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La Liga leaders Real Madrid host Athletic Bilbao on Sunday as the Spanish top flight ramps up for an exciting end to the season. Madrid have a firm grip on the title race after shaking free of Catalan minnows Girona before the international break, but Ernesto Valverde’s high-flying Athletic will be tricky opposition at the Santiago Bernabeu. The Basque side, ...

Leukaemia survivor Rikako Ikee will compete for Japan in the 100m butterfly at the Paris Olympics after missing out on an individual place at the Tokyo Games three years ago, reports AFP. Three-time world champion Daiya Seto will swim the men’s individual medley after Japan’s 27-member team for the Paris Games was announced by the country’s Swimming Federation on Wednesday. ...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday confirmed the groupings for the next cycle of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Challenge League, a 12-team competition on the road to the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2027 that starts later this year. Split across two groups of six teams, Challenge League A and Challenge League B will offer a better ...

Brazil’s Lucas Paqueta scored a penalty deep in added time to rescue a fortunate 3-3 draw with Spain in an ill-tempered friendly at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium on Tuesday. The hosts dominated proceedings early on and youngsters Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams were a constant menace running in the channels, reports Reuters. It was the 16-year-old Yamal who earned Spain ...

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Tuesday announced a 15-member squad for the second and last Test against Sri Lanka to be held in Chattogram on March 30. Ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan made his return to the team with the match, replacing Towhid Hridoy who made his maiden call for the first Test but was not debuted. In addition, another ...

The former chairman of the Chinese Football Association has been sentenced to life in prison for accepting bribes worth $11 million, state media said Tuesday, part of a crackdown on corruption in the domestic game. Chen Xuyuan took advantage of his positions at the CFA and other bodies to “illegally accept sums of money from other people totalling 81.03 million ...

Bangladesh will host war-torn, stronger Arabian nation Palestine in their fourth Group I match of the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers on Tuesday in the hope of compensating for their huge defeat in Kuwait. The match between hosts Bangladesh and touring Palestine will kick-off at 3:30 pm local time at the Bashundhara Kings Arena in Dhaka, UNB reports. T-Sports will telecast ...

Sri Lanka have made a significant move up the latest ICC World Test Championship 2023-25 standings following their resounding victory against Bangladesh. In their first-ever Test assignment at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, the Lankan Lions defeated the Bangladesh Tigers by a massive 328-run margin. This was Sri Lanka’s eighth away Test win over the hosts, maintaining their impeccable record unbeaten record ...

In the history of Test cricket spanning more than 150 years, there were only two pairs of batters who have scored centuries in each innings of the same Test. Now, Sri Lankans Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis have done the same for Sri Lanka in the ongoing Test in Sylhet against Bangladesh, etching their names in the Test cricket ...

Sri Lanka continued its domination and appeared to bat Bangladesh out of the series opening Test, thanks to a resolute batting of skipper Dhananjaya de Silva and Kamindu Mendis on Sunday at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. Both of them scored 102 in Sri Lanka’s first innings and it looked they started from where they left in the previous innings, as ...