14th South Asian Games deferred to 2027

The 14th edition of the South Asian (SA) Games has once again been postponed. According to the revised schedule, the nine-day multi-sport event will now be held in Pakistan in March next year. The Games were originally scheduled to take place in March 2023.

Pakistan face Australia with T20 WC participation uncertain

Pakistan take on Australia in a three-match T20I series starting in Lahore from Thursday, despite doubts over their participation in next month’s World Cup in cricket’s shortest format. Pakistan are protesting over last week’s decision by the International Cricket Council (ICC), which rejected Bangladesh’s demand to relocate their matches out of India.

British-Bangladeshi owner of Lankan team sentenced over match-fixing

A Sri Lankan court handed the British owner of a Premier League team a four-year suspended sentence on Wednesday over match-fixing in the domestic T20 cricket tournament, a judicial official told AFP.

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