Category: Sports

KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board chief executive Wasim Khan on Tuesday met senior all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez to discuss the latter’s recent statements against the return of tainted players. In a recent interview on social media, the 39-year-old Hafeez had raised his concerns on the return of tainted players to Pakistan’s national team. “The PCB was not […]

MANCHESTER: FIFA are working on the details of a “Football Marshall plan” to deal with the financial fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic, which will almost certainly result in them dipping into their $2.7 billion reserves. World football’s governing body have set up a working group to look into the myriad of issues thrown up by […]

KARACHI: With the entire world is battling the coronavirus pandemic, Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq emphasised the need to keep the country’s cricketers motivated and focussed by urging them to focus clear while being confined indoors because of the lockdown. In a marathon teleconference on Tuesday, former national side skipper Misbah — who is also the […]

AS the world strives to grapple with an unprecedented health crisis caused by the novel coronavirus, every aspect of life is getting hampered due to the pandemic and cricket is not an anomaly in this regard. The entire sports industry is feeling the heat as the crisis unfolds and Pakistan’s biggest sporting event’s future has […]

LONDON: Azam Khan, who is regarded as one of the world’s best squash players, passed away at the age of 95 in London after a week-long battle with coronavirus.Khan tested positive for Covid-19 last week and breathed his last at London’s Ealing Hospital, family sources said on Saturday. Azam Khan, the younger brother of the […]

LONDON: England’s cricket players must “realise the bigger picture” and will be expected to take a pay cut as the country’s cricket governing body (ECB) tries to deal with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the Times reported on Sunday. More than 662,700 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus across the world and 30,751 […]

ROME: Italy’s sports minister said he will propose extending the ban on all competitions to the whole of April in an effort to contain the coronavirus. The current nationwide lockdown is due to expire on Friday but Italian health experts have said the need to try to contain Covid-19 will likely last weeks beyond that. […]

TOKYO: Tokyo Olympic organisers seem to be leaning away from starting the rescheduled games in the spring of 2021. More and more the signs point toward the summer of 2021. Japanese media reported on Sunday that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese organisers are in final stages of talks to set the opening date […]

NEW DELHI: Ravichandran Ashwin lightheartedly invoked his ‘mankad’ controversy with England’s Jos Buttler as India’s superstar cricketers urged the nation of 1.3 billion to observe its strict lockdown to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus. The spin bowler tweeted a picture of his dismissal of Buttler exactly a year ago in the Indian Premier League, when […]

LONDON: England all-rounder Chris Jordan has no regrets in staying on for the fifth edition of Pakistan Super League (PSL) when majority of the foreign players decided to withdraw from the tournament amid the coronavirus pandemic. Jordan, who represented Karachi Kings in the franchise-based T20 league, said that he felt comfortable in Pakistan as the […]