Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's scandal-tainted cricket board has suspended its chief executive amid reports of a multi-million dollar television rights dispute.

The one-day tournament between England, South Africa and Sri Lanka later this month, the first international cricket series in England to be played in coloured clothing, is to be sponsored by Emirates airline.

Matches in a triangular one-day cricket tournament involving India, New Zealand and hosts Sri Lanka to be held in the central city of Dambulla have been shifted to Colombo due to a money dispute, the Sri Lankan cricket chief said on Thursday.

The International Cricket Council will not penalise or sanction India if they do not participate in the forthcoming Sharjah cricket tournament involving Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka's Cricket Board has said it would "most likely" call for a criminal investigation into match-fixing allegations against former captain Arjuna Ranatunga and Aravinda de Silva.

The eighth South Asian Federation (SAF) Games, the region's biggest sports event, will be held in Kathmandu next year, organisers have said.

The biennial South Asian soccer tournament in Dhaka has been postponed to early 2002 from late this year, Asian soccer authorities have said.

April?s one-day cricket tournament between India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Sharjah will go ahead whether India take part or not, according to the chief organiser.

A panel of legal experts will decide the future of South African cricketers Herschelle Gibbs, Henry Williams and Pieter Strydom after publication of an interim report on match-fixing next week.

The start of the Asian rugby union championship was thrown into disarray by the last-minute withdrawal of the Thai team on Saturday.

Prospects of India playing a test match in Pakistan after 12 years have brightened after New Delhi invited Islamabad to hold peace talks last week, officials said on Sunday.

Consulting firm, Sinclair Knight Merz is to design a suspended roof at the Rangiri Dambulu International Cricket Stadium, in Sri Lanka.

In a move that should add significant revenues to the coffers of cricket?s poorest affiliate nation, the Bangladesh Cricket Board has confirmed that Bangladesh has been granted Test status.

A senior Pakistani cricket official has said that accusations of gambling and match-fixing were part of a conspiracy aimed at ruining the reputations of some of the country's international players.

Legal battles that have left Sri Lanka's cricket board in financial limbo will not affect tours by India and New Zealand this summer, a top sports official has said.

The BBC was initially refused entry into England's first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Friday because of a dispute over broadcasting rights.