Indian Subcontinent

World athletics chief Primo Nebiolo has assured British Sports Minister Tony Banks that London would have a good chance of staging the 2003 world championships if proposed renovations to Wembley Stadium are completed.

The Sri Lankan cricket board has signed a $7.75 million deal with India's Sony Entertainment Television that gives the company rights to telecast all matches played on the Indian Ocean island.

India have withdrawn from a three-match, one-day cricket series against world champions Australia scheduled for September, the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) said on Thursday.

ESPN Star Sports (ESS) will develop its broadcast feeds in Asia with the addition of the Philippines.

The Indian cricket team are temporarily dropping a cigarette logo, following the government's move to end sponsorship of sporting events by tobacco firms.

India's former captain Kapil Dev has appeared before the national cricket board's match-fixing investigator and made some changes to statements he had given earlier to a federal agency, the inquiry official said.

India's national soccer federation has called an emergency general meeting after a breakaway association was formed at the weekend, challenging its authority.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asked the country's president to order a judicial investigation into allegations of Pakistani involvement in match-fixing during last year's World Cup.

South African cricketers Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams have pleaded to accepting an offer of cash to under-perform in a one-day international match in India.

India's federal cabinet has approved the staging of the 2006 Asian Games in New Delhi if the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) bid is successful.

The West Indies' first official test tour of South Africa has been hit by a row over the players' payments.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) wants its members to relinquish their existing powers in order to tackle the divisive problem of corruption in the game.

The England Cricket Board will announce a new test match sponsor tomorrow to replace Cornhill Insurance who pulled out at the end of this year's series against West Indies.

The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) will investigate allegations by former Pakistan captain Salim Malik that Australians were involved in match-fixing on a 1994 tour of Pakistan.

A conspiracy of silence has surrounded corruption in world cricket, the first report of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) anti-corruption unit has said.

Sri Lanka's former cricket board chief has been summoned before a committee investigating alleged financial irregularities, a senior sports ministry official has said.