The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Wednesday announced a 15-member women’s team for the ACC Women’s Asia Cup T20 2018. The tournament will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from June 3-10. The Bangladesh team will depart for Kuala Lumpur on tomorrow (Friday). Bangladesh called up experienced…

AFP, PARIS:  Title challengers Marin Cilic and Dominic Thiem struggled into the French Open last 32 on Thursday as Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and Rafael Nadal waited to join them. Third seed Cilic reached the third round for the eighth time with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-7 3/7), 7-5 win over Polish qualifier…

Bangladesh are scheduled to play a warm-up match today as part of the preparation for their three-match T20 International series against Afghanistan. The series will kick-start on June 3 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Dehradun with the last two matches slating to be held on June…

Diamond Melamine Under-8 Kids Rugby League started yesterday in the capital with six clubs are taking part in the first ever any league competition for the Under-8 boys is being organised by the Bangladesh Rugby Federation Union. Held at the Shaheed M Mansur Ali Handball Stadium, Advocate Jahangir Kabir…

AFP, PARIS: Russia are bidding to avoid the ignominy of becoming only the second World Cup hosts to fail to reach the knockout stage and have been given…

AFP, PARIS: Reigning European champions Portugal will take on Iberian neighbours and well-fancied Spain in a mouthwatering Group B clash on just the second…

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AFP, BERLIN: Joachim Loew believes Germany will be hunted "like never before" when they attempt to become the first team for 56 years to successfully…

AFP, SANTOS (Brazil): Twenty years ago, a coach named Betinho was watching a game of beach football when he spotted a skinny boy of six sprinting up and…

AFP, TOKYO: Trouble-hit Japan will hope star power can reverse their flagging fortunes after new coach Akira Nishino named his 23-man squad for the World Cup in Russia on Thursday. The former JFA technical director, who took charge after predecessor Vahid Halilhodzic was controversially fired last month,…

AFP, MADRID: Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said Thursday he was leaving the Spanish giants in a surprise move announced just days after winning the…

AFP, SEOUL: South Korea will need their talisman Son Heung-min to bring his sparkling English Premier League form to the World Cup if they are to survive a devilishly tricky group. The Koreans crashed out in the first round of the 2014 tournament in Brazil and have their work cut out to avoid the same…

Robi’s sports platform My Sports has received the license for internet and digital broadcasting of FIFA World Cup in Bangladesh from FIFA. This…