AFP, LONDON: The floppy hair he had as a teenager may have been replaced by a shorter cut and the once clean-shaven face is now home to a goatee beard. But there was no mistaking the whippy left-arm action as Mohammad Amir ran into bowl against Somerset at Taunton last week or the “airplane”…

AFP,  EUGENE (US): Allyson Felix’s dreams of a rare Olympic double came to an abrupt end at the US track and field trials here Sunday as a…

AFP,  LONDON: Andy Murray has warned world number one Novak Djokovic his best is yet to come as the Scot aims to follow his second Wimbledon crown…

AFP, LAUSANNE: A Court of Arbitration for Sport decision on the two-year doping ban for Maria Sharapova has been put back two months to September, the court said Monday, ruling the tennis superstar out of the Rio Olympics. The 29-year-old Russian, one of the biggest names in tennis, tested positive…

AFP, LONDON: Pakistan's final match before next week’s first Test with England ended in a draw after rain meant no play was possible on the final day of three against Sussex at Hove on Sunday. Not a ball was bowled at south coast county Sussex's headquarters on Sunday, with the umpires…

AFP, PARIS: Cristiano Ronaldo cried twice in the Euro 2016 final on Sunday, once when he was stretchered off injured and again when he limped back on…

AFP, LISBON: Central Lisbon was taken over by dancing fans, faces painted red, green and yellow and waving national flags after Portugal’s stunning win over France in the Euro 2016 final Sunday. Tens of thousands of screaming supporters flooded the streets to celebrate Portugal’s 1-0 victory—the…

AFP, AMSTERDAM: Dafne Schippers ran a blistering second leg to help her Dutch quartet to European 4x100m relay gold on Sunday as Poland saved their best…

AFP, PARIS: Tipped to emulate France’s 1984 European champions and 1998 World Cup winners, the ‘Griezmann Generation’s bitter Euro 2016…

AFP, SHANGHAI: Record Asian signing Hulk scored on his Chinese Super League debut but was carried off injured minutes later as Shanghai SIPG smashed Henan Jianye 5-0 at the weekend. The muscle-bound Brazilian forward, who moved to Shanghai from Zenit St Petersburg for an eye-watering 55 million euro…

AFP, LOS ANGELES: Frank Lampard scored his fourth goal in five games but it was not enough to stop New York City FC from slipping to a 3-1 defeat at Sporting Kansas City in Major League Soccer on Sunday. Former Chelsea and England star Lampard stroked in a 14th-minute equaliser for City after Brazilian…