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Chittagong Kings raised the hopes to finish at top two positions in Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) point table after thrashing Sylhet Strikers by 96 runs at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Thursday. Fast bowlers Shoriful Islam and Syed Khaled shared eight wickets between them by claiming four wickets apiece to skittle Sylhet out for just 100 in 15.2 overs after ...

Stuttgart host Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday hoping to surprise their lofty opponents and make it through to the Champions League knockout rounds. While the French champions are strongly favoured, since Sebastian Hoeness was made coach in April 2023, Stuttgart have made a habit of proving the doubters wrong. Having somehow kept the club from the drop in his first season, ...

Durbar Rajshahi moved one step closer to securing a playoff spot in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) with a crucial 5-wicket win over Sylhet Strikers in their final group-stage match. The victory places Taskin Ahmed’s side in a strong position, with their playoff hopes still alive. Rajshahi finished their group-stage campaign with 6 wins from 12 matches. While Chittagong Kings, ...

Barcelona must harness the euphoria of their thrilling Champions League victory at Benfica to halt a miserable run of La Liga form against an improving Valencia side on Sunday. The Catalan giants have just one victory in their last eight league games and have dropped seven points behind champions and current leaders Real Madrid. Valencia visit the Olympic stadium on ...

Real Madrid are the first football club to top a billion euros in revenue during a single season, fuelled by income generated by the revamped Santiago Bernabeu stadium, according to financial experts Deloitte. The order of the clubs at the top of Deloitte’s annual Football Money League stayed the same, with Madrid (1.05 billion euros, $1.09 billion) followed by Premier ...

Bangladesh Women’s team kept their hopes to have a direct qualification to the ICC Cricket World Cup alive by claiming a 60-run win over West Indies in the second ODI of the three-match series at Basseterre in St Kitts. Tigresses made a history by virtue of this triumph since it was their first victory over West Indies in any format ...

Just when it seemed the pressure of a lifelong dream switch to Real Madrid might prove too great for Kylian Mbappe to overcome, the French superstar silenced his doubters. After a troubled start to life at Madrid, Mbappe finally seems at home and ready to wreak havoc both in Spain and in Europe. Mbappe’s rediscovered elan comes at the perfect ...

A year of unprecedented pressures on the global football calendar begins with a Champions League first, as two rounds of matches in Europe’s elite club competition take place in January and some of the continent’s biggest names face a scrap to avoid a humiliating exit. There is no bigger game this week than Paris Saint-Germain against Manchester City, with two ...

A Dhaka court has issued an arrest warrant against cricketer and former MP Shakib Al Hasan in a cheque fraud case. Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ziadur Rahman issued the warrant on Sunday (January 19). Earlier, Shahibur Rahman filed the case on behalf of IFIC Bank on December 15. The court recorded the plaintiff’s statement and ordered Shakib and four ...

Bangladesh women’s team started their ICC Under-19 T20 World Cup campaign with a five-wicket win against Nepal in a low-scoring match at YSD-UKM Cricket Oval in Bangi, Malaysia, on Saturday. Nepal, opting to bat first, struggled against a disciplined Bangladeshi bowling attack and were bowled out for just 52 runs in 18.2 overs. Jannatul Maoua led the attack with an ...