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Proceedings completed for Sharjeel<br />
case, final arguments on <strong>July</strong> 19<br />
LAHORE:<br />
LAHORE: Andrew<br />
Ephgrave, operations manager<br />
of the National Crime<br />
Agency in the UK,<br />
appeared before the threeman<br />
tribunal via Skype<br />
video call and recorded his<br />
statement on Sharjeel<br />
Khan's case. The proceedings<br />
have been completed<br />
with final arguments set<br />
for <strong>July</strong> 19. The hearings<br />
will formally close on <strong>July</strong><br />
29 followed by the verdict<br />
announcement.<br />
The NCA official was<br />
engaged by the tribunal as<br />
a part of an independent<br />
court witness followed by<br />
Aqib Javed's testimony.<br />
The NCA had already been<br />
working closely with the<br />
PCB in the PSL fixing<br />
investigation, tipping them<br />
with supporting evidence<br />
since the two central figures<br />
in the fixing saga -<br />
Nasir Jamshed and Yousaf<br />
Anwar - are based in<br />
SJA Jafri<br />
KARACHI: Karachi<br />
Hockey Association (KHA)<br />
will hold a <strong>15</strong>-day goalkeepers'<br />
training camp from<br />
<strong>15</strong> <strong>July</strong> at KHA Sports<br />
Complex. The camp to be<br />
held under the supervision<br />
of Olympian Ahmad Alam<br />
could be attended by both,<br />
England.<br />
The PCB investigator<br />
had built a case against<br />
Sharjeel for keeping in<br />
touch with Jamshed and<br />
boys and girls. The coach<br />
will be assisted by Arshad<br />
Siddiq and Masoom Ali.<br />
Former Pakistan captain<br />
Hanif Khan will inaugurate<br />
the camp. All interested<br />
goalkeepers interested in<br />
attending the camp should<br />
report at the venue at <strong>15</strong><br />
<strong>July</strong> at 8.45 a.m.<br />
his acquaintance Anwar,<br />
allegedly with an intention<br />
to spot-fix. The Englandbased<br />
duo is already a subject<br />
of investigation in<br />
Goalkeepers having kits<br />
should bring their kits for<br />
training, while those who<br />
do not have kits will be provided<br />
by KHA. The free of<br />
charge camp training is<br />
being held to help trainees<br />
learn modern goalkeeping<br />
techniques and advanced<br />
skills. As goalkeeping plays<br />
connection with bribery<br />
offences. Both were arrested<br />
and then released on<br />
bail, though the PCB had<br />
provisionally suspended<br />
KHA announces <strong>15</strong>-day Goalkeeping Training Camp<br />
Aisha Irum and other local<br />
sports organizers for promoting<br />
our boys and girls<br />
up to the international level<br />
in hockey, softball, cricket<br />
and others games. "<br />
Jamshoro is famous in the<br />
world for sports too that is<br />
why we continue our support<br />
for the promoting<br />
sports".more he said.<br />
JAMSHORO: Senior<br />
Director Physical<br />
Education of Ali Baba<br />
Government Boys Degree<br />
College Kotri and "The<br />
Icon<br />
Pakistan<br />
(TIP)International's Chief<br />
Controller for Sports<br />
Pakistan Mr.Perwez<br />
Ahmed Shaikh met with<br />
M.N.A Jamshoro and<br />
famous sports lover Sardar<br />
Malik Asad Sikander Khan<br />
and appreciated his contribution<br />
towards sports in<br />
Kotri and Jamshoro and<br />
hope so he will continue his<br />
supports for the same in<br />
future, due to that we have International<br />
been organising sports<br />
without any danger since<br />
last 29 years including<br />
female sports. Sardar Malik<br />
Asad Sikander endorse the<br />
efforts of Perwez Shaikh,<br />
Remember Perwez<br />
Ahmed Shaikh attended<br />
two West Asia Cup<br />
Baseball Championships<br />
as member organising<br />
committee and also participated<br />
in (Federation<br />
Volleyball)<br />
FIVB teachers training<br />
course with her wife Aisha<br />
Irum and both secured top<br />
position in the same which<br />
is still unbroken national<br />
record.<br />
a vital role in modern hockey,<br />
KHA is holding this<br />
camp to improve and polish<br />
goalkeeping skills of<br />
the Karachi-based goalkeepers.<br />
After completion<br />
training camp KHA<br />
President Dr. Junaid Ali<br />
Shao will present certificates<br />
to the participants.<br />
Jamshoro is famous in the world for<br />
sports too: Sardar malik, MNA jamshoro<br />
Garbine Muguruza happy to<br />
represent Spain in Wimbledon final<br />
LONDON: Garbine<br />
Muguruza wasn't even a<br />
year old when Conchita<br />
Martinez defeated a 37-<br />
year-old Martina<br />
Navratilova to become the<br />
first Spanish woman to win<br />
Wimbledon.<br />
Twenty-three years later,<br />
Muguruza will get her second<br />
bite to finally end<br />
Spain's long wait for a second<br />
female champion. On<br />
Saturday, when she walks<br />
onto the Centre Court grass<br />
and past the famous<br />
Rosewater dish, adorned<br />
with its many mythological<br />
figures, there will be a<br />
familiar face looking on<br />
from her box.<br />
Martinez, Spain's Fed<br />
Cup captain, has been<br />
Muguruza's temporary<br />
coach and adviser in<br />
London, and her presence is<br />
helping piece things together<br />
again. Just last month,<br />
Muguruza left her press<br />
conference at Roland<br />
Garros in tears after relinquishing<br />
the crown she had<br />
won a year earlier.<br />
The pain did not last.<br />
Muguruza is into her second<br />
Wimbledon final. She<br />
was runner-up to Serena<br />
Williams here two years<br />
ago. Now the woman<br />
standing between<br />
Muguruza and a second<br />
major title is another<br />
Williams, five-time<br />
Wimbledon champion<br />
Venus, who, at 37, is the<br />
oldest Grand Slam finalist<br />
since Navratilova, also 37,<br />
beat Martinez in that 1994<br />
final. Muguruza, by her<br />
own admission, has not<br />
made drastic changes to<br />
her game and remains<br />
adamant that hard work is<br />
the key to her revival.<br />
Pollock fears<br />
for South<br />
Africa's future<br />
LONDON: South<br />
Africa great Graeme<br />
Pollock told AFP the<br />
Proteas will have to<br />
accept being a "middle of<br />
the road" Test side at best<br />
if they stick with racial<br />
transformation as a key<br />
component of selection.<br />
Transformation is<br />
designed to cope with the<br />
legacy of apartheid, when<br />
largely only white players<br />
such as Pollock, one of<br />
the greatest batsmen in<br />
cricket history, were<br />
allowed to play for official<br />
South Africa sides.<br />
Pollock accepts players<br />
of his era could have<br />
done more to help their<br />
non-white counterparts,<br />
but is concerned the balance<br />
has now swung too<br />
far in the opposite direction<br />
after South Africa<br />
"got it right when Graeme<br />
Smith was captain" (from<br />
2003 to his retirement in<br />
2014).<br />
South Africa face<br />
England in the second<br />
Test at Trent Bridge 1-0<br />
down in a four-match<br />
series after a crushing<br />
211-run defeat inside four<br />
days at Lord's last week.<br />
Pollock believes political<br />
reasons are undermining<br />
South Africa's longterm<br />
competitiveness as a<br />
Test nation.<br />
Jamshed from playing any<br />
cricket.<br />
Ephgrave, who was<br />
accompanied by a lawyer<br />
during the hearings, was<br />
cross questioned by the<br />
PCB's lawyer on <strong>July</strong> 13,<br />
followed by Sharjeel's<br />
lawyer the following day.<br />
Shaigan Ijaz, Sharjeel's<br />
lawyer, completed the<br />
hearing amicably but<br />
raised an objection against<br />
Ephgrave. He told the<br />
media that during the cross<br />
examination, the NCA<br />
official confirmed he had<br />
been in touch with PCB<br />
officials. "In this scenario,<br />
the independent court witness<br />
isn't independent as<br />
he has been involved in the<br />
case as a party," he said<br />
after the hearing while<br />
talking to media. However,<br />
he hasn't lodged any complaint<br />
or application<br />
against Ephgrave before<br />
the tribunal.<br />
Cricket Australia chief<br />
attacks 'reckless'<br />
players' union<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI: Cricket<br />
Australia chairman David<br />
Peever Thursday went on<br />
the attack over suggestions<br />
he is running an<br />
"extreme" industrial relations<br />
agenda, slamming<br />
the players' union for<br />
"reckless" tactics in a<br />
damaging pay dispute.<br />
Peever claimed the<br />
Australian Cricketers'<br />
Association was threatening<br />
to drive away commercial<br />
sponsors, damage<br />
the prospects of broadcast<br />
partners and lock up player<br />
intellectual property<br />
rights into its own business<br />
ventures. Writing an<br />
opinion piece in The<br />
Australian newspaper, he<br />
said that CA's board had<br />
been insulted and disrespected<br />
in the ugly spat<br />
between the governing<br />
body and players.<br />
"CA has put what in<br />
any normal circumstances<br />
would be regarded as a<br />
very generous offer,"<br />
Peever said.<br />
"The ACA has<br />
responded by not only<br />
rejecting that proposal<br />
(and recent concessions)<br />
out of hand, but by<br />
launching a campaign of<br />
such sustained ferocity<br />
that anyone could be forgiven<br />
for thinking CA was<br />
proposing the reintroduction<br />
of slavery rather than<br />
healthy pay rises.<br />
KARACHI: Pakistani<br />
umpire Haider Rasool<br />
received ‘golden whistle’<br />
from International<br />
Hockey Federation (FIH)<br />
during Germany and<br />
South Africa match on<br />
Thursday in Johannesburg<br />
during Hockey World<br />
League semifinal round<br />
second leg.<br />
The golden whistle is<br />
awarded to umpires on<br />
completing 100 senior<br />
international matches and<br />
Sarfraz<br />
Ahmed pictured during the<br />
ICC Champions Trophy<br />
<strong>2017</strong> Pakistan captain<br />
Sarfraz Ahmed will feature<br />
for Yorkshire county in<br />
England’s domestic cricket<br />
competition NatWest T20<br />
Blast next month.<br />
Champions Trophywinning<br />
captain Sarfraz,<br />
who was also handed the<br />
Saturday, <strong>July</strong> <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
Sportlight<br />
Test reins a week ago, has<br />
signed up to play five<br />
matches for Yorkshire<br />
Vikings in the ongoing<br />
T20 Blast, subject to him<br />
being granted the visa.<br />
Teammate Azhar Ali<br />
congratulated the skipper<br />
on Twitter about his<br />
upcoming stint in the T20<br />
Blast. Earlier this week,<br />
all-rounder Imad Wasim<br />
7<br />
Sarfraz signs up for Yorkshire<br />
in England’s T20 Blast<br />
LAHORE: Pakistan<br />
Cricket Board Chairman<br />
Shahryar Khan termed the<br />
performance of the women<br />
cricket team in as disappointing.<br />
The chairman said that<br />
in view of raising the standard<br />
of women cricket in<br />
the country - new talent<br />
must be discovered and<br />
taken forward, adding that<br />
the team were given special<br />
training before the<br />
tournament and he is<br />
gravely disappointed by<br />
the team`s performance.<br />
He said making Sabih<br />
Azhar coach of the team at<br />
the eleventh hour did not<br />
turn out to be a correct<br />
decision as he feels that<br />
even the players are not<br />
happy with him.<br />
Khan said that to raise<br />
standard in women cricket,<br />
an increase of players in<br />
the domestic system is<br />
signed up for Durham<br />
county in the same tournament.<br />
Fast bowler<br />
Mohammad Amir is<br />
already representing Essex<br />
in the T20 Blast, while former<br />
captain Shahid Afridi<br />
is playing for Hampshire.<br />
Pacer Junaid Khan left for<br />
UK earlier this week to<br />
feature for Lancashire in<br />
the T20 competition.<br />
Chairman PCB terms performance in<br />
Women World Cup ‘disappointing’<br />
Dr m. Arif Hafeez<br />
Sports Reporter<br />
KARACHI: Azaan TV<br />
outwitted Al- Amin Salt<br />
Cricket Club by four wickets<br />
in their Group “B”<br />
encounter of the Second<br />
Anza Cup Twenty 20<br />
Cricket Tournament <strong>2017</strong><br />
at the Nazeer Hussain<br />
Gulburg Gymkhana<br />
Ground.<br />
All rounder Hamza<br />
Ansari took two wicket for<br />
11 runs and latter scored 28<br />
valuable runs, declared<br />
Man of the Match, Al-<br />
Amin Salt CC’s innings,<br />
limiting to 145 for eight<br />
wickets in 20 overs after<br />
winning the toss. Opener<br />
Kamil Mahmood (38 off 28<br />
balls) with two fours and<br />
brace of sixes and Umair<br />
Ali (26 off 16 balls) with<br />
one four and a Six, had provided<br />
them a solid start by<br />
adding 58 for second wicket.<br />
Off-spinner Adeel Arif<br />
(2-20) also bowled well.<br />
The 55-run second<br />
wicket stand between opener<br />
Qaisar Attique (40 off<br />
22balls) including four<br />
fours and two sixes and<br />
Abbas Jaffri (27 off 21<br />
balls) with two fours and a<br />
six put: Azaan TV cc in<br />
commanding position and<br />
the momentum was sustained<br />
by Hamza Ansari<br />
(28 off 18 balls) with the<br />
Help of two boundaries as<br />
the Azaan TV reached the<br />
target of 146 with 1.1 overs<br />
to spare despite being tested<br />
by off-spinner Sheraz<br />
Hussain (2-7).<br />
S U M M A R I Z E D<br />
SCORE:<br />
Al-Amin Salt.145-8 in<br />
20 overs.( Kamil Mahmood<br />
38,Umair Ali 26:Hamza<br />
Ansari 2-11,Adeel Arif 2-<br />
35).Azaan TV cc.146-6 n<br />
needed.<br />
He added that it is a<br />
good omen that girls from<br />
as far as Balochistan and<br />
Gilgit are coming in the<br />
national squad, however<br />
still societal issues are a<br />
big hindrance for women<br />
cricket in Pakistan as parents<br />
don’t allow their<br />
daughters to play the sport.<br />
He added that if there is<br />
a group within the team, he<br />
will take action against it.<br />
Azaan TV outwit Al- Amin<br />
Salt in Anza Cup T-20.<br />
Haider Rasool became the<br />
first Pakistani umpire to<br />
reach this milestone.<br />
A former goal keeper,<br />
who attended quite a few<br />
national camps including<br />
the one for the World Cup<br />
1998, Haider started to<br />
blow whistle on domestic<br />
circuit in 2002. Next year,<br />
he attended an umpiring<br />
seminar conducted by the<br />
Asian Hockey Federation<br />
in the Malaysian city of<br />
Ipoh. He started his<br />
18.5 overs.(Qaisar Attique<br />
40,Hamza Ansari 28,Abbas<br />
Jaffri 27:Sheraz Hussain 2-<br />
7).<br />
In the end Chief<br />
Organizer Zain Qureshi<br />
gives away the man of the<br />
match award to Hamza<br />
Ansari ( Azaan TV) in second<br />
Anza cup T-20 cricket<br />
tournament. Adeel Arif is<br />
Also present.<br />
Haider Rasool becomes first umpire to complete a century<br />
COLOMBO: Former<br />
Sri Lanka skipper Arjuna<br />
Ranatunga on Friday<br />
demanded an investigation<br />
into the country's 2011<br />
World Cup final defeat by<br />
India amid allegations of<br />
match fixing.<br />
Ranatunga, 53, in a<br />
video posted on his<br />
Facebook page, said he was<br />
shocked by Sri Lanka's sixwicket<br />
defeat in the final at<br />
the Wankhede stadium in<br />
Mumbai.<br />
"I was also in India giving<br />
commentaries at the<br />
time. When we lost, I was<br />
distressed and I had a<br />
doubt," Ranatunga said.<br />
"We must investigate what<br />
happened to Sri Lanka at<br />
the 2011 World Cup final."<br />
"I cannot reveal everything<br />
now, but one day I<br />
will. There must be an<br />
inquiry."<br />
Without giving names,<br />
Ranatunga said players<br />
could not hide the "dirt"<br />
with their clean white<br />
cricket clothing.<br />
Sri Lanka, batting first,<br />
scored 274-6 off 50 overs<br />
and appeared in a commanding<br />
position when<br />
His first senior international<br />
well as other high profile<br />
tournament was events such as the Junior<br />
MIA International World Cup (2009) and the<br />
Challenge, Singapore held Commonwealth Games<br />
in August 2005. He was (2010).<br />
promoted to the Again, his consistently<br />
‘Promising Umpires’ list<br />
of the FIH in February<br />
2008.<br />
This enabled him to<br />
high quality performance<br />
got him excellent evaluations,<br />
and Haider Rasool<br />
became a ‘Grade 1’ international<br />
stand, among others, in<br />
umpire in<br />
continental tournaments December 2010. This up<br />
like the Pan Am gradation enabled him to<br />
Championships (2008) and<br />
the Asian Games (2010) as<br />
stand in the Champions<br />
Trophy’s editions.<br />
Ranatunga seeks probe into 2011<br />
World Cup final defeat to India<br />
Indian superstar Sachin<br />
Tendulkar was caught for<br />
18. India turned the game<br />
dramatically thanks partly<br />
to poor fielding and bowling<br />
by Sri Lanka.<br />
Local media have raised<br />
suspicions of Sri Lankans<br />
throwing the match, but<br />
there was no formal call for<br />
an investigation till<br />
Ranatunga's outburst.<br />
Ranatunga's spokesman<br />
Thamira Manju told AFP<br />
that he was writing to<br />
President Maithripala<br />
Sirisena and Prime<br />
Minister<br />
Ranil<br />
Wickremesinghe complaining<br />
about the state of cricket<br />
in the country.<br />
There have been<br />
recriminations in the<br />
country since Sri Lanka<br />
suffered a humiliating 3-2<br />
loss to bottom-ranked<br />
Zimbabwe in a five-match<br />
one-day series on home<br />
soil this month.<br />
There is also growing<br />
tension between Sri<br />
Lankan sports authorities<br />
and players about the use<br />
of managers, including an<br />
agent who represents more<br />
than half the national team.