Underfire Real Madrid coach Rafa Benitez will look to an in form Cristiano Ronaldo to drive the team forward against Valencia on Sunday as they aim to put behind them a disappointing 2015. It was a year that promised so much after they put together a run of 22 wins to finish 2014 but they ended up being overshadowed by ...

INDIA: Afghanistan hammered Sri Lanka 5-0 in their semifinal clash of the South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Cup at the Trivandrum International Stadium in India on Thursday. Hosts, India, meanwhile edged past the Maldives 3-2 in their game earlier in the day. Mohammad Hashemi scored the first goal for Afghanistan in the 45th minute with Kanischka Taher (50th minute), Khaibar ...

DUBAI: Pakistan’s leg-spinner Yasir Shah was on Sunday provisionally suspended for failing a dope test by the International Cricket Council (ICC). “Shah has been charged with an anti-doping rule violation on a sample he provided in an in-competition test,” an ICC statement announced. “The test, conducted on 13 November 2015, was found to contain the presence of chlortalidone, a Prohibited ...

The Afghanistan national football team defeated Bhutan 3-0 in their second match of South Asia Football Federation (SAFF) Championship this evening. Played in Trivandrum International Stadium, the formation of the Afghan team was based on 4-2-3-1, which included four players in defense line, 2 players in defensive halfback, 3 players in the middle line and 1 player in the offensive ...

UAE: The Afghanistan national cricket team defeated Zimbabwe in the opening match of the One Day International (ODI) series played at Sharjah on Friday. Afghanistan after winning the toss selected to bat first and set a target of 132 runs in 38.5 overs after losing all wickets. However, Zimbabwe was all out after 30.5 overs. Afghanistan will play a total ...

TAJIKISTAN: Afghan Mixed Martial Art (MMA) fighter Baz Mohammad Mubariz faced defeat during his debut in Russia’s Absolute Championship Berkut (ACB) facing Islam Makoev in Tajikistan on Sunday night. Despite coming out strong during the initial minutes with some ground and pound action, Mubariz lost the match via ‘standing rear naked choke’ submission. With Sunday night’s loss Mubariz added another ...

AFGHANISTAN: The former India all-rounder cricket Manoj Prabhakar has been appointed as the bowling coach for the Afghanistan national cricket team, it has been reported. Prabhakar will assist the Afghanistan team as a bowling coach until ICC World Cup Twenty20 2016 to be held in India. “I am glad I can guide the Afghan team. They have immense talent and I ...

BANNU: Nasir Iqbal Khan hails from the southern district of Bannu (Amandi) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and is Pakistan’s No. 1 and the world No. 41 Squash champion. He defeated Todd Harrity in the final of the President Gold Cup International Squash Tournament with 3-0. Earlier in the semi-final Nasir Iqbal had scored victory with an upset against the top seed ...

By Jamshed Khan BANNU: Maria Toorpakai Wazir was born in South Waziristan, Fata the so called “No Go Areas”, in a Pashtun family. Now days she is Pakistan’s top squash player ranked number 1 in Pakistan and 62nd at world level. She has recently defeated World Number 34, South Africa’s Siyoli Waters, to lift the trophy at the second Bahria ...

BANNU: Younis Khan is 38 years old Pakistan Pashtun cricketer who hails from Mardan but currently residing in Karachi. He has become the first test cricketer in Pakistan who scored over 9000 test runs and number 14th in the history of test cricket. Mr. Khan is also the third Pakistani player has scored more than 300 runs in an innings. ...