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Bangladesh national cricket team have left the country to participate the ODI World Cup 2023 in India. The Tigers left Dhaka for Guwahati around 4:30 local time. Shakib-Mushfiqur went to India on a chartered flight of Bangladesh Biman. All the team players went on the same flight. All members of the coaching staff including head coach Chandika Hathurusingha also went ...

Barcelona’s five-game winning streak in the Spanish league ended with a 2-2 draw at Mallorca on Tuesday. Barcelona twice came from behind to salvage the point. It had won five in a row after opening with a draw at Getafe. It also won in its Champions League debut against Antwerp last Tuesday, AP reports. The result left the Catalan club ...

Left-handed opener Tamim Iqbal will not be included in Bangladesh squad for the World Cup to be held in India. He has not fully come round of his back injury. As a result, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) decided to keep Tamim out of the team. The squad will be announced after the ongoing match between Bangladesh and New Zealand ...

Bangladesh all three format captain Shakib Al Hasan played cricket with the United States (US) ambassador to Dhaka Peter Hass after calling on him at the US embassy on Monday. At that time, Shakib’s wife Ummey Ahmed Shishir and his three children were also present there. Shishir posted several pictures of the moment on her verified facebook page when they ...

Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill hit attacking centuries to help India thrash Australia by 99 runs in a rain-hit one-day international on Sunday to clinch the series 2-0. Iyer (105) Gill (104) put on a dominant second-wicket stand of 200 to lay the foundations for India’s 399-5 after being invited to bat in Indore. KL Rahul’s 52 and an unbeaten ...

Real Madrid winger Vinicius was on Saturday named in the Brazil squad for the next set of 2026 World Cup qualifiers after being sidelined with injury. The 23-year-old has been out since suffering a hamstring injury against Celta Vigo on August 25 but has recovered quicker than expected, AFP reports. Vinicius missed the recent international window but Brazil coach Fernando ...

Bangladesh continuously keep showing their batting failure as they suffer a huge defeat by 86 runs against New Zealand in the second game of the three-match ODI series. The hosts were bowled out for 168 runs in 41.1 overs in replying to a challenging total of 254 runs at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, on Saturday. Ish Sodhi made the difference ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping declared the 19th Asian Games open at a colourful ceremony in Hangzhou on Saturday, launching a two-week sporting extravaganza that boasts more athletes than the Olympics. After being delayed by a year because of China’s now-abandoned zero-Covid policy, more than 12,000 competitors from 45 nations and territories will battle it out in 40 sports. In front ...

Star playmaker Yui Hasegawa and second-half substitute Kiko Seike each bagged a brace for Japan in an 8-0 demolition of Argentina on Saturday. Playing their first match since reaching the quarterfinals of the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, Nadeshiko Japan were in total control from the start of the international football friendly at Kitakyushu’s Mikuni World Stadium. ...

The bid by four South American countries to host soccer’s 2030 World Cup will stay intact until next year regardless of political tensions in the region, a top team bid official says. Michael Boys, the executive secretary of the bid of Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Chile, said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that he and his ...