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Man City accused of misleading Premier League over finances

Manchester City were accused by the Premier League Monday of providing misleading information about its finances over a nine-year period when the club were attempting to establish themselves as a force in English and European football following their takeover by Abu Dhabi’s ruling family. The explosive development came at the end of a four-year investigation by the world’s most popular ...

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SAFF U-20 Women’s Champs: Bangladesh play out goalless draw with India

Hosts Bangladesh played to a goalless draw with their giant neighbor India in a vital match of the four-nation SAFF U-20 Women’s Championship ‘2023 at the Bir Shrestha Shaheed Shipahi Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur here Sunday evening. With the day’s draw in their 2nd league encounters, both the teams not only maintained their unbeaten run in the meet, but ...

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Messi hits winner as PSG come from behind to beat Toulouse

Lionel Messi scored a superb second-half winner as a Paris Saint-Germain side missing the injured Kylian Mbappe and Neymar came from behind to beat Toulouse 2-1 on Saturday and consolidate their lead at the top of Ligue 1. Dutch midfielder Branco van den Boomen gave mid-table Toulouse the lead at the Parc des Princes from a 20th-minute free-kick, only for ...

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Rizwan leads Comilla to seventh straight victory in BPL

The Comilla Victorians triumphed over the Chattogram Challengers by six wickets on Saturday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur. The victory marked the seventh consecutive win for Comilla Victorians. Chattogram Challengers won the toss and elected to bat first, but their innings was hampered by early dismissals of Mehedi Maruf and Khawaja Nafay, who suffered a duck and ...

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BPL 2023: Rangpur book last playoff spot beating Dhaka

The Rangpur Riders clinched a playoff spot in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) with a two-wicket victory over the Dhaka Dominators on Friday in Mirpur. The Riders won the toss and chose to field first in the match. Dhaka struggled at the start, with Mohammad Mithun run out for 5 off 2 balls and Nasir Hossain and Soumya Sarkar both ...

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Paris Olympics: Up to 40 countries could boycott Games, says Poland sports minister

Up to 40 countries could boycott the next Olympic Games, making the whole event pointless, said Poland’s sport and tourism minister Kamil Bortniczuk. His comments came after Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia jointly rejected an International Olympic Committee (IOC) plan to allow Russians and Belarusians to compete in 2024. Ukraine has threatened to boycott the Paris Olympics if that occurs. ...

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Bangladesh kick off campaign with 3-1 Nepal win

Hosts Bangladesh got their campaign off to a winning start beating Nepal 3-1 in their opening fixture of the SAFF U-20 Women’s Championship at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur on Friday. Bangladesh took only three minutes to break the deadlock when Aklima Khatun raced on to a long-ball from Shaheda Akter Ripa and beat the Nepal goalkeeper ...

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Juventus beat Lazio to reach Italian Cup semi-finals

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 ...

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Hathurusingha returns as Bangladesh head coach

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 ...

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Sylhet qualify for BPL playoffs

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 ...

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