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Asad Shafiq back after Champions Trophy debacle

KARACHI, Jun 17 (APP): Pakistan batsman Asad Shafiq returned here on Monday from London after Champions Trophy debacle in England where Pakistan lost all their three matches. According to reports, team manager Naveed Akram Cheema some team staff and players like, Kamran Akmal, Muhammad Irfan, Asad Ali etc are due to arrive in Lahore on Tuesday.
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PTF Finance Secretary resigns

ISLAMABAD, June 17 (APP): Acting upon Supreme Court of Pakistan’s ruling with regard to tenure restrictions, the Finance Secretary of Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) M. Arif Qureshi has tendered his resignation to PTF President Kaleem Imam.
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Cricket: Pietersen confirms Surrey return

LONDON, June 16, (APP/AFP) - England batsman Kevin Pietersen has confirmed he will return to cricket with Surrey in their County Championship fixture away to Yorkshire next week. The 32-year-old South Africa-born shotmaker has not played since March because of a knee injury and now faces a race against time to prove his fitness for the first Ashes Test against Australia at Nottingham’s Trent Bridge ground on July 10. Surrey’s match against Yorkshire, which starts on Friday, has long been pencilled in as the fixture where Pietersen would return to action.

Football: World Cup winner Flohe dies

BERLIN, June 16, (APP/AFP) - Former West German international Heinz Flohe, who was a member of the squad that won the 1974 World Cup, has died aged 65 after a long illness in his home town of Euskirchen, it was reported by the Cologne Express on Sunday. The former attacking midfielder, who was capped 39 times, had been in a coma since suffering a stroke in May 2010. Flohe, who also was part of the West German squads in the 1976 European championships and 1978 World Cup finals, spent most of his career with Cologne with whom he won the domestic double in 1978, having already won the German Cup in 1968 and 1977.

Cricket: Nathan McCullum joins Glamorgan

CARDIFF, United Kingdom, June 16, (APP/AFP) - New Zealand all-rounder Nathan McCullum is to play for Glamorgan in this year’s English domestic Twenty20 competition. The 32-year-old off-spinner is currently playing for New Zealand in the Champions Trophy—and was included in the Black Caps side due to play England in a Group A match at Welsh county Glamorgan’s Cardiff headquarters on Sunday. “I’m looking forward to joining up with the Glamorgan squad at the end of this month,” McCullum, man-of-the-match in New Zealand’s win over Sri Lanka in Cardiff last weekend, said in a statement issued by the county.

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Pakistan to play Hockey Champions Trophy in Australia

ISLAMABAD, Aug 10 (APP): Pakistan’s national hockey team,which finished 7th in the London Olympics, will be playing the 2012 Men’s Hockey Champions Trophy in Australia, a private television channel reported on Friday.The decision allowing Pakistan’s entry in the tournament was taken during a meeting of the executive board of the International Hockey Federation.The tournament, which is the 34th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy, will be hosted by the defending champions Australia.A total of eight teams including the Netherlands, New Zealand, Germany, Belgium, India and England will be playing the tournament.Team’s head coach Akhtar Rasool appreciated the decision granting entry to Pakistan and said that the team will do its best to reach the victory.

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