Category: Sports

CAPE TOWN: South Africa are optimistic about hosting India for three lucrative Twenty20 Internationals in late August, but are trying to find new dates for their proposed tour to the West Indies. Cricket South Africa (CSA) has already had to postpone a limited overs series in Sri Lanka, but has earmarked the visit by India […]

NEW DELHI: India’s Ravichandran Ashwin says he will need practice to break the habit of applying saliva to shine the ball, an age-old ploy which faces a potential ban when cricket resumes after the coronavirus shutdown. The International Cricket Council’s cricket committee has said players can still use sweat to help shine the ball but […]

LONDON: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is hoping for the best and preparing for the worst as it seeks to mitigate financial setbacks stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic, its chief executive, Wasim Khan, has said. On the face of it, the disruption caused by the novel coronavirus outbreak could not have come at a worse […]

India captain Virat Kohli has told how his late father refused to pay a bribe to get him into a Delhi state junior team when he was a teenager. The world’s top ranked one-day batsman did not identify who had demanded the bribe but said he was rejected by the team, a rebuff that left […]

KARACHI: The Karachi Basketball Association and PSWA jointly organised an event to distribute Eid gifts among several players and sports organisers here in Nazimabad on Tuesday. Former Test spinner and head of PCB cricket committee Iqbal Qasim, Sports Medicine’s Dr Parvez Rizvi and former First class player Saleem Swaleh supported the event by contributing a […]

TURIN: Cristiano Ronaldo returned to training with Juventus in Turin on Tuesday after an absence of over two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. The 35-year-old drove himself into the Juventus Training Centre in a Jeep with tinted windows. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner will undergo medical and physical tests before joining up with his […]

ISLAMABAD: Off-spin great Saqlain Mushtaq believes Babar Azam possesses all the essential ingredients of leadership but says the batsman will have to sit with the world’s best team leaders to learn the ways of taking along his side. “I think it is very important for him [Babar] to find out how to lead the team […]

LAHORE: Middle-order batsman Umar Akmal has filed an appeal against his three-year ban imposed on him by the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) Disciplinary Panel, headed by retired Justice Fazle Miran Chouhan for not reporting to the Board about the approaches made to him by corrupt elements on two different occasions on the eve of the 5th […]

LONDON: UEFA has a plan to finish the 2019-20 season by August, including the Champions League and Europa League campaigns, the European football governing body’s president Aleksander Ceferin has said. The majority of European league seasons were suspended in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic but a few leagues have announced plans for a restart […]

ISLAMABAD: Renowned Indian cricket analyst and commentator Harsha Bhogle believes Pakistan paceman Shaheen Shah Afridi has every chance of making into the fab four list of bowlers. The list currently includes India’s Jasprit Bumrah, Australia’s Pat Cummins, New Zealand’s Trent Boult and South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada. Bhogle feels that the seamer has come up the […]