Author: Sayak Dipta Dey

The FIFA adjudicatory committee has extended the bans of ex-president Sepp Blatter and former secretary-general Jerome Valcko in charges of violation of code of conduct. FIFA announced the extension of a ban on former president Sepp Blatter for six more years on charges of receiving economic benefits, violating code of loyalty, conduct and ethics, mismanagement of employment contracts and reimbursing private legal funds to several FIFA officials and involved in a conflict of interest within the international federation. Former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke was also found guilty of making illegal payments about several FIFA competitions surrounding the 2010 World…

Afghanistan superstar Rashid Khan is a doubtful starter for the first Test against Zimbabwe, which is scheduled to start on the 2nd of March in Abu Dhabi. He suffered a finger injury in the ongoing Pakistan Super League (PSL). The 22-year-old leg-spinner was playing for the Lahore Qalandars and in the game against Quetta Gladiators, he was hit on his finger by a shot from Chris Gayle. Rashid was picked up by the Lahore Qalandars as the platinum player in the PSL draft in January, earlier this year. However, he was supposed to miss a large part of this sixth edition…

Things haven’t come easy for most cricketing boards around the world since the COVID-19 pandemic. Revenues have been hit big-time and they are working day and night to get back on their feet once again. Almost every cricket board is hopeful of conducting big-ticket bilateral competitions. However, things have been pretty blurry for Cricket South Africa (CSA). England’s white-ball tour of South Africa was called off midway through in December 2020 due to the alleged bio-bubble breach and in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Three T20Is were played, but the three-match ODI series remained incomplete. Sri Lanka toured for…

The Indian national football team is all set to get back in action at the international stage in March when the Blue Tigers will go up against Oman and United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dubai. Indian football team players are very happy and up for the challenge, as they expressed their views on the two international friendlies against top oppositions. It’s a brilliant piece of news not just for us players but for Indian football overall that we will be playing again at the international arena,All India Football Federation’s (AIFF) official website quoted goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu as saying. With…

It was in May of last year that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced its central contracts. However, they have made some changes to it. The impressive wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan who has been on a roll in Test cricket and T20Is, has been upgraded to the highest bracket (Category A). He joins skipper Babar Azam, Azhar Ali and Shaheen Afridi in the top-most bracket of the PCB’s central contract list for the 2020-21 season. He was in the Category B central contract list before but from the time the contracts were released in May 2020, Rizwan is leading the…