Twenty-four hours after the postponement of their home series against New Zealand, Bangladesh have deferred their upcoming tour of Sri Lanka. The teams were scheduled to play three Tests in the July-August period.

The BCB informed SLC of its unpreparedness on Wednesday, which means both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will remain out of action due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The BCB hasn't yet commenced any form of training of its cricketers with the Shere Bangla National Stadium, cricket's headquarters in the country, well within a virus "red zone". Bangladesh's count of those infected by the virus has crossed the 100,000 mark, with 1,502 officially counted dead as of June 23. Earlier this week, cricketers Mashrafe Mortaza and Nazmul Islam, as well as former batsman Nafees Iqbal. tested Covid positive.

So far, this is Bangladesh's fifth postponement since March, following the second Test against Pakistan in Karachi (April), the tour of the UK and Ireland (May), and the home series against Australia (June) and New Zealand (August-September).

Sri Lanka is in a better situation than Bangladesh in terms of numbers of Covid-18=9 cases and deaths, but it has also had its share of postponements. Apart from the England team returning home from Sri Lanka after two practice matches, South Africa and India have also postponed tours of the island.

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The Rugby Football Union (RFU) "simply cannot give up on" women's rugby during the coronavirus pandemic, says chief executive Bill Sweeney.

Premier 15s, England's top women's league, is currently without a title sponsor and the 2019-20 season was declared null and void.

Many have expressed fears that women's sport will fall behind because of cancellations caused by the pandemic.

"The women's game is absolutely critical," Sweeney said.

"It's a major strategic priority for us. Clearly we're going to have fewer resources.

"So we've looked at our plans and asked what are the things we're going to have to pause for a while and what are the things we simply cannot give up on? Women's rugby falls squarely in that category."

The RFU will continue to fund 28 professional contracts for England women players and is in talks with two companies in the search for a new Premier 15s sponsor.

Sweeney says finding that sponsor is a "major priority" and the RFU has invested money to cover the sponsorship loss, but the governing body is yet to announce when the next Premier 15s season might start.

England were top of the 2020 Women's Six Nations table when the competition was halted by coronavirus and attracted record crowds during the tournament.

They beat Wales 66-7 in their final game and Sweeney encouraged other unions to invest in their women's game to avoid similar scorelines in the future.

"For us [supporting women's rugby] is not negotiable," he told BBC Radio 5 Live's Rugby Union Weekly.

"We're talking to other unions and saying: 'You've got to do the same thing.' We need to see a better standard of play from the other unions. We want more level contested playing fields."

Russian club CSKA Moscow were fined 100,000 rubles ($1,460) on Tuesday after fans racially abused Zenit St. Petersburg winger Malcom in the team's first game since the league restarted.

The Russian Football Union said the fine was for "discriminatory insults" during Zenit's 4-0 win at CSKA on Saturday. Russian media reported that the Brazilian, who played for Barcelona last season, was targeted by a small group of fans after scoring.

It was both teams' first game since the league resumed amid the coronavirus pandemic. A limited number of spectators were allowed in the stadium.

The fine was the lowest financial penalty allowed for discriminatory fan behavior under RFU regulations.

RFU disciplinary committee chairman Artur Grigoryants told state news agency RIA Novosti that the verdict took into account that relatively few fans were involved.

David Luiz has signed a one-year extension at Arsenal, the club announced on Wednesday.

The club also said that Dani Ceballos has extended his deal at the Emirates until the end of the season, while Cedric Soares and Pablo Mari will join the club on a permanent basis.

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"I am really happy that we will have these players in our squad for the future," club technical director Edu said in a statement. "They have been part of the long-term technical plan Mikel and I have developed. They bring the right balance to our squad.

"David is a really important player for us. He has played most of our matches this season and has been important for the team. His passing, his communication with the team on and off the pitch. He helps everyone."

Luis blamed his contract situation for his poor performance in Arsenal's 3-0 defeat at Manchester City. The Brazil international made a mistake for the opening goal and was later sent off after conceding a penalty in an appearance which lasted 25 minutes.

Sources have told ESPN that despite his extension, Ceballos is not expected to sign a permanent deal at the Emirates and will return to Real Madrid at the end of the campaign.

The midfielder has made 26 appearances in all competitions but has failed to score for the club since October.

Sources have told ESPN that Mari will put pen to paper on a four-year contract when the transfer window opens next month, and a fee of £13.5m will be paid to Flamengo in instalments and clauses. However, the club fears that the defender could miss the rest of the season after suffering an ankle injury at the Etihad Stadium.

Cedric will also sign a four-year contract at Arsenal after impressing Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta with his professionalism and positive impact on the dressing room.

"With Pablo we're all disappointed he got injured at Manchester City," Edu added. "Since Mikel arrived here he was asking for a central defender who was left-footed. We were really pleased with Pablo -- his behaviour, the way he is training, his mentality and his quality.

"Unfortunately, he has that injury but of course we are really happy to keep him for the future.

"Cedric is also going to be an important player. He has been unlucky with the injuries but he is close to being ready and gives us more strength in the right-back position. We're also pleased Dani will finish the season here. He is making a good contribution and we look forward to him having a strong finish to the season."

Arsenal face Cedric's former club Southampton on Thursday after losing their both Premier League matches after the restart.

Information from ESPN correspondent James Olley was included in this report.

They certainly feel a bit isolated. After French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe called for the premature end of the 2019-20 season due to the coronavirus outbreak and league honours were handed out, Ligue 1 players all over France (or overseas for those who left the country to spend lockdown somewhere else) are stuck. They're watching their counterparts all over Europe playing football again, league after league. Day after day and goal after goal, they see their friends (and even some old teammates) doing their jobs again and enjoying themselves on the pitch. Yet, they are not. Most are still stuck at home, with few teams training yet to get ready for next season, which will start on Aug. 23.

"I don't know if we can use the word 'depression,' but there is a huge absence for sure," Angers defender Romain Thomas told ESPN. "Stopping the season was not my idea, because it made a lot of people unhappy. I have friends [on other teams] who are going down to the second division without having been able to fight to stay up."

"There were still 30 points at stake. Even for us at Angers, I thought we could have finished higher. [Editor's Note: Angers finished 10th in Ligue 1, but were two points only from fifth when the league was cancelled.] I miss playing, especially when I watch the other leagues. It is hard. Our last game was on March 7. It feels like so long ago. When you see the other countries, you realise that there is a moment when it is time to play again. I am hungry, I am programmed for it."

Most Ligue 1 players have been spending their downtime closely following the title race in Spain, enjoying Bayern Munich's dominance in Germany or keeping an eye on the chase for the Scudetto between Juventus and Lazio in the Italian Serie A. And yet, that's not enough.

"All we can do is watch on television. There is clearly a lot of frustration now that we are the only one of the five big leagues not to play again," a player from a team that finished in the top six told ESPN. "At the beginning, we respected the fact that the French government decided it was not safe to resume playing, but that it was too early to make a final decision. We should have waited and reassessed the situation a bit later. Now it looks stupid that we are the only ones not playing."

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The frustration is palpable and for some of the league's most experienced players, they feel the blame lays on those in charge.

"If you have followed all the events closely, you would have seen Javier Tebas [Spanish La Liga president] being on top of everything, putting his league first with the Spanish government and UEFA. For us, we had no leadership. The government took the decision in the end and there was nothing we could do. Except, it was the wrong call," continues the top-six player. You can sense some anger and a bit of jealousy in his voice too.

The collective sense of frustration is probably even greater now that some clubs have resumed training regulations across the country have eased.

At the end of May, the former French sports minister, Patrick Kanner, felt the nation had been too quick to cancel the season. Then, on June 20, it was announced that sporting events in front of up to 5,000 people would be allowed as of July 11, and that "a further review of the national epidemiological situation will be carried out in mid-July to decide whether a loosening is possible for the second half of August." As a result, the French Federation is almost certain to have some fans at the Stade de France for the French Cup final on July 25. The League Cup final should also have supporters in the ground on Aug. 1.

One team that is back at training is Lille and their captain, Jose Fonte. The Portugal defender spent the coronavirus lockdown at his house in London with his wife and two children, Luna and Luca. He is back in Northern France, spending the past week reconnecting with his teammates at Lille's Luchin training ground, enduring all kinds of medical tests.

"Of course, there is a void," he tells ESPN. "We miss it. It is normal, because what is the hardest is that during the season, we are always all together. We are all part of a unit. At the moment, we've been keeping in touch and we have a strong bond. We took a different route [back to action], but watching the other leagues makes you want to be back playing even more."

Yet not every professional player in France is as desperate to return to the pitch, simply not big fans of playing football again in such difficult conditions. Cesc Fabregas, who is back in training with Monaco, is one of them.

"I feel like I'm watching a training session. You can hear all the players and the coaches shouting. Now, we will value the power of the fans even more. Captains are choosing pitch sides, with 3 meters distance [between them], when straight away they have to fight for every ball against each other, face to face. I am glad football is back. We all needed it but it will take ages to get used to this new world of football," he wrote on Twitter after the Bundesliga restarted in mid-May.

Former Arsenal star Laurent Koscielny took the decision to finish the Ligue 1 season on board and wasted little time in moving on. The Bordeaux defender tells ESPN he has never been a big fan of watching other leagues and games anyway. The decision to shut Ligue 1 down led Koscielny to take a total break from football and begin switching his focus to the 2020-21 season.

"A decision was taken and we have to respect it," he tells ESPN. "Even if we all wanted to go back playing, health was the most important. Whether the other leagues started or not doesn't matter. Now we need to be ready for August when the new season will start. That's all we can do."

Eventually, the ones who are perhaps most envious of other leagues successfully resuming their 2019-20 seasons are the owners and chairmen of Ligue 1 clubs. The pandemic and the loss of earnings due to the premature end of the season has hurt. Lyon president, Jean-Michel Aulas, has been the most vocal and claims that the league will lose €1 billion (though it's more likely to be around €300m). He tried everything to fight off the decision to suspend play and get the ruling overturned. He wrote letters to the French government, the league and the nation's minister of sport, spending hours on the phone to try and convince decision-makers of the need for a U-turn. It was all in vain.

In the end, Aulas wanted Ligue 1 back so badly that he's not watched any games from another league yet. It's probably still too raw.

David De Gea has been given 12 months to save his Manchester United career. For some, that may seem a generous period of time for a goalkeeper whose form has been in decline for the past two years, but sources have told ESPN that the summer of 2021 will be when the club addresses the thorny issue of whether to stick with the Spaniard or back the potential of Dean Henderson.

At 29, De Gea has time on his side to emerge from a slump in form that dates back to the 2018 World Cup with Spain and regain his status as the world's best keeper. United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is prepared to give him the opportunity to do just that, but United also believe that Henderson, who is approaching the end of his second season on loan at Sheffield United, can become the club's first-choice goalkeeper for 10 years. The only problem is that nobody at Old Trafford knows quite when that 10 years will start, or if it ever will.

"David is not having the best of times," a source told ESPN. "But he's still capable of winning games with his ability and experience, and people at the club know that. While Dean is rated very highly, he's still only 23 and has less than a full season in the Premier League to his name. United can't risk abandoning De Gea for a kid with loads of potential but not a lot of experience. The next year will be crucial for both of them."

Speaking at his news conference on Tuesday ahead United's home game against Sheffield United -- Henderson is ineligible for the Blades due to rules prohibiting players playing against their parent club -- Solskjaer hinted at the view within Old Trafford that Henderson is improving fast, but not yet ready to displace De Gea.

"It's a different job to be playing for Sheffield United and for Manchester United," Solskjaer said. "The two years he [Henderson] has had [at Sheffield United] have been fantastic development. He's learning all the time, he's a passionate keeper, developing with good coaching. One day he'll be England No. 1 and United No. 1 and he needs to keep developing."

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In many ways, the disruption of the past three months due to the coronavirus pandemic has inadvertently bought United some time in their attempts to make a long-term decision over De Gea and Henderson.

Prior to the football shutdown in mid-March, Henderson was being lined up by England manager Gareth Southgate to make his senior international debut against either Italy or Denmark in the March friendlies at Wembley. Sources have told ESPN that Southgate wanted to test Henderson amid concerns over the form of Everton's Jordan Pickford. Had Henderson made his debut and impressed the manager, a place in England's Euro 2020 squad would have been virtually assured and, with it, the youngster's thirst for first-team action would have surely increased.

"If he had come back from the Euros as England's No. 1, it would have given United a problem because nobody can realistically see De Gea or Henderson putting up with being second choice at Old Trafford," the source told ESPN. "But that problem has now been delayed by 12 months and it gives everybody a chance to do what they need to do.

What happens next pretty much depends on De Gea. If he can put his mistakes behind him and rediscover his best form, he will be in the driving seat when United make their decision next summer, because he will still be the guy who has a Premier League winners' medal and Champions League experience on his CV, as opposed to an emerging keeper on the rise. But Henderson is a man in a hurry. After spending time on loan at Stockport, Grimsby and Shrewsbury prior to his spell at Bramall Lane, he is aware of interest from major clubs including Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain.

Sources at United talk of a youngster with supreme self-confidence, largely in a positive sense. If a player is to succeed at United, they have to believe in their own ability, but there is also a view that Henderson's self-belief can go too far.

One source has told ESPN that Henderson surprised former manager Louis van Gaal with his bravado after being selected on the substitutes' bench as an 18-year-old for the FA Cup tie at Shrewsbury in February 2016. When Van Gaal was congratulating his players after their victory, the Dutchman made a remark to Henderson about enjoying his first experience with the first team, only for the teenager to respond by telling the manager that he would have the keeper's shirt again for the following game at the weekend. Van Gaal took it in good humour, but was surprised by Henderson's boldness.

That same streak in Henderson prompted Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder to be surprisingly critical of the keeper following a mistake against Liverpool earlier this season, which led to a 1-0 defeat. Wilder publicly said Henderson had "do better and concentrate more," in an effort to keep him grounded.

From United's perspective, how Henderson copes with mistakes and bounces back is a crucial aspect of his development and they want him to make more, simply to gauge his ability to cope with the pressures of playing at Old Trafford. Richard Hartis, United's senior goalkeeper coach, is a big admirer of Henderson's and was a key figure in him signing a contract extension last summer. That deal expires next summer, but United have the safety net of a 12-month option within the contract.

De Gea, meanwhile, is contracted to United until June 2023 (the club also has a 12-month option in that deal), so Solskjaer has to persevere with him for at least another year.

There is no obvious buyer in the market right now, and Solskjaer is reluctant to risk Henderson's inexperience ahead of De Gea. But equally, Solskjaer and United know that there would be no value in Henderson returning this summer to spend a season on the bench as No. 2, when he could play every week on loan at another club.

Make no mistake, though: United cannot dodge the issue next summer. It will be make or break for De Gea and Henderson.

The Sydney Thunder offspinner Chris Green has been cleared to resume bowling after his action was found to be legal following biomechanical testing in Brisbane.

Green was suspended from bowling in all Cricket Australia competitions for three months in January, with his offspinner and faster ball the deliveries under scrutiny, but last week all his deliveries were found to come "significantly below" the permitted 15 degrees of elbow extension.

Being banned from bowling meant Green missed the majority of last season's Big Bash and it also put in doubt his IPL deal with Kolkata Knight Riders, although subsequently that issue was overtaken by Covid-19 shutting down the sport. Now cleared, Green would have no problems taking up his KKR stint if the IPL were to be played later this year.

"To have to sit on the sidelines and not be able to play or help the team was really difficult," Green said. "But at the same time, it was also a big factor of my motivation to get back to playing as quickly as possible. I am very grateful for all the support from the Thunder and Cricket NSW coaches.

"I feel like I'm in peak physical condition, my batting is going really well and now I'm really excited to get back bowling competitively again. I just can't wait to play again. I'm so excited to get back out on the field and repay the faith that has been shown in me the best way I know how - by putting out my best effort."

Last year Green signed a record-breaking six-year deal with the Sydney Thunder.

Cheteshwar Pujara has resumed training three times a week at his academy in Rajkot, along with a few Saurashtra team-mates. In a different world, he would've been in England, playing for Gloucestershire in the county championship. However, Covid-19 threatens to leave Pujara without competitive cricket for 10 months, with India's next Test assignment scheduled for December in Australia.

"You have to start at some point and it is important," Pujara told PTI. "If you are going to the ground, you are getting used to the sun and outdoor environment. Most players have been indoors for such a long time. Initially it is just about feeling the ball and as it is, there is plenty of time before cricket starts. I don't see any series happening for the next two-three months, so one has to take things gradually."

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Pujara's last competitive outing was the Ranji Trophy final - where Saurashtra beat Bengal - in March. With Indian state governments easing lockdown restrictions, he has resumed training outdoors. Most other top India players continue to train indoors, mostly working on personal fitness even as the BCCI continues to deliberate on allowing players to return to training in a phased manner.

"If you are mentally tough, you can take a long break comfortably," Pujara said of the possibility of going 10 months without international cricket. "Test matches [the only international format Pujara plays] don't happen frequently so one has to play domestic cricket. It was not such a big thing for me and to come back from it, I will be fresh and more eager to play. The mental challenge is not an issue for me."

Having returned to training, Pujara is currently batting for 20-25 minutes a session three times a week. He hopes to gradually increase the intensity. "Once you are outdoors it is a different feeling altogether," he said. "Training here is obviously not the same as you get in a team environment but at least you are doing something to get yourself going.

"Your body will start moving a bit once you have a routine. As a cricketer, it is important to start whenever possible and adhere to the government guidelines [on social distancing] at the same time. Obviously, it feels a little different when you are holding a bat after a long time but because I worked on my fitness, it is helping now that I am playing again."

Pujara chose to focus on the positives from the forced break instead of being frustrated. "Every cricketer deals with situations differently. Mentally, some people do get frustrated but I just took it as a break," he said. "I never felt that [I lost my edge] because I have made comebacks after longer breaks [due to injury]. The comeback you make from an injury is much tougher than a situation like this when I was not injured.

"The first week [of training] is tough. After a week you are back to normal, because you have played this game for such a long time, experience matters a lot. Nobody knows what the situation will be three-four months down the line, when the next series will be held. The next few months are about preparation and getting back into the game. It is too far to think about the next series."