Category: Sports

NEW DELHI: Batting great Sachin Tendulkar has renewed demands for cricket rules to give greater weight to TV playbacks over umpires in making LBW decisions. Tendulkar, a long-standing critic of the decision review system (DRS), returned to the fray after multiple LBW calls in the West Indies’ victory over England in the first Test. If […]

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka batsman Kusal Mendis was arrested on Sunday for his alleged involvement in a fatal crash with a cyclist, who died on spot, just outside the Colombo, said the police. The 25-year-old batsman was driving an SUV at Panadura before dawn when the incident happened, police said. Mendis has been named in the […]

LAHORE: A reduced Pakistan squad left for the its first tour to England on Sunday, after sports activity was halted worldwide, for a three Test and as many T20Is after half the players and some members of the support staff tested positive for the coronavirus. Pakistan’s T20 captain Babar Azam tweeted a picture of some […]

Out-of-favour wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal believes that Prime Minister Imran Khan should question Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ehsan Mani on the deteriorating standard of cricket in the country. Akmal, 38, considered one of the better wicket-keeper batsmen, was unable to find a spot even in the sizable 29-man squad for the upcoming tour. He was […]

KARACHI: The deadly coronavirus has dealt a major blow to Pakistan as seven more cricketers have tested positive, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chief Executive Wasim Khan announced Tuesday, a day after three players of the national team had contracted the respiratory illness. The national team has been rocked this week after 10 of its 29 […]

LONDON: England managing director Ashley Giles is hopeful that Pakistan’s tour of England will go ahead as per plan, despite three Pakistani cricketers testing positive for coronavirus. The Pakistan Cricket Board announced on Monday that leg-spinner Shadab Khan, fast bowler Haris Rauf and teenage batsman Haider Ali had tested positive for COVID-19 despite showing no […]

SYDNEY: Australia’s cricketers must forge a leaner, tighter Test team to cope with the coronavirus-related job losses forced on the sport, captain Tim Paine said Tuesday. Paine played down reports of tensions between the players and Cricket Australia but said the game’s elite had to come to terms with cutbacks related to the pandemic. That […]

NEW DELHI: Batting legend Sunil Gavaskar said the Indian Premier League (IPL) could be staged in Sri Lanka in September with Australia’s chances of hosting the ICC Twenty20 World Cup in October looking bright. The Twenty20 International showpiece is scheduled to take place from Oct 18 to Nov 19 but had been under threat because […]

LONDON: Dominoes may be an unusual way to get ready for cricket but West Indies head coach Phil Simmons believes the traditional Caribbean past time will help his squad’s morale ahead of their behind-closed-doors Test series with England. The West Indies arrived in Manchester last Tuesday and will now spend several weeks at Old Trafford […]