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Indian women’s cricket team arrived in Sylhet today ahead of their five-match Twenty20 International series against Bangladesh, starting on April 28. The 15-member India squad led by Harmanpreet Kaur landed at the Osmani International Airport in Sylhet and received a warm reception. The five-match series will take place in its entirety at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. After the series ...

Sunil Narine says the “door is closed” on his West Indies career after his sparkling IPL form prompted calls for him to come out of international retirement for their home T20 World Cup. The bowling all-rounder has starred for Kolkata Knight Riders as an opening batsman, with 286 runs including a century and a half-ton in the current IPL. He ...

Nottingham Forest did not ask for Stuart Attwell to be taken off video assistant referee duties for their match against Everton, BBC Sport has been told. Following their 2-0 defeat at Goodison Park on Sunday, Forest posted on X, external that they are “considering their options” over “extremely poor” refereeing decisions they felt went against them. The club said they ...

Former world champion Shaun Murphy moved into the last 16 of the 2024 event with an impressive performance to beat China’s Lyu Haotian 10-5 on Monday at the Crucible. Murphy, the 2005 winner, was 6-3 ahead after Sunday’s first session and won four of the next seven frames to set up a tie with Scotland’s Stephen Maguire. Another former Crucible ...

Nine-time Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis is looking forward to “tremendous” sprint competition at the Paris Olympics, where he expects organizers to pull out all the stops. “I think Paris is going to be fabulous, incredible,” Lewis said Saturday at the Mt. SAC Relays east of Los Angeles. “It’s a wonderful country. It’s a beautiful city. And I know they’re ...

Lionel Messi scored twice and created another for Sergio Busquets as Inter Miami beat Nashville 3-1 on Saturday to maintain top spot in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference. Miami suffered an early setback when their defender Franco Negri deflected a corner from Daniel Lovitz into his own net in just the second minute of the game at Chase Stadium. Gerardo ...

Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma came up with devastating hits around the ground as Sunrisers Hyderabad recorded the highest 125 runs in the powerpaly in a T20 match history against Delhi Capitals in Indian Premier League (IPL) at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Saturday. Being asked to bat, they surpassed 105-0 by Kolkata Knight Riders who held the record ...

Liverpool crashed out of the Europa League after a 1-0 win against Atalanta that wasn’t enough to overturn their quarter-final deficit, while Bayer Leverkusen’s 1-1 draw at West Ham took the German champions into the last four on Thursday. In Jurgen Klopp’s last season as Liverpool boss, the Reds were hoping to give the German a memorable farewell in the ...

Barcelona must dust themselves down after Champions League defeat to try and slow Real Madrid’s steady march towards the La Liga title in Sunday’s Clasico. The Spanish champions can make a last stand by reeling Madrid’s lead in to five points at the Santiago Bernabeu, even if overhauling their arch-rivals with seven matches remaining to defend the trophy is a ...

Cricketer Najmul Hossain Shanto has been shortlisted for best sportsperson of the year 2023 for the prestigious Kool-BSPA Sports Award alongside footballer Rakib Hossain and country’s fastest sprinter Imranur Rahman. Shanto and Imranur were also shortlisted in the popular choice award 2023 alongside footballer Morsalin Ahmed and woman cricketer Fargana Hoque Pinky. The names of the winners of these two ...