Category: Sports

BUSAN: The world table tennis team championships due to take place in the South Korean city of Busan were postponed for a second time on Tuesday over the coronavirus pandemic. South Korea was among the earliest countries to be hit outside China — where the coronavirus first emerged — and for a time had the […]

PARIS: The start of the MotoGP season has been pushed back to June 21 at the earliest after organisers on Tuesday postponed the Italian and Catalan Grands Prix races due to the coronavirus. The Italian MotoGP was scheduled for May 31 with Catalunya fixed for June 7, but both have been pushed back with no […]

Players are putting pressure on cricket authorities to plan a shortened Twenty20 Indian Premier League later in the year to “kickstart” the sports economy after the coronavirus lockdown. The world’s richest cricket tournament has been postponed until April 15, which coincides with the end of India’s 21-day nationwide shutdown to halt the spread of the pandemic. […]

MELBOURNE: Organisers expect this year’s men’s Twenty20 World Cup to be a success even if it has to vie with Australian rules football and rugby league for viewers due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the head of the organising committee said on Sunday. The Oct 18-Nov 15 tournament was slotted into Australia’s sports calendar between the […]

MANCHESTER: FIFA is getting ready to deal with complaints and appeals over wage cuts for players, producing guidelines for clubs and football bodies looking to cut costs during the stoppage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, an internal document seen by Reuters showed. The issue of pay cuts for players has exploded as a major controversy […]

KARACHI: Former Pakistan bowling coach Azhar Mahmood has claimed that inappropriate gym training had cost injury-prone paceman Hasan Ali his fitness and his place in the team. Terming his tenure as satisfactory, the former bowling coach said that results during their time were quite good. Azhar further said that the fast bowler broke his back […]

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Twenty20 squad needs some adjustments, said head coach Mickey Arthur, who will be overseeing the team’s bid for a second 20-overs World Cup title later this year. In home fixtures last month, Sri Lanka swept a three-match One-day International series against West Indies but lost two Twenty20 Internationals. “Our T20 side is […]

KARACHI: As the uncertainty looms over the resumption of the halted fifth edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), the franchise teams who reached the semi finals — are found on the same wavelength regarding the formula to declare the winners. The fifth edition of the PSL was suspended just hours before the first semi […]

LONDON: Tony Lewis, one of the men behind the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method used in weather-affected limited overs cricket matches, has died aged 78, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Wednesday. “It is with much sadness that the ECB has learned of the passing of Tony Lewis MBE, aged 78,” said a statement. “Tony, […]

LONDON: England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chief executive Tom Harrison ‘volunteered’ on Wednesday to take the same 25 per cent pay cut as other employees in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, when Harrison unveiled the ECB’s 61 million pounds ($76 million) aid package in response to the ‘once in a generation’ […]