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Pakistan batter Bismah Maroof and leg spinner Ghulam Fatima suffered minor injuries after being involved in a car accident on Friday. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said in a statement that the two received immediate first aid and were placed under the care of the board’s medical team. Both players are part of a training camp for probables for their ...

Premier League leaders Liverpool head to Manchester United looking to move a step closer to equalling their bitter rivals’ record of 20 English titles. In a gripping title race, Arsenal and Manchester City will hope for a Liverpool stumble, while the top four battle and relegation survival fight are also heating up. AFP Sport looks at three talking points ahead ...

The Australian women’s cricket team defeated Bangladesh by 77 runs in the third T20I of the three-match T20I series at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka on Thursday. The hosts were whacked past by 10 wickets in the first T20 before 58-run defeat in the second game despite a record hat-trick of Fariha Trisna.While they were able to get past ...

Inter Miami, without Lionel Messi, lost 2-1 at home to Mexico’s Monterrey in the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions Cup quarter-final on Wednesday with Argentine Jorge Rodriguez scoring a superb 89th-minute winner. Miami had taken the lead through defender Tomas Aviles in the 19th minute but the game changed when Inter midfielder David Ruiz was sent off in the ...

Bangladesh and Australia women national cricket teams on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. They exchanged greetings with the premier at Ganabhaban in the afternoon. During the meeting, the prime minister highlighted various steps taken for the development of cricket and other sports in Bangladesh, said PM’s Deputy Press Secretary KM Shakhawat Moon at a press ...

Coming from behind, defending champions Dhaka Mohammedan SC reached the semifinal of the Federation Cup Football Tournament as the first team eliminating Sheikh Russel KC by 2-1 goals in the first quarter final at the Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni Stadium in Gopalganj on Tuesday. Guinea forward Sekou Sylla put Sheikh Russell KC ahead twinkling of an eye in the very ...

Bangladesh left-arm medium pacer Fariha Trisna registered career-best 4-19, including a hat-trick but it was not enough to save her side from a 58-run defeat to Australian Women’s team in the second T20 International on Tuesday at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. Having won the game, Australia confirmed the three-match T20 series with a match to go. The visitors won the ...

Sri Lanka set Bangladesh an improbable 511-run for  a victory in the second and final Test after declaring its second innings on 157-7, just half-an-hour before the lunch on Day 4 at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram Tuesday. Bangladesh negotiated the rest of the eight overs of the morning session and stayed unscathed to reach 31 for no loss ...

Bangladesh found themselves in wanting by being reduced to 115-4 at lunch on Day 3 of the second and final cricket Test against Sri Lanka at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram today. Onus was on now on Shakib Al Hasan and Mominul Haque, the two most experienced batters to steer the side past the precarious situation. Shakib, playing his ...

Bangladesh have bowled out Sri Lanka for 531 in its first innings of the second and final Test cricket match at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Sunday. As many as six Lankan batters crossed fifty runs mark but none of them could hit a century. Kusal Mendis was the top-scorer with 93 while Kamindu Mendis was stranded on ...