Nepal U-17 team manager Sudeep Sharma tipped the friendly series with BKSP as encouraging for them, stating that they want to play more series with BCB…

AFP, PARIS: Japan's fifth seed Kei Nishikori, former runner-up Simona Halep and two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova were all early second round…

A delegation team of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will come to visit in Dhaka in the next week to discuss the cricket tours and cricketing relation between Bangladesh and India. During the visit, the forthcoming bilateral series between the two neighbouring countries will get the…

Arshad Hossain sounded the board just 20 seconds before the final whistle as Mariner Youngs forced Abahani Limited to share points with a 3-3 draw in the Green Delta Premier Division Hockey League yesterday at the Maulana Bhashani Hockey Stadium. In a hard fought match between the giants Mariner Youngs…

Haji Mohammed Nurul Islam Smiriti National Junior Athletics Championship to be held on May 27-28 at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. In the biggest athletics meet in the country about 600 athletes and 150 officials from across the country will take part in the two days competition. The competition…

AFP, MADRID: Just five months into his first senior managerial role, Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane is already living up to the unenviable task of…

LONDON: There was no long apprenticeship at the fringes of the Test side for Kushal Mendis. There were no tours with the A team, or leadership positions in his club side. But such opportunities as have been thrown his way have been seized, and now, he has his first Test fifty. In five innings in England…

AFP, PARIS: France said Wednesday it will deploy more than 90,000 police and security guards for Euro 2016, vowing to do "everything possible to avoid a terrorist attack" during the football tournament that starts next month. The announcement followed chaos on Saturday at the Stade de France…

AFP, PARIS: France’s Euro 2016 preparations took a knock on Tuesday with key defender Raphael Varane ruled out injured of next month’s tournament…

AFP, SHANGHAI: Wu Lei’s dramatic injury-time winner put Sven-Goran Eriksson’s Shanghai SIPG into the AFC Champions League quarter-finals against…

AFP, LONDON: England all-rounder Ben Stokes had knee surgery on Tuesday, while fellow international Reece Topley learnt he will be sidelined for three months with a partial stress fracture. Stokes suffered a cartilage tear in his left knee during England’s crushing Test victory against Sri Lanka…