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60 cricket awardees honoured at the Malaysia Cricket Awards Night 2023

KUALA LUMPUR: In a bid to recognise the contributions of individuals and organisations that aided in the country’s cricket game, the Malaysian Cricket Association held 6th Malaysia Cricket Awards Night 2023 recently at Première Hotel, Klang. The award ceremony, organised

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Soccer: Man United’s Greenwood has all charges against him dropped

MANCHESTER: Manchester United forward Mason Greenwood has had all criminal charges against him dropped, police and prosecutors said on Thursday. Greenwood, who was suspended by United in January 2022 when accusations against him surfaced on social media, was charged with

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Pele dies: Brazil hero’s greatest games showed a master at work

Pele was football’s ultimate fox in the box, a player who dealt in quantity as much as quality, whose eye-popping career statistics alone marked him out as one of the greats.Footage is scarce of peak Pele, the player who emerged

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Two weightlifting medallists at 20th Sukma test positive for doping

JOHOR BAHRU: Two weightlifting medal winners at the 2022 Malaysia Games (Sukma) were confirmed positive for the banned substance ‘anabolic androgenic steroid’ by the National Anti-Doping Agency of Malaysia (Adamas). Without specifying the colour of the medals won, Malaysia Weightlifting

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Ronaldo ‘opposite of Messi’ and ‘big failure of the World Cup’: Matthaus

Cristiano Ronaldo is “a big failure of the World Cup” and has “damaged his legacy”, former Germany international Lothar Matthaus claims.Ronaldo has endured a turbulent six weeks at club and international level, having been released from Manchester United prior to

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King, Queen congratulate para shuttler Liek Hou

KUALA LUMPUR: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah today congratulated Tokyo 2022 Paralympics champion Cheah Liek Hou for bagging his seventh men’s singles title at the World

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Karamjit, 60, brings back 12 trophies from Indonesia

SEPANG: It appears age is not an obstacle for national rally legend Karamjit Singh who once again made history by successfully winning three championships at the race in Muara Bungo, Jambi, Indonesia that took place last Friday to Sunday. The

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Wai Ching sets new record enroute to conquering Cologne Tower

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s world number one tower runner Soh Wai Ching captured another title by defending the Kolnturm Treppenlauf (Cologne Towerrun) crown with a new course record. The 28-year-old won the overall category title in the Cologne Tower challenge which

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Include weightlifting in high-performance sports programme – Ahmad Faisal

IPOH: The success of the weightlifting squad at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham could see the sport reinstated in the list of High-Performance Sports. Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu said the time has come for weightlifting

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Muhammad Azeem breaks new national 100m record in Colombia

KUALA LUMPUR: Sprinter Muhammad Azeem Mohd Fahmi broke the national 100 metre (m) record with 10.09 seconds (s) at the Under-20 World Athletics Championships at the Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium in Cali, Colombia, early today Malaysia time. The 18-year-old runner

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