Category: Sports

MONTREAL: The women’s Rogers Cup tournament in Montreal, one of the key build-up events ahead of the US Open, was axed on Saturday and will not be played until 2021, officials said. The event, scheduled for August 7-16, had been in jeopardy after Quebec Province requested that all sporting and cultural events be cancelled through […]

It may be two decades since the Hansie Cronje corruption scandal rocked cricket, but even now the ripples are still being felt. This month marks the 20th anniversary of Cronje being stripped of the South Africa captaincy following an extraordinary sequence of events in 2000. In January, come the last day of a ‘dead’ Test […]

SYDNEY: Australia’s proposed Test tour of Bangladesh in June has been officially postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic and both boards will now work together to find new dates to reschedule the series in the future. Australia Test captain Tim Paine recently said that it would not take ‘Einstein’ to conclude that Australia’s Test series […]

SYDNEY: Australian cricket captain Tim Paine on Thursday rubbished ex-skipper Michael Clarke’s claims that his team had “sucked up” to Kohli in order to land fat deals with IPL franchises, calling it a tactical decision not to engage Kohli into verbal duel during the 2018-19 series but there was no other motivation. “I certainly didn’t […]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has referred Umar Akmal’s case to Chairman of the Disciplinary Panel, headed by Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan – the former Lahore High Court Judge – after middle-order batsman Umar Akmal did not request for a hearing before the Anti-Corruption Tribunal in a corrupt practice incident which took place on […]

LAHORE: Pakistan Test captain Azhar Ali on Thursday expressed the hope that the International Cricket Council (ICC) while considering the global impact of coronavirus pandemic would extend the date of final of the inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) scheduled for June next year. “In the current situation it seems difficult that all member countries will […]

ROME: Italy’s football federation (FIGC) has begun to draw up medical guidelines for a possible re-start of Serie A, which has been suspended since March 9 because of the coronavirus outbreak. The FIGC said that its medical committee held a video conference on Wednesday to“analyse and define a guarantee protocol for football in the event […]

KARACHI: Pakistan cricket team’s bowling coach and former fast bowling legend Waqar Younis said on Monday that he knows his limits as bowling coach and is trying to focus on improving the skills of all young fast bowlers. Talking to media persons during an online digital video session from Australia, Waqar said that Misbah ul […]

Australian cricketers “sucked up” to India and Virat Kohli by holding back on verbal sledging to protect lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) deals, according to former Australia captain Michael Clarke. Clarke said players were “too scared” to play a normal game against India because of the influence of the world’s wealthiest cricket tournament. “Everybody knows […]

LAHORE: A number of national hockey players have started physical training at their homes to maintain high level of fitness for their possible selection for future international hockey events once the coronavirus pandemic is finally brought under control. “The players have engaged themselves in physical training on the direction of head coach of the team, […]