The new player contracts include a freeze in annual retainers for senior players but substantial increases for junior members of the national squad and A team. Test match fees were also increased, bringing Sri Lanka's match fees in line with their Asian neighbours.
Playwright and novelist Cyrus Mistry's English novel Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer and K R Meera's Aarachar in Malayalam are among the works that have won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award for this year.
The cyber attack affected the internet-connected televisions at the media centres and also shut down the official Winter Olympics website for around 20 minutes.
A dispute with Pakistan over 2011 one-day World Cup games needs to be resolved as soon as possible, International Cricket Council (ICC) president David Morgan said on Thursday.
Bayern Munich have signed midfielder James Rodriguez from Real Madrid on a two-year loan deal with an option to buy the player, the German champions said on Tuesday.
Pakistan will raise Cricket Australia's policy not to tour the country over security fears but travel to India at the International Cricket Council (ICC) next month, sports minister Najamuddin Khan said.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to take its compensation claim case against the Board of Control for Cricket in India to the disputes resolution committee of the International Cricket Council.
English cricket plunged into deep crisis with coach Peter Moores also resigning.
Pakistan's cricket authorities will brief the International Cricket Council about its security plan for the 2011 World Cup at the ICC Executive Board meeting in Dubai this weekend to retain its hosting rights for the mega event.
'Random displays of anger will end in punishment from the IOC and the loss of points in the World Cup, without achieving what we seek,' says Aakar Patel.
Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou will not be allowed to compete in the Beijing Games after her involvement in a doping scandal four years ago, the International Olympic Committee ruled on Sunday.
Organisers of the multi-million dollar Twenty20 Champions League due to start in September will review its scheduling following objections by the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body said in a statement. The India, Australia and South Africa cricket boards told the ICC executive board they would reconsider if they could change the dates for the September 29-October 8 event, after a meeting of top administrators discussed the issue, it said.
The Indian Cricket League (ICL) rubbished Mohammad Asif's claim that he was approached by the 'rebel' league with a mouth-watering offer and said the disgraced Pakistani pacer first has to come out clean from all doping charges. ICL executive board member and tournament director, Kiran More said they have no intentions of signing up the dope-tainted pacer.
In its first intervention in Asia since the beginning of the current financial crisis, the IMF has approved a $7.6 billion rescue fund for Pakistan that will support the country's economic stabilisation programme.
A sweeping reform package that changes how the scandal-hit governing body of world athletics operates was overwhelmingly passed at a special Congress on Saturday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday.
Pakistani and Indian cricket officials will get another opportunity on December 17 to sit across the table and discuss the strained and suspended bilateral cricket ties between the two nations.
Asian soccer chief Mohamed Bin Hammam narrowly fought off a vicious challenge to his seat on the FIFA executive board on Friday after one of the most vitriolic political battles the region's soccer world has known. The Qatari, who has held the seat unopposed since 1996, beat off the challenge of Bahrain's Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa by 23 votes to 21, with two spoiled papers, to put an end to the no-holds-barred fighting that has raged in the region.
Pakistan didn't harbour any hopes of India fulfilling its commitment of playing the series.
Iraq faces a year in the soccer wilderness after FIFA suspended it from all international competitions.
Mendu Rammohan Rao, dean of the Indian School of Business (ISB) and an independent director on the board of Satyam Computer Services till recently, has quit the prestigious B-school, according to reports.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
England cricket skipper Kevin Pietersen has resigned, Sky News reported on Wednesday. Pietersen, who was appointed last year, had been in dispute over the running of the team with England coach Peter Moores according to British media reports.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) executive board will hold a teleconference in Dubai on Sunday to decide the fate of the Champions Trophy, amid concerns by players about travelling to Pakistan for the event. An ICC task force set up to allay the safety concerns of the Australia, New Zealand, England and South Africa boards will hold its own teleconference first, on Friday, an ICC press release said on Wednesday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
After Bollywood legend Mithun Chakraborty, renowned Pakistani actor Moammar Rana is the second celebrity to associate with the Indian Cricket League. As per the alliance, Moammar, aka Momi will own a stake in ICL's Lahore Badshahs team and endorse and promote the team across both India and Pakistan.
The present set-up in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is still ruing a golden opportunity wasted by the deposed chairman of the board, Zaka Ashraf who declined a chance for Pakistan cricket to make big financial gains and have a bigger say in world cricket affairs.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is not expected to bow to demands that the Zimbabwe national board be banned but the organisation is set to discuss a possible suspension for the country's limited-overs side. The Board of Control for Cricket in India is opposed to the Zimbabwe board being suspended.
Karl-Ludwig Kley, chairman of the executive board, Merck, spoke to Business Standard about the company's plans and how it is weathering the global financial crisis.
Welcoming the decision by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to allow the cricketers aligned with the 'rebel' Indian Cricket League to play in domestic tournaments, former India wicketkeeper Kiran More on Friday said it is not only a memorable day for the ICL but also "victory of cricket". The decision was taken by the interim committee of the Sri Lanka Cricket, led by former skipper Arjuna Ranatunga.
The Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Zaka Ashraf, has called an emergency meeting of the governing board on February 3 to discuss the watered down draft proposals put forward by India, Australia and England at the ICC meeting this week in Dubai.
While their nearest chasers lost, Olympique Lyonnais succumbing 2-1 at home to struggling Lille and Monaco falling 1-0 at Nantes after a last-gasp Lucas Lima thunderbolt, PSG marched on without ever hitting top gear.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has no plans to cut short the global torch relay despite disruptions by protesters in London and Paris, Olympic chief Jacques Rogge told the Wall Street Journal. Reports the IOC executive board would consider scrapping the torch relay outside China at a meeting in Beijing later this week are "based on a misunderstanding", the IOC president told the paper.
The Indian Cricket League prematurely called of its World Twenty20 Series due to the terror attacks in Mumbai. The decision to call off the first leg of the second season was taken on Thursday evening at a high-level Executive Board meeting of the breakaway league in Ahmedabad.
The ICC may ban sledging after being prodded by the BCCI to take action against unsporting behaviour on the field.
South Africa's Imtiaz Patel was on Monday appointed as the next Chief Executive Officer of the International Cricket Council, which named India's I S Bindra as Principal Advisor, a new post at the game's world governing body.
The Indian Cricket League on Wednesday named Edelweiss Capital Limited as the title sponsor for its upcoming tournament. The Twenty20 tournament will be called 'Edelweiss 20s Challenge'.
The International Cricket Council failed to reach a decision on taking any action against the troubled Zimbabwe board at its annual conference in Dubai on Thursday. Divided over calls to suspend the Zimbabwe board, the ICC executive board pushed the debate into Friday after failing to find a solution at the end of its scheduled two-day meeting.
The ICC said the Champions Trophy would be held from September 24 to October 5 next year.
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