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The ninth season of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is set to begin on January 6th, 2023 and tickets for the opening round of BPL T20 matches of the Dhaka phase will be available for sale on January 4th. A total of seven teams are participating in the league, which will take place in three phases starting from Dhaka, followed by ...

Thousands of mourners, including high school students and supreme court justices, began filing past the body of Pelé on Monday on the century-old field where he made his hometown team one of Brazil’s best. The soccer great died on Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was the only player ever to win three World Cups, and he was 82. ...

Portugese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo will be unveiled before thousands of fans at Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr club on Tuesday, a spokesman said, after sealing a shock move estimated at more than 200 million euros. The 37-year-old great, a five-time winner of the Ballon d’Or, will arrive late on Monday with his family together with media and technical staff, club spokesman ...

Paris Saint-Germain, without World Cup winner Lionel Messi and Neymar, lost for the first time in any competition since March 20 last year when they were defeated 3-1 at Lens on Sunday. “Lens deserved their win,” said PSG coach Christophe Galtier. Lois Openda scored one and set up another as Lens, who have only lost once in Ligue 1 this ...

Barcelona stumbled in the Spanish title race with a 1-1 draw against rivals Espanyol in a bad-tempered Catalan derby on Saturday, levelling Real Madrid at the top of La Liga. The duelling Spanish giants have 38 points each from 15 games, nine ahead of third-place Real Sociedad, who beat Osasuna 2-0 later on Saturday. Xavi’s Barcelona threw away the two-point ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : Bangabandhu T-20 Premier Cricket League was inaugurated at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Saturday. Kulaura Sports Association organized the tournament at Kulaura NC School Ground. Kulaura Upazila Parishad chairman AKM Sofi Ahmad Salman inaugurated the tournament as the chief guest in the morning with the Upazila Sports Association president and upazila nirbahi officer Mahmudur Rahman Khondkar ...

Emdad Rahman Community activist Fokrul Islam has been recognised by the London Federation of Sports and Recreation for the Voluntary Award 2016. The Federation is the voice of voluntary sport in Greater London and through its wide representation on sports bodies is able to influence sports policies by diplomacy. The Federation considers the volunteer sector as the major contributor to ...

Emdad Rahman The hugely popular Disability Sports Day Festival 2016 has been successfully delivered by Vallance CSA for an 8th consecutive year. Junel Uddin – Senior Sports & Project Manager said: “The 2016 festival was described by participants as one of the best they had attended.” Over 250 registered participants took part and guests included Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John ...

Emdad Rahman : Scintilla CC were in no mood to take prisoners as Hawks were skittled out 140/10 from 36 overs at the Jubilee Sports Ground. Top scorers for Hawks were Siddique 28, and Osman 24. Captain Shaha Riadh and Ayaz Karim took 3 wickets each. Rifat Mahmud took 2 with one apiece for Morshed and Foysal. Scintilla reached 141/2 ...

Emdad Rahman :  With the start of the NatWest T20 Blast campaign looming, Leicestershire County Cricket Club is set kickstart a groundbreaking new initiative in visitor services with the launch of a multi-faith area for visiting fans. The multi-faith area will be available for visitors use from the first NatWest T20 Blast home game against Northants Steelbacks on Friday, May 20, 2016. Leicestershire ...