Mandhana, Rawal tons make India clinch last semi-final spot

Centuries from Smriti Mandhana and Pratika Rawal powered India to a 53-run win over New Zealand and into the Women's World Cup semi-finals on Thursday.
23 October 2025, 18:19 PM Sports
Records at a glance after Tigers snap winless streak in style
Bangladesh sealed a 2-1 series victory over the West Indies with a commanding 179-run win in the third and final ODI at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Thursday.
23 October 2025, 15:28 PM Sports
Bangladesh seal West Indies series with crushing 179-run win
Bangladesh ended their streak of four consecutive ODI series defeats in emphatic fashion
23 October 2025, 12:14 PM Sports
Napoli humiliation reinforces Conte's poor CL record
The humiliating 6-2 defeat to PSV Eindhoven made unfortunate history for both Antonio Conte and Napoli, but reaffirmed the coach’s poor Champions League record.
22 October 2025, 09:10 AM Sports

Zarif cites technical flaws in semifinal loss

The 17-year-old was beaten 6-1, 6-4 by Thailand’s Ariyaphol Leekul at the National Tennis Complex in Ramna, just six days after claiming the boy’s singles crown at the ITF World Tennis Tour Junior J30 in Rajshahi.
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35th Bangladesh World Tennis Tour Juniors J-30 / Zarif triumphs in thriller to reach semifinals
Bangladeshi young tennis star Zarif Abrar has continued his dream run at the 35th Bangladesh World Tennis Tour Juniors J-30, Dhaka, securing his place in the semifinals after a thrilling quarter-final victory, defeating India's second-seeded player Shounak Chatterjee 2-1.
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Pep talks with Djokovic as Sabalenka vows to improve 'in everything'
World number one Aryna Sabalenka told AFP that she needs to improve her tennis "in literally everything" and how Novak Djokovic is helping her do it on and off the court.
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SPLASH OF JOY
22 October 2025, 14:52 PM Sports
Calm before Hong Kong takeoff
10 October 2025, 09:26 AM Sports

Barca, Bayern on collision course

Barcelona and Bayern Munich will meet in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League should both sides make it through, Friday’s draw for the final eight confirmed.
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Henry kneels for 8 mins 46 seconds

Montreal Impact manager Thierry Henry took a knee for eight minutes and 46 seconds at the start of their Major League Soccer game against New
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM

With five-for in the bag, Holder eyes a hundred

West Indies captain Jason Holder said “my Test is far from over” after he rocked England with a career-best six-wicket haul on the second day of the series opener at Southampton on Thursday.
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Australia must tour England, says Langer

Australia must tour England for the “health of world cricket” and let its top players compete in this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) if it goes ahead, coach Justin Langer has said.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Medical guidelines ready for national booters

The resumption of the national football team’s activities is gradually becoming a reality as the medical committee of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) yesterday completed their health guidelines in light of FIFA guidelines to resume football activities ahead of October’s World Cup Qualifiers.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM

A mess locals could help fix

The coronavirus pandemic has led many sectors to realise the importance of having their own resources. In that vein, Bangladesh cricket is facing tough questions about its reliance on foreign coaching staff.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM

‘We have to win three games’

Barcelona kept their faint title hopes alive and doomed Espanyol to relegation on Wednesday as Luis Suarez’s goal proved the winner in a pivotal Catalan derby at the top and bottom of La Liga.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM

BKKF to extend help towards destitute sportspersons

Bangabandhu Krirasebi Kalyan Foundation (BKKF) has decided to provide Tk 2000 allowance per month to each of the 1150 destitute sportspersons, who have been facing the hardship of coronavirus pandemic, for next one year.
9 July 2020, 09:14 AM

7-1 has become an expression

Six years after Brazil suffered their most humiliating experience on a football pitch, the 7-1 World Cup thrashing on home soil at the hands of Germany has become a joke, an expression and even a meme.
8 July 2020, 18:00 PM

‘I’m president, coach and player’

Zlatan Ibrahimovic ignited a late comeback against Serie A leaders Juventus and then declared that if he had been at AC Milan from the start of the season, they would be Italian champions.
8 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Musa Juwara’s incredible journey

Musa Juwara arrived in Italy in 2016 on a boat as an unaccompanied minor, and since then, a new family and football have changed his life.
8 July 2020, 18:00 PM

National team camp in Savar or Gazipur?

The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) is struggling to choose a suitable venue where a safe residential training camp can be conducted amidst the coronavirus pandemic ahead of the World Cup Qualifiers in October.
8 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Cricket returns with rain

Rain meant there was no play before lunch on Wednesday’s opening day of the first Test between England and the West Indies at Southampton, the first international cricket match since March.
8 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Ruman to get Covid-19 grant

Bangladesh’s top archer Ruman Sana was named in a list of 35 archers who will receive grants from World Archery and the Foundation for Global Sports Development’s COVID-19 fund.
7 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Mourinho happy with ‘beautiful’ bust-up

Tottenham’s 1-0 Premier League win over Everton on Monday will best be remembered for a halftime bust-up between Hugo Lloris and teammate Son Heung-min that manager Jose Mourinho described as ‘beautiful’.
7 July 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Do it your way, Stokesy’

Stand-in England captain Ben Stokes says regular skipper Joe Root has given him a simple piece of advice ahead of Wednesday’s first Test with West Indies -- do it your way.
7 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Test of the new normal

The eyes of the cricketing world will be focused on Southampton today when England take on the West Indies at the Ageas Bowl in what will be the first international cricket series since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic more than three months ago.
7 July 2020, 18:00 PM

A return both empty and fulfilling

The great Eduardo Galeano, in his masterpiece ‘Football in Sun and Shadow’, wrote that “playing without their fans (club fans) is like dancing without music”.
7 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Int’l cricket returns tomorrow

When the players of England and West Indies walk out on to the lush Ageas Bowl pitch on Wednesday it will be a landmark moment for international cricket after a 117-day hiatus.
6 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Arsenal’s taunt and Mourinho’s reply

Jose Mourinho hit back at Arsenal’s ridicule of Tottenham’s defeat at Sheffield United on social media, saying “you only enjoy the problems of others when you are also in trouble”.
6 July 2020, 18:00 PM