Bangladesh ODI and T20 skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza thinks bowling at Australia-New Zealand condition will be tough more than scoring, stating that bowlers should hone their bowling skills and techniques ahead of the next series against the Black Caps. He also said that they have nothing to take from…

The 4th Yonex-Sunrise Bangladesh Open Badminton International Challenge will kick-off today at the Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Indoor Gymnasium. Over one hundred shuttlers drawn from 13 countries are participating  five events in the five-day competition. The participating shuttlers including 39 female…

Pace prodigy Mustafizur Rahman is almost ready for the next Down Under tours of Bangladesh team. He recuperated from his left-shoulder injury two months before the prediction period of the six months. Rahman was in rehabilitation programme for the last four months after his surgical operation in London.…

AFP, SYDNEY: Steve Smith hit a record-breaking century and took two superb catches as Australia beat New Zealand by 68 runs in the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy one-day series opener in Sydney on Sunday. The Australia skipper smashed 164, the highest one-day international score at the Sydney Cricket Ground,…

AFP, LONDON: Alexis Sanchez fired a 14-minute hat-trick as Arsenal rose to second in the Premier League with an irrepressible 5-1 victory at West Ham…

AFP, BERLIN: RB Leipzig again knocked Bayern Munich from top spot in the Bundesliga table on Saturday as their 2-1 win at home to Schalke 04 left them three points clear. Carlo Ancelotti’s Bayern had regained the lead with a 3-1 win at Mainz on Friday night, but Leipzig replaced them less than…

AFP, PARIS: Colombian striker Radamel Falcao scored twice as Monaco thrashed Bastia 5-0 to move top of Ligue 1 on Saturday, while French champions Paris Saint-Germain crashed to a shock 3-0 defeat at Montpellier. However, the day’s action in France was scarred when the game between Metz and Lyon…

AFP, BARCELONA: A never say die approach is part of Real Madrid’s DNA said captain Sergio Ramos after his stoppage time equaliser maintained a six-point La Liga lead over Barcelona with a 1-1 draw in El Clasico. Ramos strode forward from defence to net another important goal after Luis Suarez’s…

AFP, CHAPECÓ (BRAZIL): In a driving rain, the small Brazilian city of Chapeco held a massive funeral Saturday for its football team, tragically wiped out in a plane crash in Colombia. Packed to capacity, the stadium where Chapecoense Real were thrilling their fans just 10 days ago held an anguished…

AFP, LONDON: Fifty-five league and non league clubs have been referred to police in the child sex abuse scandal that has shattered English football's image a source told The Observer newspaper on Sunday. In other developments English football's embattled governing body the Football Association…