Kalabagan Krira Chakra clawed back to winning ways as they posted a comprehensive eight wickets win over Hillol Jubo Sangha in their fourth clash of the Dhaka Women’s Premier Division Cricket League at the BKSP-4 yesterday. This was Kalabagan’s second victory off four outings. The newly-entrant…

Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team got off to a flying start when they trounced the visiting Afghanistan U-19 team by an imposing 145 runs in the tour opener…

Ex-Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara says he will miss cricket “terribly” but believes he is retiring from the first-class game at the right time, reports BBC Sport. Sangakkara, 39, made 35 not out in his final first-class innings for Surrey against Lancashire on Wednesday. He is fifth…

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) President Nazmul Hassan Papon will visit the makeshift camps for the distressed Rohingya minority Muslim people in Cox’s Bazar on Saturday. The president is expected to inaugurate a free medical camp for Rohingya people at Balukhali Army camp-2 (new) at Thaingkhali…

AFP, ABU DHABI: Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah became the joint second fastest bowler to claim 150 Test wickets on the opening day of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. The 31-year-old dismissed Lahiru Thirimanne leg before for nought in the first session to reach the milestone…

Vernon Philander’s lower back injury has ruled him out of the second Test against Bangladesh in Bloemfontein on October 6, reports Times live. The fast bowler had already been removed from the equation for the first Test‚ which starts in Potchefstroom on Thursday. South Africa team management…

AFP, LONDON: Moeen Ali again proved England's hero with the bat as they beat West Indies by six runs in a rain-marred fourth one-day international…

AFP, LISBON: Sebastian Coates scored an unfortunate second-half own goal to gift Barcelona a 1-0 victory away to Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League…

AFP, PARIS: French champions Monaco may be reeling from a midweek Champions League thumping but Montpellier are wary of a backlash heading into their Ligue 1 clash in the principality on Friday. Monaco, bottom of their Champions League group with just a single point after two matches, are second in…

AFP, PARIS: Edinson Cavani and Neymar both scored as Paris Saint-Germain claimed a convincing 3-0 victory over a disappointing Bayern Munich in their…

AFP, MADRID: Michy Batshuayi struck a dramatic winner with the last kick of the game as Chelsea inflicted Atletico Madrid's first defeat at their new Wanda Metropolitano home on Wednesday with a hugely impressive 2-1 Champions League victory. Substitute Batshuayi's late intervention was just…

AFP, JOHANNESBURG: Having slayed one Tunisian giant, Al Ahly of Egypt tackle another this weekend in pursuit of a record-extending ninth CAF Champions League title. The Cairo club shocked Esperance in Tunis last weekend, coming from behind to triumph 2-1 through goals from Tunisian Ali Maaloul and Nigerian…

AFP, WUHAN: Australia's Ashleigh Barty pulled off a major upset against former world number one Karolina Pliskova in the quarter-finals of the Wuhan Open on Thursday, downing the number three seed 4-6, 7-6 (7/3), 7-6 (7/2). Barty, ranked 37th in the world, failed to convert three match points in…