Tag: Defeat

GUJRANWALA - Internal Services Intelligence (ISI) former chief General (Retd) Hameed Gull said aggressions in Afghanistan and Iraq had met the worst defeats and the US must leave the two countries by admitting its defeats.
He was addressing a seminar organised by Gujranwala Wasif Khayal Sangat to commemorate Wasif Ali Wasif. Senator Raja Zafar-ul-Haq, Orya Maqbool Jan, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Zulfiquar Ahmad Cheema, Kh Qutb-ud-Din, Khurram Dastgir Khan, Abdur Rehman Kuaka,

LAHORE - Dharampura Club beat Pioneer Cricket Club by six wickets in the 11th Madre Millat Mohtarma Fatemah Jinnah Memorial best of three cricket series here at the Hazarat Mian Mir Stadium. Pioneer Club made 275 runs in 30 overs. Opener Nadeem Butt 160 runs not out.
Dharampura Club achieved the score in 29.1 overs for the loss of four wickets. Osama Asim 60, Shahzeb 82 runs. Ali got two wickets for 30, Sufyan Liaqut 2 for 32. Secretary Pioneer Club Sohail Javed Butt gave the

CHILECITO - Spain's defending champion Carlos Sainz all but conceded defeat in his bid to retain the Dakar Rally car title after losing nearly 10 minutes on his team-mate and main rival Nasser Al-Attiyah.
Sainz, a two-time world rally champion, had got back into contention by winning on Tuesday but Wednesday was a disaster in a stage won by South African Giniel de Villiers, driving like Sainz and Al-Attiyah a Volkswagen.
Sainz could only finish fifth, conceding 9min 19sec to

MADRID - Real Madrid, cushioned by an 8-0 first leg lead, secured their place in the Spanish Cup quarter-finals on Thursday despite a 2-0 defeat in the return match at Levante.
Levante's two second-half goals by Xisco Nadal and Sergio Gonzalez were not enough to overturn Real's huge advantage secured over the Valencia-based side last month and the Spanish giants pushed through 8-2 on aggregate. Last season's runners-up Atletico Madrid, who took a 1-0 lead to Espanyol, made it

SYDNEY - Australian opener Shane Watson is dreading the prospect of a record third innings defeat against a rampant England in the last day of the final Sydney Ashes Test on Friday. As his teammates prepare to face defeat on Friday in front of the bellowing Barmy Army visiting support, Watson said the prospect of a third humiliation at the hands of the old enemy is difficult to take. "It's not great, is it? In the end, we are doing our absolute best and it hasn't been good enough,"

HAMILTON - New Zealand wrapped up their Twenty20 cricket series against Pakistan with a match to spare when they blasted their way to a 39-run win in the second match here Tuesday.
Scott Styris and Peter McGlashan were the principal contributors to a 79-run onslaught in five overs which swung the match New Zealand's way in the second half of their innings of 185 for seven.
Pakistan made a valiant start to the run chase and were 58 for one after six overs before their batting

LAHORE - Pakistan coach Waqar Younis was unfazed by the team's five-wicket loss at the hands of the Auckland Aces in Thursday's Twent20 warm-up match at Colin Maiden Park.
Umar Akmal's 25 runs in the middle-order was as good as it got for the tourists' batting as they fell to 91 all out in 17.4 overs in the opening clash of their tour of New Zealand. The hosts reached their modest target with six overs and four balls to spare, with Martin Guptill weighing in with an unbeaten 28.

CENTURION: The legend of Sachin Tendulkar continued to grow on Sunday as the Indian batting maestro hit his 50th Test century and shared a remarkable partnership with captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on the fourth day of the first Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park.
It was almost certainly not enough to save his team from defeat, with India finishing the day on 454 for eight in their second innings, still 30 runs short of making South Africa bat again.
But it was an

AL KHOBAR: World number one Ramy Ashour gave up on his bid to win back the World Open title after only six minutes of the second round when a hamstring injury forced him to call a halt on Sunday. The 23-year-old from Cairo left the court in agony after losing one game which was so painful it suggested he might have been better never to have taken the court. It was won 11-2 by Aamir Atlas Khan, the Pakistan number one, and Ashour's retirement cost the tournament someone who was

GUANGZHOU: Indian glamour girl Sania Mirza blamed four days of sickness for withdrawing from the Asian Games women's team tournament, a decision which she blamed for her country's defeat on Saturday.
Mirza, who said she had been suffering from a sore throat and an ear infection, was forced to watch from the sidelines as India lost 3-0 to Indonesia in the first round.
"I was sick for four days and a lot of things changed because of that," said the Indian star. "We didn't

SHANGHAI: Roger Federer tried Sunday to put a brave face on his Shanghai Masters performance despite losing the final to Andy Murray in a crushing 6-3, 6-2 defeat.
The Swiss uncharacteristically felt the gods of tennis were set against him in the match, in which fourth-ranked Scot Murray defeated Federer in their second consecutive Masters final meeting.
"Every time it got important, it was not going my way," the 16-time grand slam champion said. "You feel like it's a wave