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Alex Carey’s performance behind the stumps in Brisbane has been hailed as one of the great Ashes wicketkeeping efforts. But one of the Australian team’s most fastidious trainers revealed the most eye-catching aspect of his star turn with the gloves – standing up to the stumps to Scott Boland and Michael Neser – is not something he has been bold enough to attempt away from the heat of battle.With the Aussies not picking Nathan Lyon for the second NRMA Insurance Test – the first time Carey has played a home Test without the off-spinner – the 34-year-old might have been…
Just four days before the National Games basketball event was set to tip-off, the Pakistan Basketball Federation (PBBF) was told the venue was gone. With teams arriving and no court to play on, the event itself was in jeopardy. “We arranged everything in almost two days,” PBBF secretary Yaqoob Qadri told Dawn, revealing a significant off-court challenge. “There were some people who don’t want the event to happen.” Yet, on Sunday, the roar of a packed crowd for the Army-Sindh clash at the North Nazimabad Gymkhana in Karachi was the definitive answer. Against a backdrop of administrative hurdles, the players…
Devine opens the batting to destructive effect Sophie Devine has urged her teammates and the Perth Scorchers fanbase to turn the WACA Ground into a hostile fortress when they take on the Melbourne Stars in Tuesday’s WBBL|11 Knockout final. The Scorchers surged up the table through the second half of WBBL|11, leapfrogging the Stars to claim the No.3 spot after the Melbourne club faltered in their final three matches. It hands Devine’s team the all-important home ground advantage and given the winner advances to the Challenger final in Sydney on Thursday, one fewer cross-country trip is another major boost. Perth…
Pakistan Army served a powerful reminder of their sporting prowess, seizing 12 gold medals across multiple disciplines as the National Games charged through a pulsating day of action. Their goldrush on Sunday was spearheaded by utter dominance in taekwondo and sharp shooting on the ranges. The clearest demonstration of authority came in the taekwondo Poomsae events, where Army fighters ruled the roost, clinching eight gold medals across age categories. Their women set the tone: Sana Sabir (Under-50), Naila (U-30), Mehar-Un-Nisa (U-40) and Zeena Sheraz (Under-20) all stood atop the podium. The men followed suit with Adil Hussain (U-30), Mohammad Mumtaz (U-40),…
With national gold on the line, the tension had given way to aggression, physical altercations to verbal spats and obscene gestures. The Sindh women’s netball team, however, rose beyond it to secure glory at the end of it all with a domineering 20-12 victory over Wapda in a fiesty final at the National Games on Sunday. It was a statement triumph; the provincial side overcoming their departmental opponents who have access to training all year round. “And yet, we beat them to win gold which makes this even better,” Sindh skipper Quratulain told Dawn. Teammates Kareema and Huma echoed Quratulain’s…
McLaren’s Lando Norris sobbed tears of joy and relief as he won the Formula One championship for the first time and ended Max Verstappen’s four-year reign with a nervy third place at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday. Red Bull’s Verstappen, who ended the campaign with more wins (eight) than any driver, triumphed in the season-ender with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri second and 12.5 seconds behind at the chequered flag. Norris, Britain’s 11th Formula One world champion, took his points tally to 423 with Verstappen on 421 and Piastri third with 410. McLaren, who secured the constructors’ championship in October…
The England bowlers had no answers to the Aussies’ prowess with the bat, as Stokes (3-113), Gus Atkinson (1-114) and Brydon Carse (4-152) all conceded hefty runs. “We sit there and watch what’s going on in front of us, what Australia are looking to throw at us, and what plans they’re trying to ball to. And then it’s up to us as players to be able to go out there with a plan and how to negate the threat. “To me, it just seems to be a constant theme at the moment, that when you know the game is in…
Stuart Broad was critical of England’s “worst” bowling display for a number of years and wants more from “generational talent” Harry Brook with the bat after the tourists plummeted 2-0 down in the Ashes series following successive eight-wicket defeats.England’s bowling attack – one that roughed up Australia on day one of the Perth Test a fortnight ago – were regularly short and wide for the first part of their hosts’ first innings in Brisbane, with Broad lamenting a lack of “problem solving” and “communication”. Vice-captain Brook, meanwhile, played a loose drive off pink-ball maestro Mitchell Starc on the opening evening…
Stuart Broad was critical of England’s “worst” bowling display for a number of years and wants more from “generational talent” Harry Brook with the bat after the tourists plummeted 2-0 down in the Ashes series following successive eight-wicket defeats.England’s bowling attack – one that roughed up Australia on day one of the Perth Test a fortnight ago – were regularly short and wide for the first part of their hosts’ first innings in Brisbane, with Broad lamenting a lack of “problem solving” and “communication”. Vice-captain Brook, meanwhile, played a loose drive off pink-ball maestro Mitchell Starc on the opening evening…
Australia v England | Second Ashes Test | Day Four England have vowed to spend less time practicing and more time focusing on “training to dominate” as they embark on a mid-series Sunshine Coast getaway after going down 0-2 on their Ashes tour at the Gabba. Bazball masterminds Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes will take their charges on a healing trip to Noosa after England’s coach declared his side had “over-prepared” leading into the second NRMA Insurance Test they lost by eight wickets on Sunday. Given their unfamiliarity with the pink ball, England were criticised for sending none of their…