Category: Sports

BERLIN: German football champions Bayern Munich kicked off their first match in more than two months on Sunday as Spain and Britain recorded their lowest daily coronavirus death tolls since March, but the devastating pandemic remained on the march elsewhere. With a worldwide virus death toll of nearly 312,000 and the global economy reeling from […]

MELBOURNE: Australian cri­cket chiefs are resigned to this year’s men’s Twenty20 World Cup being postponed, as momentum grows on the subcontinent for the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) to be held in the global event’s October-November timeslot. Though the tournament organisers are planning on the World Cup going ahead as scheduled, senior cricket figures hold […]

World number one Twenty20 batsman Babar Azam said on Monday that he was praying the coronavirus pandemic would not scupper his first T20 World Cup as skipper. Australia are due to host the seventh Twenty20 World Cup in October and November but organisers face challenges of providing appropriate bio-security and quarantine measures for 15 international […]

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Cricket Ireland announced on Thursday that the two T20 internationals scheduled to take place in Dublin in July have been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to a press release issued by the PCB, the decision has been taken after the Irish government announced that matches can take […]

DHAKA: Former South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis said quarantining players for two weeks before and after the ICC Twenty20 World Cup could allow it to take place in Australia this year despite the coronavirus pandemic. The tournament is due to be played in October-November but there is uncertainty after the cancellation of other major […]

KARACHI: Generally every new appointment at the top raises hopes of betterment on all fronts. In his maiden interaction with the media a day after being named as Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)’s Director High Performance, Nadeem Khan outlined a series of plans to improve the overall structure of the sport, including the mental growth of […]

BERLIN: With players’ voices bouncing off the empty stands and the leathery thud of the ball audible across the pitch, Germany’s Bundesliga will have a very different feel when it resumes on Saturday. Having been starved of action for two months due to the Covid-19 shutdown, German football fans must grudgingly and quickly adapt to […]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has once again made a contact with former Pakistan captain Salim Malik, sending a questionnaire relating to a pending inquiry against him, since 2011. Sources told Dawn on Thursday that until and unless Malik replies to the pending inquiry, he will not be cleared to join any cricket body affiliated with […]

ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad on Tuesday put his weight behind the idea of resuming cricket activities behind closed doors and asked cricket boards to find a way to hold activities during the ongoing coronavirus lockdown period. Playing without fans was suggested by some cricketers recently as one possible option to resume cricket and […]

LONDON: Former star Kevin Pietersen is concerned about England’s Test bowling resources when the long-serving pace duo of James Anderson and Stuart Broad call time on their careers. The experienced new ball pair, both in their 30s, have recently said they were aiming to be part of England’s bid to reclaim the Ashes in Australia […]