The teams entered the game as equal adversaries with a 6-6 all-time record at the Champions Trophy and were so evenly matched that the game was too close to call until the final horn. “This win means a lot to us. We haven’t had a medal at the Champions Trophy since 2004,” Pakistani player Shakeel Abbassi told the FIH’s website. The teams exchanged goals in the first half. India took the lead when VR Raghuna ...

Shakeel Abassi scored goals in the 39th and 51st minutes Thursday to give Pakistan a 2-1 win over Olympic gold medalist Germany in a men's Champions Trophy field hockey quarterfinal. Moritz Furste had given the London Games champions a 1-0 lead in the ninth minute. Pakistan will play the winner of Thursday's later quarterfinal between London silver medalist the Netherlands and New Zealand in Saturday's semi ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Pakistan’s Mohammad Asif from Faisalabad has defeated England’s Gary Wilson in the final to win the World Snooker Championship on Sunday in Sofia, Bulgaria.Asif, who remained unbeaten in the tournament, defeated Wilson 10-8. The match was tied at the assigned time with 7-7 frames. Both players worked pretty hard to win the match. At one stage Asif, was leading 6-3 but Gerry came ba ...

by Zaheerul Hassan Pakistan's most prestigious Twenty20 cricket tournament, with the participation of 14 teams, started here.   The Faysal Bank National T20 Cup will be played at three different grounds in Lahore and will be concluded with its final played at the Gaddafi Stadium Dec 9, reports Xinhua.   Officials from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) inaugurated the annual championship Saturday in which a t ...

By Jim Trotter NEW ORLEANS -- This was the tipping point Who Dat Nation had been waiting on. Its beloved Saints, after surrendering 21 consecutive points, had scored to make it a one-touchdown game, and now they had 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick facing 3rd-and-11 from his 35-yard line. The Superdome shook with anticipation. Surely the second-year QB -- in his first road start -- would feel the pressure ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Coming into the Mumbai Test, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was sitting in his hotel room and thinking: What did he want from the authorities to win the Test?   The answer he came up with was simple: A turning pitch, batsmen who know the conditions, three spinners and as an afterthought, he wanted to win the toss too. In the minds of many, it was a fail-safe approach. And he g ...

 Posted By Zaheerul Hassan BRISBANE: The Brisbane International starting next month will feature the world's top three women players with confirmation on Wednesday that top-ranked Victoria Azarenka will take part. Azarenka, of Belarus, joins Russian world number two Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams of the United States in the main lead-up tournament to January's Australian Open in Melbourne, the season's ...

In the face of adversity, Alastair Cook has produced a typically composed hundred that has kept England alive in the first Test at Ahmedabad. Facing a huge deficit in the second innings, England needed his calm and exemplary discipline to battle the Indian spinners. There was a stutter in the middle after the opening partnership flourished, but Cook remained unfazed throughout and stuck to his meticulous ga ...