Barcelona coach Hansi Flick will be in the dugout for their Champions League opener at Newcastle United on Thursday after successfully appealing a one-match suspension that threatened to sideline him for his side’s opening European game this season. The German manager and his assistant Marcus Sorg had been handed one-game bans by UEFA for their…
Grandmaster Nihal Sarin played out a quick and effortless draw with Matthias Bluebaum on Germany to share the lead with the German on six points after the end of the eighth round of FIDE Grand Swiss here. On the day when R Vaishali lost her sole lead after losing to Bibisara Assaubayeva of Kazakhstan in…
Italian boxer Angela Carini says the online abuse she’s received since her Olympic fight against Imane Khelif last year has “destroyed her career.” Carini tearfully quit her opening bout with Khelif of Algeria at the Paris Olympics after just 46 seconds, going on to explain afterward that she took the extremely unusual decision because of…
Jaismine Lamboria and Nupur Sheoran cruised into the finals of the ongoing World Boxing Championships in Liverpool on Friday. Jaismine produced a clinical performance to defeat Venezuela’s Omailyn Alcala 5-0 in the 57kg semifinal. Heavyweight boxer Nupur Sheoran, the legendary Hawa Singh’s grand daughter, was equally dominant in her 80+kg semifinals as she out-punched Seyma…
England recorded the third-highest Powerplay score of all-time against South Africa in the 2nd T20I between the two sides at Manchester on Friday. Openers Jos Buttler and Phil Salt added 100 runs in the first six overs, as South Africa had no response to a brutal English assault. Buttler was particularly brutal, scoring 65 from…
Oman’s reckless batting couldn’t hold up a candle to its disciplined bowling effort as Pakistan clinched a 93-run win despite scoring a middling 160 in their Asia Cup skirmish at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium here on Friday. After showing a glimpse of fight with 40 runs for the loss of two wickets in the…
Beyond the opening pair of Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma, India’s batting order will have to be malleable going into next year’s T20 World Cup. That was the essence of batting coach Sitanshu Kotak’s message to his players ahead of the all-important Group A clash in the Asia Cup against Pakistan at the Dubai International…
Seven Israeli chess players registered for a Spanish tournament starting on Friday have all withdrawn from the event, said the organisers, who told the players they would not be competing under their national flag, citing the conflict in Gaza and expressing solidarity with the Palestinians. “One after another they kept pulling out and finally the…
Welcome to Sportstar’s coverage of the Pakistan vs Oman Asia Cup 2025 match being played at the Dubai International Stadium in Dubai. LIVE SCOREBOARD TOSS Pakistan wins the toss and opts to bat. PLAYING XIs Oman: Jatinder Singh(c), Aamir Kaleem, Hammad Mirza, Vinayak Shukla(w), Shah Faisal, Hassnain Shah, Mohammad Nadeem, Zikria Islam, Sufyan Mehmood, Shakeel…
New Bayern Munich signing Nicolas Jackson said Friday he was happy to be “where I’m wanted” after joining the German giants from Premier League club Chelsea on a season-long loan. At his official unveiling in Munich on Friday, the 24-year-old spoke about the “tough times and difficult moments” as his loan deal looked set to…