AFP, SYDNEY: Australia’s players on Thursday boycotted this month's Australia A tour to South Africa, escalating a bitter pay dispute which threatens to derail senior tours to Bangladesh and India as well as this year's home Ashes. The Australia Cricketers' Association (ACA) said the…

Mohammad Ashraful termed Mashrafe Bin Mortaza as a great leader, stating that his good individual performance made his task easier to bring success for the team. “Mashrafe is a great leader. He knows what he wants to do. But what is the most important thing is that he has been performing regularly…

Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal leaves Dhaka today to play for the English County club Essex in which he is featured for nine matches to play in the T20 Blast tournament. The premier English domestic T20 tournament is scheduled to kick-off today. Following his epic performance in the recently concluded…

AFP, LONDON: Three-time champion Novak Djokovic reached the Wimbledon third round for the ninth successive year with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 win over Adam Pavlasek…

FIFA imposed a fine of  10,000 Swiss franc on  Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) following its failure to pay the wages of Rene Koster, who worked as the deputy of the former national football team coach Lodewjk De Kuris. The governing body of world football in a notice instructed on May…

Nazmul Hossain Shanto struck a brilliant century as BCB High Performance Unit recorded their second straight victory in Australia tour, demolishing Northern Territory (NT) Invitational XI by 70 runs at the MCG ground in Darwin. The victory following the one-wicket win over the same side a day ago gave…

MADRID, AGENCIES: Real Madrid midfielder Casemiro says Cristiano Ronaldo is ‘happy’ and wants to stay with the European champions despite…

AFP, MORULENG (South Africa): Zimbabwean Knox Mutizwa scored a hat-trick and Zambian Justin Shonga a brace in South Africa Wednesday as their nations reached the COSAFA Cup southern Africa championship final. Record-equalling four-time champions Zambia came from behind to defeat “guests”…

AFP, LOS ANGELES: The United States and Mexico are hoping to unearth a new crop of talent as they attempt to extend their reign of dominance when the CONCACAF Gold Cup kicks off on Friday. The biennial football championship for North America, Central America and Caribbean gets under way at the Red Bull…

AFP, LYON: Arsenal signed France striker Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon for a club-record fee that could rise to 60 million euros ($68m, £52.56m), the two clubs confirmed on Wednesday. The transfer fee is also a new record sale for the Ligue 1 outfit, worth an initial 53m euros, according to a…

Olympic 110-metres hurdles champion Omar McLeod is back to his best after a rare defeat at the Paris Diamond League last Saturday, reports Jamaica Gleaner.…

AFP, LAUSANNE: World record holder Wayde van Niekerk will return to the 400 metres at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on Thursday, after starting…

AFP, DOHA: Barcelona star Jordi Alba has become the latest Spanish footballer to enter the Gulf diplomatic crisis after he was shown signing a T-shirt of Qatar’s leader on Wednesday. A video of Alba autographing the image of Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, which has become the symbol of…