Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe by 6 wickets in 1st T20 BULAWAYO—The Afghanistan national cricket team defeated Zimbabwe in the first match of Twenty20 cricket match following their historic win in One Day International (ODI) series. Zimbabwe set a target of 154 runs from 20 overs after winning the toss and electing to bat first by losing 5 wickets. The Afghan batsmen chased the given target after losing 4 wickets with an extraordinary performance by the middle order batsmen despite the opening batsmen did well in the first few overs. With five balls remaining from the 20 overs, Mohammad Nabi remained not out after scoring 33 runs together with Najibullah Zadran who scored 37 runs, building a partnership of 69 runs from 8.1 overs. On the opening side, Mohammad Shahzad scored 34 runs and Usman Ghani 13 runs, while Karim SAdiq scored 17 runs and Asghar Stanikzai 18 runs. The Afghanistan national cricket team defeated Zimbabwe by 73 runs during the fifth and final match of the One Day International (ODI) series on Saturday. Afghanistan set a target of 246 runs by losing 9 wickets in 50 overs after Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field
first. ries was leveled during the second match Noor Ali Zadran scored 54 runs to- which was won by Afghanistan by 58 runs. gether with Mohammad Nabi’s 53 runs Afghanistan once again leveled the helped the Afghan team to set the target series by scoring a victory against Zimbadespite losing quick wickets in the middle bwe by 3 wickets which followed after a order. lose in the third game of the series.—AFP A s g h a r Stanikzai managed to score 38 runs, Mirwais Ashraf 21 Zimbabwe innings: Afghanistan innings: runs, Mohammad Sikandar Raza c & b Rashid Shahzad c Ervine b Chisoro 34 Shahzad 26 runs Khan ................................ 59 Usman b Masakadza ........ 13 and Dawlat Zadran Chibhabha b Zadran ......... 54 Karim c Mutumbami remained not after Williams b Dawlat Zadran 16 b Williams ........................ 17 scoring 13 runs. Chigumbura b Nabi ......... 12 Asghar run out ................. 18 Zimbabwe lost Ervine b Dawlat Zadran ..... 0 Nabi not out ..................... 33 their opening bats- Waller not out .................... 5 Najibullah Zadran not out 37 men during the ini- Mutumbami not out ........... 6 Extras: (lb 2) ...................... 2 tial minutes of the Extras: (lb 1) ...................... 1 Total: (4 wickets) ........... 154 game and could not Total: (5 wickets) ........... 153 Fall of wickets: 1-48, 2-58, 3chase the given tar- Fall of wickets: 1-100, 2-125, 82, 4-85 get despite a bril- 3-142, 4-142, 5-146 Bowling: ............. O-M-R-W liant performance Bowling: ............. O-M-R-W T Muzarabani ......... 4-0-31-0 by Sean Williams Amir Hamza .......... 4-0-28-0 Mpofu ................. 3.1-0-24-0 who scored 102 Nabi ....................... 4-0-40-1 Chisoro .................. 4-0-26-1 runs. Dawlat Zadran ....... 4-0-29-3 Masakadza ............. 4-0-39-1 Zimbabwe won Gulbadin Naib ........ 2-0-20-0 Williams ................. 2-0-20-1 the opening match Rashid Khan .......... 4-0-20-1 Sikandar Raza .......... 1-0-5-0 of the series by 8 Karim Sadiq ........... 2-0-15-0 Chibhabha ................ 1-0-7-0 wickets but the se-
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President of Pakistan Gold Medal Golf C’ship kicks off MIAN ARSHAD
Craig Ervine looks on as he is dismissed by Dawlat Zadran during Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan, 1st T-20 at Bulawayo on Monday.
Intra Faculty Sports Gala 2015 to commence at UAF from today
Mardan Club win Inter-Club Gymnastic trophy
PESHAWAR—Mardan Club clinched the trophy first position, followed by Super Gym club. FAISALABAD—The Intra Faculty of the Gymnastic event part of the overall DisThe players exhibited their skills in floor, Sports Gala 2015 will commence at University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) from Tuesday, October 27. A UAF spokesman said here on Monday that UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr. Iqrar Ahmad Khan will inaugurate the sports gala at 10 am at Athletics Ground of University Cricket Stadium and the event would continue up to November 18, 2015. Giving details, the UAF spokesman said that games had been included in the sports gala including Athletics for Male & Female, Badminton for Male & Female, Basketball for Male & Female, Handball for Male & Female, Table Tennis for Male & Female, Tug-of-War for Male & Female, Cricket for Male & Female, Football for Male, Kabaddi for Male, Volleyball for Male, Squash for Male & Female and Tennis for Male & Female.—APP
Kenyan duo to defend New York marathon titles N AIROBI—Kenyans Wilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany will return to New York on Sunday to defend their marathon titles, hoping victory will help secure them places in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Former Olympic bronze medallist Kipsang, 33, will be competing in his first marathon since he was forced to retire with exhaustion in the world athletics championships in Beijing. “My training has been going on very well, and I hope to run a good race in New York,” Kipsang told AFP before his departure for the US. “I hope the weather will be more favourable than in Beijing, where the conditions were too hot and humid for my liking. I like running in New York City...I think the roads suit me very well.” Former world record holder Kipsang is a favourite to win the men’s race.—AFP
Cilic sees off Bautista Agut to retain Kremlin Cup pion and top seed Marin Cilic retained his Kremlin Cup title with a straight-sets win over second seeded Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut in a repeat of last year’s final. At the combined ATP and WTA event the 27-year-old Croat fired nine aces to win 6-4, 6-4 in one hour 28 minutes to chalk up his second win over Bautista Agut in as many meetings and to grab his season’s first and 14th career title. “It was a tough match,” Cilic said. “This tournament becomes more and more special for me. “Coming back for second year in a row to win it again it gives my a huge satisfaction and great pleasure.” The match looked fairly even at the start with both players holding serve until the seventh game when Cilic, 14th in the ATP rankings, broke to propel himself to a one-set lead in 43 minutes. In the second Cilic went 4-2 up again. Bautista Agut dug in to pull the scores level but the Croatian hard hitter stifled his efforts to claim the set and the match by the same scoreline as last year. “I gave everything I had at this court but it was not enough to win today,” Bautista Agut said. “I hope to come back next year to perform a bit better than this
PESHAWAR—Secretary Pakistan Judo Federa- MCFALL Joshua of Bahamas and defeat him. tion Masood Ahmad termed the performance of the Pakistan Judo team satisfactory in the recently concluded World Junior Judo Championship played in UAE. Talking to APP, Masood Ahmad said that the players comprising Iftikhar Ahmed (-55kg), Nadeem Akram (-73kg) and in Wajahat Sarwar (-100kg ) for World Junior Judo Championship UAE were selected while looking after their performance in the Cadet and Junior Championship held in Thailand. Iftikhar Ahmed and Wajahat Sarwar got 7th Position in the said Championship. In World Junior Judo Championship, Iftikhar Ahmed in -55Kg compete with Uzbekistani, RUZIEV, Doston and lost in his second fight while Nadeem Akram in -73Kg compete with
He also fought with KIRAKOZASHVILI Tamazi of Georgia, Olympics Youth Silver medalist, after long competition Nadeem did not success to defeat him. Wajahat Sarwar was face to face with Spanish TRILLO VALEIRO, World No 16, and as he was much experienced, Wajahat Sarwar lost in his first fight. Wajahat Sarwar had defeated to TRILLO VALEIRO, at the then 18th World Ranking, in last World Junior Judo Championship held at Miami USA. He also lauded the efforts Foreign Judo Coach, Sajjad Kazemi. He also thanked Pakistan Sport Board for extending all out support to PJF and helped the Federation for hiring foreign Judo Coach for the promotion of Judo in Pakistan.—APP
Quaid Cricket Trophy
Ghumman 168 leads Hyderabad to 305-3 H YDERABAD —Captain Azeem Ghumman smashed a brilliant unbeaten century to lead Hyderabad to 305 for the loss of three wickets on the opening day of their 4-day Quaid-e-Azam Cricket Trophy tie against Port Qasim Authority (PQA) at Niaz Stadium Hyderabad on Monday. Opening the innings, former Pakistan “A” captain Azeem blasted 168 off 252 balls with 22 sizzling boundaries in his 305 minutes stay at the crease as Hyderabad recovered from 91-2 to post a formidable score after sent to bat first by PQA captain Muhammad Salman.
International Rizwan Ahmed slammed an unbeaten 55 off 101 balls with eight delightful boundaries. After Hyderabad was 150-3, Rizwan with Azeem added 155 for unbroken fourth wicket stand to frustrate PQA bowling led by former Test paceman Abdur Rauf. Earlier Hyderaad lost Zeeshan Gul (12) and Muhammad Sohail (14) cheaply before Azeem ghumman and Rizwan rescued their team. Summarized scorers: Hyderabad 205-3 in 86 overs (Azeem Ghumman 168 not out,Rizwan Ahmed 55 not out, Faisal Athar 33, Abdur Rauf 2-72).—APP
Frontier Foundation, Falcon advance in Inter-Club Cricket
ring, para-bar and vaulting. Muhammad Fahim was declared as best gymnast, hailing from Mardan Gymnastic club. The chief guest also gave away prizes to the Mardan District team who recently toured Abbottabad for a three matches series. District Abbottabad won the series by 2-1, however, the players learnt a lot from the tour, Jamshed Baloch told APP on phone. He informed that Gymnastic event is actually part of the overall ongoing Gala being continued under the aegis of District Sports Officer PESHAWAR—Frontier FoundaMardan.—APP tion and Falcon club advanced to next round after registering victories against their respective rivals in the ongoing Peshawar District Inter-Club Cricket Championship being played at different venues on Monday. In the first match played at Gymkhana ground, Frontier Foundation club beat Umarabad Shaheen club. Umarabad Shaheen club won the toss and elected to bat first by setting up only 77 runs in the allotted 25 overs. Shafi and Soukat scored 17 and 16 runs respectively, none of the other batsmen could stand in front of excellent bowling attack by Frontier Foundation club bowlers. For Frontier Foundation club Naveed Khan and Fayyaz claimed four wickets each while Janisar got two wickets. In reply, Frontier Foundation chased the target for the loss of two wickets and won the match by eight wickets. Abid Raza smashed 54 runs and Muntazir Shah scored 24 runs. For Umarabad Shaheen club Shafi Ullah took two wickets. In the second match played at Arbab Niaz Cricket Stadium, Croatia’s Marin Cilic kissing the trophy after winning the Krem- Falcon club defeated Khyber lin Cup final against Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut in Moscow. Stars club. Khyber Stars won the toss and elected to bat first by time.” In the WTA section nals and avenge her defeat at setting up 116 runs. Zia Afridi Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova Roland Garros. smshed 50 runs, Wisal scored 35 ended her 14-month title drought Muguruza, the freshly runs. For Falcon club Arsalan got with a straight sets win 6-2, 6-1 anointed world number three and four wickets while Junaid took over compatriot Anastasia the second seed in Singapore, three wickets. Pavlyuchenkova, last year’s overpowered the Czech in the In reply, Falcon club chased champion, in the Kremlin Cup first set and edged the second to the target for the loss of six wickfinal on Saturday. take it 6-3, 7-6 (7/4). The pow- ets. Arsalan scored 46 runs, Meanwhile, Spain’s fast-ris- erful Spaniard scored two breaks Khadam made 22 runs. ing Garbine Muguruza beat in the first set and recovered from In the third match played at Lucie Safarova in straight sets on an early break of her own service University Campus ground, Monday to prove she’s a force to in the second to get it back on Peshawar Green defeated Union be reckoned with at the WTA Fi- serve at 3-3.—AFP club by eight wickets.—APP
trict Mardan Sports Gala organized by District Sports Officer at Mardan Sports Complex on Monday. Deputy Commissioner Mardan Shahid Ullah Khan was the chief guest on this occasion. District Sports Officer Jamshed Baloch, former international hockey player Hamayun Khan, officials of the various participating clubs and large number of spectators were also present. In the overall Gymnastic competitions clubs comprising Super Gym, Mardan Club, Hoti Club, Gymnastic club, Ibrahim club, Diyar club took part in the event out them Mardan club got
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ISLAMABAD—The 31st President of Pakistan Gold Medal Golf Championship 2015, Monday, kicked off here. The morning started off with flooding on the Islamabad Golf Course and professional hopefuls waiting for the downpour to stop. Thankfully, the sun came out around 8:45 and playing commenced at 9pm. The Championship, one of the most prestigious in the golfing circuit, is being sponsored by Serena Hotels under the banner of their Sports Diplomacy Initiative. This is the second year Serena Hotels is sponsoring the event A total of 88 players in the professional category competed today. At the end of the day, M. Shabir was leading. He played 7 under par with Gross 65. Muhammed Tariq was in second place with 6 under par with Gross 66. Muhammed Munir and M. Naqas were tied in third place, both playing 5 under par with Gross 67. The tournament continues through to October 28, 2015. The Sports Diplomacy Initiative is gaining traction in the community. Previously Serena Hotels have also sponsored the Serena Hotels Chief of the Air Staff Squash Championship, the Serena Hotels Polo Cup, The Serena Hotels Cricket Tournament, as well as two invitational tournaments.
Players performance in World Jr C’ship satisfactory: PJF
HYDERABAD: A view of cricket match beween Huderabad Region & Port Qasim Cricket teams during Quaid-e-Azam Trophy at Niaz Stadium.
WI joins Australia on the top of ICC Women’s C’ship table ISLAMABAD—West Indies 3-0 win over Pa- Aguilleira (up 14 places to 28th), Asmavia kistan in St Lucia on Saturday, has allowed it to join the world number-one Australia on the top of the ICC Women’s Championship table released on Monday. Pakistan played four ODIs against the West Indies on the tour and though it won the opening match of the series, only the last three matched counted towards the ICC Women’s Championship, says a press release issued here. The ICC Women’s Team Rankings will now be updated at the conclusion of the threematch T20I series, which will be played in St George’s, Grenada, from 29 October to 1 November. WI Stafanie Taylor’s side has leapfrogged South Africa and is now level with Australia on 16 points. However, both Australia and South Africa have played one less round of matches. In their fourth round matches next year, Australia will host India and South Africa will host England. The West Indies’ dominance is also reflected in the last ICC Women’s ODI Player Rankings, which has seen a number of its players move in the right direction. Taylor has claimed three places to third in the ICC Women’s ODI Player Rankings for Batters, while there were notable gains for Nain Abidi (up six places to 25th), Merissa
Iqbal (up six places to a career-high 42nd), Britney Cooper (up 16 places to 71st) and Aliya Riaz (up 12 places to 100th). In the ICC Women’s ODI Player Rankings for Bowlers, Anisa Mohammed has retained her second place behind runaway leader Jhulan Goswami of India, while 24-year-old skipper Taylor has dropped one place to fourth. There was better news for Tremayne Smartt who has vaulted four places to 14th. Stafanie Taylor continues to lead the allrounders’ tables and holds a 65-point advantage over Australia’s Ellyse Perry. The ICC Women’s Championship is a qualifying tournament for the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 and is being participated by Australia, England, India, New Zealand Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies. The top four sides from the ICC Women’s Championship will obtain automatic qualification for the event proper to be staged in England, while the bottom four sides will get a final chance of qualification through the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier in 2017. The tournament structure sees each team will play each other in one home or away series that will include three ODIs over a two and a half year period. As such, each side is guaranteed, at least, 21 ODIs over the tournament period.—APP