Left-handed opener Imrul Kayes is hopeful to return to Test squad ahead of the upcoming full series against Sri Lanka. Kayes will play the next round of the franchisee-based Bangladesh Cricket League (BCL) longer version for Prime Bank South Zone on Saturday. Kayes started his rehabilitation after returning…

Grand Master Ziaur Raman along with six others were sharing the lead at the end of 4th round games of International Mother Language Day International…

AFP,  LEEDS: Joe Root insisted he would captain England "his way" as he gave his first insight into how he would lead the Test side. Two…

India and Pakistan are all set to face each other in Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh ahead of the much-awaited clash in Champions Trophy in England. The two teams would feature in the Emerging Cup, which has an interesting format. It’s a tournament essentially for U-23 players but four teams…

AFP, DUBAI: Pakistani cricket officials have vowed to stage the final of their Twenty20 league in Lahore next month, despite a powerful Taliban suicide bomb blast which killed 13 people there this week. The first two rounds of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) are being played in Dubai and Sharjah, but…

Bangladesh are expecting to make a winning start in the World Cup Roll Ball to kick off today at the Sheikh Russel Roll Ball court  when 29 out of 40 countries have already arrived to take part in the competition. Bangladesh, who first ever organising the mega event is ready to host and prepared…

AFP, MADRID: Real Madrid shrugged off conceding an early away goal to take a huge step towards a seventh straight Champions League quarter-final as goals…

AFP, ROTTERDAM: Austria’s Dominic Thiem battled into the second round of the Rotterdam World Tennis on Wednesday after Alexander Zverev's challenge…

AFP, BARCELONA: Barcelona's Brazil star Neymar says it will be a virtual ‘mission impossible’ for the Spanish giants to progress in the Champions League after their 4-0 first leg demolition by Paris Saint-Germain. No team has ever come back from a 4-0 first leg deficit to remain in the…

AFP, MUNICH: Arsene Wenger’s future was plunged into further doubt on Wednesday as Thiago Alcantara inspired Bayern Munich to a 5-1 rout of hapless…

AFP, MANCHESTER: Captain Wayne Rooney, Michael Carrick and Phil Jones will all miss Manchester United's Europa League clash with Saint-Etienne on Thursday, manager Jose Mourinho revealed on Wednesday. Jones has not played since sustaining a foot injury in United's recent 0-0 draw with Hull City…

AFP, MADRID: Spanish police were called to a Madrid hotel by concerned staff on Wednesday over an argument between former Argentine footballer Diego Maradona and his girlfriend. “My lawyer Matias Morla contacted the Spanish authorities. There are no complaints and nobody was able to explain to…

AFP, KUALA LUMPUR: Twenty-two players and officials from Laos and Cambodia have been handed life bans in one of Asian football's biggest mass punishments for match-fixing. The Asian Football Confederation said the action follows an investigation that started in 2014, and that it will seek to have…

AFP, BERLIN: The German Bundesliga's bottom side Darmstadt have invited Barack Obama to a home game after discovering the former US President follows them on social media platform Twitter. “It's a huge honour for us,” said Darmstadt's German-born US international Terrence Boyd…