Pat Cummins – File Photo MELBOURNE – Australian pace spearhead Pat Cummins believes if hosting the ICC T20 World Cup amid a raging Covid-19 pandemic is a ‘drain on Indian resources’ or is ‘unsafe’, it would be prudent to shift it to the UAE. The postponement of Indian Premier League ...
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IPL/File Photo LONDON – Several Test grounds in England are ready to act as stand-in hosts for the concluding matches of this year s coronavirus-hit Indian Premier League, according to media reports published Thursday. The ESPNCricInfo website said MCC and Surrey, in charge of London s Lord s and the Oval respectively, together ...
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Image Source : AP India’s cricket chief Sourav Ganguly has defended the attempt to hold the Indian Premier League during the country’s coronavirus emergency, insisting it was not a mistake. The IPL was only called off because the number of cases “has just gone through the roof”, the Board of ...
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IPL SYDNEY – Cricket authorities in Australia, New Zealand and England rushed to evacuate top players from Covid-hit India on Wednesday, after the lucrative Indian Premier League was abandoned following a number of positive tests. Cricket Australia said plans were under way to fly 38 players and staff – including ...
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Image: Twitter The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 season has on Tuesday been postponed with immediate effect following deteriorating situation in the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. “The Indian Premier League Governing Council (IPL GC) and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in an emergency meeting has ...
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BCCI AHMEDABAD – The Indian Premier League postponed a match Monday after two Kolkata Knight Riders players tested positive for coronavirus, organisers said. Kolkata s match against Virat Kohli s Royal Challengers Bangalore was called off just hours before it was due to start in Ahmedabad, the first match to be postponed ...
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Credit: IPL NEW DELHI – Kane Williamson needs more time to get match fit, said Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach Trevor Bayliss, after the New Zealand captain sat out his Indian Premier League side’s opening defeat on Sunday. Hyderabad, led by Australia’s David Warner, lost to Kolkata Knight Riders by 10 ...
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File Photo MUMBAI – The Indian Premier League is not only one of the world’s most lucrative annual sporting properties but also among the most durable, with not even the lengthening shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic apparently able to stop the Twenty20 juggernaut. The Indian cricket board (BCCI), however, is ...
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PHOTO: Reuters England cricketers Saqib Mahmood, Jofra Archer and Sam Billings have lashed out at controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen after her distasteful tweet on Moeen Ali. Taslima, who has been in exile for more than 25 years after a fatwa was issued against her for ‘criticizing Islam’ by a ...
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Image tweeted by @cricketworldcup DHAKA – Bangladesh All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan expressed his desire to do something that has never been done before in the Indian Premier League, score a century and a claim a five-wicket haul in the same match. Shakib made the remark in an espncricinfo show titled ...
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