MUSCAT — Taiseer Electronics won the Ramadhan tape ball cricket tournament beating Star Light Stallions by 27 runs at Pakistan School Muscat recently. In the final of the tournament organised by Pakistan Social Club and supported by Omantel, Taiseer Electronics who won the toss and batted first, sc

KARACHI — Pakistan fast bowler Wahab Riaz has been summoned for questioning by Scotland Yard on September 14 over the alleged spot-fixing scandal that erupted during the fourth and final Test against England. “We have allowed him to be interviewed and made him available as we believe in fully co-op

NEW YORK — Roger Federer mastered the wild weather and his opponent to storm into the US Open semifinals on Wednesday and remain on course for another showdown with his great rival Rafa Nadal. Federer was at his brilliant best as he outclassed Sweden’s dual French Open finalist Robin Soderling 6-4,

NEW YORK — Taking the biggest steps yet in their quest to inspire peace between their homelands, India’s Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi reached the US Open tennis championships men’s doubles final on Wednesday. With United Nations ambassadors from their countries sitting side-by-

WELLINGTON — New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori said yesterday any player caught cheating should be banned from cricket for life to protect the game’s integrity. Vettori’s comment follow the suspension of three Pakistan players — captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammed Aamir and Mohammed Asif — fo

PARIS — Patrice Evra’s five-match suspension from the French national team was yesterday upheld by the French Football Federation’s (FFF) appeals commission. The left-back had appealed against the ban, which was handed down to him by the FFF as a punishment for his leading role, as captain, in the

BERNE — Fifa may abolish extra time at the World Cup with drawn knockout matches going straight to penalties, the federation’s president Sepp Blatter said yesterday. Blatter said in an interview with Fifa’s website that too many teams had played defensively at the World Cup in South Africa and socc

PARIS — Formula One’s governing body upheld a $100,000 fine for Ferrari on Wednesday but kept alive Fernando Alonso’s hopes of a third title after deciding to impose no further sanctions for the use of banned ‘team orders’. Race stewards had handed the $100,000 fine to the Italian glamour team afte

LONDON — Former France coach Gerard Houllier was named the new manager of English Premier League side Aston Villa on Wednesday, the club announced. The 63-year-old, who coached Liverpool between 1998 and 2004, has been working as National Coaching Director at the FFF since leaving his last top club

LONDON — World No 1 John Higgins was banned for six months and fined £75,000 ($115,900) on Wednesday although the Briton was cleared of accepting a bribe to fix snooker matches. At an independent disciplinary hearing Higgins’ claim that he felt intimidated during a meeting in Kiev with an undercove