Fizz to be granted NOC for two IPL matches, Shakib also to get nod for PSL
Mustafizur, who was signed for the remainder of the IPL season by Delhi for INR 6 crore, had asked the BCB for NOC for Delhi’s last three league matches. 
15 May 2025, 08:15 AM
Bangladesh Emerging collapse after Akbar heroics, series level at 1-1
Skipper Akbar Ali produced a valiant century but Bangladesh Emerging Team fell short by 10 runs against South Africa Emerging in a high-scoring second one-dayer at the Shaheed Kamruzzaman Stadium in Rajshahi on Wednesday.
14 May 2025, 13:18 PM
Bologna end 51-year wait for glory with Italian Cup triumph
Bologna ended a 51-year wait for a major trophy on Wednesday after winning the Italian Cup with a 1-0 victory over AC Milan, who slumped to yet another painful defeat in a horror season.
14 May 2025, 21:33 PM
Alcaraz sets up Italian Open semi clash with Musetti, Sabalenka falls
Carlos Alcaraz set up a semifinal meeting with Lorenzo Musetti at the Italian Open on Wednesday with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Jack Draper in the last eight, while women's world number one Aryna Sabalenka was knocked out.
15 May 2025, 00:00 AM

Sports

'Sci-fi' Lewy breaks Mueller's 49-year old record

Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski said it felt like being in a “science fiction film” after scoring his 41st Bundesliga goal of the season on Saturday to break Gerd Mueller's 49-year-old German league record for a single campaign.
22 May 2021, 21:09 PM

Suarez leads Atletico to La Liga glory

Atletico Madrid won La Liga and Luis Suarez found vindication, his goal securing the 2-1 victory over Real Valladolid on Saturday that clinched his team another remarkable Spanish title.
22 May 2021, 21:03 PM

Ruman, Diya going for gold

Ruman Sana and Diya Siddique will settle for nothing less than the gold medal, they said, when they take on Gabriela Schloesser and Sjef Van Den Berg of Netherlands in the final of the recurve mixed team event in the World Cup Stage 2 today.
22 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Winning start for Niaz, Razib

GM Niaz Murshed and GM Enamul Hossain Razib made winning start in the Asian Continental Individual Chess Championship, a qualifying event for FIDE World Cup to be held in Russia in July, at the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall-room yesterday.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Success only for mixed team

Although Bangladesh pulled a string of surprising wins to reach final in recurve mixed team event of the Archery World Cup, they were eliminated from both men’s and women’s recurve team events in Lausanne, Switzerland yesterday.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Has Messi played his last for Barca?

Lionel Messi has been given permission by Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman to miss this weekend’s final La Liga match of the season against Eibar and take holiday, the club confirmed on Friday, meaning he may have played his last game for Catalan side.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Atletico on cusp of glory but Real ready to pounce

Barely a week has gone by this season without Diego Simeone pronouncing his mantra of “one game at a time” and now it really rings true, with Atletico Madrid one match away from winning La Liga.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Day wants two closed-door matches

Head coach Jamie Day has asked Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) to arrange two closed-door practice matches at home to make up for the losses following the cancellation of a proposed Qatar camp for June’s World Cup Qualifiers in Doha.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM

‘They have to deliver big-time’

Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal probably did the right thing as captain by backing his teammates when questions were raised regarding some of the areas of his team ahead of the Tigers’ three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Fwa award ‘something special’ for dias

Manchester City’s Ruben Dias was named England’s Footballer of the Year on Thursday by the Football Writers’ Association (FWA), making him the first defender to win the award since Steve Nicol in 1989.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Selectors shield Najmul from pressures of their own design

The Minhajul Abedin-led national selection panel yesterday announced a 15-member squad, along with four stand-by players, for the first two ODIs of the upcoming three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka, making a few changes to the squad that toured New Zealand last March for three ODIs and as many T20Is.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Tigers pleased with pre-match preparations

National cricket team selector Habibul Bashar expressed his contentment about the practice match between BCB Red and BCB Green team at the BKSP ground yesterday ahead of three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Ismail shattered by wildcard denial

After failing to get a wildcard for the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics, country’s fastest man Mohammad Ismail yesterday appealed to the Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) to reconsider the Bangladesh Athletic Federation’s (BAF) nominations.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Untamed spirit triumphs over crisis

A Covid-19 outbreak and injury problems saw River Plate face Colombia’s Independiente with midfielder Enzo Perez playing in goal and with no substitutes on the bench but the Argentines still emerged with a 2-1 win in Wednesday’s Copa Libertadores game.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM

‘Bangladesh are very dangerous at home’

Sri Lankan left-arm pacer Isuru Udana commended Bangladesh side’s strength at home ahead of their three-match ODI series against the Tigers, starting on May 23.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM

‘We had the desire to take home this trophy’

Federico Chiesa clinched a Coppa Italia triumph for Juventus and a first trophy for coach Andrea Pirlo with a 2-1 victory over Atalanta in the final on Wednesday.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM

PSG ride on Mbappe magic to retain French Cup

Kylian Mbappe set up the first goal and grabbed one of his own as Paris St Germain retained the French Cup with a 2-0 victory over Monaco in Wednesday’s final at the Stade de France.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Archers stun all and sundry to reach final

The Bangladeshi archers reached the final of a big tournament for the first time as Ruman Sana and Diya Siddique moved into the Recurve mixed final event of the Archery World Cup in Lausanne yesterday.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh in mixed final of Archery World Cup

Bangladesh moved into the final of the Recurve mixed event of Archery World Cup after beating Canada 5-3 in the semifinal in Lausanne, Switzerland today.
20 May 2021, 16:04 PM

Al Musabbir Sadi’s 10th death anniversary

Today marks the tenth death anniversary of Al Musabbir Sadi, a noted sports journalist and former general secretary of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF).
20 May 2021, 05:35 AM