Talking to APP, Aamir said the coach can only teach strategies to the players but the talent comes up from the domestic level which is lacking. “I cannot understand why… Continue reading Improve domestic cricket instead of appointing coach: Aamir Sohail

ISLAMABAD, Apr 11 (APP): Former Pakistan Blind Cricket team captain Abdul Razzaq will assist the visually-impaired players of Sri Lanka for the T20 World Cup of the Blind scheduled to be held in India in November. Talking to APP, Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC) Chairman, Syed Sultan Shah said the Sri Lanka team which recently played and lost… Continue reading Razzaq to assist SL blind cricket team

ISLAMABAD, Apr 10 (APP): Idrees Nisar of Rawalpindi Golf Club won the 5th Chief of the Naval Staff Amateur Golf Cup here at Margalla Greens Golf Club, Islamabad. Idress swept past Ehtisham Abbasi in a tense final to emerge victorious in the net event category. Meanwhile, Ghanzanfer Mehmood won the gross event of the championship as he… Continue reading Idress wins Chief of Naval Staff Amateur Golf title

ISLAMABAD, Apr 10 (APP): Badar Munir hit a blazing unbeaten double century to guide Pakistan blind team to a seven wicket remarkable win against Sri Lanka in the third One-Day International match at LCCA Cricket Ground Lahore. The win also gave Pakistan a white-clean in the three-match series. Pakistan won the toss and decided to field first.… Continue reading Badar Munir guides Pakistan blind to series win against Sri Lanka

MULTAN, Apr 10 (APP): The 52nd national table tennis championship organized by Pakistan table tennis association will start from tomorrow (April-11) at gymnasium hall sports ground. President Multan table tennis association Khawaja Hassan Wadood said this while giving press briefing to media persons about the table tennis championship here at district sports ground gymnasium hall.… Continue reading 52nd national table tennis championship begins on April 11

FAISALABAD, Apr 10 (APP): Pentangular Cricket Cup tournament will commence at Iqbal Stadium Faisalabad here from April 19, 2016. A spokesman of the Iqbal Stadium said here on Sunday that Pentangular Cricket Cup is the second major event after Quaid-e-Azam Trophy which was earlier decided to hold at Multan but due to some certain reason, the Pakistan Cricket… Continue reading Pentangular cricket cup expected from April 19

ISLAMABAD, Apr 8 (APP): Former Chief Selector Haroon Rasheed has termed the dismal state of Pakistan’s domestic structure the reason behind green-shirts poor show in the Asia Cup and World Twenty20. The former right-handed batsman, who represented Pakistan in 23 Tests and 12 one-day internationals, said Pakistan’s domestic cricket structure needs to be revamped. “Such is the… Continue reading Haroon blames domestic structure behind green-shirts poor show

ISLAMABAD, Apr 8 (APP): Pakistan team’s bowling coach Azhar Mahmood has dismissed all speculations about groupings in the team, saying there were no issues amongst the players during Asia Cup and World Twenty20. Azhar said the simple fact is that “our players are not good enough at the moment,” he said in comments on a website. He… Continue reading No groupings in the team, players are not good enough: Azhar Mahmood

ISLAMABAD, April 8 (APP): The National Assembly on Friday was apprised on the Pakistan cricket team’s poor performance in T-20 World Cup, saying, only one cricketer was representing Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) management. “Only one cricketer was representing Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) management and its affairs were being run by non-cricketers, majority merely focussing on perks and privileges… Continue reading Only one cricketer in PCB: NA apprised on team’s failure

ISLAMABAD, Apr 7 (APP): The Pakistan Cricket Board’s meeting of the Board of Governors (BoG) that was scheduled to be held on April 13 has been delayed as the members have refused to show-up. Talking to APP, a PCB official said the members of the governing board have refused to attend the meeting as they… Continue reading PCB BoG members refuse to attend meeting

ISLAMABAD, Apr 7 (APP): Hamza Akbar won his first match in the Professional Circuit Tournament by defeating Wales’ Jamie Jones in the qualifying round on Thursday. The 22-year old, who has been striving hard in his professional career since September last year beat Jones in Betferd World Championship Qualifier 10-5 (45-67, 66-10, 64-22, 59-52, 48-14,… Continue reading Hamza wins opening match of Betferd World C’ship Qualifier

ISLAMABAD, Apr 7 (APP): Former coach Olympian Tahir Zaman and former international hockey umpire and FIH Umpires’ Manager Rashad Mahmood Butt have been nominated by International Hockey Federation (fih) and Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) to attend two international courses for coaching and umpiring in Ipoh, Malaysia during the ongoing 25th Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament. Tahir… Continue reading Tahir, Rashad to attend FIH coaching, umpiring courses in Malaysia

ISLAMABAD, Apr 5 (APP): Newly appointed Twenty20 skipper Sarfraz Ahmed on Tuesday said he was optimistic about taking on the challenge of leading the Pakistan side. Wicket-keeper batsman said that it was an honor for him to lead Pakistan’s Twenty20 team.”Representing Pakistan as a player itself is a big achievement for any individual, but to… Continue reading Sarfraz optimistic about T20 captaincy challenge

FAISALABAD, April 04 (APP): Pakistan has won the second match of Twenty-20 (T-20) Blind Cricket Series after defeating Sri Lanka with 6 wickets at Iqbal Stadium here on Monday. Winning the toss, the Sri Lanka decided to bat first and scored 238 runs during 20 overs with loss of 3 wickets. Desferiya and D-Method Wandara… Continue reading Pakistan wins 2nd match of Blind Cricket series