Tag: Lead

LAHORE - Defending champions Colony Sugar maintained their dominance in the Bank Alfalah National Polo Championship by winning the second match here at the Lahore Polo Club on Thursday. Colony Sugar, playing the last match of the day, overwhelmed PAF (Hataff) by eight goals to three.
Shah Qubilai Alam, Raul LaPlacette and Zain Khan Khakwani joined hands to completet a rout of Hataff. Qublai scored five goals, LaPlacette bagged two and Zain got one.Earlier, Master Paints made

DHAKA - Ahmed Shehzad and Misbah-ul-Haq hit centuries as they steered Pakistan to a morale-boosting 89-run victory over co-hosts Bangladesh in a World Cup warm up match on Tuesday. The win would have helped to put the players in the right frame of mind for the Feb 19-April 2 tournament after their recent on-field exploits were overshadowed by the ban handed to three former team mates for spot-fixing.
Pakistan scored 285 for nine in their 50 overs before skittling out Bangladesh

DUBAI - Rory McIlroy struggled gamefully throughout the day in Saturday's tough third round at the Dubai Desert Classic, but by the end of it he was still ahead in a three-way tie for the lead. The 21-year-old Ulsterman, who led by one overnight, had a nightmare start with a hat-trick of bogeys and, opposed to the Boy Wonder, it was more a case of the boy wonders.
But he gradually steadied the ship and with his main rivals for the title all finding it hard to cope with the

DUBAI: Tiger Woods had the round of the day at the Dubai Desert Classic on Friday, but it was Ulster's Golden Boy Rory McIlroy who held on to the lead at the halfway stage of the Gulf's showcase tournament.
Woods produced his best golf of the year for a six under 66 to bound into contention for a first title in 15 months. He will go into the weekend on seven under par, four strokes shy of McIlroy who added a 68 to his opening blast of 65 to stand at 11 under.
In second place

LAHORE - PIA and National Bank of Pakistan are leading the 58th National Hockey Championship on the 10th day, with nearly all the teams having played seven matches. The championship, which is being played at the Faisalabad Hockey Stadium, will have its final on February 13.
PIA, having 19 points, are leading the points table, followed by NBP with 15 points. Steel Mills and PTV are rock bottom with three and zero points, respectively. Today, four more matches will be played with

PHOENIX - Unheralded American Tommy Gainey, seeking his first PGA title, completed a six-under par 65 on Saturday to seize a one-stroke lead after the second round of the frost-disrupted Phoenix Open. Gainey, who fired a 63 in the final group to lead after the first round ended late Friday, stood on 14-under par 128 after 36 holes at the $6.1 million event.
A man who once worked on a production line wrapping water heaters for transit now finds himself in contention for a PGA

DOHA - Denmark's Thomas Bjorn produced a fluent six-under-par 66 to take a one-shot lead over Austrian Markus Brier after the third round of the 2.5-million-dollar Qatar Masters on Saturday. Veteran Bjorn, who was in joint-third position overnight, finished Saturday's round with a sensational hat-trick of birdies starting on the 16th hole to set himself up for a tilt at an 11th European Tour title.
Bjorn, who won the Portuguese Open last year to claim his first title in four

DOHA - Austrian Markus Brier shot a second-round 66 to take a one-shot lead at the 2.5m dollar Qatar Masters on Friday, while Martin Kaymer kept alive his slim hopes of becoming the new world number one. Brier, the 2007 Volvo China Open winner, overtook overnight leader Retief Goosen with a bogey-free round on a much calmer day after strong winds on Thursday had caused havoc on the desert course.
Goosen and Brier were neck and neck over the first nine holes in the second round,

DOHA - Birthday boy Retief Goosen shot a three under-par 69 to take a one shot clubhouse lead midway through the first round of the 2.5 million dollar Qatar Masters here on Thursday. Goosen, the 2007 champion in Doha, overshadowed World No.1 Lee Westwood at the Doha Golf Club where most golfers struggled to settle into a rhythm with strong winds adding to their problems on an already difficult course where the thick rough had been a talking point before the tournament began.
The

LA JOLLA - Masters champion Phil Mickelson and US compatriot Bill Haas shared the third-round lead at Torrey Pines on Saturday as Tiger Woods floundered on a course he has long dominated. Mickelson, who claimed the most recent of his three Torrey Pines victories in 2001, fired a four-under 68 for a 54-hole total of 12-under 204.
It proved good enough for a share of the lead when overnight leader Haas bogeyed the par-five 18th to complete a one-under 71. They were one shot in

RIFFA - Ryder Cup duo Paul Casey of England and Sweden's Peter Hanson shared a one shot lead at 16 under par after the penultimate round of the European Tour's inaugural 1.7 million euro Volvo Golf Champions here on Saturday. Casey made four birdies and an eagle in a bogey-free round of six-under par 66, while Hanson started with a three-putt bogey on the first hole before making a similar number of birdies and an eagle as Casey for a 67. That gave the European Ryder Cup winning duo a

BERLIN - With Germany set to face Italy in a friendly on February 9, ex-national coach Jurgen Klinsmann has backed Michael Ballack to lead his country again in their Euro 2012 campaign. Ballack made his comeback after four months off with a leg injury on Sunday in Leverkusen's 3-1 win at Moenchengladbach in the German league.
The 34-year-old had a torrid time in 2010 as an ankle injury in May ruled him out of the World Cup in South Africa, only for him to then fracture his leg

SYDNEY - David Hussey steered Australia to a four-wicket win over England in the third one-day international at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday. Australia posted 215-6 to win with four overs to spare, after England scored just 214 from 48 overs -- the third time in as many matches they have failed to last their full allotment of overs.
The home side take a 3-0 lead in the seven-match series, in which England are seeking a sixth consecutive ODI series win. The English total,

STRATHALBYN - Cameron Meyer grabbed the overall leader's jersey from fellow Australian Matthew Goss after winning the fourth stage of the Tour Down Under on Friday. Meyer, riding for the Garmin-Cervelo team, held off the sprinters and finished ahead of his breakaway companions, Vacansoleil's Thomas de Gendt and Laurens Ten Dam of Rabobank, after a 124-km ride from Norwood to Strathalbyn, near Adelaide. The main peloton arrived 24 seconds after the winner, meaning Meyer will go into

KARACHI - The management of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) can reinstate its sacked employees by simply "rationalising" the salaries of the company's newly-appointed executives, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sources explained that the company started facing an acute funds shortage soon after the transfer of control to Abraaj Capital, whose management team brought with it a team of executives on extremely handsome salary packages and attractive perks. While the power

STIRLING - Michael Matthews won the sprint finish to claim the third stage of the Tour Down Under, while fellow Australian Matthew Goss reclaimed the overall leader's orange jersey on Thursday. The 20-year-old Matthews, considered one of the peloton's most promising riders, finished ahead of last year's champion Andre Greipel and Goss after a 129-km ride from Unley to Stirling, south of Adelaide.
"It's unbelievable, Rabobank's Matthews told reporters. "With one kilometre to go, I

SINGAPORE - Asia's rapidly developing economies will lead global growth in 2011 despite cooling slightly from last year, a Reuters poll showed, far outpacing the uneven recovery seen in rich-world peers.
The survey of around 500 economists across the world showed China again topping the economic expansion charts this year, as well as promising signs that the United States' economic revival will gain traction this year.
Still, most of the 13 Asia-Pacific economies covered in