Tag: Win

MUMBAI - Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara ramped up the pressure on World Cup final opponents India on Friday by claiming the whole world expected them to win the showpiece match. India will try to become the first nation to win the title on home soil at the Wankhede Stadium and so fulfil the dreams of millions of fans, all hoping the team can add to the 1983 success of Kapil Dev's side.
"They've always been the favourites, they've got the best batting line-up in the world and

LAHORE - WAPDA Sports Board organised the annual Inter-Unit Athletics Competitions from March 29 to 31 at the Athletics Track of the WAPDA Sports Complex, Lahore. More than 300 male and female athletes from various units of WAPDA and PEPCO competed for the top honors during the three-day extravaganza.
Managing Director PEPCO Rasul Khan Mahsud graced the final day of competitions as chief guest and gave away trophies and prizes to the winners. LESCO won the competitions with 18

MOHALI - Thousands of delirious home fans brought the house down at the Mohali stadium on Wednesday after India ended Pakistan's World Cup dream with a 29-run win. "We love you India," screamed a group of college girls over Bollywood music blaring across the packed PCA stadium as noisy celebrations erupted throughout the country.
"It feels as if we have won the World Cup," said 23-year-old Anuradha Biswal, wiping away tears of joy with her handkerchief. "The match was so

NEW DELHI - Women in India are encouraged to dress modestly at all times, but a brasher side to modern life has been exposed after a popular model vowed to strip naked if the nation wins the cricket World Cup.
Poonam Pandey, 20, who features in a best-selling Indian swimwear calendar, said she wanted to provide an incentive to players by promising them she would bare all - though whether her offer will be welcomed is not known. "I'm a cricket fanatic and I'm a diehard supporter

KARACHI - Thousands of Pakistanis are expected to take part in mass prayer sessions, asking God to guide them to victory against India in the hotly anticipated World Cup cricket semi-final on Wednesday.
On the eve of the match, around 1,200 people congregated in the Jamia Binoria madrassa in Karachi, reciting Koranic verses in its glossy-tiled mosque before loudly praying for victory in the epic encounter.
"Our boys (in the cricket team) are highly talented and God-fearing,

MIAMI - Novak Djokovic ran his phenomenal 2011 win streak to 20-0 Sunday, with a 6-2, 6-0 thrashing of former top 10 player James Blake at the $9 million Miami WTA and ATP Masters. The second-seeded Serb, winner of all three events he has played this season, remains the only man in the top 125 not to have lost a match this year. Fresh from beating Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal en route to victory in last week's Indian Wells Masters, Djokivic is bidding to add a second Miami trophy to

LAHORE - University of Central Punjab have won the Inter-varsity Handball Championship 2010-11, which was held at Peshawar University. Twelve teams participated in the event. Mozammal Mahmood of UCP was declared the Best Player of the Championship. UCP were also declared the winner of the Inter-varsity Kabbadi Championship 2010-11. Nine teams participated in the event. The event saw brilliant performances by Mustansir, Qaisar, Zubair, Zaka, Tariq and Mubashar. Cash prizes were awarded

DHAKA - New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and elected to bat in the World Cup quarter-final against South Africa at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium on Friday.
Vettori returned to the side after missing the last two matches due to a knee injury.
South Africa continued with the strategy of playing three spinners in Johan Botha, Robin Peterson and Imran Tahir, besides two fast bowlers in Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.
The winner will meet either Sri Lanka or England

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari has made it clear that no compromise would be made on national security, adding that, government would fulfill the needs of country's armed forces for fight against terrorism. The president expressed these views while talking to Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on the sideline of the reception hosted in the honor of award winners at Presidency on Wednesday, sources informed Online.

LAHORE - Punjab bagged five gold and two silver medals to win the PSB Inter-Provincial Youth U-14 Wrestling Championship 2011 held here at National Hockey Stadium, Lahore. Punjab won with 68 points on board. Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa came second with two gold medals (61 points), while Sindh and Balochistan secured third position with 57 points each. Rashid (32kg), Mohammed Waqas (35kg), Zahid Latif (42kg), Irfan Ali (53kg) and Amanat Ali (59kg) from Punjab won the gold medals while Mohammed

LAHORE - The Spring Polo Cup 2011 rolled into action here on Tuesday with wins for Guard Group and Pony Express on the opening day at the Lahore Polo Club ground. Hamza Mawaz Khan starred for Guard Group with five goals, and was supported by Taimur Ali Malik and Zain Khan Khakwani, who shared one goal each as Guard Group beat Newage Cables 7-4. Newage Cables scored through Adnan Jalil Azam, Shah Shamyl Alam and Shaukat Ali Malik, with Shamyl getting two goals.
In the other match,

CHENNAI - Yuvraj Singh's all-round performance set up India's 80-run victory over West Indies in the final World Cup Group B match on Sunday. Chasing 269 for victory, opener Devon Smith's cultured 81 kept West Indies in the hunt but the two-time champions lost their last eight wickets for 34 runs to collapse for 188 in 43 overs.
The result meant India will face Australia in the quarter-finals while West Indies take on Group A winners Pakistan. Earlier, Yuvraj Singh (113) featured

KARACHI - Pakistan fans and former players on Sunday celebrated the team's historic World Cup win over defending champions Australia, saying it had lifted a gloomy nation. Hundreds of jubilant fans thronged the streets after the winning shot, chanting "Long live Pakistan" and "Long live the Pakistan cricket team" in major cities Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad.
Australia lost by four wickets to Shahid Afridi's men, a defeat that ended their 34-match unbeaten streak in the

LAHORE - LESCO won the WAPDA Inter-Unit Bodybuilding Championship by scoring 59 points here on Sunday. NTDC remained runners-up with 45 points and GEPCO got third position with 39 points. LESCO bodybuilder Ishfaq Butt was declared Mr. WAPDA 2011.
The Championship was held at WAPDA Sports Complex under the aegis of WAPDA Sports Board. As many as 7 Units of WAPDA participated in the competition. GEPCO, FESCO, MEPCO, PESCO and IESCO also participated in the event.
The

KOLKATA - All-rounder Paul Stirling cracked a 72-ball 101 as Ireland completed their World Cup campaign on a winning note despite their group stage exit with a six-wicket win over Netherlands on Friday. The Dutch had posted a competitive 306 from their 50 overs on the back chiefly of 106 from Ryan ten Doeschate and 84 from skipper Peter Borren. But their innings dramatically ran out of steam with their last four wickets falling in successive balls, all from run-outs, as they chased

MIAMI - Nick Watney arrived at the $8.5 million Cadillac Championship one of the hottest players in golf, if not the most famous, and he departed with his first World Golf Championships title. With four consecutive top-10 finishes under his belt this year, Watney deserved to be among the favourites for the elite WGC event at Doral's Blue Monster, where he finished a close second two years ago. The 29-year -old may not have been a name on everyone's lips, but he soon will be if he

LAHORE - SPM Stags outplayed Ali Garh Senior by 69 runs in the 1st Amir Cables Veteran's T20 Cricket Tournament. The match was played at Model Town Club ground.
SPM raced to 222 for two in the allotted 20 overs, which turned out to be the highest score of the event. Kamran Khan's unbeaten 115 off 57 balls was the first century of the tournament.
Shahid added 50, while Javed Hayat pitched in another 42 for Stags. The wicket-takers for Ali Garh were Khalid (1-43) and Shakil