Peshawar—PAF deep defender Imran’s poor display
chalked out Army’s 5-4 victory in the ongoing
Inter-Services Hockey Championship here at Lala
Ayub Hockey Stadium on Saturday.
Imran’s unnecessarily delaying ball-tactics on
three major occasions in the danger zone
provided golden opportunities for the Army
strikers to take three early goals lead in the
13th, 19th and 24th minute in a dependable
match.
It was PAF second defeat. Earlier Navy defeated
PAF by 3-2 in the pool match while super-fit
Army have an edge of winning two matches against
Navy and PAF.
On ground PAF have an edge over Army because of
having the services of four national camp
players but poor display of the deep defender
Imran and disjointed approaches by their
forwards let PAF lost the match on 5-4 before
were down 3-1 till the first-half play.
Karachi—Emerging fast medium bowler Sohail Khan
ended with amazing match haul of 16 wickets but
his team Sui Southern Gas Company Ltd (SSGCL)
batsmen will be facing a challenging task on the
final day of their Quaid-e-Azam Cricket Trophy
match against WAPDA at Asghar Ali Shah Stadium
on Saturday. SSGC will now be needing 328 runs
on Sunday in 83 overs to win the match after
having dismissed for 226 in their first outing.
Saint Moritz, Switzerland—Anja Paerson of Sweden
stunned the pre-race favourites to claim victory
in the women’s downhill on Saturday, her first
World Cup win of the season.
Paerson, who claimed her last downhill success
at the end of the 2006 season in Are, Sweden,
pipped American Lindsey Vonn by just 0.08secs
after scorching the Corviglia run in a time of
1min 39.32sec.
Germany’s Maria Riesch took third place after
finishing 0.33sec behind the 26-year-old Swede,
with former world champion Renate Goetschl in
fourth at 0.38.
Paerson is the current world champion in
downhill, super-G and super-combined but despite
a hugely successful campaign at the
championships in Are, Sweden earlier this year
she had struggled with form on the World Cup
circuit.
This season she finished way off the podium in
this season’s two previous downhill races,
claiming 18th place at Aspen, Colorado last week
and seventh at Lake Louise, Canada a fortnight
ago.
London—Former world champion and President,
World Squash Federation, Jahangir Khan who
received honorary doctorate degree in
recognition of his services for the sport from
the London Metropolitan University, has called
for greater efforts to pull the game from its
present dismal standing in Pakistan.
Speaking to the media persons after receiving
the doctorate of philosophy degree on Friday ,
the 43-year-old six-time former world champion
and a record 10-time British Open Champion,
lamented at the dwindling fortunes of Squash and
said it is painful for him to note that
Pakistani players no longer feature in the top
list. Jahangir, the first Pakistani sportsman to
be bestowed this honour for promoting Squash and
for the service to the community, said in the
past the Pakistani players used to regularly
feature among the top eight in the world but now
this is no more as players from the other
countries are dominating the international
scene.
Lahore —It is a positive sign for the country
that our girls are excelling not only in
academics but are also making their mark in
sports, said Punjab Information Technology
minister Mubbashar Luqman.
Addressing the annual sports function of
Government Girls College, Wahdat Road here
Saturday, he said that physical health leads to
healthy minds, and sports help inculcate team
spirit, confidence and healthy competition,
according to a handout.The minister said that
the government has allocated huge funds to
promote sports, adding that our sportswomen have
shown great talent at the national as well as
international level.
