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(Reuters) – England’s limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan says giving fans the chance to watch live cricket on television, even if the matches took place without spectators, would help boost morale during the coronavirus pandemic.

LONDON (Reuters) – Premier League clubs should face a windfall tax unless they tackle the “obscene situation” of players earning fortunes during the coronavirus crisis while other employees take pay cuts, the head of a parliamentary committee said yesterday.

(Reuters) – European football, currently at a standstill because of the coronavirus, is focusing on a restart in July and August with clubs and leagues being told that stopping competitions should “really be the last resort.”

MADRID (Reuters) – Atletico Madrid have temporarily cut players’ and coaches’ wages by 70% in order to cope with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, but guaranteed a full salary for their other employees, the Spanish club said yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – The association representing England’s professional footballers denied on Wednesday that it has blocked wage deferrals for players during the coronavirus stoppage but said that clubs should pay all staff if they could afford it.

(Reuters) – The 2021 World Games have been pushed back by a year to avoid clashing with the Tokyo Olympics which were rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic, World Games organisers said yesterday.

The National Sports Commission yesterday issued a press release stating that sports facilities under its control remain closed owing to the Coronavirus pandemic.

As we continue to review Steven Jacobs’ Regional Under-19 successes as skipper of Guyana’s 2006 and 2007 teams, we’ll take a look at the composition of the 2007 class and how their careers panned out after their junior playing days.

Chairman of West Indies senior male selection panel, Roger Harper has described the prematurely ended West Indies Championship as interesting while listing a few players that stood out.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) is still fighting on the ropes to bring its four boxers home from Cuba.

Despite the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) threatening the cricket landscape for the 2020 season, teenaged West Berbice cricketers, Seon Glasgow and Nigel Deodat are working hard to excel in this year’s under-19 tournament.

The Georgetown Grand Prix schedule will have to be altered, due to the Novel Corona Virus (Covid-19) Pandemic, when organizers get an opportunity to meet.

Participation in the 2020 Pan Am junior squash championships in El Salvador was high on the agenda of the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) but the tournament is now in limbo as the world struggles to deal with the deadly COVID– 19 pandemic. 

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Cricket West Indies president, Ricky Skerritt, has warned that the regional side’s climb up the rankings ladder will be a gradual one, noting he did not anticipate significant change during his first tenure.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Chairman of FIFA’s normalisation committee for Trinidad football, Robert Hadad, says he has no vested interest in the local game and stakeholders should not expect any partiality.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Wimbledon championships were cancelled for the first time since World War Two today as the coronavirus pandemic struck another blue-riband sports event off the calendar and wiped out the entire tennis grasscourt season.

Cricket West Indies (CWI) President, Ricky Skerritt has described his first-year tenure of managing the affairs of cricket in the region as “focused, committed and making progress on all fronts to bring improvements to the game.”

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies fast bowler Ian Bishop maintains the wrong call was made to overhaul the entire management team of the senior men’s side on the eve of last year’s 50-overs World Cup in England.

Otis James, President of the largest football association under the umbrella of the GFF, the Georgetown Football Association (GFA), says that the current Covid-19 pandemic has had a tremendous effect of the state of local football and has affected the plans of the entity.

Emerging youth developmental giant Vurlon Mills Football Academy (VMFA), has inked a partnership with United States of America sports brand Squadra for the latter to serve as their kit supplier.