Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews hopes to utilise Mahela Jayawardene’s inside knowledge of the England set-up when the two teams meet in a Test series later this month.Jayawardene, one of Sri Lanka’s greatest batsman but retired from international cricket since last year’s 50-over World Cup, recently acted as a batting consultant to England including at the World Twenty20 in India where his ‘adopted’ team reached the final.Jayawardene, who is due to have a stint playing for county side Somerset in...
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English county side Hampshire have signed one West Indies fast bowler to replace another after confirming Monday that Tino Best had signed a short-term contract following the ankle injury suffered by Fidel Edwards. Surgery now beckons for Edwards, who fractured his ankle during a pre-match football kick-about during Hampshire’s First Division draw away to county champions Yorkshire at Headingley last week. Edwards’s setback was one of the more bizarre blows that have affected an injury-hit Hampshire this season, with newly-signed...
Ireland will face Afghanistan in a five-match one-day series at Belfast’s Stormont ground in July, officials announced Tuesday.The teams are two of the world’s leading non-Test or Associate nations.Afghanistan impressed again on the international stage during the recent World Twenty20 in India, where they caused losing finalists England to suffer a top-order collapse and beat eventual champions the West Indies in a group match.For Ireland, the July 10-19 series will be their first five-match campaign and comes in a home...
Sunderland said Thursday they intended to terminate the contract of Emmanuel Eboue before he had even kicked a ball in anger for the club after FIFA ordered the defender to serve a one-year ban over fees owed to a former agent.However, the Ivory Coast international can automatically end the ban if he pays the money to his ex-agent Sebastien Boisseau, the world governing body said. FIFA, announcing the suspension earlier on Thursday, said the ban covers “any football-related activity that...
Arsene Wenger admitted that he faces a tough job lifting his Arsenal players for this week’s trip to Barcelona following...
Europe’s main stock markets fell at the start of trading on Tuesday, mirroring a pull-back in Asia following a global rally that kicked off the week. London’s FTSE 100 benchmark index dropped 0.6 percent to 6,000.3 points. In the eurozone, Frankfurt’s DAX 30 index slid 0.7 percent to 9,503.1 points and the Paris CAC 40 shed 0.6 percent to 4,272.2 compared with Monday’s close. World stocks had surged on Monday behind strengthening oil prices, even as worries of a potential...
Junior doctors in England started their first ever all-out strike Tuesday in a bitter, deadlocked row with Prime Minister David...
Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho is being investigated by UEFA over a possible anti-doping rule violation, the Premier League club revealed on Saturday.Sakho has not been suspended over the potential violation, but Liverpool have decided to leave out the France international while the probe continues and he was absent from the squad for Saturday’s league fixture against Newcastle United at Anfield.Reports in France claim Sakho tested positive for a fat burner after the Reds’ 1-1 draw against Manchester United in the...
As millions prepare to tune in to the glamorous Indian Premier League, another major domestic cricket tournament will also start this weekend.But, unlike the IPL the only fireworks to be seen at an English ground when the venerable County Championship starts on Sunday will come if hardy fans are denied a reviving cup of tea.Meanwhile the sight of IPL dancing cheerleaders would likely spark a medical emergency among elderly spectators were it to be repeated in the rather more prosaic...
Chelsea’s interim boss Guus Hiddink has targeted a place in the much-maligned Europa League as he tries to prevent his team’s season from petering out.Chelsea showed that they have not given up on their season by fighting back for a 2-2 draw on Saturday against West Ham United, who would have moved into the Champions League places with a victory. Cesc Fabregas twice equalised, late in each half, in a match that should have mattered less to Chelsea than West...
The bosses of more than a third of Britain’s top companies on Tuesday urged voters to keep the country in the European Union, warning that a “Brexit” would threaten jobs. Some 198 business leaders including Roger Carr, chairman of BAE Systems, BP CEO Bob Dudley and Ron Dennis, chief of F1 team McLaren, wrote a joint letter published in the Times, backing Prime Minister David Cameron’s deal to reform the EU. “Following the prime minister’s renegotiation, we believe that Britain...
Police arrested a man for throwing a lighter onto the pitch during Chelsea’s FA Cup win over Manchester City at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, while investigations continue into coin-throwing at visiting players.Objects were thrown when David Faupala celebrated with City teammates in the corner of the pitch, near Chelsea fans, after scoring on his debut in the first half of a match that the hosts went on to win 5-1.“The man was arrested for throwing a lighter onto the pitch...
