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In words that would be music to all the fans and stakeholders in Indian cricket, BCCI CEO Rahul Johri on Wednesday said that plans are on to hold IPL-13, which has been postponed indefinitely because of Covid-19, with Indian and international players post monsoon season. The BCCI is banking heavily on the International Cricket Council (ICC) postponing the T20 World Cup in Australia, scheduled to be held from October 18 to November 15. "More people watched the IPL last year than those who

The Qatar Football Association (QFA) has decided to complete the Amir Cup for the current season. The QFA decision was conveyed to the clubs provided the dates of the remaining two phases are determined later. The competition stopped after the end of the quarter-finals while the semis and and final were scheduled to be held when coronavirus outbreak happened. Al Sadd meets Al Duhail and Al Arabi with Al Markhiya in the semifinals. Amir Cup is the season-ending tournament and was supposed to

International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach says the Tokyo Games would have to be scrapped if the event cannot be held next year due to the COVID-19 crisis. In March, the IOC and Japanese government took the unprecedented decision to delay the Games, which had been due to start in July, for a year due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. However, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said the multi-sports event cannot take place in 2021 unless the virus is contained and Bach said

Germany's Bundesliga became the first top European league to restart at the weekend with leaders Bayern Munich staying four points clear following a 2-0 win at Union Berlin behind closed doors. After a two-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, draconian hygiene measures were enforced at all nine matches. The players are being regularly tested for the virus and substitutes wore face masks while sitting spaced out on the benches. The games took place without fans with the players' voices audible inside the

Barbershops and salons remain closed in most parts of India despite an easing of lockdown restrictions, which might explain why legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar played hairstylist for son Arjun. Taking to Instagram, the batsman showed off his skills with a comb and scissors, trimming his 20-year-old son’s hair with the help of “hair salon assistant” — daughter Sara. He used a trimmer to complete the hairstyle and the video got over 3 million views in less than 24 hours. Posting the video, the cricketer wrote,

The coronavirus has made footballers cheap. At ProFootballDB, we have decided to see how much the value of individual players has been affected by the virus. Kylian Mbappe is the most valuable player while Neymar has been the most affected. There are more and more transfer stories these days and they are all about swap deals rather than multi-million euro signings due to the coronavirus crisis. Clubs have less money, but the players are also less valuable and at ProFootballDB we have decided to measure it.

The former Red Devils winger says that a fellow Portuguese would admit to having transfer thoughts long before a big-money deal was done Cristiano Ronaldo dropped hints about leaving Manchester United long before a record-breaking move to Real Madrid was pushed through, former team-mate Nani has revealed. The Portuguese superstar was snapped up by the Red Devils from Sporting in the summer of 2003. Six memorable years would be spent at Old Trafford, with a five-time Ballon d’Or winner collecting the first of his Golden Balls while in England – along with three

Actor Anushka Sharma took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a video of her husband, cricketer Virat Kohli, pretending to be a dinosaur. Anushka captioned the post, “I spotted .... A Dinosaur on the loose.” In the video, Virat is seen entering the room, holding his arms near his chest and walking in an animated manner. He stops, turns to the camera, and lets out a screech. The post has been ‘liked’ nearly a million times. Anushka’s brother and producing partner Karnesh Ssharma wrote in the

One player and two staff at Watford and Burnley assistant manager Ian Woan are among six positive Premier League tests for coronavirus. The other two are at a third club, the details of which have not been revealed. Players and staff who have tested positive will now self-isolate for seven days. It comes as squads started non-contact training on Tuesday, as the Premier League steps up plans for a restart. A total of 748 players and staff from 19 clubs were tested. Norwich City did

The topic of a European League is raised with predictable regularity. Anyone who thinks this is a new phenomenon is mistaken. Way back in 1957, the English Football Association called a meeting of the four home countries, together with Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and Belgium, to explore the possibility of some kind of European link-up. At the time, the English First Division (the precursor to the Premier League) was being heavily criticized from all quarters. Improvements to air travel and a growing interest

On the site of the famous bookmaker you will always find the latest betting options for sporting events, politics, finance, show business, and much more. When sporting events take a break, the feature of placing bet sport online on 1xBet is still available and offers a wide selection of forecasts. Convenient registration in one click will allow you to place bets immediately after login to your account. To start betting, you have to spend no more than three minutes on it. On the

With the Bundesliga back under way and with our brains reprogrammed solely onto German football for the time being, it may be simple for the new fans among us to assume that it's just Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund who have historically dominated the league in recent times. And to be honest, that's often fairly accurate...but occasionally, an underdog has come along and upset the status quo. It could even happen this campaign with Mönchengladbach and RB Leipzig in hot pursuit of the top

Bremen (Germany), May 19 Bayer Leverkusen cruised past Werder Bremen 4-1 as the Bundesliga completed its first full round of games on Monday after resuming competition. German soccer has so far avoided major pitfalls in three days of games following a two-month suspension for the coronavirus pandemic. Some of Leverkusen''s players clustered together after scoring in Werder''s empty stadium, rather than opting for the league''s recommended celebrations of minimal physical contact. Werder was without one player who was isolating at home after someone

Football is back and fans who have been starved of watching any live sport, can finally tune into their TV sets, grab a bowl of popcorn, and enjoy some live football action courtesy Bundesliga, the German football league. For a couple of months, fans and sport stars have been keeping themselves entertained through home videos and it is quite a coincidence that arguably the best football home video comes at a time when the actual sport is back live on television. A cat has

Top-flight football returned for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic brought the sporting calendar to a grinding halt across the globe. The Bundesliga returned in Germany in empty stadiums as sport-starved fans got a taste of what the future of sport would be like in the wake of the pandemic. Some of the big names, including leaders Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, were in action on the weekend of the league's restart. The games were played in front of empty stands in

On Monday, the ICC Cricket Committee headed by Anil Kumble banned saliva use to shine the ball. Also, non-neutral umpires made a coronavirus-forced return for all international matches. Saliva ban Henceforth, players would be barred from using saliva to shine the ball. The decision has been taken today, as the Kumble-led Cricket Committee had a meeting via conference call that addressed issues like maintaining the condition of the match ball. Reason The ICC says changes to regulations have been brought in to “to mitigate the risks

#TeamPlWDLFAGDPts1Bayern Munich261844752649582Borussia Dortmund261664723339543M'gladbach261646523121524RB Leipzig261493632736515Bayer Leverkusen261556493118506Wolfsburg26109736315397SC Freiburg2610793536-1378Schalke2691073340-7379Hoffenheim26105113546-113510Cologne26103134147-63311Hertha Berlin2687113548-1331121. FC Union Berlin2693143243-113013Eintracht Frankfurt2584133944-52814FC Augsburg2676133754-172715Mainz2683153655-192716Fortuna Dusseldorf2658132750-232317Werder Bremen2546152859-311818SC Paderborn 072645173054-2417 GLOSSARY PL: PlayedW:WinsD:DrawsL:LossesF:Goals ForA:Goals AgainstGD:Goal DifferencePts:Points FIXTURES May 2020 Friday 22nd May Hertha Berlin 19:30 1. FC Union Berlin Saturday 23rd May M'gladbach 14:30 Bayer Leverkusen SC Freiburg 14:30 Werder Bremen SC Paderborn 07 14:30 Hoffenheim Wolfsburg 14:30 Borussia Dortmund Bayern Munich 17:30 Eintracht Frankfurt Sunday 24th May Schalke 12:30 FC Augsburg Mainz 14:30 RB Leipzig Cologne 17:00 Fortuna Dusseldorf Tuesday 26th May Borussia Dortmund 17:30 Bayern

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Sunday announced that stadiums across the country are allowed to open but will see no gathering of crowd. The relaxation is part of the fourth phase of the nation-wide lockdown due to the COVID-19, and could potentially lead to resumption of sports in some capacity going forward. “Sports complexes and stadium will be permitted to open; however, spectators won’t be allowed,” read one of the guidelines to be followed during the lockdown, which has extended till May

Players arriving in several sparsely-populated team buses, substitutes wearing masks and goal celebrations limited to elbow bumps – when German football returns to the pitch this weekend, it will have to follow a draconian set of guidelines. The German Football League presented political leaders with a 51-page document of guidelines to earn the right for the Bundesliga to become the first of Europe’s big five leagues to resume action. The matches will be surrounded by extraordinary measures to protect players and officials from infection by coronavirus. And the

Former Australian captain Ian Chappell feels India skipper Virat Kohli's penchant for playing copybook cricketing shots and his incredible fitness make him the world's best batsman across formats among the current generation of cricketers. "Of that group (including Steve Smith, Kane Williamson, Joe Root), Kohli is the best in all three forms. That's unquestionable," Chappell said on 'The RK Show', which is hosted by Radhakrishnan Sreenivasan on YouTube."His record in all three forms is quite unbelievable, particularly his record in the shorter forms." Chappell's comments come after former