Sports news from The Thursday Times' sports desk.
Three Chinese brands dropped the Real Madrid star and state TV suspended Spanish football after he laughed at a meme likening him to a ‘Chinese dictator’.
Sri Lanka win by eight wickets with almost 32 overs to spare in Lahore, setting up Saturday’s final against Pakistan.
League Two strugglers knock out the Premier League champions in a shootout after keeper Jay Lynch saves three penalties.
The Bayern Munich striker beat Kylian Mbappé and Lamine Yamal after a 73-goal season, while Alexia Putellas won the women’s award for a third time.
Captain Shaheen Shah Afridi took four for 46 as England were dismissed for 241 in Lahore, Ben Duckett's fifth ODI hundred their only major score.
Pakistan swapped green for pink at the Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday as the PCB marked Breast Cancer Awareness Day during the tri-series match against England.
The tifo showed a masked man in a PSG shirt sawing through Barcelona’s crest before the holders’ 4-2 win, a night that also cost them Kvaratskhelia for the season.
Pakistan’s Tokyo Paralympic champion threw a personal best of 57.20m in the F37 final in Nagoya, finishing between Uzbekistan’s Games-record winner and India’s Haney.
In his fullest account yet of two chaotic years at Old Trafford, Erik ten Hag told The Athletic that United reneged on assurances over his contract and the sale of Scott McTominay, and that Cristiano Ronaldo 'let the team down' before his exit in 2022.
Pakistan will not travel to India for next month's Hockey Asian Champions Trophy, with Bangladesh brought in as a late replacement, after the PHF's request to shift matches to a neutral venue over security concerns was turned down.
