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Dhaka – Bangladesh Women’s Handball team left here for India on Monday night to participate in the 8th Asian Women’s Youth Handball Championship’2019 beginning in the Indian city of Jaipur on August 21. Read More »

Dhaka —The Bangladesh Crickest Board (BCB) started meetings with the franchise-based Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 teams at the board office in Mirpur on Monday to chalk out a new agreement for a new circle of the event. The BPL governing council conducted meetings with Dhaka Dynamites, Khulna Titans and Rajshahi Kings on the first day today (Monday). “We have ... Read More »

New York, Aug 19 (AP/UNB) – As he bewildered two Burnley midfielders with a center-field pirouette, delivered a stream of dangerous set-pieces and generally controlled play, it was easy to see why there was so much hype around Dani Ceballos this time last year. The playmaker was about to be an early-season regular for Real Madrid — at the time ... Read More »

Dhaka – Captain of the Bangladesh national women’s football team Sabina Khatun became first Bangladesh woman footballer to be named as Youth Ambassador of Suchana Program in Bangladesh for one year. Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh all-rounder Mahmudullah Riyad started gearing up after the Eid vacation as he batted for an hour and bowled five overs at the academy ground in Mirpur on Sunday. Mahmudullah had been suffering from several injuries. But as per the latest update, he felt no pain while batting, and bowled five overs without complaining any pain as well. ... Read More »

Madrid (Xinhua/UNB) — FC Barcelona striker Luis Suarez is likely to be out of action for a while after suffering a calf injury in his side’s 1-0 defeat to Athletic Club Bilbao on the first day of the new Liga Santander season. Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) called 35 cricketers to join conditioning camp beginning on Monday (August 19) under National Team Strength and Conditioning Coach Mario Villavarayen. Read More »

Dhaka – The Bangladesh Women’s Hockey team is set to play their first match against a foreign opponent, the Sports Authority of India’s (SAI)-National Women’s Hockey Academy team on Tuesday at Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium here. The match will kick-off at 4 pm (BST).Bangladesh Women’s Hockey team will play six preparatory matches against the Indian side ahead of their maiden ... Read More »

Dhaka- Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) on Friday announced a 25-member preliminary team of Bangladesh national football for the joint qualification (round 1) for the FIFA World Cup 2022 and AFC Asian Cup 2023. Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh Women’s Handball Team will participate in the 8th Asian Women’s Youth Handball Championship’ 2019, scheduled to be held on August 21-30 at Jaipur, India. Read More »

Dhaka, Aug 16 (UNB) — Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Friday announced a 15-member squad for the High-Performance Unit (HP). They will play a three-match one-day and two-match four-day series against their Sri Lankan counterparts. Najmul Hossain Shanto, the 20-year-old top-order batsman, will lead HP while Yasir Ali was appointed as his deputy. On August 18, 21 and 24, Bangladesh ... Read More »

Mason, Aug 15 (AP/UNB) — Nick Kyrgios was fined $113,000 by the ATP for expletive-filled outbursts in which he smashed rackets, insulted a chair umpire and refused to get ready to return serve during a second-round match at the Western & Southern Open. The tour announced the penalties Thursday, a day after Kyrgios berated chair umpire Fergus Murphy and left ... Read More »

Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Virgil van Dijk have been named as the finalists for the UEFA Men’s Player of the Year award, reports ESPN soccer. While Ronaldo, a three-time winner, has been ever-present in the final three since the award was created in 2011, Van Dijk makes his first appearance after helping Liverpool win the Champions League title last ... Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh National Women’s Cricket team left here for the Netherlands on Thursday to take part in a 10-day training camp as part of their preparations for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier’2019 in Scotland. Bangladesh will take on Papua New Guinea in the opening day of the Qualifiers on August 31.Two top teams of the eight –team ... Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal will not play in the Bangladesh’s lone home Test against Afghanistan and also in the Tri-Nation T20 Series involving Afghanistan and Zimbabwe in September next. Read More »

Dhaka — Bangladesh national women team is all set to fly for the Netherlands on Thursday to conduct a practice camp before their assault in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019 in Scotland. Read More »

London,(AP/UNB)  — The start of play in the second Ashes test between England and Australia at Lord’s has been delayed by rain. Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh Women’s Hockey team will play some six preparatory matches against the touring Sports Authority of India (SAI) team in the 3rd and 4th week of this month, ahead of their maiden Women’s Junior Asia Cup Hockey Qualifiers beginning in Singapore on September 9. Read More »

London (AP/UNB) — Australia has left fast bowler James Pattinson out of its 12-man squad for the second Ashes test against England, giving Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood the chance of a recall at Lord’s. Pattinson made his return to test cricket in the 251-run win at Edgbaston. He collected just two wickets in that game and, although not injured, ... Read More »

Liverpool returns to the scene of its most dramatic European triumph when it faces Chelsea in Istanbul for the Super Cup on Wednesday, the first major men’s European final to be refereed by a woman. Read More »

Berlin (AP/UNB) — Borussia Dortmund has declared a challenge to end Bayern Munich’s seven-year domination of the Bundesliga and is encouraged by signs of disharmony and unrest from the defending champion. After pushing Bayern to the final day last season, Dortmund invested heavily over the summer to strengthen defensive frailties and give Swiss coach Lucien Favre more attacking options for ... Read More »

Johannesburg (AP/UNB) — Springboks captain Siya Kolisi will play some part in the Rugby World Cup warmup test against Argentina this weekend, coach Rassie Erasmus said on Monday, with little time left for the flanker to prove his fitness. Read More »

London, Aug 12 (AP/UNB) — England left center Ben Te’o out of its Rugby World Cup squad on Monday after he was involved in a scuffle with a teammate at a training camp in Italy. Read More »

Paris, Aug 10 (AP/UNB) — Neymar will miss the start of the French league season as Paris Saint-Germain confirmed Saturday that the Brazil star could leave the club this summer. Read More »

Toronto (AP/UNB) — Serena Williams advanced to the Rogers Cup semifinals, beating soon-to-be-top-ranked Naomi Osaka of Japan 6-3, 6-4 Friday night in a rematch of their U.S. Open final. Read More »

Montreal (AP/UNB) — Top-seeded defending champion Rafael Nadal of Spain advanced to the Rogers Cup final Saturday night when Gael Monfils of France withdrew before their semifinal. Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh Athletics Federation (BAF) will arrange a two-day National Summer Athletics Competition at Bangabandhu National Stadium on August 30-31. Read More »

Dhaka – Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal wants to skip the first two international events of the Tigers through which their home season will start. Read More »

Dhaka – Three Indian football clubs — East Bengal FC, Mohun Bagan AC and Kolkata Mohammedan SC — will participate in the upcoming Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup 2019 to be held at MA Aziz Stadium in Chattogram in October. Mohun Bagan Athletic Club signed the deed of consent with the organiser on Friday while Kolkata Mohammedan Sporting Club on ... Read More »

Harare (AP/UNB) — The Zimbabwe cricket board has been reinstated by a government body in what could be the first step to ending a suspension by the International Cricket Council. Read More »