London, Apr. 18 : One of England''s finest Twenty20 minds and captain of Kent, Robert Key, believes that the Indian Premier League (IPL) might just help England win back the Ashes.

Key argues that if England are to have any chance of success in June''s World Twenty20, then the country''s top players must get more practice in the shortest form of the game - and where better than the IPL?

London, Apr. 18 : Steven Gerrard will miss Liverpool's crunch clash with Arsenal on Tuesday as he is down with a groin injury.

Gerrard suffered a recurrence in the Reds' final training session before the game, preventing him from even taking a place on the bench.

He may be even in doubt for the trip to Hull four days later.

Karachi, Apr. 18 : With the International Cricket Council (ICC) deciding to shift the 2011 cricket World Cup matches from Pakistan, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is set to suffer a whopping 10.5 million dollar loss.

"We lose out on earning the hosting fees of the matches. The ICC pay out the host country 750,000 dollars for each match," PCB's Chief Operating Officer Saleem Altaf said.

Altaf said the loss could be much more than what has been estimated.

Karachi, Apr. 18 : Cricket South Africa (CSA) has refused to host Pakistan `A' team's tour citing a busy cricket calendar, the Dawn reports.

The CSA has informed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

"The South Africans have informed us that they will be unable to host our A team this year as they are hosting the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the Champions Trophy," PCB's Director (Game Development) Aamir Sohail said.

Eindhoven, Netherlands  - Fred Rutten signed a three-year contract as PSV Eindhoven coach in his native Netherlands on Friday, with the job starting on July 1.

Rutten, 46, put pen to paper three weeks after being fired at German club Schalke 04, where he didn't last a full season.

At PSV, Rutten will take over from Dwight Lodeweges, who acted as caretaker since the January retirement of Huub Stevens.

Lausanne, Switzerland  - Abdel Mohamed Halim of Sudan, a former African football supremo and International Olympic Committee member, the IOC said on Friday. He was 99 years old.

Halim was an IOC member 1968-1982 and later an honorary member of the Olympic body.

He made a big contribution to African football as founding member of the continent's football federation in 1957, organizer of the first African Nations Cup the same year in his native Sudan, and African football supremo 1987-1988.