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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 ...

Luis Suarez bagged his fifth goal of the season as Inter Miami were held to a 1-1 draw against New York City FC in Major League Soccer on Saturday. Former Barcelona and Liverpool star Suarez glanced in a Julian Gressel free kick in the 15th minute to fire Miami into the lead at the Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale. But ...

Dinesh Chandimal and Dhananjaya de Silva survived till the final ball as Sri Lanka ended the first day of the second Test with 314/4 against Bangladesh in Chattogram. Bangladesh managed to pick up two wickets of Kusal Mendis, 93, and Angelo Mathews, 23, in the final session of the day Earlier, Karunaratne was dismissed by Hasan Mahmud on the stroke ...

Bangladesh Hockey Federation vice-president and former acting general secretary Mohammad Yousuf passed away this morning. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Chattogram Evercare Hospital on Saturday. Siraj Uddin Mohammad Alamgir, General Secretary of Chattogram Divisional Sports Association, said that the funeral prayers of the deceased will be held at Chattogram Mehdi Bagh CDA Jame Masjid after Asr prayer ...

Kylian Mbappe is set to sample the fiercest rivalry in French football for the final time before his expected departure at the end of the season as Paris Saint-Germain make the trip to Marseille on Sunday. There is no love lost between the two biggest clubs in France, even if Marseille have struggled to compete with PSG for honours since ...

La Liga leaders Real Madrid host Athletic Bilbao on Sunday as the Spanish top flight ramps up for an exciting end to the season. Madrid have a firm grip on the title race after shaking free of Catalan minnows Girona before the international break, but Ernesto Valverde’s high-flying Athletic will be tricky opposition at the Santiago Bernabeu. The Basque side, ...

Leukaemia survivor Rikako Ikee will compete for Japan in the 100m butterfly at the Paris Olympics after missing out on an individual place at the Tokyo Games three years ago, reports AFP. Three-time world champion Daiya Seto will swim the men’s individual medley after Japan’s 27-member team for the Paris Games was announced by the country’s Swimming Federation on Wednesday. ...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday confirmed the groupings for the next cycle of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Challenge League, a 12-team competition on the road to the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2027 that starts later this year. Split across two groups of six teams, Challenge League A and Challenge League B will offer a better ...