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
Sinner meets Pope
Men's world number one tennis player, Jannik Sinner, offered to rally with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday, after being received by the head of the Catholic Church at the Vatican.
14 May 2025, 12:54 PM
Sinner moves through gears to reach Italian Open quarters
Jannik Sinner came through the first true test of his comeback from a doping ban with Tuesday's straight-sets win over Francisco Cerundolo which took the world number one into the Italian Open quarter-finals.
13 May 2025, 20:30 PM

Maradona death kept from Bilardo

Carlos Bilardo, the coach of Argentina’s 1986 World Cup-winning team who is in poor health, was still unaware on Thursday of the death of Diego Maradona, because of his family’s wish not to upset him.
27 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Maradona laid to eternal rest

Argentina’s Diego Maradona, one of the world’s greatest ever football players, was buried on Thursday amid a global outpouring of grief from the streets of Buenos Aires to Naples in Italy.
27 November 2020, 18:00 PM

‘If you love football, you love Maradona’

When news of Diego Armando Maradona’s passing filtered through on the night of November 25 in Bangladesh, the grief that took hold in the country was as if a mischievous, magnetic boy next door died and not a footballing genius who lived 10,000 miles away and imbued everything he touched with the brightest colours.
26 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Like a distant memory, brought back in ‘colour’

Growing up, Diego Maradona seemed like a ghost from the past for someone who had little experience of watching live football during the 90s.
26 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Chattogram demolish Dhaka

Gazi Group Chattogram began the Bangabandhu T20 Cup on a high as they registered a comprehensive nine-wicket win over Beximco Dhaka at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.
26 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Rajshahi cruise after Nazmul fifty

Skipper Nazmul Hossain Shanto’s crisp fifty guided Minister Rajshahi to their second consecutive win, this time by a comfortable four-wicket margin over mighty Gemcon Khulna in yesterday’s first Bangabandhu T20 Cup fixture at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.
26 November 2020, 18:00 PM

India tour gets underway today

The plans for India’s tour of Australia have been ripped up and redrawn dozens of times over the last eight months but the action finally gets underway with the first one-day international at the Sydney Cricket Ground on today.
26 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Bayern, City through to round of 16

Bayern Munich and Manchester City qualified for the Champions League round of 16 on Wednesday, while Real Madrid beat Inter Milan in a group nevertheless still topped by Borussia Mönchengladbach and Liverpool lost at home to Atalanta.
26 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Nadal leads tennis world in paying respect to Maradona

Spaniard Rafael Nadal led the tennis world in paying tribute to Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona who died at the age of 60 on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack.
26 November 2020, 07:45 AM

PM mourns death of football legend Diego Maradona

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expressed her profound shock and sorrow at the death of Argentine football legend Diego Armando Maradona.
26 November 2020, 05:04 AM

Real put Inter on the brink

Real Madrid claimed a first-ever win at San Siro on Wednesday, beating Inter 2-0 in the Champions League after the Serie A side had midfielder Arturo Vidal sent off for dissent in the first half.
26 November 2020, 01:05 AM

Argentina mourns Maradona

Heartbroken fans of Diego Maradona gathered on the streets of Buenos Aires to mourn the Argentine soccer legend's death on Wednesday, praying, laying flowers and singing patriotic and sport chants.
26 November 2020, 01:05 AM

Atalanta thump Liverpool

Atalanta's Josip Ilicic and Robin Gosens scored quickfire second-half goals to give them a comfortable 2-0 win over a toothless Liverpool, who barely managed a shot on target, in their Champions League Group D clash at Anfield on Wednesday.
26 November 2020, 01:05 AM

Lewa heads FIFA Best shortlist

Bayern Munich’s treble-winning Robert Lewandowski joined regulars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on the shortlist for The Best FIFA Men’s Player award, world soccer’s governing body announced on Wednesday.
25 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Junior athletics without BKSP

After football, handball, hockey, basketball and cricket, athletics have also joined the resumption-rally with Bangabandhu 36th National Junior Athletics Championships getting underway on an unfit track at Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) from Friday.
25 November 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Damage control aim against Qatar’

Bangladesh Football Federation president Kazi Salahuddin hopes the national team will do their best to control the damage when they take on Qatar in a World Cup qualifier in Doha on December 4.
25 November 2020, 18:00 PM

ICC must deliver world events

New International Cricket Council (ICC) Chairman Greg Barclay told Reuters on Wednesday his organisation must deliver their pinnacle events over the next three years or there will be serious financial consequences for the sport.
25 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Barca, Juve, Chelsea, Sevilla in last 16

Juventus, Chelsea and Sevilla all claimed last-gasp wins as they qualified for the Champions League last 16 on Tuesday, while Martin Braithwaite grabbed a double in Barcelona’s 4-0 victory at Dynamo Kiev as they also secured a place in the knockout rounds.
25 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Ctg face Dhaka after opening-day thrillers

The thrillers that the first two matches of the Bangabandhu T20 Cup produced on the opening day on Tuesday provided much-needed succour for cricket fans as it marked the proper resumption of competitive cricket in the country since it was rocked by the Covid-19 outbreak in March.
25 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Booters’ endeavour for fitness

Bangladesh national football team will look to get fitter ahead of the World Cup qualifier against Qatar as they take on Qatar Army, an amateur side, in one of two warm-up matches at the Al Azizyah Boutique ground in Doha today.
24 November 2020, 18:00 PM