Athletes who had already qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics before they were postponed will keep their places when the showpiece takes place in 2021, according to sources. Around 57 per cent of the 11,000 scheduled participants for Tokyo had already made sure of taking part when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) pushed the Games […]
This is the year of the T20 World Cup and hence, the Indian management and selectors were looking at the Indian Premier League to identify players who could have been a part of India’s T20 World Cup squad. However, owing to the coronavirus pandemic, the BCCI was forced to push the IPL to April 15 […]
LONDON: After the abrupt postponement of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) by Pakistan Cricket Board in Lahore on Tuesday amid reports of an overseas cricketer carrying symptoms of the coronavirus, England batsman Alex Hales, who represented Karachi Kings, came forward to confirm that he did carry a few symptoms and had gone into self-isolation after reaching his […]
Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar believes the nation’s cricket board can only prosper if they have the right people taking decisions. He questioned the mentality of the elite class in Pakistan and said that they always want a weak person under them so that they can run affairs. “Elite class wants an average crowd under […]
Pakistan Cricket Board Chief Executive Officer Wasim Khan on Tuesday said that the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2020 has been postponed indefinitely after a foreign player who had left last week displayed symptoms of the coronavirus. He made these remarks at a press conference with other PCB officials in Lahore. At least 14 foreign players […]
Pakistan’s former Test captain and commentator Ramiz Raja on Tuesday claimed that England’s Alex Hales might have shown symptoms of the dreaded COVID-19 before flying back midway through the now-postponed Pakistan Super League (PSL). Raja made the statement while talking to the media in Lahore after the PSL was postponed on the day of its […]
A 21-year-old youth football coach has died in Malaga after contracting the dreaded COVID-19, his club said. Francisco Garcia, a youth team coach of Spanish league second division side Atletico Portada Alta, was found to be suffering from leukaemia after being rushed to a local hospital with severe COVID-19 symptoms. “We want to express our deepest […]
KARACHI: The Asian Confederation of Billiards Sports (ACBS) has postponed the 36th Asian Snooker Championship, eighth Asian Team and ninth 6-Reds competitions that were scheduled to take plate at Doha from March 27 to April seven due to fast spreading coronavirus pandemic. “Yes the annual events have been postponed by the Doha-based regional body for […]
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday decided to cut short the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2020 and hold the final match of the tournament on March 18 instead of March 23. According to a press release by the cricketing body, the playoff match has been replaced by the semi-finals, which will be held in Lahore’s […]
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday said that all players participating in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2020 have been given the option to pull out of the tournament amid growing fears of the coronavirus pandemic. However, a press release from the board announced that the tournament will continue as planned. Earlier in the day, Sindh […]