DHAKA: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday named world famous allrounder Shahid Afridi as its T20 captain until the ICC T20 World Cup 2016. However, Misbah-ul-Haq has been retained as captain for ODIs and Tests until the 2015 World Cup. Pakistan has three T20 matches lined-up in the

DHAKA: Neymar has been named Brazil captain by returning manager Dunga for Friday's friendly with Colombia, taking the armband from Thiago Silva.The Barcelona forward, 22, helped Brazil reach the latter stages at the World Cup, but a back injury curtailed his tournament before the

DHAKA: France has got the better of a new-look Spanish football team with a one-nil victory in their international friendly in Paris on Thursday.On the other hand, two goals in the first 10 minutes were enough to give Italy a 2-0 friendly victory over World Cup semi-finalists the

DHAKA: Shakib Al Hasan, the Bangladesh all-rounder, will be unavailable for selection for Kolkata Knight Riders for the Champions League Twenty20. Even though the BCB this week relaxed the ban imposed on Shakib by allowing him to play domestic cricket from September, he still needed a

DHAKA: Bangladeshi cricket sensation and also one of the top all-rounders of the world Shakib Al Hasan is eligible to play in the upcoming 17th Asian Games as Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has reduced his ban.He, however, has no more restriction to play in the upcoming Dhaka Premier

DHAKA: Nepal Under-23 managed a hard fought 1-0 win over Bangladesh U-23 in the second friendly football match in Sylhet District Stadium on Friday night.  Nepal midfielder Sushil K.C scored the only goal in the second half of the match. In spite of creating several chances during the

DHAKA: Cristiano Ronaldo has been named as Uefa's Best Player in Europe for his Champions League-winning heroics with Real Madrid in 2013-14. The Portuguese, 29, scored a remarkable 17 goals in 11 European games as Carlo Ancelotti's stormed to the Decima and struck three times en route

DHAKA: Janak Gamage, the former Sri Lanka medium-pacer, has taken over as head coach of the Bangladesh women's team.  Gamage, who represented Sri Lanka in four ODIs, played in the Dhaka League between 1987 and 2000. He returned to the country to coach Mohammedan in the Dhaka Premier

DHAKA: West Indies selectors Friday named a 13-man squad to face Bangladesh in the opening Test starting at Arnos Vale in a week’s time.The side will be captained by Denesh Ramdin and includes rookies Jermaine Blackwood and Jason Holder, both of whom made their Test debuts against

DHAKA: Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has insisted that he does not have a bad relationship with Barcelona forward Lionel Messi. Ronaldo and Messi have dominated world football in recent years and are widely regarded as the two best current players in modern football, having shared

DHAKA: Batsman Aftab Ahmed has announced he will retire at the end of the 2014-15 season.  He said that his focus will turn to coaching and setting up an academy in his hometown of Chittagong. Aftab will play the upcoming season's Dhaka Premier League for Brothers Union after switching

DHAKA: The only T20 match of Bangladesh against West Indies at Basseterre has been abandoned Thursday due to rain. The match officials, after a long, drawn out discussion, have called off the match finally. The captains have relayed the news to their respective troops and now Sammy and

DHAKA: Rain halted the only T20 match of Bangladesh against West Indies at Basseterre Thursday. Earlier in the day, Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim chose to bat first against West Indies in the only T20 at Warner Park.  It was the logical thing to do, and will be some respite as

BCB executive committee in yesterday’s meeting has decided to reduce the 6 month’s ban of star all-rounder Shakib-al-Hasan of Six Month’s from playing international and domestic cricket to less than three months. Shakib can start playing after September 15, 2014. However, BCB

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has reduced ban for world top all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan to three months. The decision came from an emergency meeting of the BCB on Tuesday. Now, Shakib can participate in the home series against Zimbabwe.    On July 7, the BCB suspended Shakib

DHAKA: West Indies white washed visiting Bangladesh by wining all three matches of ODI series. On the last match, West Indies scored 338 losing seven wickets in stipulated 50 overs and Bangladesh managed to score 247 for 8 wickets in 50 overs.  Denesh Ramdin and DM Bravo scored

West Indies 338/7 (Dinesh Ramdin 169, Daren Bravo 124, Al Amin Hossain 4/59) beat Bangladesh 247/8 .( Mushfiqur Rahim 72 , Tamim Iqbal 55,Mahmudullah Riad 27 , Nasir Hossain 26 , Sohag Gazi 24 , Ravi Rampaul 4/29, Narine 1/31) by 91 runs  West Indies was brutal and ruthless in

DHAKA: Soccer star Lionel Messi, in a Facebook post, said he was ‘deeply saddened” by the loss of young lives with a photo of an injured Palestinian boy. ‘As a father and a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador, I am terribly saddened by the images coming from the conflict between Israel and

With ODI series already lost tigers must play for pride in third and final ODI tonight. Nothing can happen worse than the second ODI when they imploded to their second lowest ODI score of 70 all out. When 10 out of 11 players of an ICC full member team fail to reach double figure while

DHAKA: Sohag Gazi, the Bangladesh offspinner, has been reported for a suspect bowling action following the second ODI against West Indies in St George's. The match officials' report, according to an ICC release, "cited concerns regarding Gazi's bowling action for all deliveries". He