Newswire Naples: Argentina Football Association (AFA) president Claudio Tapia has confirmed talks are ongoing regarding a one-off game between Argentina and Italy to commemorate the life of Diego Maradona.The Argentina legend died on November 25 at the age of 60 following a heart attack.UEFA and CONMEBOL are reportedly looking to organise the encounter between Copa […]

Martin Smith With two T20 World Cups in the space of 12 months and the next World Test Championship cycle about to get underway, it’s understandable that the 2023 50-over World Cup may not be front of mind for cricket fans right now.But while it may have gone under the radar, Australia’s one-day World Cup […]

Andy Bull Five minutes into this interview, I tell Andrew Flintoff that I know he’s fibbing. Flintoff, who is part of Sky’s commentary team for the Hundred, is talking about how happy he is to be involved in cricket again having spent the past few years working on Top Gear, Lord of the Fries, Australian […]

Andrew Fidel Fernando Angelo Mathews has informed Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) he is considering retirement, after turning down the tour contract for the forthcoming series against India.Mathews, 34, in understood to be disillusioned at the treatment he and fellow senior players have received during the contracts standoff with the board. He was also unhappy to […]

Newswire Tim Tszyu ended Stevie Spark within three rounds as Aussie boxing’s golden boy demolished the challenger with a relentless barrage of brutal body shots.It was an intriguing fight as Tszyu had everything to lose while Spark could only enhance his reputation by putting up any sort of resistance. Bravely stepping into the ring with […]

Do you really want to know? If you’re not the kind of person who acts with flagrant disregard towards your own mental health, it’s perhaps best to stop reading here. The answer to the question above is the kind that starts with mocking guffaws, turns into nervous laughter as truths begin to hit home, morphs […]

Allan Fox Deontay Wilder took to social media this week to warn Tyson Fury that he’s going to be running over him like a train next month in their trilogy match on July 24th.This warning is former WBC heavyweight champion Wilder’s way of topping Fury’s recent prediction in which he said he was going to […]

Two-time T20 World champion Daren Sammy has been added to the Cricket West Indies (CWI) board as an independent non-member director. Sammy was one of three appointments of Independent Directors approved at last Thurday’s CWI Board of Directors’ meeting to serve for the next two years. Sammy joined Trinidadian Attorney Mrs. Debra Coryat-Patton and Jamaican […]

New Zealand’s Devon Conway and South Africa’s Quinton de Kock have been signed as overseas replacements by the Southern Brave for English cricket’s inaugural edition of the Hundred, it was announced this week. The Hampshire-based franchise were in the market for top-order batsmen after Australia’s David Warner and Marcus Stoinis withdrew citing Covid-19 travel complications. […]

Newswire Islamabad: The Gerry’s Diplomatic Football League closing ceremony was organized Friday evening at Marriot hotel Islamabad. Different awards were distributed among the participating Embassies teams who participated with their diplomats and local staff in the football league. The ceremony was attended by different ambassadors Julius Kibet Bitok, Nigerian High Commissioner , Nicolaus Keller, Austrian […]

West Indies cricketer Jason Holder, who continues to top the ICC Test all-rounders rankings, said this week that a good foundation in white ball cricket is possible only if players give due importance to Test cricket.“My Test cricket has gone really, really well…One-day cricket, I really enjoy that, and in T20, I’m truly now getting […]

Joel Drucker Picture yourself on a spaceship. It zooms across the galaxy. The ship lands on Saturn, nearly 1,000 million miles from earth. You exit and are delighted to see two tennis courts. As you open the gate to one of them, you suddenly hear a loud voice, its cadence akin to that of a […]

New Zealand captain Sophie Devine has opened up on her decision to take a break from the game at the end of last season, with her fatigue having reached a point where she did not feel able to do herself or her team justice. Devine stepped away after the first T20I against Australia in late […]

Fans were treated this week to the highly anticipated, albeit unlikely, matchup between champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and YouTube sensation Logan Paul. The fight at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, went the distance (eight rounds) and no winner was declared because there were no judges. Paul, who is 26 years old, 6’2, […]

The men’s Cricket World Cup will once again be a 14-team tournament in 2027 and 2031, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Tuesday.Only 10 teams contested the 2019 World Cup, won by hosts England, and 10 will take part in the 2023 event, compared to 14 teams in 2015 and 2011.The news came as […]

Iain Carter As the world’s best female golfers gather for the US Women’s Open in San Francisco, the withdrawal of Naomi Osaka from the French Open tennis should prompt pause for thought.Like tennis, golf is an individual sport where, especially on the women’s side, there is constant pressure to make the most of public attention.Osaka’s […]

David Boulos As more and more people embrace the outdoors, the benefits of hiking can be life-changin. The news hit me hard.I always thought of myself as a relatively sporty, healthy person, even if I was not always consistent with my workouts.Over the years I’ve been into cardio exercises, CrossFit, weightlifting and mixed martial arts, […]

Riyadh: When Manchester City captain Fernandinho lifted the Premier League trophy this week after the 5-0 thrashing of Everton, it marked the fifth time in 10 seasons that the club owned by Sheikh Mansour had been crowned champions of England.Yet while the previous four titles had been played out against a traditional backdrop of home […]

In December 2019, 60 Minutes contributing correspondent Jon Wertheim visited Nadal in his hometown on Mallorca, the Spanish island where he was born and lives. Rather than use the time to rest before the start of a new season, Nadal was working intensely, honing his southpaw forehand and double-fisted backhand. Wertheim watched as Nadal played […]

Andrew Reid Chasing a daunting 437 to win, Bangladesh batsmen were troubled by Sri Lanka spinners Praveen Jayawickrama and Ramesh Mendis who took the five wickets on a crumbling wicket.Sri Lanka set Bangladesh a formidable target of 437 by declaring their second innings on 194 for nine at the hill city of Pallekele. No team […]

Former Sri Lanka skipper Thisara Perera has announced his retirement from international cricket on Monday, ahead of a white-ball tournament against Bangladesh. The 32-year-old all-rounder — who captained his country in the limited-over formats — told Sri Lanka Cricket, the governing body of the sport in the country, that he was stepping down to clear […]

Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, England and a nation from the Caribbean have all qualified for the women’s event 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Women’s cricket will feature at the Games for the first time, and cricket for the second time, after a men’s ODI competition, which was staged in Kuala Lumpur in […]

Ken Hissner There have been many opinions on “who was the greatest pound for pound boxers in the history of boxing?” Going way back, there was Sam Langford, 180-29-30 (128), Stanley Ketchel, 51-4-4 (48), Willie Pep, 229-11-1 (65), Harry Greb, 107-8-3 (48), and Jack Johnson, 56-11-8 (35).In the more modern times, “Sugar” Ray Leonard, 36-3-1 […]

Cricket’s return to the Olympics is moving closer, with the possibility that it could do so in the T10 format. That has emerged in the wake of the ICC’s scheduling meetings for a new calendar from 2023 onwards, which took place last week, with the BCCI and ECB, two key boards in any push, showing […]

Kamakshi Tandon Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are both chasing the Grand Slam record—but only one of them wants to talk about it.Nadal has won a record-tying 20 Grand Slams alongside Roger Fedrer, and is a perennial favorite for the French Open, while Djokovic won his 18th major at the Australian Open.Though Djokovic has spoken […]

Former Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak has been banned for eight years after being charged with – and admitting to – five breaches of the ICC’s anti-corruption code, including accepting a payment in bitcoins from a potential corruptor.Streak, Zimbabwe’s greatest fast bowler, had been under investigation for an extensive list of games through 2017 and 2018, […]

Argentinian tennis player Franco Feitt has been handed a lifetime ban from the sport for his involvement in multiple match fixing activities between 2014 and 2018, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said.Feitt, who had a highest ATP singles ranking of 920, admitted to nine breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program rules, including five counts […]

Martin Smith Pakistan were on the wrong side of a rare and contentious ‘fake fielding’ ruling during their tense 17-run loss to South Africa in Johannesburg. Fakhar Zaman’s scintillating 193 proved not quite enough for Pakistan, who lost the second one-day international at The Wanderers as the hosts levelled the three-game series.But the final victory […]