Chaminda Vaas appointed ?Emerging Team? Head Coach

Formula 1 to stop using ‘grid girls’ this season

‘Grid girls’ will no longer be used by Formula 1 from the start of the 2018 World Championship season. Sean Bratches, managing director of commercial operations, said the change would be made “so as to be more in tune with our vision for this great sport”. F1 managing director of motorsports Ross Brawn told BBC Radio 5 live in December that the use of female promotional models was?“under review”. The new F1 season begins on 25 March. “While the practice of employing grid girls has been a sta

01 Feb, 2018

Dangerous pitch halts South Africa v India Test

Umpires chose to end play prematurely on day three of the third Test between South Africa and India because of concerns over the Johannesburg pitch. Cracks in the Wanderers surface widened to cause inconsistent, exaggerated bounce and excessive seam movement. Play was halted after the Proteas’ Dean Elgar was hit on the helmet grille by a bouncer from India’s Jasprit Bumrah – the fourth blow he had suffered. It was later confirmed that the match would resume as scheduled on Saturday. Earlier,

27 Jan, 2018

Sri Lanka can ill afford slip-ups

Sri Lanka will play for a spot in the triangular One-Day International series final when they take on Bangladesh in the last round-robin match in Dhaka on Thursday (January 25). Although the safest passage to the final will be a victory, Sri Lanka can also scrape past Zimbabwe on net run-rate should they manage to keep Bangladesh to a narrow victory. Both Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, who have wound up their league engagements, are locked on four points. Sri Lanka?s net run-rate is -0.989, while Zimb

24 Jan, 2018