MELBOURNE (Agencies) - Former Australian opener Michael Slater has accused Cricket Australia (CA) of 'killing' Test cricket in order to replace it with more Twenty20. He said the exclusive scheduling of the Twenty20 Big Bash tournament from December 16 to January 28, during which no domestic ...

HOBART (AFP) - David Warner hopes he has finally laid to rest the notion that he is only a Twenty20 specialist after scoring his maiden Test century in Australia's second Test loss to New Zealand Monday. Warner has made his fortune belting runs in the shorter form of the game but was almost a ...

LAHORE - The conduction of pre-quality assurance test for the selection of new partners under Foundation Assisted Schools Programme of Punjab Education Foundation has been completed in eleven districts. According to PEF spokesman, more than 110,000 students have so far appeared in the districts of ...

LAHORE - Pre-Quality Assurance Test of private Schools for their partnership with the Punjab Education Foundation under Foundation Assisted Schools programme will commence from today (Monday). In this QAT, more than 300,000 students of 4,400 schools will take part in different districts of the ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Cricket's world Test championship will not begin until 2017, International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat announced on Monday. "I am afraid that is no longer going to happen in 2013," he told reporters at the Pakistan v Sri Lanka one-day international in ...

LONDON - The maiden flight of a revolutionary US-made drone aircraft that can stay in the air for up to four days at 65,000 feet, prying at terror safe havens in countries like Pakistan, is just days away. The 'Phantom Eye', made by Boeing's secretive Phantom Works division, is a high-altitude long ...

Scientists who announced that sub-atomic particles might be able to travel faster than light are to rerun their experiment in a different way. This will address criticisms and allow the physicists to shore up their analysis as much as possible before submitting it for publication. Dr Sergio ...

CHITTAGONG (AFP) - Mushfiqur Rahim and Tamim Iqbal cracked impressive half-centuries to help Bangladesh post 255-4 against the West Indies on the opening day of the first Test on Friday. Wicket-keeper Rahim scored an unbeaten 68 in his first Test as captain and left-handed opener Tamim made 52 as ...

HYDERABAD (Agencies) - England will work this week on their two-ball strategy for one-day internationals after admitting it made a significant difference to tactics in their warm-up win on Saturday. New ICC regulations regarding the use of two balls - one from each end - as well as restrictions on ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE As many as 33,694 candidates (10,859 male and 22,835 female) appeared for medical and dental colleges entrance test conducted simultaneously in 12 cities of the Punjab on Tuesday amid elaborate security arrangements. No untoward incident was reported during the course of ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE As many as 33,694 candidates (10,859 male and 22,835 female) will appear in the entrance test today (Tuesday) for admission to all public and private medical and dental institutions in the province. University of Health Sciences has established 21 centres in 12 major ...

HARARE (Agencies) - Brendan Taylor was handed the responsibility of leading Zimbabwe back into Test cricket after a six-year hiatus when he was named as captain in a 14-man squad for the one-off Test against Bangladesh which starts here on Thursday. It will be Zimbabwes first Test since they were ...

NOTTINGHAM (Agencies) -The prospects of India pace spearhead Zaheer Khan playing in the second Test at Trent Bridge seems to be remote. "He has shown a considerable improvement and we would take a call on him on the eve of the match in consultation with the team physio," stated team manager ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia on Tuesday included four uncapped players in its squad for the three-Test tour of Sri Lanka next month, while batsman Phil Hughes was anointed as Shane Watsons opening partner. Offspinner Nathan Lyon, batsman Shaun Marsh, and young fast bowlers Trent Copeland and James ...

LONDON (AFP) - James Anderson took five wickets as England thrashed India by 196 runs to win the first Test at Lord's here on Monday. Victory gave England a 1-0 lead in a four-match series which if they win it by two Tests will see them replace India at the top of the ICC's Test Championship table. ...

HYDERABAD (AFP) - As England and India battle for supremacy on cricket's most hallowed ground at Lord's in the 2000th Test starting Thursday, Pakistan's Niaz stadium has only faded memories to cherish. It may have hosted the historic 1000th Test in November 1984, but since then the ground has been ...

LONDON (Agencies) - Timeless Test - a match that only ends when one team wins - could be held to decide the World Test Championship in 2013, ICC CEO Haroon Lorgat has said. The latest ICC Future Tours Programme has a four-year Test league with the top four teams at the end of each period ...

LONDON (AFP) - In the week when England host India at Lord's in the 2,000th Test match, there was no room for any English players in an ICC poll to decide cricket fans' greatest Test team of all time. Names like W.G. Grace, Jack Hobbs, Len Hutton, Jim Laker, Fred Trueman and Ian Botham were all ...

BRIDGETOWN (AFP) - Ishant Sharma grabbed two quick wickets before lunch to give India the upper hand and leave West Indies reeling on 82 for five in the second Test on Wednesday. The beanpole fast bowler exploited a bouncy Kensington Oval pitch and overcast conditions, removing night watchman ...

KINGSTON (Reuters) - West Indies have replaced out-of-form vice-captain Brendon Nash with right-handed batsman Kirk Edwards for the second Test against India starting on Tuesday at Bridgetown, Barbados. "It is clear that Brendan has been struggling for form for some time and we want to give him a ...

KINGSTON (AFP) - Chris Gayle has failed to settle differences with West Indies officials, and could miss the three-Test series with India, starting next week, according to reports on Thursday. Media reports indicate the two sides failed to reach an amicable solution at a meeting, which took place ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE: Wicket-keeper Mohammad Salman, allrounder Hammad Azam and left-arm seamer Junaid Khan are the new faces in Pakistan's 15-member squad for the upcoming two-Test series against West Indies. Misbah-ul-Haq who led the Test side creditably in the aftermath of the spot-fixing ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US military said it shot down an intermediate-range ballistic missile target over the Pacific on Friday in the "most challenging" test yet of its work on a planned antimissile shield for Europe against Iran. The Pentagon said the successful test of Lockheed Martin Corp ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered what could be the first step towards a DNA test to detect the early signs of bowel cancer. Tests on two distinct genes were highly accurate in distinguishing between tumours and benign polyps - growths in the bowel that can become cancerous. While not all polyps in the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Another reason second-hand smoke is bad: theres a chance it can damage the tissues in a womans cervix, putting her at higher risk for cervical cancer, a new study suggests. Women smokers have a higher-than-average risk of cervical cancer. The new research did not show that ...

AN Indian shaman who allegedly forced women to drink a potion to prove they were not witches has been arrested, BBC reported on Monday. Nearly 30 women fell ill after they were rounded up in Shivni village in central Chhattisgarh state on Sunday and made to drink the herbal brew. A senior police ...

CAPE TOWN (Agencies) - Former South Africa captain Shaun Pollock believes England are ready to challenge India's number one status following their sensational all-round display against Australia in the Ashes Down Under. "England have got a great squad - they've got a really settled line-up. All ...

AUCKLAND (Agencies) - Auckland seam bowler Daryl Tuffey has replaced the injured Andy McKay in the New Zealand squad for the first cricket test against Pakistan. Tuffey's promotion was confirmed today after Wellington left-armer McKay failed to recover from a side strain. The first match in the ...

SYDNEY (Agencies) - Usman Khawajas initial eight balls in international cricket provided some of the rare flourishes Monday in the fifth Ashes Test before he was out for 37 on the last ball of a gloomy, rain-shortened opening day when Australias batsmen struggled again to get on top of ...

PUNE (India) - Australia's Simon Taufel and Ian Gould from England will officiate in the last Test match between South Africa and India in Cape Town commencing next week, it is learnt here. "The appointment of these two umpires (Taufel and Gould), were originally planned and they are not replacing ...