India

A Pakistani high court judge is to start a new inquiry into cricket match-fixing allegations in Lahore later this month, according to reports.
Business

The biggest event on the domestic golf tour, the Indian PGA Championship, has now become a specially sanctioned event of the Asian PGA tour, officials said on Tuesday.

India are to introduce a contract system with graded payments for their national cricketers that will fulfil a long-standing demand.

When India decided to stage the world's first Afro-Asian Games in New Delhi in November, it had probably not realised what it was getting into. See the FEATURES section of sportbusiness.com to find out how work is progressing as the countdown starts to the first race.
Events

India's state broadcasting corporation, Prasar Bharti has won exclusive rights to broadcast the first Afro-Asian Games scheduled in New Delhi in November.

Organisers of the Afro-Asian Games, the biggest sporting event to be held in India's capital New Delhi since the Asian Games in 1982, fear the event could be jeopardised because of a dispute between the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and India's Sports Minister Uma Bharti.
Business

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asked the International Cricket Council (ICC) to "authoritatively" deal with India's refusal to play Pakistan in international cricket.
Business

The Indian government has denied the country's national cricket team permission to play a test match in Pakistan next month, according to local television reports.

Kenyan cricket chiefs have asked the sport's world governing body for more international matches following the recent West Indies tour of the country.
Events

The soccer stadiums for the first Afro-Asian Games have been severely criticised by a leading official who said they were unfit to stage international events.

The Asian Cricket Test championship will go ahead even if India decides to withdraw from the tournament, a top official has confirmed.

The England and Wales Cricket Board is monitoring unrest in Zimbabwe which could threaten England's tour of the country.
Business

The sacked president of Sri Lanka's cricket board was granted bail on Monday as police sought his arrest over fraud allegations that have plagued the game in the country.
Events

US sports broadcaster ESPN is launching an Asian version of its flagship news show SportsCenter on its network in the region, ESPN Star Sports (ESS).
Business

India have withdrawn from a three-match, one-day cricket series against world champions Australia scheduled for September, the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) said on Thursday.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

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

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.