Islamabad: Pakistani Skipper Babar Azam, has become the fastest Asian batter to score 10,000 runs in international cricket. The 27-year-old reached the landmark during his knock in the first innings of the ongoing first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle. The right-handed batter took 228 innings to achieve the feat. He has now the eleventh […]
Read MoreNewswire Jakarta: China’s foreign minister Wang Yi has said that Southeast Asian nations should avoid being used as “chess pieces in major power rivalries”. Addressing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) secretariat in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, this week, Wang said many countries in the region were under pressure to take sides. “We should […]
Read MoreOliver Thomas Rome: Sixteen years ago to this day, Italy were crowned world champions for the fourth time when they beat France in a memorable final on penalties in Berlin. After finishing top of their group with seven points from a possible nine available, the Azzurri beat Australia, Ukraine and Germany in the knockout rounds […]
Read MoreSri Lanka’s stunning victory over Australia in the second Test in Galle has had major ramifications on the race for next year’s World Test Championship final. The island nation completed a remarkable innings and 39 runs triumph over Pat Cummins’ side this week and in the process jumped ahead of a trio of rivals and […]
Read MoreBen Hart For Italy star Francois Carlo Mey, there is far more to rugby than what happens on the field. It is not necessarily about the trophies and the accolades, although those have come his way too. For him, rugby is about making memories with friends and playing the sport he loves. “From the age […]
Read MorePeter Della Penna Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been appointed the new USA head coach for their senior women’s and the Under-19 women’s teams. USA Cricket announced that Chanderpaul had agreed to a contract that begins this week, with the junior squad’s participation in the CWI women’s U-19 Rising Stars T20 Championship in Trinidad, and will run […]
Read MoreNewswire Rome: The historic Palio di Siena horse race returned this week after being cancelled for the last two years due to Italy’s covid restrictions. The bareback race, which takes place in the heart of the Tuscan city of Siena, was called off in 2020 – for the first time since world war two – […]
Read MoreNewswire Rome: Italy’s top soccer league, Serie A, has unveiled its new match ball for the 2022-23 season, ushering in a new partnership at the same time. The Puma Orbita model ball was unveiled this week. The partnership with Puma ends the league’s 15-year match ball relationship with Nike. The Orbita is the same model […]
Read MoreTelford Vice What’s the sound of one hand clapping? Mignon du Preez isn’t a Zen Buddhist, so she doesn’t use koan riddles to free her consciousness from the constraints of logic. But she has a decent idea of the answer to that question. Du Preez has scored 13 centuries – including an undefeated 203 – […]
Read MoreCovert Report Italy’s Thomas Ceccon set a world record in the men’s 100 backstroke at the swimming world championships. Ceccon clocked 51.60 seconds this week in Budapest to shave 0.15 seconds off the previous best mark set by American Ryan Murphy at the 2016 Olympics. Ceccon is the second Italian man to set a world […]
Read MoreCovert Report When Jonny Bairstow played a miraculous innings to help England claim a stirring victory on the final day of the Trent Bridge Test, it confirmed Ben Stokes’ previously stated thoughts on captaincy. Stokes said that England needed to be more attacking. As much as a failure of technique under Joe Root’s dubious leadership, […]
Read MoreLos Angeles: Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini has signed with Los Angeles FC after a 17-year career at Juventus. The Major League Soccer club announced its deal Monday for the 37-year-old Chiellini, who is committed through the 2023 season. Chiellini confirmed his long-reported move with two posts on Twitter. He will be formally introduced in Los […]
Read MoreEngland allrounder Moeen Ali has said he’s “officially unretired” from Test cricket, given the team’s upcoming tour of Pakistan, following a chat with the country’s new red-ball coach Brendon McCullum. Moeen’s U-turn comes comes less than a year since he called time on his Test career last September with 2914 runs and five centuries as […]
Read MoreMatt Babcock Sr. NBA Draft Analyst Matt Babcock shares his experience of moving to Bologna, Italy, where he became an assistant coach for a professional basketball team before becoming a sports agent. Check out part 1 about how he got his start and part 2 about helping players prepare for the 2006 NBA Draft. It […]
Read MoreFormer Australia captain Mark Taylor believes Sachin Tendulkar’s remarkable record of most Test runs is in danger of being broken and has declared who he thinks has the best chance of surpassing the India great. Tendulkar is one of 14 players to have scored more than 10,000 Test runs, with the India right-hander leading an […]
Read MorePatrick Burke Milan: A study from the Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies in Rome has claimed that the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games could provide a €3 billion (£2.6 billion/$3.2 billion) boost to the Italian economy. A Sport and Business study was conducted for the Leonardo Committee, which brings together […]
Read MoreNewswire Cricket Australia announced an action-packed summer schedule this week, with the T20 World Cup on home soil between October 16 and November 13 the standout. While the exact dates of the away tour to India have yet to be finalised, Australia will play two matches against West Indies on the Gold Coast and three […]
Read MoreNewswire Rome: Italy’s Financial Guard blocked 40 Telegram channels and 500 internet resources, including servers and sites, as part of an operation to combat piracy and illegal sports broadcasting, the law enforcement agency said. “Special Unit for Protection of Privacy and Technological Fraud conducted a new investigation to combat the phenomenon of audiovisual piracy. Seized […]
Read MoreNewswire Rabat: Martina Trevisan of Italy won her first WTA title after beating Claire Liu of the United States 6-2, 6-1 in the final of the Grand Prix Sar La Princesse Lalla Meryem this week. The No. 85-ranked Trevisan and No. 92-ranked Liu were playing their first career final. Trevisan was under some pressure to […]
Read MoreJack Paynter Phil Gillespie’s journey to the pinnacle of Australian umpiring began with a broken jaw in a suburban cricket match in Melbourne’s outer east. He was just two games back from a knee reconstruction – which followed a snapped Achilles a couple of seasons earlier – and it was the final straw for the […]
Read MoreNewswire Cagliari, Italy and Baku, Azerbaijan have been announced as the hosts of the respective 2022 International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Judo World and European Championships. The two events – amongst the biggest on the sport’s calendar – will see judoka fight for titles and world ranking points on their road to the Paris 2024 […]
Read MoreFormer Australia all-rounder and two-time World Cup winner Andrew Symonds has died following a car accident in Queensland, Cricket Australia (CA) said. Symonds was aged 46. He had played 238 matches, including 26 Tests, for Australia between 1998-2009. He was also a member of Australia’s World Cup-winning teams in 2003 and 2007 and appeared in […]
Read MoreNewswire Canberra: Pakistani High Commissioner to Australia Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri this week congratulated Pakistani mountaineer Abdul Joshi on scaling Mount Everest. “Abdul Joshi successfully scaled Mount Everest (8,848 metres). He is the eighth Pakistani to successfully scale the world’s highest Mountain,” the envoy tweeted. Mountaineers say that Joshi is skilled climber but he mainly focuses […]
Read MoreJack Gonyea While Italy is perhaps better widely known for other cultural hallmarks – cuisine, canals, the Renaissance — Jack Gonyea of Indiana University explains that it has been a destination for sports fans for decades. Milan is set to host the 2025 Winter Olympics, with basketball (yes, basketball) being a huge draw, and the […]
Read MoreNewswire Rob Key says Ben Stokes was “prepared for an argument” when the pair discussed the topic of Stuart Broad and James Anderson returning to the England fold. Stokes succeeded Joe Root as Test captain last month after Root stepped down in the wake of a series defeat to the West Indies – a series […]
Read MoreStaff writer Islamaad: Iran football team defeated Italy 2-0 in its opening match in the 24th edition of the Deaflympics on Saturday. Ali Akbar Ahmadvand and Alireza Basij were on target for Iran. Iran is drawn in Group B along with Brazil, Netherlands, Italy and Cameroon. The Deaflympics had initially been scheduled to take place […]
Read MoreDirector General Pakistan Sports Board, Col. Muhammad Asif Zaman (Retd) addressing to the players in Anti-Doping Awareness Seminar conducted by PSB at Jinnah Library Hall, Pakistan Sports Complex Islamabad. IT’S the third case in just over three years of widespread doping in a single sporting discipline in Pakistan. If this one doesn’t spark an investigation […]
Read MoreNewswire Rome: Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini will retire from international football after the European champions play a friendly against their South American counterparts Argentina at Wembley in June. Italy’s failure to qualify for this year’s World Cup in Qatar seems to have hastened the 37-year-old Juventus defender’s decision, with the Argentina match in London, where […]
Read MoreGraeme Smith, the former CSA director of cricket, has been cleared of racism charges in an independent arbitration process following the Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) commission’s report. The SJN made tentative findings that Smith had engaged in prejudicial behaviour on three counts; advocates Ngwako Maenetje SC and Michael Bishop cleared him on all of […]
Read MoreNewswire Rome: NetBet Italy – one of the country’s most exciting online casinos – has teamed up with fresh talent Spribe to bring the best of their games to a global audience. NetBet have made a name for themselves as one of the most dynamic and long-standing online casinos in the industry, offering premium games […]
Read MoreCurrent Netherlands men’s head coach Ryan Campbell is in ICU in London after suffering a heart attack this week. The fifty-year-old felt chest pains and difficulty breathing while out with his family. Campbell was still unresponsive in hospital, though had made attempts to breathe on his own, according to Perth journalist and friend of the […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Lahore: President of Pakistan Federation of Baseball (PFB) Syed Fakhar Ali Shah said this week that Pakistani baseball team will participate in the 19th Asian Games to be held in China in September 2022. In a statement, he maintained that PFB had written a letter to Director General of Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) […]
Read MoreAlina Pavlyuchik Italy defeated hosts United States 13-4 in bronze medal game this week at the 2022 World Men’s Curling Championship in Las Vegas, NV. The win marks Italian curling’s best-ever world performance, and it follows the European bronze won by this team—skip Joel Retornaz, third Amos Mosaner, second Sebastiano Arman, lead Simone Gonin, alternate […]
Read MoreSam Goodwin South Africa’s spiteful Test series against Bangladesh has come to an end, but not before another ugly incident caused more divide between the two sides. Spinners Keshav Maharaj and Simon Harmer took all 10 wickets on Monday as South Africa crushed Bangladesh by 332 runs in the second Test in Cape Town, completed […]
Read MoreNewswire Florence: Roberto Mancini will stay on as Italy coach despite the team’s failure to qualify for the World Cup again. Italy, which won the European Championship only eight months ago, lost to North Macedonia 1-0 in the playoffs on Thursday and will now miss a second straight World Cup. The previous failure led to […]
Read MoreEnock Muchinjo Harare: Brendan Taylor, former Zimbabwe cricket captain, was handed a three-year ban earlier this year for failing to report a match-fixing approach from a trip to India. He made the trip in October 2019 where he received $15,000 which he claimed he was blackmailed into accepting by his hosts using a video of […]
Read MoreNewswire Wembley will host the revived ‘Finalissima’ match between UEFA EURO 2020 winners Italy and CONMEBOL Copa America 2021 champions Argentina on 1 June. European football’s governing body Uefa and South American counterparts Conmebol agreed last year to play three editions of the intercontinental match. Twenty-nine years after its last edition, the relaunch of this […]
Read MoreLahore: With the aim of reducing the national side’s gap with the leading international teams and creating more opportunities for players to grow and evolve according to the demands of the contemporary game, the Pakistan Cricket Board this week unveiled a bumper season for the women cricketers. Bismah Maroof’s side will compete in eight international […]
Read MoreMichele Lamaro described Italy’s incredible Six Nations victory in Cardiff as “unreal” while Wales skipper Dan Biggar said the performance was “simply not good enough”. Edoardo Padovani scored a late try as the visitors stunned Wales 22-21 to secure their first win in Cardiff and end their 36-game losing streak in the competition on Saturday. […]
Read MoreSteve Smith was a man on a mission on day one of the third Test — but he wasn’t just after Pakistan’s bowlers in Lahore. The Aussie No.4 was called to the crease inside three overs after the early dismissals of David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne. It was immediately clear that he was in the […]
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