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LONDON, (Reuters) – Arsenal will re-open their London Colney training ground to their players next week for individual training but the Premier League club will continue to observe social distancing rules amid the coronavirus outbreak, they said yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is defying the coronavirus-led shutdown of global sport by scheduling their Women’s Super League cricket final and streaming it on social media yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Counsel for the ousted Trinidad and Tobago Football Association executive has hit back at First Citizens Bank’s “aggressive and defensive” response to an email earlier this week, seeking clarification on the alleged changing of signatories on the TTFA accounts.

President of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Frankie Farley is looking to take to sport to new heights once the coronavirus pandemic abates.

The Berbice Cricket Board and Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club have begun distributing food hampers to those in need in  the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

Last year, at the Team World Cup in Tokyo, Japan, president of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Thomas Weikert and Chief Executive Officer Steve Dainton, were upbeat about their plans and vision for the sport going forward.

(Reuters) – The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) yesterday extended the suspension of the professional game in the country until July 1 due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele should have spent this week finalising their preparations for the London Marathon but the two best distance runners in history are instead out alone on the trails of East Africa not knowing when they will race again.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Yesterday’s decision to not award the Dutch league title to Ajax Amsterdam was understandable, said the club’s general manager Edwin van der Sar as the season in the Netherlands was formally brought to a premature close by the COVID-19 pandemic.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Players at the Premier League’s top clubs should “stick to their guns” and resist pressure to take pay cuts during the COVID-19 shutdown, ex-Manchester United captain Roy Keane said yesterday.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkey plans to resume its soccer Super League matches in mid-June and the games may be played without spectators, state media quoted the head of the clubs’ association as saying yesterday.

(BBC) The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has received “multiple offers” from other countries to help complete the domestic season.

(BBC) Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward says speculation about transfers for “hundreds of millions of pounds this summer” is ignoring the “realities that face the sport” because of the coronavirus pandemic.

A camera crew followed Kobe Bryant in his final season with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2015-16, filming him and teammates in locker rooms on the road and at home, in the training room, at practice and on the team plane, ESPN’s Baxter Holmes reported yesterday.

(Reuters) – Five former directors of La Liga club Osasuna and two ex-Real Betis players have been handed prison sentences after being found guilty on a series of corruption charges, a Spanish court filing showed yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England’s new ball pair of James Anderson and Stuart Broad have their eyes on the 2021-22 Ashes series in Australia before they consider retirement, the duo have said.

Golden Jaguars international and Fruta Conquerors talisman Vurlon Mills has officially retired from the national senior programme with the sole purpose of commencing a new chapter of his life within the professional coaching realm.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Former high-level cricket executive, Chris Dehring, says a heavy financial hit for Cricket West Indies is inescapable, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the global sporting calendar.

LONDON, CMC – Cricket Australia yesterday committed firmly to taking “the right decisions at the right time” to ensure this year’s Twenty20 World Cup proceeded as planned, even as doubt continued to surround the showpiece amidst the raging coronavirus global pandemic.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – From shining the ball to celebrating a dismissal – certain things may never be the same again when cricket restarts after the novel coronavirus pandemic, Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar told Reuters.