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The best teams find a way to win when playing badly, so says the football cliche, but England will surely be out of the Women’s World Cup if there is a repeat of their display against Nigeria. The European champions got away with one on Monday in Brisbane as they stumbled into the quarter-finals 4-2 on penalties. Nigeria are ranked ...

The ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 trophy was on display at the Padma Bridge on Monday. The trophy arrived in Dhaka last night as part of the official Trophy Tour. On its first day of the tour, the official photoshoot of the ICC World Cup Trophy took place at service area 1, of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge, Mawa End. The ...

Lionel Messi scored twice, including a brilliant late equaliser, as Inter Miami advanced past FC Dallas to the quarter-finals of the Leagues Cup on penalties after an enthralling 4-4 draw. A trademark curling free-kick in the 85th minute, Messi’s seventh goal in his fourth game for Miami, took the game to the shootout after Miami had trailed 4-2 with 10 ...

Netherlands advanced to the quarterfinals of the Women’s World Cup on Sunday with a 2-0 win over South Africa. Jill Roord and Lineth Beerensteyn scored in each half at the Sydney Football Stadium to secure the 2019 runners-up a place in the last eight. But South Africa, one of the surprise teams of the tournament, gave the Dutch a scare, ...

England batsman Alex Hales has announced his retirement from international cricket at the age of 34, drawing the curtain on a controversial career on Friday. The right-hand batsman, who played 11 Test matches, 70 one-day internationals and 75 Twenty20s for England, was dropped from England’s 2019 ODI World Cup squad after news of a failed recreational drugs test broke a ...

Australia is interested in holding the men’s World Cup in 2034, football’s governing body in the country said Friday, as it looks to build off the momentum of hosting the women’s version. Football Australia is keen to use the experience of staging the biggest-ever Women’s World Cup, which it is sharing with New Zealand, to put on more major tournaments. ...

FIFA said Friday it was investigating a misconduct complaint involving the Zambian team at the Women’s World Cup, vowing tough punishment if proven. It provided no details, citing confidentiality, but media reports said the incident involved coach Bruce Mwape allegedly rubbing a player’s breasts, AFP reported. “We can confirm that a complaint has been received in relation to the Zambian ...

Lionel Messi made it five goals in three appearances for Inter Miami as he scored twice in a 3-1 win over Orlando City in the Leagues Cup round-of-32 on Wednesday. Both finishes came from close range from the Argentine who made it three wins out of three at a team which was winless in 11 league games before his arrival. ...

France coach Herve Renard has warned his team they must keep their focus or it “can all come tumbling down” after being stunned by an early goal from Panama and leaking another two late on. Women’s World Cup debutants Panama silenced the world number five with a strike in the first minute of their Group F clash in Sydney on ...

England and Australia have been docked crucial ICC World Test Championship points and have been hit with fines for maintaining a slow over-rate during the men’s Ashes. Under the revised regulations, they were fined five percent of their match fee and one WTC point for every over short. Australia have been docked 10 WTC points from the recently-concluded Ashes series ...