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Burnley manager Vincent Kompany endured a nightmare return to Manchester City on Saturday as Erling Haaland scored his sixth hat-trick of the season in a 6-0 rout that sent Pep Guardiola’s men into the FA Cup semi-finals. Kompany, who won four Premier League titles in an 11-year career at City as a player, was given a hero’s reception at the ...

A stellar allround show of Shakib Al Hasan and a fearless batting of debutant Towhid Hridoy helped Bangladesh seal their largest ever victory when they annihilated Ireland by 183 runs in the three-match ODI series opener on Saturday at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. Both of them failed to hit the well deserved century but their effort was instrumental in ...

Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo led a government delegation to pay their last respects to former Black Stars player Christian Atsu, who got caught up and died in the earthquake in Turkiye last month. The funeral on Friday was also attended by Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, former President John Dramani Mahama, family members, officials from the Turkish embassy in ...

Bangladesh’s series against the Irish begins tomorrow with three ODIs at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. All matches including 3 ODIs held in Sylhet, 3 T20s in Chittagong will start at 2 PM Bangladesh time. The only test in Mirpur will start at 10 am. International cricket is returning to Sylhet, the country of tea, after a long break of ...

Cricket fans eagerly anticipating upcoming Bangladesh vs Ireland ODI series can now purchase tickets starting Friday. The first match will be held on March 18 at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium (SICS), and ticket prices have been announced. Fans can choose from a range of seating options, including the Grand Stand for 1,500 taka, Club House for 500 taka, Eastern ...

Karim Benzema struck for Real Madrid to clinch a 1-0 win over Liverpool and qualification for the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday 6-2 on aggregate. After the wild last 16 first leg clash at Anfield in February left Madrid sitting pretty with a three-goal advantage, Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp said his side only had a one percent chance of turning ...

Erling Haaland equalled a Champions League record with a five-goal haul to ease Manchester City into the quarter-finals at RB Leipzig’s expense as a 7-0 win for the English champions secured an 8-1 aggregate victory on Tuesday. Haaland also set a new club record for goals in a season of 39 in the process as Pep Guardiola’s men reached the ...

The expanded World Cup in North America got even more supersized on Tuesday. The governing body of soccer increased the size of the 2026 tournament for the second time — six years after the first — by approving a bigger group stage for the inaugural 48-team event, AP reports. By retaining groups of four teams instead of moving to three, ...

Bangladesh clinched a 3-0 T20 international series sweep with a 16-run victory against England at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka on Tuesday. England’s batting had stuttered as they lost the first two matches by six and four wickets respectively and they faltered again on Tuesday chasing 159, slipping from 100-1 after 13 overs to 123-5 after 17 and finishing ...

Real Madrid forward Eden Hazard says he is “caught in a spiral” and only game time with the European champions can lift him out of it. The 32-year-old has not played a minute for Madrid in La Liga or the Champions League since the World Cup however. Signed from Chelsea in a blockbuster deal in 2019, he has a year ...