Colombo—New Zealand put a small part of their tour blues behind them by clinching a thrilling three-run win over Sri Lanka in the first of two Twenty20s at the R Premadasa Stadium. The coloured clothing was out and with it a fresh look to New Zealand’s Twenty20 unit, but it was Ross Taylor, Daniel Vettori and Jacob Oram, with a hat-trick, who ultimately gave the tourists something to smile about. With the openers dismissed early, the pressure was on Taylor, who carried the team almost single-handedly with a busy innings until the 18th

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London—Pakistan’s top-notcher Aamir Atlas Khan made significant improvement in his performance by reaching 14th place in the new September PSA Men’s World Squash Rankings published Thursday by the UK-based Professional Squash Association. The 19-year-old Peshawar-born player was placed 18th in the August rankings but a series of good performances in the recent tournaments helped him to move four places up with a total of 256 points. Egypt’s former world number one Amr Shabana in the meantime as reclaimed his place in the top

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New York—Serena Williams offered a new, tongue-in-cheek explanation for why she plays so much better at Grand Slam tournaments than other events. Maybe it pays more,” she said with a smile. “I guess I’m trying to pay off my mortgage.” Defending champion Williams joined her sister in the U.S. Open’s third round with a dominating victory Wednesday night, playing pretty close to perfect while beating 51st-ranked Melinda Czink of Hungary 6-1, 6-1 in less than an hour. Williams is seeking her fourth U.S. Open championship and 12th Grand

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Islamabad—The delay is not on the part of Pakistan Cricket Board regarding development of three international standard turf pitches in one of Sri Lanka famous 135-year old school, a PCB Spokesman said on Thursday. PCB wishes to clarify that the delay has not been on part of PCB”, he said, adding that PCB has been constantly in contact with Sri Lanka Cricket. In this regard PCB has written letters to Sri Lanka cricket on 28th April, and again on 1st June, 2009 in which Sri Lankan cricket was asked to send us the details and cost structure of this

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Lahore—The participation of Iranian women team has rebuilt the image of Pakistan as a country which is safe for sporting events and the credit of inclusion of Iranian team in annual show goes to Pakistan Football Federation (PFF). The participation of Iran football team helped in enhancing Pakistan image as a suitable host country for sporting events “, said Muhammad Irfan Khan Niazi, Chief Coordinator of 5th National Women

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