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Aryna Sabalenka dedicated her US Open title to her family who “never gave up on my dream” after a third Grand Slam title was achieved in a year of personal torment. World number two Sabalenka defeated Jessica Pegula 7-5, 7-5 to add a maiden New York crown to her back-to-back Australian Open titles. This year’s US Open was the first ...

Legendary former Liverpool captain Ron Yeats, described by Bill Shankly as a “colossus”, has died at the age of 86. The ex-Scotland defender was part of the Liverpool side that won the Second Division title under manager Shankly in 1962. Yeats went on to win two top-flight titles, the FA Cup and the Charity Shield three times, helping establish Liverpool ...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s 900th career goal helped Portugal to a 2-1 win over Croatia in their first Nations League game on Thursday as Diogo Dalot opened the scoring for the hosts and netted an own goal. Dalot put Portugal ahead in the seventh minute when Bruno Fernandes played a clever chipped pass into his path and the defender went past Borna ...

Promising striker Sheikh Morsalin helps Bangladesh to beat hosts Bhutan by 1-0 goal in the first match of the two-match FIFA International Friendlies Series at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimphu Thursday evening. With the day’s feat, FiFA international ranked 184th Bangladesh took 1-0 lead against their superior and FIFA ranked 182nd Bhutan in the two-match FIFA International series. The 2nd ...

Jessica Pegula and Emma Navarro will look to set up an all-American US Open women’s final on Thursday after both players overcame serious tests to get to the semi-finals. Pegula knocked out world number one and 2022 champion Iga Swiatek in a crushing one-sided quarter-final to reach the last four at a Slam for the first time. Navarro, also into ...

Naimur Rahman, popularly known as Durjoy, has announced his resignation from his role as a board director of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), citing personal reasons. In a statement to media, Rahman, who was the first Test captain for Bangladesh, confirmed, “I have stepped down from my position at BCB due to personal reasons. I submitted my resignation letter to BCB ...

Bangladesh did an amazing job to secure their first ever Test series victory over Pakistan by sweeping the two-match series, which made their Test record modest to some extent. After beating Pakistan, India and South Africa remain only the two teams, against whom Bangladesh are yet to register any victory in Test cricket. Bangladesh so far played 13 Tests against ...

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus congratulated Bangladesh cricket team on their historic Test series win against Pakistan on Tuesday. Mohammad Yunus called the national team captain Najmul Hossain Shanto to send his send his greetings over phone. “Heartiest congratulations on behalf of the government and myself. The whole nation is proud of you,” the chief adviser told Shanto moments after ...

Bangladesh whitewashed the host Pakistan with a six-wicket victory in the second and last Test of two-match series to clinch the series by 2-0 at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. Experienced campaigners Mushfiqur Rahim (22*) and Shakib al Hasan (21*) were at the crease when Bangladesh secured the historical win. Bangladesh lost both of their openers in the first hour ...

Bangladesh need 185 runs to sweep the series against Pakistan after the hosts were bowled out for 172 on the fourth day of the second and final Test at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Monday. Pakistan set up a target of 185 runs for Bangladesh to win the second and final Test and take the series 2-0. Earlier, Hasan Mahmood ...