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Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane insists his team do not have a psychological advantage over Champions League semi-final opponents Atletico Madrid despite beating them in two finals in three years. As well as their victories in Lisbon (2014) and Milan (2016), Real knocked out Atletico in the 2015 quarter-finals. Atletico have never lifted European club soccer’s most prestigious trophy while ...

Bangladesh national cricket team will play their first warm-up match ahead of ICC Champions Trophy in England when they take on Duke of Norfolk XI today. Regular skipper Mashrafee bin Murtaza will miss the game at Arundel Castle Cricket Club as he returned to Dhaka to be with his ailing wife.  ‘We understand that there has been a family emergency ...

John Stones, Michael Keane and Ben Gibson should all tune in to watch Juventus tomorrow night because they can learn from one of the best centre-backs in the business. Leonardo Bonucci has not only been a consistent performer at the highest level at Juventus for a number of years but for Italy as well. England are not blessed with as many good defenders as ...

British Paralympic swimming champion Susie Rodgers has announced her retirement after a six-year international career. Rodgers, 33, won S7 50m butterfly gold at the Rio 2016 Paralympics, also claiming 50m and 400m freestyle bronze. She won three bronze medals at London 2012, her first Paralympic games, a year after her international debut at the European Championships in Berlin. “I want to leave ...

As the cut-off date for direct qualification for the 2019 ICC World Cup draws closer, Bangladesh have conceded a point in the latest update of ODI rankings. According to the annual update released by the ICC on Monday, Bangladesh have 91 points and are delicately placed at number seven. They have however widened their gap over eighth-ranked Pakistan from two ...

Australias cricket side is expected to tour Bangladesh later this year for their first Test matches there in more than a decade, an official said Tuesday. The world's number-two side is expected to play two Tests against the cricket minnows in August and September in Dhaka, Bangladesh Cricket Board chief executive officer Nizamuddin Chowdhury said. "We are now working on ...

England limited overs captain Eoin Morgan has been unveiled as one of eight "marquee" players for South Africa’s new domestic Twenty20 competition to be played in November and December this year. Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on Thursday that Morgan has signed up for the first two seasons of the tournament, along with two South African-born past and present England ...

April 18, 2017 Bangladesh paceman Mustafizur Rahman, better known as just Fizz, never allows success to get to his head and says modestly that he would only be happy to be remembered as a 'good human being' if he does not become a cricketing great Little does Mustafizur realise that he may have already reached there. The introvert, 21-year old, ...

Emdad Rahman One year ago swashbuckling Scintilla Cricket Club star Ashraful Islam Johnny almost died after contracting Tuberculosis of the brain. Because if the complex nature of his illness he talented opener was hospitalised for 6 months and it was touch and go whether he would survive. Johnny's condition is rare and complex, and for more than a year he ...

    Badminton England has withdrawn from May’s World Mixed Team Championships citing government funding cuts. In February, Badminton was among seven Olympic sports to lose fundingdespite Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis winning doubles bronze at Rio 2016. “We are working through an unprecedented financial situation as a consequence of the recent funding decisions,” Badminton England performance director Jon Austin said. The ...