Category: Sports

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’ […]

ROME: Football will be totally different when it eventually resumes after the coronavirus outbreak, the head of global soccer body FIFA Gianni Infantino said on Thursday. “Football will come back, and when it does, we’ll celebrate coming out of a nightmare together,” he told the Italian news agency ANSA in an interview. “There is one […]

KARACHI: Legendary players have joined hands with the Karachi Sports Forum (KSF) in its campaign to distribute ration bags and medicines among the financially unstable athletes, ground staff and organisers in this difficult hour being faced by them due to the outbreak of Covid-19. Squash icon Jahangir Khan presented his autographed racket used in British […]

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is planning to unveil the formation of its provincial and city cricket association, which are due under the new constitution of the board promulgated on Aug 19. The PCB has to announce the office-bearers of the six provincial and 90 city cricket associations to put the domestic system back […]

TOKYO: A businessman who received millions of dollars for his work on Tokyo’s successful campaign to host the 2020 Olympics, which was postponed last week due to the coronavirus, said he played a key role in securing the support of a former Olympics powerbroker suspected by French prosecutors of taking bribes to help Japan’s bid. […]