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Ajaz Patel creates history bagging 10 wickets in an innings

Ajaz Patel creates history bagging 10 wickets in an innings

Aniruddha Bhowmik 2021-12-04 16:29:24

New Zealand’s Indian-born left-arm spinner wrote his name in cricket’s history books today in the 2nd Test match of the series against India as he became the 3rd bowler in the history of T...

New Zealand spinner Ajaz bags all 10 wickets against India

New Zealand spinner Ajaz bags all 10 wickets against India

-- 2021-12-04 15:13:46

New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel became only the third bowler to pick up all 10 wickets in an innings in international cricket, achieving the feat against India in the second Test at the Wankhede Stadiu...

Shakib joins national team ahead of Dhaka Test

Shakib joins national team ahead of Dhaka Test

-- 2021-12-02 18:27:28

Ahead of the Dhaka Test against Pakistan starting on December 4, ace Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan has joined the national team on Thursday. Shakib started practising on his own a few days ag...

Leo reigns supreme - critics silenced once and for all

Leo reigns supreme - critics silenced once and for all

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2021-12-02 16:46:42

After receiving the award, Didier Drogba asked Messi to press a buzzer. Messi did so and on a giant screen, a video of the Eiffel Tower getting lit up started streaming.   The stage of Ball...

Does Naim Sheikh fit into the Test side?

Does Naim Sheikh fit into the Test side?

Samin Zarif 2021-12-01 16:31:53

After losing to Pakistan in the first test of the two-match series, Bangladesh is hoping to give a fightback in the second and last encounter.  Facing defeats in their last nine international ga...

Can anybody ever reach Messi's height?

Can anybody ever reach Messi's height?

Shajedul Rahin 2021-12-01 15:47:47

After a phenomenal year, especially with the Argentina national team, Lionel Messi, the six-time Ballon d'Or winner has won the Ballon d'Or 2021, making it to the seventh heaven.  While the near...

BCB announces squad for second Test match against Pakistan

BCB announces squad for second Test match against Pakistan

-- 2021-11-30 19:18:24

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Tuesday announced the squad for the second and final match of the Alesha Holdings Test series against Pakistan beginning in Dhaka on December 4. Allrounder Shaki...

Ralf Rangnick arrives, is it finally the time for Manchester United?

Ralf Rangnick arrives, is it finally the time for Manchester United?

Swadhin Shahporan 2021-11-30 14:53:14

Jadon Sancho, Raphael Varane and Cristiano Ronaldo - it had to be the season Manchester United finally gave it a go for the Premier League title.  But an abysmal start to the season, under the g...

Messi wins Ballon d'Or for record seventh time

Messi wins Ballon d'Or for record seventh time

-- 2021-11-30 08:44:53

Argentina's Lionel Messi won the Ballon d'Or award for the best player in the world for a record-stretching seventh time on Monday, beating Robert Lewandowski and Jorginho to lift soccer's most pr...

Portugal detects 13 cases of omicron variant at Lisbon football club

Portugal detects 13 cases of omicron variant at Lisbon football club

-- 2021-11-29 21:05:13

Portugal detected 13 cases of the omicron coronavirus variant on Monday, all involving players and staff of top division football club Belenenses SAD, one of whose players recently returned from South...

Pakistan close to victory in Chattogram test

Pakistan close to victory in Chattogram test

-- 2021-11-29 18:38:30

Pakistan need only 93 runs to seal the Chattogram Test against Bangladesh. At the end of day four on Monday, Pakistan were batting at 109 for none with openers- Abid Ali and Abdullah Shafique- hittin...

Messi in assist mode as PSG beat 10-man St Etienne

Messi in assist mode as PSG beat 10-man St Etienne

-- 2021-11-28 21:26:01

Lionel Messi set up all three goals as Paris St Germain stretched their Ligue 1 lead to 14 points with a 3-1 comeback win at 10-man St Etienne as Neymar sustained a possible ankle injury and was taken...

Afridi wreaks havoc after Taijul's seven-for to leave Test in balance

Afridi wreaks havoc after Taijul's seven-for to leave Test in balance

-- 2021-11-28 20:39:58

Taijul Islam put up a superb show of spin bowling to haul Bangladesh into the Test earlier in the third day in Chattogram, but Shaheen Shah Afridi then ran through the hosts' top order as Pakistan sha...

T10 Cricket on Nov 30 marking World Peace Conference 

T10 Cricket on Nov 30 marking World Peace Conference 

-- 2021-11-28 19:10:07

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) with support from the Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) will hold a friendly T10 Cricket match on Tuesday marking the forthcoming Wo...

Bangladesh women’s cricket team reaches World Cup for first time

Bangladesh women’s cricket team reaches World Cup for first time

-- 2021-11-27 18:15:47

The Bangladesh national women’s cricket team has reached the ICC Women’s ODI Cricket World Cup for the first time. More matches were scheduled to be played in Zimbabwe to determine the en...

BCB's unprofessional off-field management

BCB's unprofessional off-field management

Shajedul Rahin 2021-11-27 17:53:40

In the recent past, Bangladesh have played a lot of T20 internationals at the biggest stages, especially at the T20 World Cup 2021 and the 3-match series against Pakistan.  Playing combined 11 m...

Liton century, Mushfiqur 82* put Bangladesh on top

Liton century, Mushfiqur 82* put Bangladesh on top

ESPNcricinfo 2021-11-26 19:33:00

On a day in Chattogram that began with an earthquake and then had smoke from a nearby fire billowing above the stadium, Pakistan blazed through the Bangladesh top order to get the early advantage in t...

The twin who are bodyguards of Cristiano Ronaldo

The twin who are bodyguards of Cristiano Ronaldo

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2021-11-25 17:01:47

Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest footballers in the history of the game. Apart from this, he has amassed a huge fan following on social media and is the most followed athlete on Instagram, par...

Ballon d'Or in a week: How the winner is selected?

Ballon d'Or in a week: How the winner is selected?

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2021-11-25 16:47:46

With a few days remaining before the Ballon d'Or winner is announced and the football fans all over the world rooting for their favourite player to win the award, one might wonder how this prestigious...

2021 in review: Highest number of T20I defeats in a calendar year

2021 in review: Highest number of T20I defeats in a calendar year

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2021-11-25 16:28:37

With a low-scoring thriller resulting in another defeat in the last T20I against Pakistan, Bangladesh National team end their T20 journey for 2021.  Bangladesh end the year with 27 T20Is played;...

Mahmudullah Riyad finally says goodbye to Test cricket

Mahmudullah Riyad finally says goodbye to Test cricket

-- 2021-11-24 19:56:22

A little hope was there that Mahmudullah Riyad would continue to play Test cricket despite announcing his retirement in an abrupt move in July this year, but the hope finally got dashed on Wednesday....

UCL matches tonight

UCL matches tonight

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2021-11-24 14:55:29

After yesterday’s heavyweight night with a few outstanding performances from superstars like Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski, the Champions League is going to have yet another night ful...

Zidane to PSG, Pochettino to MU - what if rumours turn true?

Zidane to PSG, Pochettino to MU - what if rumours turn true?

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2021-11-24 14:37:46

Two of the strongest rumours circulating during the last few days are the futures of Zinedine Zidane and Mauricio Pochettino.  While the former is currently not managing at club level said to ha...

Sharmin Akhter makes history by scoring first ODI century for Bangladesh

Sharmin Akhter makes history by scoring first ODI century for Bangladesh

-- 2021-11-23 20:46:06

Sharmin Akhter has made history by scoring the first ODI century for the Bangladesh Women’s cricket team. The milestone came at Zimbabwe’s Harare on Tuesday, where Bangladesh faces the US...

It's FCB vs FCB tonight

It's FCB vs FCB tonight

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2021-11-23 15:24:38

Barcelona will be hosting Benfica in an important Uefa Champions League group stage clash tonight.  They approach this game with a fear that never struck them in a long time, a scene which Camp...

Champions League is back: Heavyweights' fixtures tonight

Champions League is back: Heavyweights' fixtures tonight

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2021-11-23 14:50:23

The UEFA Champions League resumes tonight after quite some time with some mouth-watering fixtures for football lovers all around the world.  Heavy-weights like Bayern Munich, Manchester United,...

Pakistan complete whitewash despite late drama

Pakistan complete whitewash despite late drama

Mohammad Saiful Islam 2021-11-22 17:30:39

Pakistan defeat Bangladesh by 5 wickets in the low-scoring thriller to clinch the series with a 3-0 clean sweep.  In reply to Bangladesh’s total, Pakistan started slowly. The opening pair...

Dot ball fest restricts the Tigers at 125

Dot ball fest restricts the Tigers at 125

Mohammad Saiful Islam 2021-11-22 15:35:16

Bangladesh post 125 runs target for Pakistan in an attempt to avoid a whitewash.  Winning the toss, Bangladesh chose to bat first in the third consecutive game.  However, the much-anticipa...

Messi opens Ligue 1 account

Messi opens Ligue 1 account

-- 2021-11-21 19:13:50

Lionel Messi scored his first goal in Ligue 1 as 10-man Paris St-Germain moved 13 points clear at the top with a late rally to beat Nantes. Messi curled home left-footed from 20 yards three minutes f...

Manchester United sack manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Manchester United sack manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

-- 2021-11-21 17:33:44

Manchester United sacked manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on Sunday, a day after a 4-1 defeat by promoted Watford left the Old Trafford club seventh in the Premier League. Former player Michael Carrick,...