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Back where they ruled!

Back where they ruled!

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2022-03-19 14:31:54

The deserts were frightening, but not enough to scare them. The heat was exhausting but not enough to stop them. The conditions were hostile, but not enough to break their determination. They didn&rsq...

Tigers get comfortable win in first ODI against South Africa

Tigers get comfortable win in first ODI against South Africa

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-19 01:37:30

Tigers have won the first match of three-match ODI series against South Africa by 38 runs at Super Sports Park in Centurion in South Africa on Friday. Batting first, Bangladesh set a 315-run target f...

Russia's hopes of competing at 2022 World Cup end

Russia's hopes of competing at 2022 World Cup end

-- 2022-03-18 21:55:15

Russia's hopes of competing at the 2022 World Cup were effectively ended after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected a request from the Russian Football Union to freeze FIFA's suspension w...

Tigers set 315-run target for South Africa

Tigers set 315-run target for South Africa

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-18 21:17:38

Tigers have set a 315-run target for South Africa in their first match of three-match ODI series at Super Sports Park in Centurion in South Africa on Friday. After winning the toss, South Africa capt...

How Bangladesh lose from a winning position in Women's World Cup

How Bangladesh lose from a winning position in Women's World Cup

-- 2022-03-18 16:29:16

After scripting a historic win against Pakistan in the previous match, the Bangladesh women’s team sank to a dispiriting defeat in what should have been a pleasant win against the West Indies in...

Root, Stokes tons put England in command of WIndies test

Root, Stokes tons put England in command of WIndies test

-- 2022-03-18 11:29:25

England pace bowler Matt Fisher collected a wicket with his second ball on debut as the visitors turned the screws on West Indies in the second test in Barbados on Thursday. West Indies were 71 for o...

Has Messi been a flop at PSG?

Has Messi been a flop at PSG?

Mahtab Jamil 2022-03-17 16:04:32

Nasser-Al-Khelaifi bought PSG in 2011. Since then, he has been injecting money into the club. His primary objective had been to win the Champions League. After they signed Messi last summer, everyone...

Second Test between Pakistan, Australia ends draw

Second Test between Pakistan, Australia ends draw

-- 2022-03-16 21:57:13

The second test between Pakistan and Australia ended in a draw at Karachi’s National Stadium on Wednesday. Chasing a record victory target of 506, Pakistan finished on 443-7 after a pulsating f...

Eriksen in Denmark squad for first time since cardiac arrest at Euros

Eriksen in Denmark squad for first time since cardiac arrest at Euros

-- 2022-03-15 21:12:26

Christian Eriksen was called up to the Denmark national squad on Tuesday, the first time he has been selected since he suffered a cardiac arrest at the European Championship last year. Denmark coach...

Bangladesh have serious problems with the T20I format

Bangladesh have serious problems with the T20I format

Mahmudul Hasan 2022-03-15 18:00:23

The Bangladesh team has held its own in the ODI format for the last few years. But in the T20I format, they are at the opposite pole. The team continuously performs poorly and surrenders helplessly t...

India win 15th straight test series at home

India win 15th straight test series at home

-- 2022-03-14 21:40:53

India extended their winning streak at home to 15 test series as they beat Sri Lanka by 238 runs in the second test to wrap up the day-night match in Bengaluru on day three and win the two-test series...

Shakib-BCB debacle makes a mockery of mental health issues

Shakib-BCB debacle makes a mockery of mental health issues

Mashfiq Mizan 2022-03-14 20:27:29

Apparently, an in-person meeting followed by a phone call with your grumpy boss is enough to solve serious mental health concerns within a week and prompt one to return to the work environment they we...

Fahima-Rumana duo demonstrates importance of leg-spin

Fahima-Rumana duo demonstrates importance of leg-spin

Mashfiq Mizan 2022-03-14 18:05:28

The leg-spinning duo of Rumana Ahmed and Fahima Khatun ran through the Pakistan middle- and lower-middle order as Tigresses created history by defeating Pakistan to taste their first World Cup triumph...

Bangladesh beat Pakistan to secure first win in Women’s Cricket World Cup

Bangladesh beat Pakistan to secure first win in Women’s Cricket World Cup

-- 2022-03-14 12:17:08

The Bangladesh Women's cricket team have defeated their Pakistani counterpart by nine runs to clinch their first win in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup. Bangladesh scored 234 runs in 50 overs on Mo...

Bangladesh women's team face Pakistan tonight in the Women's World Cup

Bangladesh women's team face Pakistan tonight in the Women's World Cup

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2022-03-13 15:51:36

Two teams who never won a game in the World Cup will face each other at the Seddon Park of Hamilton, New Zealand, tonight in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2022. Bangladesh and Pakistan find themsel...

PSG and UCL - stories of heartbreaks

PSG and UCL - stories of heartbreaks

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2022-03-13 13:15:03

It all went wrong for PSG. It has been the same story for almost a decade, bar the last two seasons. And PSG don’t seem to be coming out of this situation anytime soon. Just when everyone think...

English Premier League disqualifies Abramovich from running Chelsea

English Premier League disqualifies Abramovich from running Chelsea

-- 2022-03-12 19:59:35

The Premier League on Saturday disqualified Roman Abramovich from running Chelsea after the club owner was sanctioned by the British government over Russia's war on Ukraine. The announcement that Abr...

Shakib now says he will go on South Africa tour

Shakib now says he will go on South Africa tour

-- 2022-03-12 15:01:55

Bangladeshi allrounder Shakib Al Hasan has agreed to be part of the Bangladesh squad that is headed for a tour of South Africa. Shakib, whose inclusion in the team had been the subject of much discus...

Allan Donald puts his eye on Shoriful

Allan Donald puts his eye on Shoriful

Mashfiq Mizan 2022-03-12 12:09:15

Allan Donald, the newly appointed pace bowling coach of Bangladesh used to be affectionately called ‘The White Lightning’ for his lightning quick deliveries. Although not as fast as Donal...

UK imposes asset freezes on Chelsea owner Abramovich

UK imposes asset freezes on Chelsea owner Abramovich

-- 2022-03-10 17:31:04

Britain said on Thursday it had imposed asset freezes on Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich and Igor Sechin, the chief executive of Russian oil group Rosneft, plus five other Russian oligarc...

Appreciating Luka Modric: The best midfielder in the world

Appreciating Luka Modric: The best midfielder in the world

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-03-10 13:54:53

Real Madrid's Triumph against PSG last night can be summarised into two players’ performances - Karim Benzema and Luka Modric.  Modric, being 37, was at his absolute best last night when h...

Shakib Al Hasan rested from all forms of cricket until April 30

Shakib Al Hasan rested from all forms of cricket until April 30

-- 2022-03-09 18:22:00

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has decided to allow Bangladesh’s all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan to stay in rest from all formats of crickets until April 30. The board took the decision on Wedn...

Mixed Martial Arts sees rising popularity in Bangladesh

Mixed Martial Arts sees rising popularity in Bangladesh

MANSURUL KAFI 2022-03-09 17:35:21

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a discipline of martial arts which has been garnering global popularity over the last decade or so. The advent of MMA has intrigued people to take martial arts as a hobby...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s World Cup dream 'gets fader' with Ruben Dias’s injury

Cristiano Ronaldo’s World Cup dream 'gets fader' with Ruben Dias’s injury

Mahtab Jamil 2022-03-09 12:50:57

Portugal, who are scheduled to go up against Turkey on March 25, have to go into the tie without the services of Ruben Dias. But how will the Portuguese National side do without his service? Portugal...

Scotland’s World Cup play-off against Ukraine postponed

Scotland’s World Cup play-off against Ukraine postponed

-- 2022-03-08 19:24:54

Scotland's World Cup play-off semi-final against Ukraine has been postponed. The nations were set to meet at Hampden on March 24 but Ukraine requested that FIFA moves the tie back following Russia's...

Will Neymar ever reach the pinnacle or is he past it?

Will Neymar ever reach the pinnacle or is he past it?

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-03-08 15:22:39

When Neymar came to Barcelona as a skillful teenager from Brazil, expectations from him were already quite high. Everyone expected him to be the next big thing, a future Ballon d'Or winner who migh...

Cricket legend Shane Warne died of natural causes

Cricket legend Shane Warne died of natural causes

-- 2022-03-07 19:41:08

An autopsy showed the death last week of Australian cricket great Shane Warne on an island in Thailand was due to natural causes, the Thai police said on Monday. Warne's family were told of the resul...

Djokovic offers financial support to Ukraine's Stakhovsky amid war

Djokovic offers financial support to Ukraine's Stakhovsky amid war

-- 2022-03-07 13:26:43

Novak Djokovic has offered financial support and any other help required to Ukrainian former world number 31 Sergiy Stakhovsky, who has enlisted in his country's reserve army amid Russia's invasion of...

Bangladesh failing to see the bigger picture again and again

Bangladesh failing to see the bigger picture again and again

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2022-03-07 12:23:09

Bangladesh finished the series against Afghanistan with an expected ODI series win and, probably or probably not, expected T20I series draw. Yet, the results were not the talking point of the series....

India thrashes Sri Lanka in Mohali Test

India thrashes Sri Lanka in Mohali Test

-- 2022-03-06 17:26:49

Hosts India defeated Sri Lanka by an innings and 222 runs inside three days in the opening test at Mohali on Sunday to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series, reports Reuters. Sri Lanka made 178 in...