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Bangladesh have lost the warm-up match by 62 runs against India, due to as usual early batting collapse ahead of ICC T20 World Cup main event at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York on Saturday. To chase the target of 183, Bangladesh have lost eight wickets to score only 120 runs. However, Mahmudullah and Shakib have played a ...

More than 2,000 officers are on duty in London to police the Champions League final, a protest organised by the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, and a counter-demo. Thousands of people attended the march and rally in Parliament Square organised by Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon. According to police they included groups from across the UK linked to ...

The Liberal Democrats are pledging to make 10 English Premier League football matches per season free to watch on TV for everyone, if they win the election. The party said the promise was in response to rising ticket prices and streaming subscription costs. The Lib Dems said fans who wanted to watch games on TV may have to pay hundreds ...

Bangladesh emerged as the group A champions in the Bangabandhu Cup International Kabaddi with a hard fought 46-31 win against sub-continental challengers Nepal held at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Indoor Stadium on Friday, reports BSS. After four consecutive wins in the group Bangladesh had to sweat hard as Nepal appeared to a nut tougher than expected by Arduzzaman and Co. However ...

Reigning champions England produced a fine all-round display as they overwhelmed Pakistan by seven wickets at the Oval on Thursday in their last competitive match before they begin the defence of their Twenty20 World Cup title. Victory gave England a 2-0 win in a four-match T20 series as games at Headingley and Cardiff were both washed out without a ball ...

Cricket’s biggest T20I party started in 2007, which was won by Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led India in Johannesburg after they defeated arch-rivals Pakistan in a final-over thriller by five runs. Since that inaugural event, there have been seven further editions of the tournament, held in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2021, and 2022. With the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 ...

Borussia Dortmund face the acid test after a fairytale run to Saturday’s Champions League final as a star-studded Real Madrid roll into Wembley expecting to be crowned European champions for a 15th time. No club can come close to the Spanish giants’ success in the competition and they are strong favourites against a Dortmund side that have beaten the odds ...

Georgia international Saba Lobjanidze upstaged Lionel Messi with two goals as struggling Atlanta United stunned league leaders Inter Miami 3-1 on Wednesday in Major League Soccer. Lobjanidze stunned a star-studded Miami line-up with two long-range strikes either side of half-time to fire Atlanta into a 2-0 lead. Argentina superstar Messi threatened to inspire a comeback for the home side after ...

Bournemouth have signed Turkey forward Enes Unal on a permanent deal from Getafe for a fee of about £13m. Unal, 27, joined the Cherries on loan in the January transfer window and helped Bournemouth secure a club record Premier League tally of 48 points. He has signed a four-year contract., external “The project here is something I was keen to ...

French police have arrested 15 people for drug trafficking near the athletes’ village built for the upcoming Olympic Games north of Paris, police sources said Wednesday. They arrested the suspects at their homes early on Tuesday and took 14 of them into custody, one of the sources told AFP. Police and customs officers seized just under 10 kilos of herbal ...