Top players from around the world have gathered for the 14th Indian Premier League, which starts on Friday for a 52-day Twenty20 extravaganza played in empty stadiums because of the coronavirus pandemic. Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan and Mustafizur Rahman are also set to feature for their sides Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) respectively.

New Zealand named a squad of 20 players on Thursday for their upcoming tour of England including three uncapped players but with a question mark over the talismanic Kane Williamson and Trent Boult.

Tiger Woods was driving at an "unsafe" speed nearly double the 45 mph limit when he crashed in California in February, Los Angeles County's sheriff said Wednesday.

Pakistan captain Babar Azam hailed a rare series win by his team in South Africa after they defeated the hosts by 28 runs in the third and final one-day international in Centurion on Wednesday.

Champions Juventus are 12 points behind Inter in third after beating Napoli 2-1, as Paulo Dybala scored on his return after nearly three months out with the league's leading scorer Cristiano Ronaldo also on target.

Six-time Bangladesh Premier League champions Abahani will face Eagles Club of Maldives in the Preliminary Round 2 of the AFC Cup after the Maldivian outfit handed a 2-0 defeat to Thimphu City of Bhutan in a Preliminary Round 1 match in Male yesterday.

The Indian Premier League is not only one of the world’s most lucrative annual sporting properties but also among the most durable, with not even the lengthening shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic apparently able to stop the Twenty20 juggernaut.

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane praised forward Vinicius Jr. for rising to the big occasion after the Brazilian’s brace powered a 3-1 win over Liverpool in Tuesday’s Champions League quarterfinal first leg.

Phil Foden’s stoppage time winner ensured that Manchester City would leave the Etihad Stadium with a lucky 2-1 win against Borussia Dortmund, with poor officiating squarely in the limelight.

Proper execution of a long-term plan from the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) game development committee, led by former captain and BCB director Khaled Mahmud, played a vital role as the Bangladesh Under-19 team tasted World Cup glory in early 2020.

Bangladesh’s most renowned weightlifter Mabia Akter Simanta bettered her national records in the in the 64kg weightlifting category of the Bangabandhu 9th Bangladesh Games despite sustaining an injury on her left elbow at the Mymensingh Gymnasium yesterday.

A number of regular starters for South Africa are not featuring in their series-deciding third and final ODI against Pakistan at SuperSport Park in Centurion today. Players like David Miller, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi and Quinton de Kock have already left for India to adhere to the mandatory seven-day quarantine protocol ahead of the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), starting from next Friday.

The International Cricket Council does not yet see the need to activate its backup plan for the Twenty20 World Cup and is sticking to hosting the event in India later this year despite the country experiencing a record COVID-19 surge recently.

Manchester City's Phil Foden grabbed a last-minute winner as they beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in their Champions League quarter-final first leg on Tuesday after Marco Reus had netted a late equaliser for the German visitors.

Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr. scored twice as they punished a sloppy Liverpool side to win 3-1 at home in Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final first leg.

Was it the strike that might finally see Ousmane Dembele finally flourish at the Camp Nou? Having inspired confidence and then deceived so many times before, whether sitting on the sidelines through numerous nagging injuries or missing sitters that amounted to null contributions, ‘that’ goal -- a last-minute effort against Real Valladolid that gave Barca a 1-0 win on Monday night -- may be the first of Dembele’s that really matters as the La Liga race was thrown wide open for the final push with just nine games left in what is in evidence a three-horse-race.

Whenever there have been allegations of malpractice in maintenance of the financial accounts of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF), the allegations were swept aside, but this time the game’s local governing body not reject the observations of FIFA, football’s world governing body.

Members of the national selection committee, including chief selector Minhajul Abedin, had a meeting with the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s cricket operations department yesterday before announcing the squad for the upcoming two-match Test series in Sri Lanka.

Last year’s finalists Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain’s will lock horns in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal and tonight’s clash in Munich could set the tone for the rest of the tournament before it comes down to the final four.

Following the elimination of country’s top archer Ruman Sana in pre-quarterfinal stage, the focus was on men’s individual recurve event in the Bangabandhu 9th Bangladesh Games, and Ram Krishna Saha stole the spotlight by winning gold medal in this event at the Shaheed Ahsan Ullah Master Stadium in Tongi yesterday.