AFP, CARDIFF (UK): Moeen Ali has become the first England player to confirm unreservedly that he will be available for the upcoming tour of Bangladesh. The future of the tour was in the balance after an attack on a Dhaka cafe in July killed 20 — mostly foreign — hostages, with the Islamic…

The National Sports Awards for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 will be handed over to the winners on Sunday morning at a function at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital, reports UNB. Prime Ministry Sheikh Hasina will grace the function as the chief guest and hand over the National Sports Awards…

The second phase rehabilitation programme of Bangladesh pace sensation Mustafizur Rahman will start on September 19, just after the Eid vacation. Mustafiz yet again returned Dhaka from Satkhira to examine the current state of his shoulder. He met with BCB chief physician Dr Debashish Chowdhury after…

While the cricket’s popularity is sky high in the country, the case is different in Cox’s Bazar. Considered as the best tourist spot of Bangladesh,…

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) arranged a 3-day practice match for Under-19 cricket team at Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan (BKSP) after the end of the three-week-long training programme to trim the preliminary squad from 32 to maximum 24.The match has been started at BKSP since Saturday under the…

AFP, BERLIN: With Manuel Neuer confirmed as his new captain, Joachim Loew plans to blood Germany’s next generation as part of his team’s preparations…

AFP, NICE (FRANCE): Wayward Italian striker Mario Balotelli has insisted that French club Nice have not taken a risk in signing him from Liverpool. “The career that I have had, it’s different to what has been written in the press,” Balotelli said at a press conference on Friday as…

AFP, JOHANNESBURG: South Africa had a penalty saved as they were held 1-1 at home by Mauritania on Friday in a disappointing end to a poor 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign. The result before a small crowd at Mbombela Stadium in north-eastern city Nelspruit condemned Bafana Bafana (The…

AFP, NEW DELHI: Former Internazionale and Bayern Munich star Lucimar Ferreira da Silva has returned to the Indian Super League (ISL) football tournament as a marquee player for the troubled FC Goa. The Brazilian international, nicknamed Lucio, was a mainstay of his national team with 105 appearances,…

AFP, ZURICH: Renaud Lavillenie firmly buried memories of being reduced to tears by a hostile home crowd at the Rio Olympics by continuing his domination of the Diamond League. A weeping Lavillenie became one of the most poignant images from the Games as he struggled with the partisan crowd backing eventual…

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) will participate in the Red Bull Campus Cricket World Finals to be held in Colombo from September  5…

AFP, KINGSTOWN (SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES): Borussia Dortmund teenager Christian Pulisic scored twice as the United States thrashed Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 6-0 on Friday to edge closer to a place in the final round of CONCACAF qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup. A first-half flurry of…

AFP, TRNAVA (SLOVAKIA): Sam Allardyce’s tenure as England manager begins on Sunday when his side launch their bid to reach the 2018 World Cup against…