ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020 postponed due to coronavirus
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020 has been officially postponed after the ICC board met virtually on Monday. The global event was supposed to be held from October 18 to November 15 in Australia but the country’s cricket board had, in May itself, expressed its inability to host amid a second surge of COVID-19 cases in the […]
Officials of PCB U-16 event yet to receive payments
LAHORE: The present regime of the Pakistan Cricket Board, which has been functioning at a snail’s pace, has not made payments to the officials who officiated the matches of a PCB U-16 event staged in December 2019, it has emerged. The PCB organised a three-day and a one-day tournament for U-16 age group from Nov […]
Du Plessis voices support for BLM
JOHANNESBURG: Former South African captain Faf du Plessis on Friday came out in support of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and said a comment he made in January that ‘we don’t see colour’ had been a mistake. The BLM issue has shown up racial divisions in South African cricket, with 30 black former international players claiming […]
IPL 2020 to be held in UAE, conditions apply
The Indian Premier League is likely to be held in the UAE during October and November, subject to government clearance and the International Cricket Council (ICC) announcing the postponement of the T20 World Cup scheduled to be held in Australia. BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah apprised the members at the Apex Council meeting […]
Rusty England’s loss in Southampton not to make Pakistan favourites: Shan
KARACHI: Despite England’s defeat in the opening Test of the three-match West Indies series, Shan Masood has refused to tip Pakistan as favourites when the tourists come up against Joe Root’s side next month in their three-Test rubber. Speaking to reporters here during an online Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) media conference from the national team’s […]
PCB yet to to attract major sponsorship deal for national team
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) may not get any handsome sponsorship for the senior national team, which currently touring England, mainly due to weak financial position of the market in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. A sizeable sponsorship deal is essential at this stage for the Pakistan team which is not displaying any […]
‘There has never been any unity:’ Ashwell Prince claims ‘South Africa’s system broken’
Former batsman Ashwell Prince has claimed that several South Africa batsman including himself were abused racially during the 2005 tour of Australia. Prince revealed that the team went on with the match regardless of what had transpired but when the management took up the issue with the ICC match referee, the players’ concerns were dismissed. […]
Australia must tour England for cricket’s health, says Langer
MELBOURNE: Australia must tour England for the ‘health of world cricket’ and let their top players compete in this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) if it goes ahead, head coach Justin Langer has said. Australia are slated to tour England for limited overs series in September despite the logistical challenges posed by the novel coronavirus […]
PCB yet to adopt new domestic system as BoGs tenure nears end
LAHORE: While the tenure of the incumbent Board of Governors (BoGs) of the Pakistan Cricket, which is primarily composed of the members who represented the now-defunct regions and departments, is expiring on Aug 8 this year, the Board seems still far from replacing them with new members because the process to revamp the domestic system […]
New era for cricket as England, WI clash in first Test
SOUTHAMPTON: International sport finally returns to Britain on Wednesday when England take on the West Indies in the world’s first cricket Test match since the start of March because of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Its clear the match being staged at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton is about much more than just cricket. A […]
