DHAKA: Ousmane Dembele won't be available for Barcelona's Clasico with Real Madrid on October 26. The competition committee have confirmed this Wednesday morning that the Frenchman's suspension will be for two games, which means he will miss the matches against Eibar and

DHAKA: Argentina national football team will visit Dhaka in November to play Paraguay with star man Lionel Messi back from suspension. The two time world champions will be travelling to Asia next month, according to Mundo Albiceleste, a leading news portal on Argentine football.

DHAKA: The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Monday (Oct 07) announced Walton Group as the title sponsor for the next three seasons of the National Cricket League.  Walton was handed the rights in a press meet held at Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka Monday. 

DHAKA: Britain's Andy Murray continued his singles comeback with a first-round win over Argentina's Juan Ignacio Londero at the Shanghai Open. Murray, competing after accepting a wildcard, lost the opening set before recovering to win 2-6 6-2 6-3. "I got better as the match

DHAKA: Six Bangladeshi cricketers, including star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan and opener Tamim Iqbal, are among the 165 overseas players to have registered for the inaugural draft of The Hundred. The first handful of overseas stars who have signed up for the tournament were released on

Luis Suarez scored a fine double as Barcelona came from behind to beat Inter Milan in the Champions League. Lautaro Martinez gave Antonio Conte's Inter a deserved lead and went close to a second, with Marc-Andre ter Stegen expertly keeping out his header. Suarez levelled with a

DHAKA: Singapore scripted history as they defeated Zimbabwe by four runs to register their maiden win against an ICC full member nation. The match was curtailed to 18-overs per side after rain played spoilsport before the clash on Sunday, reports cricketcountry.com Batting first,

DHAKA: Bangladesh under-19s clinched a six-wicket victory over New Zealand in the first Youth ODI at the Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln, New Zealand on Sunday (Sep 29). Earlier, NZ youths have won the toss and elected to bat first early in the morning. Then, Bangladesh bundled out

DHAKA: Australia has confirmed its two overseas test matches in Bangladesh in June-July 2020. Cricket Australia's head of cricket operations Peter Roach confirmed it saying "We are delighted to be touring Bangladesh in June 2020.  "The two boards felt this was a more beneficial

DHAKA: Bangladesh through to final of SAFF under-18 championship with a 3-0 draw against Nepal at the APF Stadium in Kathmandu on Friday (September 27). Bhutanese have not been able to defeat Andrew Peter Turner's team who has played offensive football since the very beginning.

The King of football Pele is likely to visit Bangladesh in October to watch a friendship match between Swadhin Bangla Football Team & Friends & Footy Hags Team & Friends, slating for next month.  Ashikur Rahman, the captain of the Footy Hugs Team and Friends and also chairman of the

DHAKA: Late Monsoon rain caused the final match of the OBHAI Tri Nation T20 series abandoned without a bowl being bowled. With no provision for a reserve day and per rules of the tournament Bangladesh and Afghanistan were declared joint winners much to the disappointment of expectant

DHAKA: Bangladesh, Afghanistan declared joint champions as rain washes out final match of T20I tri-nation series at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Tuesday (September 23). The match was scheduled to begin at 6 pm.   Bangladesh (probable): 1 Liton Das, 2 Najmul Hossain,

DHAKA: The Tri-nation T20 series final between Bangladesh and Afghanistan is being delayed by consistent rain. The match is scheduled to begin at 6 pm at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Tuesday (September 23). Bangladesh (probable): 1 Liton Das, 2 Najmul Hossain,

DHAKA: Lionel Messi beat Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk and Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo to claim a record sixth FIFA's The Best award, which is given to the top men's player, on Monday. The award was handed to the Barcelona and Argentina captain at a ceremony in

Finally a winning formula appears to have been worked out. Zimbabwe showed the way and Bangladesh followed. Afghanistan Cricket team in OBHAI T20 tri nation series was looking like invincible in the first leg of the tournament winning the matches comfortably. Zimbabwe and Bangladesh never

DHAKA: Russia could face a ban from all major sports events over "discrepancies" in a lab database, the World Anti-Doping Agency has warned. The country has been given three weeks to explain "inconsistencies" or risk being excluded from the Olympics and world championships, reports

DHAKA: Bangladesh through to semifinal of SAFF under-18 championship with a 0-0 draw against India at the APF Stadium in Kathmandu on Monday (September 23).  Bangladesh need a goalless draw in their second and last match of Group A. Earlier on Saturday, Bangladeshi booters

DHAKA: Madhav Apte, the former India Test opener, died in Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital on Monday, aged 86. When alive, he was the fourth-oldest living Indian Test cricketer. In his seven Tests for India in 1952-53, Apte averaged 49.27, the highlight being a match-saving, unbeaten

It will give a big boost to the sagging morale of Bangladesh team if it can win the championship of Tri nation T20 series on Tuesday at SBNCS Dhaka. For that to happen they have to repeat its performance or better what they did in the last group match at Chattogram. In recent times