THE HIMALAYAN MAIL JAMMU Q THURSDAY Q JUNE 18, 2020 7 This man helped physically challenged Guardiola says City not ready, worried about not enough training NEW DELHI:Man- end of the Premier League chester City manager Pep season, manager Pep cricketers raise Rs 1.5 lakh Guardiola says he does not Guardiola announced on New Delhi:In a noble know how ready his players Tuesday. gesture, former Australia are for the restart of the Pre- The Spanish midfielder's skipper Steve Waugh's man- mier League and the flood contract was due to expire ager Harley Medcalf raised of matches to come. at the end of June, with the Rs 1.5 lakh to help India's Second-placed City play 34-year-old captain set to physically challenged crick- Arsenal, managed by leave after 10 years with the eters, who are in financial dis- Guardiola's former assis- club. tress due to lockodwn in tant Mikel Arteta, at the Eti- The Premier League is wake of COVID-19 pan- had on Wednesday. due to restart without spec- demic. City then host Burnley tators on Wednesday and The Physically Challenged next Monday, travel down aims to complete the season Cricket Association of India to Chelsea the following on July 26 after months of (PCCAI) secretary Ravi Thursday and across to inactivity due to the Chauhan on Wednesday, Newcastle United on the COVID-19 lockdown. said, Medcalf took the initia- Sunday. "David will stay until the tive to help the disabled collected. This money was meet both ends. "The way we are right end of season," said Guardi- cricket players under aegis of transferred to 30 most needy "Every help is God-send for now...we don't know. If you ola ahead of the home PCCAI. players of PCCAI," said these players and they will al- ask me how is the team, I match against Arsenal. Chauhan."An amount of Rs ways be thankful for this," "When Medcalf came to don't know. Tomorrow we and Spain had five or six. August. "So excited to see him...he "He will finish the last 5,000 each have been added Chauhan. know about the testing times will see how is the level of "All Premier League Guardiola said all he can knows absolutely every- games without people. But granted to 30 disabled cricket Waugh's manager came to of some of the disabled play- the team," Guardiola told teams have three. We know go is pray that no players get thing of us, he was an in- hopefully he and the club players. This money has been know about PCCAI, when ers of PCCAI, he decided to reporters on a Zoom call. it is not enough but it is injured because of the tight credibly important part of can organise a proper directly transferred to their earlier this year the former raise funds for these players. "I think we are ready to what it is," said the schedule. our success in the last years, farewell in front of people." accounts," added Chauhan. skipper had met these play- "The efforts bore fruits and play one game. But three Spaniard. In Arteta, Guardiola will he helped us to be who we Silva, who joined City According to Chauhan, ers for a project he had un- a sum of Rs 1,50,000- was days after another one and City could be busier than be facing an old friend and are," said Guardiola. from Valencia in 2010, has these players struggled to dertaken. four days after another one. any other Premier League while foes on the pitch he "We sent a message about won four Premier League ti- We are not ready, not just team over the next two hoped he would have time one hour and a half ago...It tles, two FA Cups and the Man City, all teams." months, with Guardiola's to catch up afterwards. was about the wine we are League Cup five times. 'It would be a pity if the whole Guardiola said his players team facing three games per Both have suffered over going to drink after the City's hopes of defending were in good shape but ex- week until August 1 because the past months, Guardiola game if social distance al- their Premier League title pressed concern that they of its involvement in the FA losing his mother to the lows." are gone, with Liverpool 25 chess world goes online' had only three weeks of Cup and then a potential COVID-19 pandemic while David Silva to see out sea- points clear, but they re- NEW DELHI:It has group training to get ready eight-team knockout Arteta caught the disease son with Manchester City main in contention for the been three months since after months without a bracket to complete the himself and had to self-iso- David Silva will stay at Champions League and FA Viswanathan Anand has match. Clubs in Germany Champions League in mid- late. Manchester City until the Cup. been away from home, stuck someplace across the globe like thousands Halep 'highly unlikely' COVID-19: South Africa to of Indians waiting to be reunited with their fami- to play US Open lies under the Vande trial unique limited overs tie Bharat Mission. NEW DELHI:World had told Reuters last week From an apartment No 2 Simona Halep is the protocols were "incred- NEW DELHI:Cricket near Frankfurt, Germany, "highly unlikely" to play in ibly difficult" and would South Africa will trial a new he meets me via Skype the US Open with organis- probably not work for the format that will see three teams compete in a single over breakfast (for him) ers set to put strict health two-times Grand Slam win- 36-over match as they look and lunch (for me) in In- protocols in place for the ner. to re-start the game with the dia.As my spinach-rice Grand Slam due to the The USTA and men's and ation" before and re- many, Austria and Hun- Solidarity Cup at SuperSport takes care of itself in an COVID-19 pandemic, a women's tours are expected counts it with the exuber- gary. The quickest way to Park in Centurion on June electric cooker, Anand, spokeswoman for the Ro- to provide details later on ance of a hippie. reach Bulgaria from Hun- manian told Reuters. Wednesday. 27. sporting a casual white The year was 2010 and gary was through Serbia. The United States Tennis "Of course, the condi- The fixture is a chance for Polo T-shirt and munch- Anand, along with his wife But none of the Indians Association (USTA) re- tions of the US Open can the country's leading players ing on a bowl of cereal Aruna, had landed in Ger- in the team had a Serbian ceived the green light to still change and it is my un- to get some game-time un- with raspberries and many after a vacation in visa. So they decided to hold their marquee tourna- derstanding that the play- der their belts in the wake of strawberries, appears Venice to meet his train- drive through Romania. ment in New York as sched- ers will have well into July the COVID-19 pandemic, cheerful. ers and then fly to Sofia "At the beginning of the uled from August 31-Sep- to decide whether to enter but will also raise funds for "As chess players, we for the world champi- journey we all thought tember 13 without fans. or not," the spokeswoman charity. are all loners and perpet- "I know that the players Scotland's Twenty20 in- onship against Bulgarian that let's be productive New York Governor An- said, adding that it was a It will be played in an are itching to get back into ternational against Aus- ually in isolation to train," grandmaster Veselin and get some work done. drew Cuomo said the USTA "fluid situation so nothing empty stadium and is a test action, which is why we are tralia scheduled for June 29 he starts off, anticipating Topalov. Half an hour into the drive would take "extraordinary is set in stone". for CSA's protocols for a re- so excited about the Solidar- has been cancelled because my first question. A week before the tour- we realised being produc- precautions" to protect Men's No. 1 Novak turn to play for the domes- ity Cup," CSA director of ongoing restrictions caused "The apartment where I nament, as Anand, Aruna tive was getting us players, including robust Djokovic and his women's tic game, which could come cricket Graeme Smith said. by the coronavirus pan- am staying now," he con- and team were packing up nowhere and we decided testing, additional cleaning, counterpart Ash Barty have as early as next month. "It's a thrilling new format demic, Cricket Scotland said tinues, "is where I have to fly to Sofia from Frank- to stop pretending. Luck- extra locker room space also raised concerns about Captains AB de Villiers, and a match that is working on Wednesday. lived for my training furt, Eyjafjallajokull de- ily, we had a television. So and dedicated accommoda- playing in the tournament Quinton de Kock and Kag- towards a greater good." "Whilst this is disappoint- camps -- so it doesn't feel cided to spew the earth's we put on the Lord of the tion. under health protocols iso Rabada will lead teams CSA has been given per- ing news for us all in Scot- much different." guts out into the world.