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Juventus will face Inter Milan in the last four of the Italian Cup after beating Lazio 1-0 in Thursday’s final quarter-final tie. Gleison Bremer headed home the decisive goal a minute before half-time when he beat Lazio goalkeeper Luis Maximiano to Filip Kostic’s cross. The Brazilian’s second goal of the season won a tight contest in Turin and set up ...

The Bangladesh Cricket Board has reappointed Chandika Hathurusingha as head coach for the Tigers for a two-year term starting in February. The board confirmed the Sri Lankan’s return in a statement on Tuesday. He will replace Russell Domingo. Cricket New South Wales earlier confirmed that Hathurusingha was leaving the position of assistant coach with them. The 54-year old Hathurusighe has ...

Sylhet Strikers became the first team to qualify for playoffs of the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League 2023 after they beat Khulna Tigers by 31 runs in their 10th match at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Monday. Sylhet’s in-form batsman Towhid Hridoy struck a blazing 74 off 49 balls – his fourth fifty in the meet – while Zakir Hasan ...

Vinícius Júnior had his share of chances to break the deadlock. More than once, the Brazil forward was in front of the opposition goal with only the ‘keeper to beat. But Vinicius and his teammates couldn’t get the job done on Sunday as Real Madrid was held to a 0-0 draw at home by third-place Real Sociedad to lose ground ...

An emotional Novak Djokovic beat Stefanos Tsitsipas on Sunday to claim a 10th Australian Open title and equal Rafael Nadal’s 22 Grand Slam crowns, a victory that returned him to world number one. The Serbian star overcame a hamstring injury and off-court drama on his return to Melbourne Park to sweep past the Greek third seed 6-3, 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 ...

Sylhet Strikers hit back to winning way and went atop of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) points table once again with an emphatic seven-wicket win over Chattogram Challengers at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Saturday. Opener Najmul Hossain Shanto continued his rich vein of form, smashing a 44 ball-60, which was complemented by two fluent knocks of Mushfiqur Rahim and ...

Pakistan recruit Mohammad Rizwan and Liton Das hit half-centuries as Cumilla Victorians recorded their fifth straight victory in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) with a slender four-run victory over Khulna Tigers at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Saturday. Rizwan top-scored with 54 while Liton made 50, steering Cumilla to a challenging 165-2 before their bowlers bowled in disciplined way to ...

Fast bowlers Hasan Mahmud and Azmatullah Omarzai shared six wickets as Rangpur Riders romped to a six-wicket win over Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) table topper Sylhet Strikers at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Friday. Playing their first match at their home venue, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza’s side was restricted to 92-9, a total that Rangpur overhauled comfortably with 93-4 in 15.4 ...

Indian trailblazer Sania Mirza bowed out of Grand Slam tennis Friday with defeat in the Australian Open mixed-doubles final playing alongside Rohan Bopanna — her first playing partner 22 years ago, reports AFP from Melbourne. The 36-year-old Mirza, regarded as her country’s greatest women’s tennis player, returned to Melbourne Park for one last hurrah and made it all the way ...

Nat Sciver on Thursday was announced as the winner of the ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2022. Sciver produced another memorable year in an already stellar career, racking up five half-centuries and two centuries in 2022 to be England’s top performer in the year with the bat. She finished second in the year in the run-getters chart behind ...