England coach Trevor Bayliss believes both Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes could be selected as specialist batsmen for this month's first Test against Pakistan.

To get an impression of the footballers, Belgian coach Tom Saintfiet is planning a week-long training camp this month for the national team.

The EU on Monday orders seven Spanish football clubs including Barcelona and Real Madrid to pay back millions of euros (dollars) in illegal state aid.

New Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has no intention of ditching the methods that brought him success in Spain and Germany and wants to prove it is possible to win in the Premier League by playing attractive football.

The just-concluded Premier Division Hockey League, which has been hailed for bringing all the big names of domestic hockey together after a long gap of 45 months, produced a new champion and a few promising players, but the league also drew attention for quite a few wrong reasons.

Australia coach Darren Lehmann has urged cricket's governing body to help reduce the workload on players competing in all three forms of the game.

Test cricket's newest nations are in despair at plans to split the format into two divisions, fearing it could undo decades of hard-fought progress on the field and kill interest in the game.

Australia coach Darren Lehmann has urged cricket's governing body to help reduce the workload on players competing in all three forms of the game as he fears the current packed schedule is unsustainable.

World Cup winner and Brazil legend Ronaldo feels "abandoned" by Lionel Messi and hopes he reneges on his retirement from international football.

Bangladesh Cricket Board clears Mustafizur Rahman to play for Sussex, a senior official says.

Injury-hit midfielder Daniele De Rossi is virtually certain to miss Italy's Euro 2016 quarter-final clash with world champions Germany on Saturday, the Azzurri's medical staff said.

Jason Roy was left with a bitter-sweet taste after his spectacular match-winning 162 clinched a one-day series win over Sri Lanka on Thursday.

Dhaka Mariners Youngs Club will be hoping to end their trophy drought in top-flight hockey when they take on reigning champions Usha Krira Chakra in the Green Delta Insurance Premier Division Hockey League's final Super Six match at the

Controversial Australian Bernard Tomic is ordered to apologise on Thursday after he uses the word "retard" in a Wimbledon press conference.

Wales are happy to cast themselves as underdogs in their Euro 2016 quarter-final against Belgium on Friday but such modesty belies their proven ability to bite hard.

Sri Lanka, after being put into bat, made 305 for five against England in a rain-disrupted fourth one-day international at The Oval.

Germany are determined to snap their tournament losing streak to Italy dating back almost half a century when the two meet in a Euro 2016 quarter-final on Saturday in Bordeaux, players said on Wednesday.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is most likely going to add two more teams to the main draw of the reinstated World Twenty20 in 2018.

The player payments of two of the four Dhaka Premier League (DPL) clubs, which had not paid its players, were completed by the Bangladesh Cricket Board over the last two days.

Lionel Messi's retirement from the Argentina national team has turned the country upside down in the past few days, with an entire nation stunned by the news after Chile beat them in the Copa America final.