England players can leave the squad if following Covid-19 protocols become too mentally taxing for them, Test captain Joe Root said on Sunday. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called up former Indian skipper and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sourav Ganguly to know about his well-being. ....

Veteran South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn on Saturday said that he is taking a break from cricket and made himself unavailable for the 2021 Indian Premier League (IPL). ....

India cricketers Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Navdeep Saini and Prithvi Shaw have been put in isolation as both the Australian and Indian cricket boards launched an investigation into a video in which they are seen sitting indoors in a restaurant and suspected to be in breach of Cricket Australia's bio-security protocols. ....

Sourav Ganguly, the president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), was admitted to hospital in Kolkata on Saturday after he suffered a blackout at his home and complained of chest pain. ....

Pakistan captain Babar Azam has been named the Most Valuable Cricketer of the Year in the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) Awards 2020, the board said in a statement on Friday. Azam, 26, was in stellar form in 2020, averaging 110.5 and 55.2 in the ODIs and T20Is respectively. ....

An Indian fan was so overwhelmed by spotting Indian stars Rohit Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant at a restaurant here that he ended up paying for their food. The fan tweeted about the entire incident along with photos and a video. ....

Fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar was on Friday picked in the Uttar Pradesh squad for the first two matches of the T20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy after making expected recovery from the thigh injury he suffered during the Indian Premier League (IPL), and rule him out for six months. ....

World badminton champion PV Sindhu has said that moving to the United Kingdom for her training is one of the best moves she made during the Covid-19-induced break that she had from competitions for the better part of the year just gone by. ....

The Indian cricket board (BCCI) on Friday announced pace bowler T Natarajan as replacement of Umesh Yadav in the India squad for the last two Test matches against Australia to be played in Sydney and Brisbane. ....

Rafael Nadal was more determined to beat Novak Djokovic in the French Open final when he heard that the duel will be played indoors, said Carlos Moya, a former tennis player and Nadal's coach. ....