Category: Sports

WELLINGTON: Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has opened up on his fallout with longtime team-mate Ross Taylor. Speaking in an interview on Sky Sports Podcast, McCullum — now the head coach of Indian Premier League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders — recalled that New Zealand Cricket (NZC)’s decision to implement a public process to elect […]

LONDON: Whether the Tokyo Olympics should take place may soon become obvious, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said on Saturday. Coe’s comments came as numerous athletes and federations called for a delay in the competition, which is scheduled to run from July 24 to August 9, because of the coronavirus pandemic. “A decision on the […]

ATHENS: The International Olympic Committee faced mounting opposition on Sunday to the current schedule for the Tokyo 2020 Games as athletes, teams and federations called for a delay because of the coronavirus pandemic. IOC President Thomas Bach, who has insisted the Games will go ahead as planned, said any decision to change an Olympic Games […]

NEW DELHI: Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar has offered an unusual take on the coronavirus fight by comparing it to Test cricket, urging patience and teamwork, and warning “we have to defend well”. “While the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, this is probably the time for us to draw lessons from the grand old format of […]

SYDNEY: Australia’s two-time World Cup-winning former skipper Ricky Ponting considers the 2008 ‘Monkeygate’ scandal the lowest point of his captaincy stint as he feels he was not in control of what was happened at that time. The scandal unfolded when senior Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was charged with racially abusing Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds during […]

LONDON: English football will be suspended until at least April 30 due to the coronavirus crisis, but the current season can be extended indefinitely, the English game’s governing bodies said in a joint statement on Thursday. The Football Association, Premier League, EFL and women’s professional game bodies, along with players and managers associations, agreed to […]

SLAMABAD: Former skipper Ramiz Raja said on Thursday that the fifth edition of Pakistan Super League (PSL) has provided the country with some exciting and breakout batting talent. “For the past several years we were eager to see whether the PSL would provide the country talent in batting or not. Finally, after four years of […]

ATHENS: Tokyo 2020 organisers received the Olympic flame in a scaled-down handover ceremony in the Greek capital on Thursday, amid the coronavirus spread that has cast doubt on the global, multi-billion dollar event. In a brief ceremony closed to spectators in Athens’ Panathenaic stadium, site of the first modern Games in 1896, the torch was […]

ASUNCION: The Copa America due to kick off in June in Argentina and Colombia was on Tuesday postponed by a year to 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, organisers CONMEBOL said. The announcement came shortly after UEFA’s similar decision to also push back Euro 2020 by 12 months. The Copa is South America’s main continental […]

TOKYO: Tokyo 2020 organisers said on Tuesday they had taken the ‘heartbreaking’ decision to scale back parts of the Olympic torch relay due to the coronavirus, but stressed that spectators would still be allowed to watch from the roadside. Chief executive Toshiro Muto told reporters that the ‘grand start’ of the torch relay from the […]