Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - The Coronavirus Briefing Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailNext month’s Betfred World Championship at the Crucible has been postponed. The expected decision has been confirmed with an official announcement from World Snooker Tour due on Friday morning. The 17-day tournament in Sheffield becomes the latest major sporting event to be cancelled, suspended or postponed. This week’s scheduled Tour Championship was first moved behind closed doors and then postponed until July after discussions with broadcasters ITV. It will be the first time there has not been a World Championship in April since the Sheffield theatre started staging the event in 1977.

Source: Daily Mirror March 19, 2020 22:11 UTC