Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) formally launched their players’ hunting programme from 14 age group stage as they have no such initiative before this stage though the board with the joint-venture of National Sports Council (NSC) recently started a carnival like programme for the U-12 level. But…

Future golf players of Bangladesh have find a way to develop their golfing skills in a very professional method as they would learn the game through world…

AFP, BERLIN: Maria Sharapova will make her return to competitive tennis following her 15-month ban at the WTA clay-court tournament in Stuttgart in April, it was announced on Tuesday. The 29-year-old five-time Grand Slam winner tested positive for meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open. Her two-year…

AFP, JOHANNESBURG: Hashim Amla will become the eighth South African to appear in 100 Test matches in the third and final Test against Sri Lanka starting at the Wanderers Stadium on Thursday. Although South Africa are overwhelming favourites after comfortable wins in the first two Tests, the match has…

Agrani Bank Cricket Club posted their back-to-back victories as they swept past Sheikh Jamal Cricketers by 38 runs in the second round games of the Dhaka First Division Cricket League at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS) yesterday. The Bankers whacked past Bangladesh Boys by four wickets…

AFP, MADRID: Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo claimed he had to overcome media "campaigns" against him to win FIFA's inaugural "The…

SYDNEY: Australia’s vice-captain, David Warner, has labelled as “very, very poor” the scheduling decision that will lead to Australia…

AFP, LONDON: Manchester United and Liverpool have each lost an important player, but in the Premier League it is Leicester City for whom the Africa Cup of Nations is the biggest inconvenience. While United centre-back Eric Bailly has been called up by the Ivory Coast and Liverpool have lost Senegalese…

AFP, PARIS: Hosting the Euro 2016 football tournament cost France less than 200 million euros ($211 million) but brought some 1.22 billion euros into the country, according to figures released by the ministry of sports Tuesday. There was controversy over the public funds poured into the tournament,…

Biplob struck the lone goal in the final to steer the Independent Television to emerge champions in the Kool BSJA Media Cup Football Tournament. …

AFP, LONDON: Andy Murray says he does not have a mental block when it comes to the Australian Open despite losing the final of the opening Grand Slam of the season five times. The 29-year-old world number one — whose season opened with a defeat in the Qatar Open to Novak Djokovic — told…