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LAHORE - Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Punjab Colours and Railways won their matches in the 1st PHF U18 Girls' Hockey Championship, being played here at the National Hockey Stadium. Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa beat Sindh, Punjab (C) beat Punjab (W) and Railways beat Balochistan. Punjab Governor Sardar Mohammad Latif Khan Khosa was the chief guest during the opening match of the day.
Results: Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa beat Sindh 3-2 (Full Time), 2-0 (Half Time); Punjab (C) beat Punjab (W) 2-0 (Full

LAHORE - KPT crushed PEB on day two of the round two match of the Patron's Trophy Grade-II here at the LCCA ground on Sunday. KPT scored 490 runs and then bowled out PEB for 230 and forced them to follow on.
During their second innings, KPT bowlers against bowled their rivals out for 362. Later KPT openers achieved the slender win target and won the Group-C match by nine wickets. Scores: KPT 490-4 in 83 overs. Nadeem Javed 260, 374 balls, Faraz Patil 104, 107 balls).
PEB 230

DHAKA - Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi led from the front again to inspire his team to a 10-wicket victory over West Indies in the first World Cup quarter-final on Wednesday. Afridi took four for 30 as West Indies collapsed to 112 all out from 43.3 overs to take his total to 21 for the tournament and overhaul Imran Khan's Pakistan record at a single World Cup. Man-of-the-match Mohammad Hafeez, who had taken two cheap wickets with his off-spin, then scored his maiden World Cup

KOLKATA - Craig Ervine, Vusimuzi Sibanda and Tatenda Taibu cracked impressive half-centuries to set up Zimbabwe's crushing 161-run victory over hapless Kenya in their final World Cup match on Sunday. Zimbabwe showed their batting prowess to post 308-6, their highest total of the tournament, with man-of-the-match Ervine (66), Sibanda (61) and Taibu (53) all making the most of a mediocre Kenyan attack.
Kenya, who have looked out of their depth on the Indian subcontinent, losing all

LAHORE - Muslim Gym crushed Akhter Abdul Rehman Club by 3 wickets in the second league match of the 14th Tauseef Trophy Cricket Championship at Iqbal Park ground on Saturday. The match saw a fine all-round performance by Waqas Aslam. Muslim Gym have secured 18 points while Akhter Abdul Rehman has secured 6 points. The match was decided on the last ball of the last over.
Scores: Akhter Abdul Rehman Club 232 all out in 35 overs. Wasim Ahmed 72, Saleem Malik 19, Imran Butt 25, Hafiz

MUMBAI - West Indies bowlers Kemar Roach and Sulieman Benn will be out to cause some damage to the Irish batting line-up when they clash in their World Cup match in Mohali on Friday. The pace-spin combination was at their destructive best when they skittled co-hosts Bangladesh for their lowest ever ODI total of 58, a feat that angered local fans who ended up hurling stones at the West Indies bus following the match in Dhaka.
Safe in the knowledge that they will not face any

MOHALI - In no mood to brook any Dutch mischief, title aspirants South Africa steamrolled the Netherlands by 231 runs in Thursday's World Cup match to top Group B. If Ireland's shock victory against England on Wednesday had rekindled Dutch hopes of pulling off a similar upset, Graeme Smith and his men ruthlessly snuffed them out. To begin with, South Africa rode the marathon 221-run third wicket stand between Hashim Amla (113) and AB de Villiers (134) and JP Duminy's (40) subsequent

HAMBANTOTA - Shahid Afridi took five wickets and Umar Akmal scored one of four half-centuries as Pakistan crushed Kenya by 205 runs to get their World Cup campaign off to a flying start on Wednesday. This was Pakistan's biggest win in terms of runs in the World Cup.
Hapless Kenya found their opponents too hot to handle after Umar hit a 52-ball 71 to anchor Pakistan's challenging total of 317-7 before they bundled out their rivals for just 112 in 33.1 overs. Once Pakistan

DOHA - An impressive Australia crushed India 4-0 to get their Asian Cup campaign off to a decisive start Monday with red-hot Everton star Tim Cahill collecting two goals. Played at an Al-Sadd Stadium packed with noisy expatriate Indians, a convincing win was needed by the Socceroos to demonstrate their tournament credentials against a team ranked 142 in the world.
They comfortably delivered with the dangerous Cahill, playing up front as the lone striker, a constant threat. He

HAMILTON - Pakistan completed a thumping 10-wicket victory in the first Test over New Zealand inside three days after they had bowled the hosts out for just 110 in their second innings after the tea break.
The visitors had been given a victory target of just 19 runs after they established a 92-run first innings lead earlier on Sunday before left-arm spinner Abdul Rehman was again the principle tormenter of New Zealand's batsmen, taking three wickets for 24 runs and creating

LAHORE - Habib Bank and PIA qualified for Division I Final of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy after PIA beat Karachi Blues by an innings and 16 runs at Karachi's National Stadium on day three of the four-day match on Saturday.
Karachi Blues made 146 runs in their first innings while PIA responded with 262 runs and later bowled out Karachi for 100 runs in the second innings. Aizaz-Bin Ilyas was the star of the match, taking 14 wickets, seven each in either innings for 65 and 45 runs

SYDNEY - Dominant England claimed their first Ashes series in Australia for 24 years with their third innings victory over the home team in the final Sydney Test on Friday. England wrapped up an innings and 83-run victory early on the last day after victory was assured when they had Australia seven wickets down on Thursday's close.
It was England's first series victory Down Under since Mike Gatting's team beat Australia 2-1 in 1986-87. The tourists posted their highest-ever score

MELBOURNE - England stormed to an imperious innings and 157-run victory in the fourth test to retain the Ashes on Wednesday and plunge a declining Australia side into a painful period of introspection.
The victory, completed before lunch on the fourth day, gave holders England an unassailable 2-1 lead in the five-test series and made Andrew Strauss's team the first to take the Ashes home since the Mike Gatting-led triumph of 1986/87.
Then, as now, the venue of the decisive

LAHORE - Nepal pushed Pakistan girls aside in the last league match of the SAFF Women's Championship to qualify for the semi-final. Nepal qualified along with Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.
Pakistan will face India in the semi-final on December 20 while Bangladesh will take on Nepal on December 21. The final is scheduled for December 23. In Nepal's 12-0 victory over Pakistan, front runner Anu Lama landed the opener in the 15th minute.
Mira Maharjan doubled the lead in the

ADELAIDE: England crushed Australia by an innings and 71 runs after a spectacular collapse of wickets early on the final day in the second Ashes Test at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday. The tourists ran through the Australians after snaring the important wicket of Mike Hussey with spinner Graeme Swann finishing with five wickets for 91.
It was England's first Test victory in Adelaide since 1995 and their first innings triumph in Australia since Mike Gatting's team won in Melbourne

GUANGZHOU: Pakistan created history Friday in crushing Bangladesh by 10 wickets to win the first-ever Asian Games women's cricket tournament.
Bangladesh's total of 92 all out never looked enough as Pakistan openers Nida Rashid and Javeria Wadood made a positive start to their run chase, playing a full range of shots and looking to score at every opportunity. Bangladesh couldn't force a breakthrough as Nida raced to a half-century off just 41 balls.
The Pakistan pair reached