Maruful Haque has already began the new arena of his coaching career when he took the charge of the national football team ahead of the SAFF Championship and started his new job with practical class yesterday at the BUET ground. Maruful, who had a bright start of his coaching career with winning the…

Bangladesh ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan again became the headline for all wrong reasons. Hours after his consecutive second talismanic performance…

Comilla Victorians skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza said that they had devised new game plan to pierce Shakib-less rejuvenated Rangpur Riders in their last game of the first phase of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) yesterday. “We formulated a game plan keeping with Shakib for this match yesterday…

AFP, ADELAIDE: New Zealand were skittled for 202 but hit back with the key wicket of David Warner on an eventful opening day in the historic day-night…

AFP, NAGPUR: Ravichandran Ashwin claimed 12 wickets in the match as India swamped South Africa by 124 runs with two days to spare in the third Test on…

Batting was increasingly difficult in the surface that confused every player, given its two-paced nature. But one batsman seemed to not have bothered…

AFP, ADELAIDE: The first anniversary of Australian batsman Phillip Hughes’s death was marked with a sombre, low-key observance during the first-ever day-night Test match in Adelaide on Friday. Hughes, 25, who played 26 Tests, died from bleeding on the brain on November 27 last year after being…

AFP, BERLIN: Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge stressed on Thursday that “no-one is irreplaceable”, ahead of a decision on the future of club coach Pep Guardiola. “No-one in the world is irreplaceable at a given time. Players come and go. That also goes for coaches,”…

AGENCIES, LAHORE: The bilateral series between Pakistan and India has got clearance from the Pakistan government.  The series is likely to start on December 15, according to senior BCCI administrator and IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla. In a twist though, despite Sri Lanka being widely reported as the…

AFP, PARIS: Liverpool and Tottenham reached the Europa League last 32 on Thursday while Scottish interest in continental competition came to another sobering…

AFP, MUMBAI: Much-travelled French striker Nicolas Anelka has admitted he is likely to be on the move once more after his Mumbai City team failed to qualify for the knock-out stages of the Indian Super League. The former French international, who is a player-coach, accused his charges of a lack of fighting…