The much-anticipated day-long players’ draft of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) for the 2017-2018 season will be held at the local hotel of the city on Saturday. BPL governing council meanwhile finished their preparation to make the BPL players’ draft successful.  “We’ve…

Bangladesh Under-19 Cricket Team will travel to Sylhet on September 18 to hold their week-long intense practice session ahead of the bilateral home series against promising Asian cricket team Afghanistan. The series will be a five-match one-day affair, which is scheduled to kick-start in Sylhet on September…

South Bangle Agriculture and Commerce Bank fourth National Junior (Under-18 boys and girls) Table Tennis Championship will begin from tomorrow (Thursday) at the Shahid Tajuddin wooden Floor Gymnasium. A total of 180 players including 45 women from across the country will take part in the fourth edition…

Coming from a goal down, Arambagh Krira Sangha earned important points to avoid the early threat of relegation in the Saif Power Battery Bangladesh Premier…

AFP, GERMANY: Just eight years after starting life in the local leagues, RB Leipzig will enhance their rags to riches tale on Wednesday by hosting Monaco…

AFP, Spain:  Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde warned against snap judgements on his side and Juventus’ Champions League aspirations despite losing key players in the transfer market. The sides meet in their competition opener on Tuesday (1845 GMT) in a rematch of a quarter-final clash won…

AFP, MADRID: Spanish tennis world number one Rafael Nadal has criticised plans for an independence referendum called by Catalonia's pro-separatist…

AFP, PARIS: A key argument in the Paris bid for the 2024 Olympics was that, thanks to venues such as the Stade de France and Roland Garros, 95 percent of the necessary infrastructure is already in place. From the Ile-Saint-Denis to the north, where the Olympic village is planned, to the Bercy arena,…

AFP, KABUL: At a makeshift beach in landlocked Afghanistan, children as young as eight, wearing baggy Real Madrid and Barcelona shirts with "Ronaldo"…

AFP, TOKYO: Japan's Kimiko Date, the grande dame of women's tennis, bowed out of the sport after being thrashed 6-0, 6-0 by Aleksandra Krunic at the Japan Women's Open on Tuesday. The former world number four, who turns 47 later this month, was simply no match for a Serbian opponent who…

Lionel Messi is arguably the best soccer player on the planet — unless you’re more of a Cristiano Ronaldo fan. That’s a discussion for…