Former India Captain&nbsp;Gautam&nbsp;Gambhir&nbsp;feels that it's time that the Indian team management should look beyond MS&nbsp;Dhoni. In an interview to the Indian Express Gauti said that he doesn't see MSD&nbsp;playing the next World Cup and the captain should have the courage to say so. Gambhir&nbsp;added that it&rsquo;s time to groom some youngsters in the next 4-5 years because ultimately it's not about Dhoni&nbsp;playing the next World Cup but it's about India winning it.

Former India Captain Gautam Gambhir feels that it's time that the Indian team management should look beyond MS Dhoni. In an interview to the Indian Express Gauti said that he doesn't see MSD playing the next World Cup and the captain should have the courage to say so. Gambhir added that it’s time to groom some youngsters in the next 4-5 years because ultimately it's not about Dhoni playing the next World Cup but it's about India winning it.

While interviewing former Australia batsman Dean Jones in his Youtube channel, former Pakistan captain Wasim&nbsp;Akram&nbsp;gave Pakistan Cricket team an interesting football comparison. He called Pakistan&nbsp;the Brazil of cricket when it comes to producing young cricketers. During the interview Dean Jones said that cricketers in Australia come up in international circuit only after a certain age but in Pakistan young kids take over the world.

Even though most sporting events around the world are on hold because of the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic,&nbsp;WWE&rsquo;s&nbsp;trademark event&nbsp;Wrestlemania went head as a 2-day event.&nbsp;However, for the safety of their audience, the show was recorded last behind closed doors in WWE&rsquo;s training center near Orlando. The show was decided to be aired without the usual spectacular, stadium-size ring entrances. WWE had earlier made it clear that they wanted go ahead with&nbsp;Wrestlemania&nbsp;to help people get away from the tense situation and put it behind them.

Former England captain opened up on the controversy&nbsp;between him and Kevin Pietersen&nbsp;and feels that he could have managed&nbsp;it better. In a podcast with Sky sports, Strauss said that he feels like he didn't do enough work with KP. There came a time where some of the people Pietersen was close to in the team, either retired or got dropped, there was an opportunity to not bring him in, but spend time with him and make sure his views were considered. Strauss added that if him&nbsp;and the management had time to think it out clearly, they could have managed it better. Tensions between Strauss and Pietersen&nbsp;had left a dent on England cricket during the 2012-13 season which saw the&nbsp;latter being permanently sacked&nbsp;from the national side.&nbsp;

With opening 8 races of the 2020 Formula One season been either cancelled or postponed, former F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone feels that&nbsp;this season's championship should be cancelled because it appears unlikely that enough races can be completed due to the coronavirus pandemic crisis. A minimum of 8 races are required for the championship to be valid but with the deadly virus bringing the sporting calendar to a standstill, dark clouds now loom over&nbsp;the remaining 14 F1 races as well.

Spain may be in lockdown&nbsp;due to the Covid-19 pandemic but that hasn't stopped many footballers from training, even though it is in their own backyard. On Saturday,&nbsp;Barcelona&rsquo;s teenage forward&nbsp;Ansu Fati&nbsp;recorded a video of his training drills at home. The 17-year-old sensation had scored 4 goals and had 1 assist from 16 top-flight games before his splendid&nbsp;run came to an end when all football activities were brought to a standstill&nbsp;due to the virus outbreak.

Former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen&nbsp;left fans in splits as he shared a&nbsp;hilarious video of a man who manages to enjoy cricket even during lockdown. Pietersen&nbsp;even called the man a&nbsp;genius.

With top-flight clubs meet with representatives of players and managers to discuss possible wage cuts during the suspended football season, Liverpool&nbsp;decided to place non-playing staff on temporary leave amid coronavirus crisis. However, the Premier League&nbsp;club announced that the staff members affected by this decision will be allowed to take 80% of their salary through the UK government's job retention scheme, with the club willing to complete the remaining salary&nbsp;to ensure financial damage is limited. Liverpool have followed the steps of other clubs&nbsp;like Newcastle, Tottenham, Bournemouth and Norwich, who have already taken the same decision.

BCCI&nbsp;president Sourav&nbsp;Ganguly&nbsp;extended his support for those affected by the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic. Dada&nbsp;visited the ISKCON city centre in Kolkata&nbsp;which was feeding 10,000 people daily and helped them to&nbsp;double their capacity to 20,000 people every day. Thanking Ganguly,&nbsp;spokesperson and vice-president of ISKCON's&nbsp;Kolkata centre&nbsp;Radharaman Das&nbsp;tweeted to say that&nbsp;under&nbsp;dada&nbsp;ISKCON were confident to fight the battle of hunger for many families. He even called it as the best innings played by Ganguly.

Brazilian footballer Neymar has donated $1 million to his country to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic according to some local reports in Brazil. While the world's third highest-paid footballer's office declined to comment about it, the report further confirmed that half of the money was donated to UNICEF and the rest to a charitable fund in Brazil. The 28-year-old Paris Saint Germain star followed the example of his teammate Kylian Mbappe, who last month donated an undisclosed major amount to a French charity to help fight the deadly pandemic.

As the entire world is engulfed in the Covid-19 pandemic, Indian Football club Real Kashmir's coach David Robertson is stranded in Srinagar&nbsp;&amp; is&nbsp;still trying to get back home to his ailing mother who has undergone chemotherapy in Aberdeen. The Scottish coach is stuck in India with his family as the country is under a 21-day&nbsp;lockdown. Although, Real Kashmir FC co-owner Sandeep Chatto said that he was in constant touch with the government&nbsp;but that does not suffice Robertson's worries who is not even able to connect with his family through video calls as the internet&nbsp;network in the valley is still restricted.&nbsp;

In the hour of need, England's star cricketers have agreed to make an initial donation worth 500,000 pounds to the England and Wales Cricket Board. The contribution which came in response to the financial crisis that has taken hit the sport is equivalent to the 20 percent reduction in the monthly retainers of the cricketers for the next three months. Meanwhile, women's team also volunteered for salary reduction for the next three months and ECB's chief executive Tom Harrison opted for a 25 percent pay cut.

As Covid-19 death toll continues to mount, the English&nbsp;Premier League on Friday also extended the suspension until it is safe and appropriate. The officials said that any return to play will only be with the full support of government and when medical guidance allows. Premier League clubs have also decided to ask their players to opt for a combination of pay-cuts and deferrals amounting to 30 percent of their salary to ease the financial burden due to Covid-19. League's highly paid players have also come under enormous pressure by the government officials in recent days asking them to take reduced salaries.

The FIFA&nbsp;Under-17 Women's World Cup also fell victim to Covid-19 on Saturday as it was postponed by the football's world body. India is the host of the event which was originally scheduled for November this year but now remains postponed indefinitely. The FIFA Confederation working group also announced that the Under-20 Women's World Cup scheduled in August- September in Panama is also postponed but&nbsp;no new dates for the events have been announced.&nbsp;

Bundesliga&nbsp;champions and German powerhouse Bayern&nbsp;Munich have extended their coach&nbsp;Hansi Flick's contract till 2023. The 55-year-old joined the club as&nbsp;Niko Kovac's assistant coach but was made the interim boss when the Croatian was sent backing by the management. Flick was then offered a permanent role and since then have been successful in winning 18 of the last 21 matches as the head coach of Bayern. The results have been in Flick's&nbsp;favour and that has earned him a permanent contract for 3 years.&nbsp;

Germany's largest football&nbsp;stadium and the home of Borussia&nbsp;Dortmund is converted into a temporary medical facility as the Covid-19 pandemic haunts Germany. The Signal Iduna&nbsp;Park in&nbsp;Dortmund which has a capacity of over 81,000 fans has a temporary medical facility that will help medical staff to examine people with virus symptoms. As the centre opens on Saturday, Germany struggles to fight against the pandemic with over 91,000 infections and close to 1300 deaths.&nbsp;

With several stadiums are being converted into hospitals to treat the coronavirus&nbsp;patients, authorities in Rio de Janeiro are also turning the iconic Maracana&nbsp;football&nbsp;stadium into one of 7 field hospitals to join the fight against the deadly virus.&nbsp;The new hospitals will add 1,800 beds to the health system in Rio de Janeiro, which is the state with the second highest number of deaths and confirmed cases in Brazil. The hospitals are likely to be ready at the end of April.

All the South African cricketers who returned home on March 18 after their ODI tour of India got cancelled had no symptoms for COVID-19 and all have tested negative for the virus. Although all the Proteas cricketers had completed their necessary 14 day self-isolation period on Thursday but will remain under lockdown for the next two weeks as South Africa is under a 21-day lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19. The first match of the 3 ODI series in Dharamsala got washed out and the next two were cancelled amidst the virus scare.

The American football team, New England Patriots' team plane on Thursday brought 1 million N95 masks from China to the United States to help the country in their fight against Covid-19. Patriots team owner Robert Kraft came to the rescue of the governor of Massachusetts who had secured the N95 masks from China but required help to transport them back to the United States for distribution. The National Football League club's team plane was then sent to collect the shipment for China.

In a bid to help in the battle against COVID-19, the iconic&nbsp;Edgbaston cricket stadium in England will be used as a coronavirus testing centre by the National Health Service. Interestingly, the stadium&nbsp;will be used as a drive-through testing centre for NHS staff.&nbsp;Those requiring tests will drive in and undergo the procedure while remaining in their vehicles. All sporting activities in the UK have been suspended to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Prime Minister Narendra&nbsp;Modi on Friday did a video call with top sports stars of the nation. Stars like PV Sindhu, Mirabai&nbsp;Chanu&nbsp;&amp; former cricketers Sachin&nbsp;Tendulkar, Sourav&nbsp;Ganguly, Yuvraj&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;were in attendance&nbsp;as the group spoke about the challenges of fighting the Coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic. A total of 40 sports tars attended the conference call as India battles the pandemic with a rising number of positive cases in the country. The Prime Minister&nbsp;gave a five-point mantra of &lsquo;Sankalp,&nbsp;Sanyam,&nbsp;Sakaratmakta,&nbsp;Samman &amp; Sahyog&rsquo; to tackle the lockdown. PM added that the&nbsp;sportspersons have brought glory to the nation &amp; now have an important role to play in boosting the morale &amp; spreading positivity.

It's not about Dhoni, it's about country: Gambhir

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