The best boxers in the world travel to Texas for the Most Valuable Promotions boxing event. For the main event, American Alycia Baumgardner (18-1-0) takes on Turkish boxer Elif Nur Turhan (14-0-0). The unification title bout is scheduled for 10 rounds. Nur Turhan’s IBF championship belt is on the line, so the winner will receive
Other players involved in the Cape Town controversy have repeatedly denied involvement or knowledge of the plot to alter the condition of the ball by rubbing it with sandpaper. Four bowlers who played for Australia in that Test – Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon – remain part of the team. Cummins
England fast bowler Josh Tongue has been ruled out of the upcoming white-ball tour of Australia with a toe injury. The 28-year-old suffered the injury in Pakistan last month and didn’t take part in the final two games of that tri-series. He will now return to the UK for further assessment and miss the one-day
Khawaja, who scored 6,229 runs in 88 Tests, said that discussions about tampering with the ball began during the second Test of the series against South Africa. That match, played at Port Elizabeth – now Gqeberha – led to what Khawaja said was the “discovery of sandpaper as an effective agent” after “open” discussions held
An amateur cricketer has been banned for two years for his role in the ‘Clicky Ponting’ cheating scandal that made headlines across the globe. Brian Devine, fielding at slip, clicked his fingers to mimic the noise of the ball taking the edge of the bat. Devine, playing for Saltburn second XI, was filmed in a
