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Pakistan opened their FIFA ASEAN Cup campaign with a 4-0 defeat to Thailand at Si Jalak Harupat Stadium in Bandung, Indonesia, on Saturday, as Teerasak Poeiphimai struck twice and an own goal compounded the Green Shirts' chastening introduction to the tournament. Pakistan, ranked 198th in the worl...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 11:47 am
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Pakistan's squash semi-final hopes ended in bronze on Saturday, the hockey team's unbeaten run crumbled against Malaysia, and both boxers were ousted — a bruising day at the Asian Games that left the country counting its losses. Noor Zaman and Mohammad Ashab Irfan both fell in straight games a...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 9:34 am
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Japan's 11-year-old eSports prodigy Yuki Kurihara said he was "embarrassed" after winning Asian Games gold on Saturday by thrashing a series of opponents up to three times his age. The bespectacled primary school student, believed to be the youngest competitor at the Games in Aichi-Nagoya, won...
Posted on 26 September 2026 | 7:13 am
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Pakistan secured another medal at the Asian Games on Friday after Noor Zaman and Mohammad Ashab Irfan won their respective singles matches to reach the semi-finals of the squash competition. Third-seeded Noor defeated Hong Kong's Chi Hin Henry Leung, while fifth-seeded Ashab overcame India's Vee...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 10:52 pm
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Team Europe took a 3-1 lead over defending champions Team World on the opening day of the Laver Cup on Friday, with Carlos Alcaraz and Jakub Mensik closing out the night with a straight-sets doubles victory at The O2. World No. 3 Alcaraz, competing in his second tournament after the US Open followin...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 10:49 pm
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Linda Noskova and Karolina Muchova helped the Czech Republic reach their first Billie Jean King Cup final since 2018 with straight-set victories over Spain in Shenzhen on Friday, keeping the Czechs on course for a 12th title. World number eight Muchova, this year's Wimbledon runner-up, gave the Cz...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 10:28 pm
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Zinedine Zidane's first week in charge of France ended with a 1-0 Nations League win away to Turkiye on Friday thanks to a second-half goal from Kylian Mbappe, but the clearest signs of change came before the match rather than during it. On the training ground and around the squad, Zidane quickly ...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 9:48 pm
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Manchester City have been found guilty of all but one of the 115 alleged breaches of the Premier League's financial rules, the Athletic and the Times reported on Friday. The club are expected to appeal, the reports added. The Premier League declined to comment. "Its a confidential process, we'...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 5:39 pm
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Inside the glass walls of a squash court, Sana Bahadar lets her racquet do the talking. Outside, the 20-year-old communicates through a combination of sign language and lip reading. Deaf and non-verbal since birth, as are her two younger brothers, Sana struggled to communicate until squash gave her ...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 3:00 pm
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Pakistan will begin their campaign in the inaugural FIFA ASEAN Cup against a vastly higher-ranked Thailand on Saturday, with head coach Nolberto Solano describing the tournament as an opportunity for his side to measure themselves against some of Asia's stronger teams. The Group B Division One ope...
Posted on 25 September 2026 | 10:28 am
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Dunith Wellalage took three wickets after captain Kusal Mendis hit a fine century as Sri Lanka beat England by 16 runs at Headingley on Thursday in a last-over thriller to level a three-match One-day International series. "I'm so happy winning and getting the hundred," said player-of-the-match...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 9:57 pm
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Cody Gakpo volleyed in a stoppage-time equaliser to rescue a 1-1 draw for the Netherlands against Germany in their Nations League Group A2 opener on Thursday, and deny new coach Jurgen Klopp a winning debut. Former Liverpool manager Klopp, who took over Germany in July following their shock early Wo...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 9:39 pm
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Jasmine Paolini rescued Italy's Billie Jean King Cup title defence campaign by triumphing in singles and doubles to secure a 2-1 victory for her team over hosts China in the quarter-finals on Thursday. The Italians rallied back from a 1-0 deficit early in the tie to book a last-four meeting on Sat...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 6:41 pm
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Matthew Breetzke hit a century and left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj took four wickets as South Africa beat Australia by 67 runs in the first One-day International at Kingsmead on Thursday. Breetzke's 112 and a hard-hit 75 by Marco Jansen took South Africa to 297 for eight after they were sent in. B...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 6:14 pm
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Pakistan's hockey and squash teams kept their momentum going at the Asian Games on Thursday, while the country's kabaddi campaign ended in disappointment and boxer Maria Rind bowed out. Pakistan hockey maintained their winning run with a 3-0 victory over China at the Gifu Prefectural Green Stadi...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 3:37 pm
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Japanese wunderkind Shin Ohashi followed in the slipstream of China's Yu Zidi to become the latest teenage sensation to set the Asian Games pool alight on Thursday, shattering the men's 200 metres breaststroke world record. A day after 13-year-old Yu capped her fairytale Asian Games debut with a...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 11:09 am
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Sahibzada Farhan has indicated that he would be willing to continue as Pakistan's T20 captain beyond the Asian Games, opening the possibility of a longer-term leadership role for the 30-year-old batter. Farhan, who was appointed captain for Pakistan's men's cricket campaign at the Asian Games ...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 10:44 am
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Thailand are the latest country to slam the organisation at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Japan, likening it to a "chaotic" game of "musical chairs". Athletes have complained of poor accommodation, long delays at airports and in boarding cruise ship housing. Erratic transport services have...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 8:53 am
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EARLY on Tuesday morning, while most of the nation was asleep, Pakistan beat Bangladesh to win bronze in women's cricket at the Asian Games in Japan — the country's first medal in the event since gold in 2014, and its second medal of the ongoing edition overall. It came against an opponent tha...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 8:36 am
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Kabaddi has its roots in ancient rural communities in South Asia - India is the superpower, but Japan has developed a niche taste for the team contact sport - thanks to a comic. At a gymnasium on the outskirts of the port city of Nagoya, hosts Japan face another unlikely kabaddi pretender in South...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 8:32 am
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China's 13-year-old swimming prodigy Yu Zidi has stamped her mark all over the Asian Games and she could cause a sensation at the Los Angeles Olympics in two years' time. The schoolgirl won all three individual races she swam this week in Tokyo with Asian Games records - a series of performanc...
Posted on 24 September 2026 | 6:22 am
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Cristiano Ronaldo walked into a packed room, claimed to be nervous, then did what he has done for more than two decades: taking centre stage, swatting away critics and insisting the final whistle is not yet in sight. The 41-year-old Portugal captain, speaking on Wednesday at the Portugal Football Su...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 9:47 pm
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The third round of the President's Trophy Grade-I will begin on Thursday with several Test cricketers and Pakistan Under-19 players joining their departmental sides for fixtures in Islamabad, Abbottabad and Peshawar. Babar Azam and Razaullah have joined Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGD...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 6:11 pm
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South Africa must find a way to get the best out of their depleted fast bowling attack when they host Australia in a three-match one-day international series starting in Durban on Thursday, according to captain Temba Bavuma. Bavuma said a fearsome pack of fast bowlers for touring teams to contend wi...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 6:06 pm
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Pakistan's Abrar Ahmed has risen to the top of the ICC Men's T20I bowling rankings for the first time in his career, ending Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan's six-month reign at No. 1. Abrar moved to the summit after Rashid slipped one rating point behind the Pakistan spinner's tally of 7...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 6:01 pm
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Pakistan's squash campaign got off to a flying start on Wednesday as Noor Zaman and Mohammad Ashab cruised into the men's singles last-16, though the country's kabaddi team tasted defeat for the first time at the Asian Games. Noor, Pakistan's No. 1, routed Van Aero Dalida of the Philippines ...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 10:58 am
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Pakistan head coach Mike Hesson on Wednesday said his side were preparing "as best we can" for a possible clash with India at the Asian Games, but stressed that there was plenty of cricket to be played before the two sides could meet. India and Pakistan are on opposite sides of the men's Asian...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 10:38 am
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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has advertised for a new bowling coach for the national men's team shortly after the Netherlands Cricket Board announced the appointment of Ashley Noffke as its head coach on Wednesday. Noffke, who is currently Pakistan's white-ball bowling coach, has been appoin...
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 8:18 am
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NEW DELHI: A sting operation conducted by the Indian magazine Tehelka has cast a fresh spotlight on alleged match-fixing and the leaking of sensitive team information in Indian cricket, with a former Ranji Trophy player claiming involvement in both the Indian Premier League and domestic T20 leagues....
Posted on 23 September 2026 | 2:30 am
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Umm-e-Hani's superb three-wicket spell and captain Fatima Sana's counter-attacking 45 helped Pakistan beat Bangladesh by 31 runs and claim the bronze medal in the women's cricket competition at the Asian Games in Nisshin, Japan on Tuesday. Umm-e-Hani conceded only 10 runs in her four overs, in...
Posted on 22 September 2026 | 11:42 am