NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that the Khel Ratna award would be renamed after hockey legend major Dhyan Chand. The Khel Ratna, India’s highest sporting honour, had been originally named after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Announcing the decision on Twitter, Modi wrote, “I have been getting many requests from […]
LAHORE — New Zealand will visit Pakistan in September for the first time in 18 years to play three one-day internationals and five Twenty20 matches in Rawalpindi and Lahore, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Thursday. Top teams have avoided touring Pakistan citing security concerns after the 2009 attack on a bus carrying Sri […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal has openly spoken on India-Pakistan cricketing ties. He believes that BCCI President Sourav Ganguly wants to resume the series between India and Pakistan. Kamran believes that Indian cricketers also want to clash with the Pakistan team, but they do not openly talk about it. Cricket fans in our country […]
ANANTNAG — Veerian Cricket Academy defeated Star Sports Kanelwon with the help of Captain Younus Naikoo’s brilliant bowling spell in Ongoing Green Valley Super Cup on today here at Awami Stadium in Aakura Mattan in Anantnag district. Earlier Veerian Cricket Academy won the toss and decided to bat first. While batting first VCA set the […]
ANANTNAG — Sayokan, a Turkish martial art, has been introduced in the Kashmir valley by Sayokan Association of Jammu Kashmir by organising a three-day coaching-cum-referee training program at Pahalgam in South Kashmir district of Anantnag. Under the banner of Sayokan Federation of India, around 50-60 players from 16 different states and union territories across the […]
LAHORE — Nida Dar scripted history when she became the first Pakistani player – male or female – to take 100 T20I wickets. The 34-year old breezed past this milestone when she accounted for West Indies opener Deandra Dottin in the T20I series opener in North Sound. She then went on to bag the wicket […]
NEW DELHI — Abhimanyu Mishra on Wednesday became the youngest chess grandmaster in history. The 12-year-old player from New Jersey scored his third GM norm in Budapest, having already crossed the required 2500 Elo rating barrier. “On Wednesday, Mishra won the biggest game of his short but sweet career so far. He defeated the 15-year-old […]
MUMBAI — The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has appointed two state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokespersons in the three-member committee formed to run the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA). The nomination of Brigadier Anil Gupta and advocate Sunil Sethi comes after the J&K High Court asked the Indian board to oversee […]
Pakistan’s skipper Babar Azam is no less than an inspiration to millions of cricket enthusiasts across the globe. In a short span in his cricket career, the 26-year-old has achieved unprecedented success and is already counted as one of the best batsmen of the modern era. Making his debut in 2015 for Pakistan against Zimbabwe, […]
ABU DHABI — The Pakistan Super League (PSL) will resume here on June 9, three months after it was suspended due to COVID-19 cases in its bio-secure bubble in Karachi. Fourth-placed Lahore Qalandars will meet third-placed Islamabad United in what will be the 15th match of the tournament, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on […]