Cristiano Ronaldo helped Portugal to a hard-fought 3-1 win over Luxembourg on Tuesday with his first goal of the 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign, while Belgium became the latest team to join the protests over human rights in Qatar before hitting eight past Belarus.

With Bashundhara Kings’ comfortable lead at the top of the Bangladesh Premier League table at the end of the first phase, title rivals have apparently given up hope of catching up and hence focusing less on securing new players in the ongoing mid-term transfer window.

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The third and final T20I in Auckland today presents the last chance for the Tigers, at least until their next tour to New Zealand, to register a first-ever win against the hosts in their backyard.

The curtains on the Bangabandhu 9th Bangladesh Games will rise today at the Bangabandhu National Stadium with renewed hope as well as anxieties over the worsening pandemic situation across the country.

Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka in their last round-robin fixture to book a place in the final of the Bangabandhu Cup International Kabaddi Tournament at the National Volleyball Stadium in Paltan today.

Sergio Aguero is “irreplaceable in the souls, in the hearts, in the minds of our fans,” Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has said of the club's record goalscorer who is to leave at the end of the season.

Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has been handed a one-match ban for making a "blasphemous expression" and will miss Saturday's Turin derby at Torino, the Italian Federal Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday.

Bayern Munich's Poland striker Robert Lewandowski has been ruled out for four weeks after suffering a sprained ligament in his right knee, the German champions said on Tuesday.

The captain's armband that Cristiano Ronaldo flung to the ground in disgust after Portugal were controversially denied a late winner at the weekend in the World Cup qualifier against Serbia was put on auction on Tuesday in a bid to help a sick child.

Sergio Aguero, who will always be associated with a single gilded moment in Manchester City’s history, is starting his long goodbye from the club with his position secure as one of the Premier League’s all-time greats.

Bangladesh coach Jamie Day is apparently satisfied to have achieved the target he set for the players in the Three Nations Cup football tournament in Nepal, but sees no immediate change of fate for the team until the domestic structure is reformed.

Rajshahi entangled Barishal to register a first win in the Bangabandhu National Cricket League (BNCL), ending the Tier-2 game before lunch on the second day amid a flurry of records at the BKSP-3 ground in Savar yesterday.

The dramatic rain-interrupted second T20I in Napier between New Zealand and Bangladesh had everything. There was a bit of drama due to confusion about the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method and a blunder from officials kept Bangladesh in the dark for a while about their revised chase of 171 runs off 16 overs.

Bangladesh skipper Mahmudullah Riyad said that his team can take some positives from the batting effort in the second T20I against New Zealand and come back strong in the last match of the series on Thursday.

Soumya Sarkar snapped his long sequence of failures in international cricket with an aggressive half-century in the second T20 against New Zealand in Napier today, but his teammates were on a different wavelength altogether as Bangladesh lost by 28 runs in DLS method.

New Zealand scored 173 runs in 17.5 overs before rain stopped play for the second time in the second T20I in Napier on Tuesday, forcing the DLS method into play and it was calculated, after a god-awful farcical situation, that Bangladesh will have to chase in 16 overs.

Bangladesh have won the toss and decided to bowl first in the second T20I against New Zealand in Napier on Tuesday.

India captain Virat Kohli said confining players to 'bubbles' for months on end is not sustainable and the game has to consider scheduling changes to reduce the mental toll tours are taking during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Poland suffered a massive blow ahead of this week's crunch World Cup qualifier away to England when striker Robert Lewandowski was ruled out because of a knee injury. of a right knee injury.