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On paper this series resembled India’s tour of England in 2011. Big expectation, No. 1 side to be tested over a long period of time by the hosts, the No. 1 side loses its No. 1 bowler in the first Test, it competes for a Test and a half, and is then run ragged. The key feature of both the ...

  Thanks to a special Al-Amin hat-trick, superb tactical changes from skipper Mahmudullah and senseless batting from Sylhet, Barisal managed to defend 108 by a single run. It was another final-over finish, the fifth in six games kept the crowd on the edge of their seats, as a wicket or a boundary swung the match dramatically. Taijul Islam bowled the ...

Dhaka Dynamites showed a firm determination in securing a six-wicket victory over Comilla Victorians in their opening and the 2nd match of BPL-2015 at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in the capital yesterday. In a surface that got slower as the time progressed, Dhaka Dynamites, a team owned by the country’s leading business conglomerate Beximco Limited, came up with an unwavering ...

angladesh Football Federation (BFF) on Tuesday sacked Italian Head Coach of Bangladesh National Football Team Fabio Lopez, reports news agency UNB. The National Team Management Committee of BFF, in a meeting with BFF Vice-President cum committee chairman Kazi Nabil Ahmed MP in the chair, decided to sack the head coach for the dismal performance of the national football team in ...

Skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza’s bat continued smiling for Comilla Victorians on Tuesday. An unbeaten 4th wicket stand of 123 runs by Mashrafe and Marlon Samuels guided Comilla to seal their first win in BPL beating Chittagong Vikings by seven wickets at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur in the evening. Man-of-the-match Mashrafe’s brave knock 56 from 32 balls showed some ...

Paying tribute to the victims of recent deadly attacks that rocked the French capital, Paris Saint-Germain players will wear special jerseys carrying the message of `Je suis Paris` for their next two matches. Confirming the news, French club PSG said in a statement that his team would honour the victims with a message in unison, the Guardian reported. At least ...

The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) witnessed an unprecedented incident on Monday, a shameful one though. Chittagong Vikings skipper and Bangladesh national team opener Tamim Iqbal alleges that he has been verbally abused. Although the left-handed hard-hitting batsman did not name the person, but it is clear that it was the owner of Sylhet Super Stars, Azizul Islam. It all started ...

A misfiring batting has led Bangladesh to lose the second Twenty20 International to Zimbabwe in a last-over thriller and the series end 1-1. The three-wicket defeat means the Tigers have been denied the chance to end the 2015 campaign with a win with no more international matches lined up in the rest of the year. Bangladesh batsmen had put up ...

The last four series wins have drilled into Bangladesh the way to get out of tight corners. So when they were faced with another, in the second ODI against Zimbabwe in Mirpur on Monday, they stuck to the known paths and ensured a way out. Their 58-run win defending a total of 241 for 9 gave them an unassailable 2-0 ...

World number one Novak Djokovic secured his 10th title of the year with an emphatic victory over Britain’s Andy Murray at the Paris Masters final, BBC reports. The 6-2 6-4 win, achieved in just over 90 minutes, also ensured the Serb claimed a record fourth title in Paris. He is the first player to win six ATP Masters series events ...