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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 ...

Nepal registered their biggest margin of victory in the fourth edition of Bangabandhu Cup International Kabaddi Tournament beating Poland by 93-41 points with five creditable lonas held at Shaheed Suhrawardy Indor Stadium in the city on Tuesday. The winners’ led the first half by 53-22 points. It was the second straight win for Nepal after beating Malaysia by 67-30 points ...

Paris Saint-Germain finished the season with a domestic double after beating Lyon in Saturday’s French Cup final but will now start building for another assault on the Champions League next year, this time without Kylian Mbappe. The France captain brought the curtain down on his seven-year spell at PSG in the 2-1 win over Lyon, in which he failed to ...

Pacer Mustafizur Rahman became the first Bangladeshi bowler to claim a six-wicket haul in a T20 International game as his side avoided an ignominious whitewash, crushing USA by 10 wickets in the third and final match at Prairie View Cricket Complex in Huston, Texas on Saturday. Bangladesh lost the first game by five wickets and conceded a six-run defeat in ...

The Bangabandhu Cup’ 2024 International Kabaddi Tournament, named after father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, begins in Dhaka on Sunday at the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium in Mirpur. Minister for Youth and Sports Nazmul Hasan Papon MP will inaugurate the nine-day meet Sunday afternoon through an opening ceremony, to be chaired by President of Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation ...