Lahore: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq hopes international cricket will soon return to the country as he celebrated the team’s climb to the top of the test rankings by being awarded the ceremonial mace to mark the achievement on Tuesday.

Most international sides have stayed away from Pakistan since 2009

Controversial star Mario Balotelli continued his fine start to life on the French Riviera by helping fire Nice to the top of Ligue 1 yesterday.

Liverpool and Arsenal enjoy comfortable away wins

Fahad al-Abdulrahman wears the number 3 shirt at KAS Eupen. After helping his side win promotion to the first division last season, the 21-year-old Qatari defender is starting to make a name for himself in Belgium’s top flight with plenty of energy and determination.

‘Having considered detailed evidence the panel concluded that during the course of a ruck Chris Ashton bit the arm of Alex Waller at a time that Mr Waller was attempting to clear him out. The panel concluded it was a low-end entry point aggravated by his previous record’

‘Our mission is to make tennis broad and wide. We have 700,000 spectators that come to Davis and Fed Cup each year... about 3.6 billion people view it on TV, but it’s got to be bigger than that, and with a neutral final venue we can make it a much bigger show than just two nations that know they’re

American Varvara Lepchenko is clear to play again after she was found to shoulder “no fault or negligence” for an anti-doping rule violation, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said yesterday.

An NFL season rarely, if ever, sticks to a script written in July before players report to training camp.

‘I felt uncomfortable. It was bothering me, so that’s why I didn’t finish the inning’

‘So my job is to come in and get everybody going, then have my spot where I can try to dominate the game’

British sprint ace Mark Cavendish and controversial women’s world road race champion Lizzie (formerly Armitstead) Deignan will lead their respective teams at next month’s world championships in Qatar it was announced yesterday.