Category: Sports

LAHORE: Only 16 domestic cricketers could benefit from the Pakistan Cricket Board’s welfare scheme, which was introduced to help them out financially due to the Covid-19. Though the PCB has the plan to disburse the amount to qualified domestic cricketers, scorers, umpires and referees — totalling above 90 — before the Eid-ul-Fitr, the process of […]

SYDNEY: Australian paceman Mitchell Starc warned on Tuesday that cricket risks becoming ‘pretty boring’ if ball-tampering rules are not relaxed in response to a coronavirus-linked ban on using saliva to shine the ball. The International Cricket Council (ICC) is set to implement the ban in June after receiving medical advice that spit poses a Covid-19 […]

PRAGUE: Two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova said on Monday she would prefer Grand Slams did not take place as opposed to playing them behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking on the eve of her court return in an all-Czech tournament the 30-year-old echoed the thoughts of Roger Federer, who said last week […]

NEW DELHI: India’s cricket board will not push for the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia to be postponed but would consider staging the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the October/November slot if it becomes available, a senior BCCI official has said. This year’s IPL, which is worth almost $530 million to the BCCI, has been […]

LONDON: Japan’s Naomi Osaka has surpassed Serena Williams as the world’s highest-paid female athlete, raking in $37.4 million in prize money and endorsements over the last year, according to Forbes. The 22-year-old twice Grand Slam champion’s total is the most ever earned by a female athlete in a 12-month period. She earned $1.4 million more […]

LONDON: Alex Hales deserves a ‘second chance’ with England after being sent into international exile as a result of recreational drug use, according to team-mate Chris Woakes. Opening batsman Hales — who played for Karachi Kings in this year’s Pakistan Super League — was dropped from the World Cup squad shortly before last year’s tournament […]

MADRID: Spanish football’s top flight division La Liga can return to action from June 8 after being disrupted by the novel coronavirus pandemic, the country’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday. All organised football in Spain was provisionally suspended on March 12 although clubs in the top two divisions have since returned to group […]

DUBAI: Bowlers looking at resuming Test cricket after the novel coronavirus lockdown will require two to three months of preparation to avoid injuring themselves, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has said. Cricket, like other global sports, has been suspended since March due to the Covid-19 pandemic but some countries are plotting guidelines for the return […]

BERN: Swiss lawmakers on Wednesday decided to open proceedings that could see the country’s attorney-general dismissed as part of an investigation into FIFA president Gianni Infantino. A Swiss parliamentary commission voted by 13 votes to four to initiate a case against Michael Lauber. It is “due to a well-founded suspicion of serious violation of the […]

TOKYO: Olympics chief Thomas Bach agreed that 2021 was the ‘last option’ for holding the delayed Tokyo Games on Thursday, stressing that postponement cannot go on forever. Bach said he backed Japan’s stance that the Games will have to be cancelled if the coronavirus pandemic isn’t under control by next year. In March, the Tokyo […]