All international football matches scheduled for June were postponed on Friday following the first meeting of FIFA’s coronavirus working group. It was also decided to hold discussions with confederations to draw up a revised schedule for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers which have been

The tournament was due to be played between 29 June and 12 July. The entire grass-court season has been abandoned, and there will be no professional tennis anywhere in the world until at least 13 July. Wimbledon is the latest major summer sporting event to be called off, with Euro

DHAKA: The newly married wife of Bangladesh cricketer Liton Das sustained burn injuries in a fire caused by a cylinder blast in her residence on March 27. The accident took place when she attempted to lit gas stove with matchsticks for making tea, said Debosri Biswas Sanchita in a

DHAKA: Senior 27 cricketers of Bangladesh have donated 50 percent of their salary for one month in a bid to help government fight against deadly coronavirus.  All of 17 players who are in the central contact donated 50 percent of their salary, and other 10 players, who were part of

Japan's prime minister and the head of the International Olympic Committee agreed to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Games by a year Tuesday (March 24) in an extraordinary move, unprecedented in peacetime, as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic. "I proposed to postpone for about a

Postponing the Olympics over the coronavirus pandemic may become "inevitable", Japan's prime minister conceded on Monday, after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said a delay was being considered as pressure grows from athletes and sports bodies. The comments from Shinzo

Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz died on Saturday after being hospitalised with coronavirus. Sanz, 76, was president at the Bernabeu from 1995-2000, a period in which Real won the Champions League twice. "My father has just died," wrote Sanz's son Lorenzo Sanz Duran on

DHAKA: Renowned Bangladeshi mountaineer Wasfia Nazreen has tested positive for the coronavirus, she claimed in a Facebook post on Saturday (March 21).  In the Facebook status, she wrote: "I am now in quarantine (which I was already practicing after I flew into LA) with strict measures

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Thursday (March 19) suspended all forms of cricket in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in the country. Board president Nazmul Hassan Papon was addressing a press conference at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in the capital’s Mirpur

DHAKA: The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has postponed their Pakistan’s tour in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic.  Bangladesh were scheduled to visit Pakistan in April to play one-off ODI (April 1) and one Test (April 5-9) in Karachi. Bangladesh’s tour of Pakistan

LIONEL MESSI sees being quarantined at home in his luxurious mansion as the perfect chance to hone his skills. The 32-year-old and his Barcelona team-mates have been forced to self isolate due to coronavirus fears as the Catalan club became the latest side hit by the outbreak. All

The start of the 2020 Indian Premier League season has been delayed from 29 March to 15 April as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said the move was a "precautionary measure". The BCCI said it was taking "all necessary steps to

It is very likely that the third phase of Bangladesh cricket tour of Pakistan may be postponed or held in stadium without spectators. Corona Virus avalanche has already impacted sporting events all over the world. Many countries have imposed travel bans.  Bangladesh has postponed

Have noted very interesting discussions in social media basically post mortem of Bangladesh Cricket Team achieving its first comprehensive series white wash (wins in all matches of all three formats). On the backdrop of very uncertain performance of Bangladesh since CWC 2019 (losing

Cristiano Ronaldo will not return to Italy amid the coronavirus pandemic after his Juventus teammate Daniele Rugani tested positive for COVID-19. Ronaldo, the Portugal forward, returned to his homeland to visit his mother, who recently suffered a stroke, before Rugani’s illness was

Josie Harris, the mother to three of boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather's children, has been found dead in her car in California. The 40-year-old was found unresponsive on her driveway, a spokeswoman for the coroner told the BBC. No information has been released regarding the

Bangladesh Zimbabwe T20 Series . Second Match Played at SBNCS on 12 March 2020  Brief Scorecard  Bangladesh 120/1 in 15.5 overs ( Liton Das 60* ,Mohammad Naim 33 , Soumya Sarkar 20* ) beat Zimbabwe 119/7( BRM Taylor 59, CR Evans 29, Al Amin Hossain 2/22, Mustafizur Rahman 2/29)

DHAKA: Bangladesh have achieved comprehensive series whitewash across all three formats against Zimbabwe in this home season after they beat the visitors in the second and last T20 International by 9 wickets on Wednesday (March 11). Team Tigers reached the Zimbabwe-set 120–run

The T20I series between World XI and Asia XI on the occasion of the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been postponed as a precautionary step to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). President of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Nazmul Hasan Papon confirmed

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has just announced lists players on central contract with the board for year 2020. This is for the first time they announced separate lists for white ball and red cherry with some common players for both categories. The lists of players are as