Karachi: The ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL) was on Tuesday suspended after the country’s Cricket Board revealed that a foreign player showed symptoms of the dreaded COVID-19 with former captain-turned-commentator Ramiz Raja claiming that it was England’s Alex Hales. The PSL had entered the knockout stages and semifinal matches were due to be played on Tuesday […]
New Delhi: The ED has attached assets worth Rs 2.6 crore in a money laundering case related to the alleged embezzlement of funds of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA), the central agency said on Saturday. A provisional order for attachment of assets has been issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) […]
New Delhi: The novel coronavirus outbreak has prompted six countries, including the deadly disease’s epicentre China, to withdraw from next month’s shooting World Cup here, the National Rifles Association of India (NRAI) revealed on Wednesday. The ISSF World Cup is slated to be held from March 15 to 26 at the Karni Singh Shooting Range […]
Potchefstroom: Bangladesh produced a combined effort with both bat and ball as they defeated defending champions India by 3 wickets in the final to lift their maiden Under-19 World Cup title in Potchefstroom (South Africa) on Sunday. Chasing a meager 178-run target, the Tigers looked in trouble on numerous occasions but injured Parvez Hossain Emon […]
SRINAGAR: Several members of Jammu and Kashmir Football Association (JKFA) have resigned from their membership citing its “undemocratic functioning” as the main reason and said least efforts are being put forth by the association for the betterment of game. Executive member of JKFA, Asif Maqbool- who also resigned – told Kashmir Reader that the association […]
INDORE: The action begins with the red cherry but the focus is firmly on the pink ball as formidable India look to overpower a depleted-but-gritty Bangladesh in the first Test of a two-match series starting here on Thursday. The rubber opens here but the buzz and the talk has been consistently centered on the second […]
HAMIRPUR (HIMACHAL PRADESH): Former BCCI president Anurag Thakur has lashed out at the International Cricket Council, saying it “has no relevance” without the world’s richest board, which “used to give the ICC seventy-five percent of grants” to run its affairs. Thakur, a union minister of state for finance and corporate affairs, was in the town […]
RANCHI: It would have been a dead rubber but with valuable World Test Championship points on offer, India would be eyeing victory while South Africa would be desperate for some consolation in a wretched tour when the third and final Test starts here on Saturday. There are 40 points on offer and a 3-0 series […]
GOHANA (HARYANA): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said his government was focussed on identification of merit and eliminating nepotism in sports, whereas the previous Congress-led regimes only “harvested the produce of scams”. Addressing a rally here in Sonipat district in the run-up to the October 21 Haryana Assembly polls, he said, “Our jawans and […]
PUNE: Tail-enders Keshav Maharaj and Vernon Philander set an example of gutsy batsmanship as South Africa fought hard against a quality attack but could not stop India from taking a massive 326-run lead on the third day of the second Test here. While a total of 275 in 105.4 overs is far from India’s mammoth […]