Tag: Win

WELLINGTON - Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq produced a man of the match performance to ensure his side batted out the final day to draw the second test against New Zealand on Wednesday and claim their first series victory since 2006.
Misbah finished the day on 70 not out, following on from his 99 in the first innings, as Pakistan reached 226 for five at the close of play, 48 runs short of their victory target of 274, to wrap up the two-match series 1-0.
Adnan Akmal was two

Pakistan weathered a hostile opening spell that reduced them to 42 for 3 in 13 overs in the first hour, worked their way to safety in the second session, and made a half-hearted attempt to win the Test before settling for a draw that gave them the series 1-0 on the fifth and final day of the second Test at Basin Reserve, Wellington, on Wednesday (January 19). It was their first victory outside the sub-continent since the triumph in New Zealand in 2003-04, and their first overall since

CAPE TOWN - A burst of powerful hitting by Yusuf Pathan spurred India to a thrilling two-wicket win in the third one-day international against South Africa at Newlands on Tuesday.
Chasing a target of 221, India were struggling at 93 for five before Pathan launched a savage assault against South African off-spinners Johan Botha and JP Duminy. On a pitch where most batsmen found it difficult to play positive strokes, Pathan, making his first appearance in the series, struck 59 off

LAHORE - Garrison Post-graduate College for Women Lahore Cant and PU Teaching Department won their opening day matches of the Punjab University Inter-collegiate Football Championship.
Garrison Post-graduate College for women Lahore Cantt defeated Govt College for Women Wahdat Road 4-3 on penalties as they were locked one-all at full time and PU Teaching Department beat Govt College for Women Baghbanpura 4-0.

LAHORE - Guard Group/Diamond Paints defeated the President's Bodyguards in the Caanchi & Lugari Pakistan Polo Cup here on Wednesday. Playing at the Lahore Polo Club ground, Guard Group/Diamond Paints scored eight goals and allowed their rivals just four who also enjoyed two-and-a-half goal advantage. Despite the lead, only Lt. Col.
Asif Zahoor played the lead role in The President's Bodyguards line-up as he scored all the four goals while the other three in the team made little

LAHORE - Chairman PCB Ijaz Butt has congratulated the Pakistan Team on their victory in the Test series against New Zealand. Pakistan secured their first Test series win after four years when the second Test match at Wellington ended in a draw. The team had won the first test at Hamilton by ten wickets.

MELBOURNE - Top seed Rafael Nadal was handed an easy win at the Australian Open Tuesday, as Kim Clijsters humiliated Dinara Safina 6-0, 6-0 and former number one Ana Ivanovic was another high-profile casualty. Nadal, the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open champion, was leading 6-0, 5-0 when Brazilian journeyman Marcos Daniel threw in the towel after being troubled by a left knee problem.
In an action-packed day two, Britain's Andy Murray went through in similar circumstances

LAHORE - Habib Bank beat PIA by five wickets in the final to clinch the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy title at the National Stadium Karachi.
The final of the country's premier domestic cricket tournament was played for the first time under lights and with pink ball.
The winners HBL pocketed Rs 1,000,000 while PIA received Rs 500,000. Man of the final match, Aftab Khan of HBL was awarded Rs.50,000 while the best batsman Rameez Raja (Karachi Blues ) 801 Runs, Best Bowler Sadaf Hussain

MELBOURNE - A superb solo effort by Shane Watson with the bat enabled Australia to overcome a sloppy fielding effort and beat England in the opening one-day international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.
One of the few Australians to emerge with his reputation intact after the Ashes disaster, Watson's brilliant unbeaten 161 enabled the home side to chase down England's imposing total of 294 from 49.4 overs with five balls to spare. Fittingly, the right-hander hit the

JOHANNESBURG - India made an astonishing recovery to snatch a one-run victory over South Africa in the second one-day international at the Wanderers Stadium on Saturday to level the five-match series at one match each.
Munaf Patel took two wickets in what proved to be the final over to finish with four for 29, with Yuvraj Singh taking a low catch at gully to end the match when Wayne Parnell cut powerfully in an attempt to score the winning runs. South Africa seemed in control

MELBOURNE - Australia ended England's record eight-match winning streak on Friday with a four-run victory in the second Twenty20 international which was again decided on the final ball. Paceman Chris Woakes,
who scored the winning runs in the first match, gave the tourists hope of another last-gasp victory when he smashed a huge six off Brett Lee over long-on.
England needed seven runs off the final two balls, but Woakes and Tim Bresnan could add only a single each to leave

WELLINGTON - Pakistan will set aside off-field controversies to chase their first series win for four years when the second Test begins in Wellington on Saturday, as hosts New Zealand struggle for form. Unable to hold international matches at home due to security concerns and beset by corruption allegations, Pakistan have not won a Test series since defeating the West Indies in early 2007.
But after crushing the Black Caps by 10 wickets in the first Test, the tourists are in

DURBAN - Lonwabo Tsotsobe received the man of the match award after his four wickets led South Africa to a crushing 135-run win over India in the first one-day international at Kingsmead on Wednesday.
A century partnership between AB de Villiers and JP Duminy steered the home team, after winning the toss, to an imposing total of 289 for nine before left-arm seamer Tsotsobe and his fellow bowlers skittled India for 154. Dale Steyn trapped Murali Vijay lbw for a single in the first

LAHORE - For the first time in the Punjab University's (PU) history, two rival groups having completely different ideologies - the Academic Group, consisting of pro-Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and pro-Islami Jamiat-e-Talba (IJT) teachers - and the Academic Forum, consisting of leftist teachers, defeated the Teachers Front (TF), a group consisting of neutral teachers and those supported by the VC, in the Academic Staff Association (ASA) elections held at the varsity.
It was quite

COPIAPO - Carlos Sainz of Volkswagen won the ninth stage of the cars section of the Dakar Rally on Tuesday, a 235km special around Copiapo in northern Chile. The defending champion's victory saw him close in on overall leader and teammate Nasser Al-Attiyah, who finished second, despite a puncture, ending a run of two successive stage wins. Sainz, the defending champion, trimmed 1min 56sec off Al-Attiyah's lead to close the gap to 3min 18sec and said he was delighted to have won a

MADRID - Cristiano Ronaldo scored a sensational hat-trick as Real Madrid twice came from behind to defeat Villarreal 4-2 on Sunday to maintain their perfect home record and close to within two points of leaders Barcelona.
Portuguese star Ronaldo took his season's tally to 22 league goals with strikes in the eighth, 44th and 78th minutes after third-place Villarreal had threatened an upset after twice going in front in a pulsating first half at the Santiago Bernabeu. Barcelona's

CANBERRA - Ian Bell's sparkling tour Down Under continued on Monday as he scored an unbeaten century to guide England to a seven-wicket win over the Australian Prime Minister's XI in a one-day match. Chasing 223 to win in the rain-affected match, Bell blasted 13 fours and a towering six as he reached 124 from just 102 balls.
He also scored a century in the final Ashes Test last week, which England won to beat Australia 3-1. The PM's XI traditionally gives fringe Australian