AFP, NOTTINGHAM: England one-day captain Eoin Morgan hopes Alex Hales and Jos Buttler have to change their schedules for the off-season by gaining selection for the Ashes tour of Australia. A things stand, limited-overs opener Hales is heading to South Africa for their new Global League Twenty20 tournament,…

How the Senwes Park pitch is going to play out in Potchefstroom during the first Test between South Africa and Bangladesh next week is anyone’s guess‚ but the visitors are prepared any eventuality, reports Times Live. During the Africa T20 Pool B matches that were played at the venue two…

AFP, LAHORE: Pakistan’s prolific leg-spinner Yasir Shah passed a late fitness test Saturday to join the 16-man squad for the two-match Test series…

AFP, NOTTINGHAM: West Indies coach Stuart Law is looking to the remainder of the one-day international series against England to help him build a settled…

AFP, SHANGHAI: China's Zhang Shuai battled to her second career title with a gutsy three-set victory in the final of the Guangzhou Open on Saturday. The number two seed defeated unseeded Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 in nearly two hours on the hard courts in southern China, to the delight…

Saif Power Battery Bangladesh Premier League football will resume from October 2 with the matches of the ninth round after a 15-day interval. The league committee of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) called off the league for 15 days due to national Under-18 football team’s participation…

AFP, PARIS: Radamel Falcao scored a brace as French champions Monaco romped to a 4-0 thumping of Lille at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy on Friday to pile the…

AFP, LONDON: Neymar was named alongside Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on the three-man shortlist for the Best FIFA Men's Player Award, which…

AFP, MANCHESTER: Pep Guardiola says Sergio Aguero is worthy of his place in Manchester City history, even if he continues to be ignored when it comes to individual honours. Aguero is on the verge of becoming City's all-time record scorer as he looks to break the record of 177 set by Eric Brook in…

AFP, LONDON: The tension between Paris Saint-Germain forwards Neymar and Edinson Cavani is "healthy" and they should be left to sort things out themselves, according to the club's former star Jay-Jay Okocha. Cavani and world-record signing Neymar squabbled over a penalty during PSG's…

AFP, LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes there will be a radical overhaul of the transfer market within the next year following the stratospheric spending of the close-season trading period. Paris Saint-Germain smashed the world transfer record to sign Neymar from Barcelona for 222 million…

AFP, BERLIN: A blunder by stand-in goalkeeper Sven Ulreich contributed to Bayern Munich squandering the chance to go top of the Bundesliga on Friday as they threw away a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 against Wolfsburg. Goals from Robert Lewandowski and Arjen Robben had given Bayern a commanding lead at…

AFP, MADRID: Spanish striker Diego Costa said he was relieved the saga surrounding his return to Atletico Madrid from Chelsea was over, after arriving in Spain on Friday. The two clubs agreed a transfer fee on Thursday that could reach a reported 65 million euros ($77.7 million), with Costa set to officially…

AFP, KIEV: Shakhtar Donetsk's Croatian midfielder Darijo Srna suspended his career on Friday after his Ukrainian club announced he had failed an out-of-competition drugs test. “Shakhtar Donetsk is aware that an out-of-competition test on Darijo Srna was positive on March 22, 2017,” said…

AFP, JOHANNESBURG: Al Ahly of Egypt coach Hossam El Badry hopes history repeats itself when they face hosts Esperance of Tunisia Saturday in a mega CAF Champions League quarter-final second leg. El Badry was in charge of the Cairo “Red Devils” when they shocked the Tunis “Blood and…