Brescia: Italian skier Elena Fanchini, whose career was cut short by a tumor, has died. She was 37. Fanchini passed away at her home in Solato, near Brescia, the Italian Winter Sports Federation announced. Fanchini died on the same day that fellow Italian Marta Bassino won the super-G at the world championships in Meribel, France; […]
Read More“If you are a Pakistan [contracted] player, then you have everything. But if you are not a Pakistan player, you don’t have as much. You only have normal things like school cricket, college cricket and that’s it.” That’s how Fatima Sana described the disparity between the professional and the aspiring in Pakistan’s women cricket, which […]
Read MoreVictor Osimhen and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia were again the stars of the show for Napoli as the Serie A leaders won 3-0 at Spezia to extend their advantage to a whopping 16 points. Wing wizard Kvaratskhelia put Napoli ahead from the penalty spot two minutes after the break on the Italian Riviera before Osimhen netted twice, […]
Read MoreSouth Africa have been docked a point in the ongoing ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League cycle for their slow over-rate during the third ODI against England in Kimberly on February 1. Despite having won the three-match series, South Africa’s 59-run defeat in the third and final ODI against England at the Diamond Oval, […]
Read MoreCanberra: High Commissioner Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri hosted a dinner in honour of Pakistan Women’s National Cricket Team at Pakistan House, Canberra this week. The Team is visiting Australia for a One Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty-Twenty Internationals (T20s) Series. During their tour, the Team played three ODIs and three T20s against Australia Women’s National Cricket […]
Read MoreThe Italian pair of Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii clinched a historic gold medal in pair skating at the International Skating Union (ISU) European Figure Skating Championships in Espoo. While the duo bagged the first European title in pair skating for Italy, compatriots Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrosini brought more joy by adding a silver, […]
Read MoreDavid Warner is feeling exhausted ahead of next month’s Test tour of India and admits he would have preferred the night off from the Cricket Australia awards this Monday to recover from a busy home summer. Warner’s hectic summer officially came to an end on Friday night when the Brisbane Heat eliminated his Sydney Thunder […]
Read MoreAryn Baker When fellow skiers sent Amadeo Reale photos of churned mud and grassy slopes at their French and Swiss ski resorts last week, he shuddered in sympathy, but felt no sense of foreboding. As the president of Cortina d’Ampezzo’s historic Sci Club 18, he is confident that Italy’s premier ski resort in the Dolomites […]
Read MoreNathan Johns Ireland will return to Test cricket for the first time since 2019 after their tour to Bangladesh was confirmed for March and April. Andrew Balbirnie’s side last played in the longest format in July 2019 against England at Lord’s. They have played three Tests in total since being granted the status to do […]
Read MoreKent Harris Aviano Air Base: Audrey Pounds didn’t step foot onto a wrestling mat until she was an eighth-grader. Now, it’s hard to keep the Naples freshman off one. “I really found my thing,” she said after winning all four of her matches at 138 pounds in a five-team wrestling meet at Aviano. It’s the […]
Read MoreJustin Langer says he may never coach again following his acrimonious exit from Cricket Australia. The former Australia coach said that aspects of being in the top job “literally broke” his heart, while some scars may never heal. Langer led Australia in the aftermath of the 2018 Cape Town ball-tampering scandal, but his intense management […]
Read MoreCanberra: Pakistani High Commissioner to Australia Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri this week watched the cricket match between Governor-General’s XI and Pakistan women. “Real honour to join Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia H.E. General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd) for the Pakistan v Governor General XI match at Allan Border Field Brisbane,” he tweeted […]
Read MoreDaniel Stone Florence: Even though you’ve probably never heard of calcio storico, the chances are nearly 100 percent that you’ve played some version of it. The Italian sport created during the Italian Renaissance is the original goal game, where two teams fight on a field to defend their side and invade their opponent’s goal. Soccer, […]
Read MoreWhen the lights come back on after a power cut in South Africa – and they happen as often as four times a day – people cheer. They don’t do it because they’re particularly pleased (who would be, given that the country is into its 16th year of rolling blackouts?), or even with a sense […]
Read MoreRome: After banning predominantly green away and third kits starting this season, Italy’s Serie A has introduced a raft of new rules pertaining to uniforms. According to Calcio e Finanza and Football-Italia.net, the new uniform regulations will technically be on the books for the 2023-24 season, but will only become mandatory for the 2024-25 season. […]
Read MoreJosh Schonafinger Cricket can be a complicated sport at times, even for those well-versed in the game. And especially so given the laws and playing conditions are regularly updated and some rules may be in play for one format but not for others. One rule that often brings on heated debate involves players taking a […]
Read MoreNewswire Former Chelsea striker and manager Gianluca Vialli, who played 59 times for Italy, has died at the age 58. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2017 but said in April 2020 that he had been given the all-clear. Vialli was re-diagnosed in 2021 and in December 2022 left a role with Italy’s national […]
Read MoreNewswire Pele, who had a tumour removed from his colon last year, passed away in a Sao Paolo hospital, his agent said. Pele, the legendary Brazilian football player who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern history, has died at the age of 82. Sao Paulo’s Albert […]
Read MoreMichael Houston Rome: The Italian University Sports Centre (CUSI) has named 34 athletes to its team for the Lake Placid 2023 International University Sports Federation (FISU) Winter World University Games. CUSI will also bring a team of 15 staff members in its delegation. The largest portion of its team are competing in Alpine skiing, with […]
Read MoreMelbourne: Australia s men s Test Player of the Year award will be named in honour of Shane Warne. CA and ACA made the joint announcement at the Boxing Day Test between Australia and South Africa where both sides have honoured Warne in the first Test match to be played at his home ground of […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Islamabad: Pakistan this week lauded the extraordinary efforts by the Qatar government to superlatively organize the Football World Cup President Dr Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Qatar had fulfilled its promise to organize the World Cup in a magnificent manner. In a message, President Alvi also felicitated Argentina for winning […]
Read MoreIt was predicted that by the time the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 concludes, Qatar would have added more feathers to its crown – and it happened. The host nation won the hearts and minds of fans from across the world apart from earning acclaim for its organisational brilliance. Ranging from state-of-the-art stadiums and superb […]
Read MoreNewswire LUSAIL: Lionel Messi’s dream of winning the FIFA World Cup has been fulfilled with a dramatic victory over the defending champions France after the penalty shoot-out here at Lusail Stadium this week. The nail-biting final of the world cup had a dream ending for Argentina’s star Messi, who stood up at the most crucial […]
Read MoreGianluca Vialli said Wednesday that he was taking a break from his role within the Italy national team set-up as he continues a long-standing battle with pancreatic cancer. “After a long discussion with my brilliant team of oncologists I have decided to suspend, I hope only temporarily, my current and future professional engagements,” Vialli said […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Islamabad: The British High Commission (BHC) and Chevening Alumni Association cricket teams this week played a friendly T-15 match to celebrate the return of the England Men’s Test cricket team to Pakistan. Inspired by the ongoing England vs Pakistan cricket saga and a revival in sports diplomacy, the BHC Staff and former Chevening […]
Read MoreRome: Italy’s Marta Bassino took a narrow win at home in the giant slalom World Cup race in Sestriere on Saturday, finishing just over a tenth of a second ahead of Sara Hector from Sweden. Bassino, who took her sixth career World Cup victory in giant slalom, clocked two minutes 28.89 seconds and edged out […]
Read MoreCricket Australia have moved swiftly to release a public statement after David Warner’s decision to withdraw his application to have his lifetime leadership ban reviewed. Warner received the ban for his part in the Cape Town ball tampering affair back in 2018, but the 36-year-old had been hoping he would be able to be considered […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Islamabad: Sajid Hussain Turi, minister for overseas Pakistanis and human resource development, appreciated Qatar for hosting the World Cup, soccer’s biggest event, and thanked the oil- and gas-rich Gulf nation for providing employment opportunities to workers from Pakistan. “Profound gratitude and appreciation for Qatar for hosting #FIFAWorldCup and making incredible security and other […]
Read MoreNewswire Doha: Proudly Muslim Qatar has taken advantage of the World Cup to reach out to the hundreds of thousands of visiting fans to change minds about Islam or even make conversions. The Gulf emirate is the first Muslim nation to stage a football World Cup and its gas riches have endowed it with an […]
Read MoreStaff writer Islamabad: British High Commissioner Christian Turner held a function this week to celebrate the England Test side’s historic return to Pakistan after 17 years hiatus. England will lock horns with the hosts for the three-match Test series, which started from December 1 with the first Test at Rawalpindi won by England. Federal minister […]
Read MoreMilan: The YouGov Football Index report for 2022 shows that Milan are the strongest Calcio brand globally, followed by Inter, Juventus, Roma and Napoli. The annual Buzz Report tracks the way various football club brands are seen in different global markets. Milan were further boosted by winning the Serie A title last season and progressing […]
Read MoreIan Chappell As the Test season recommences, the format’s two longest-serving teams are promoting the game in entirely different ways. In Perth the Australian team indulged in the time-worn practice of grinding the opposition down with relentless run-scoring. Meanwhile in Rawalpindi, England sprinted to a mind-bending 506 on the first day of a record-setting run […]
Read MoreRome: Italian designer Umberto Palermo has ‘signed a new ‘hypercar’ built by the new auto house 7777 Motors.
Read MoreCricket legend Glenn Mcgrath had predicted the future of ODI cricket. The former fast-bowler made the statement after the dead rubber third ODI between hosts Australia and England will be played in the near-empty Melbourne Cricket Ground. “It was so disappointing to see crowds like that, ODIs are really under the pump at the moment,” […]
Read MoreSinem Cengiz When the Italian referee Daniele Orsato blew his whistle to start the match between the host country Qatar and Ecuador at Al-Bayt Stadium last Sunday evening, the FIFA World Cup for 2022 officially kicked off. After that whistle, Qatar was a different place than I had seen it a day before. History will […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Islamabad: Ambassador of Qatar to Pakistan Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said this week that the FIFA World Cup 2022 – the biggest sporting event in the global calendar in Qatar – will make a huge positive impact on the entire region. While briefing the media persons about the mega sporting event, […]
Read MoreBen Knapton Roma chief Tiago Pinto has insisted that his side never held an interest in signing Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo over the summer. The 37-year-old is understood to have informed Man United of his desire to leave at the end of last season, having failed to lead the club into the Champions League. However, […]
Read MoreAndrew McGlashan Test cricket remains “far above” the other formats for Mitchell Starc as he indicated a staggered white-ball retirement to ensure he can continue his red-ball career. Starc, 32, was ever-present in Australia’s Test side last season through the Ashes series and then the Pakistan and Sri Lanka tours. He is now eyeing another […]
Read MoreFlorence: Italy ended 49 years of hurt from Australia by upending the Wallabies 28-27 for the first time in test rugby this week. Wallabies debutant Ben Donaldson could have denied Italy after the fulltime hooter but his attempted conversion of Cadeyrn Neville’s last-minute try flew wide. Donaldson looked stunned as he was consoled by teammates, […]
Read MoreMelbourne: Thirty years after losing the 50-over ODI World Cup final to Pakistan at the same venue, England turned the tables on the South Asian side with brilliant death bowling and Stokes’s heroics. With all-rounder Sam Curran recording a miserly 3-12, Pakistan collapsed in the final overs to finish on a below-par 137 for eight […]
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