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Rumpus over The European Super League: All about money

Rumpus over The European Super League: All about money

Naveed Ashfaque 2021-04-20 15:36:36

European football, as it stands, is at a war on who controls the biggest continental football enterprise. The new UEFA ‘Swiss Model’ was the talk of European football until something surpr...

UEFA threatens to ban clubs, players involved in Super League

UEFA threatens to ban clubs, players involved in Super League

REUTERS 2021-04-19 20:40:47

European football's governing body UEFA on Monday said clubs and players joining the proposed breakaway Super League could be banned from all of its competitions and the World Cup as it condemned a "d...

Tigers reach Sri Lanka's Kandy for two-match Test series        

Tigers reach Sri Lanka's Kandy for two-match Test series        

-- 2021-04-19 19:32:06

Bangladesh national team have reached Sri Lanka's Kandy to play a two-match Test series against the hosts. Bangladesh's media manager Rabeed Imam who is travelling with the team in the island nation...

Tottenham fires manager Jose Mourinho after 17 months

Tottenham fires manager Jose Mourinho after 17 months

AP 2021-04-19 17:37:09

Tottenham fired Jose Mourinho on Monday after only 17 months in charge, and just as he was preparing to coach the club in the League Cup final. Mourinho was hired in November 2019 to replace Mauricio...

UEFA holds crisis meeting after 12 football clubs launch breakaway Super League

UEFA holds crisis meeting after 12 football clubs launch breakaway Super League

REUTERS 2021-04-19 17:14:49

European soccer's governing body UEFA will hold a crisis meeting on Monday, hours after 12 of the continent's leading clubs shocked the football world by announcing the formation of a breakaway Super...

Asian football: Where does it fall behind?

Asian football: Where does it fall behind?

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2021-04-19 10:17:59

Asia has the most number of football playing nations after Africa. But it’s quite astonishing that Asian teams have never been threats to reckon in the footballing world. Asian football playing...

What’s wrong with Bangladesh’s short-form cricket?

What’s wrong with Bangladesh’s short-form cricket?

SHAFIN SAIF 2021-04-18 13:10:01

Bangladesh have recently been struggling to find a victory in short-form cricket. The away series against New Zealand and the home series against West Indies have brought nothing but disappointment to...

Pakistan to get visas for T20 World Cup in India

Pakistan to get visas for T20 World Cup in India

-- 2021-04-17 18:43:50

Pakistani cricketers will get visas to play in the upcoming T20 World Cup in India next October. Jay Shah, Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, on Friday informed the Apex Council...

South American players get 50,000 vaccine doses in exchange of Messi’s jersey

South American players get 50,000 vaccine doses in exchange of Messi’s jersey

-- 2021-04-16 17:05:29

Lionel Messi has helped to obtain 50,000 Covid vaccines from China for an ambitious but controversial plan to inoculate all of South America’s football players before this summer’s Copa Am...

Olympics-Covid cuts hit anti-doping programme at Tokyo Games

Olympics-Covid cuts hit anti-doping programme at Tokyo Games

-- 2021-04-15 10:37:59

Anti-Doping accreditations for the Tokyo Olympics have been cut due to COVID-19 but the core management team in charge of delivering a drug-free Games will remain intact, the head of the International...

Babar Azam hits record T20 ton in Pakistan's record chase against South Africa

Babar Azam hits record T20 ton in Pakistan's record chase against South Africa

Reuters 2021-04-15 09:40:28

Captain Babar Azam hit a record-breaking 122 to lead Pakistan to an impressive nine-wicket victory over hosts South Africa at Centurion on Wednesday and a 2-1 lead in the four-match Twenty20 series....

ICC bans Heath Streak for eight years

ICC bans Heath Streak for eight years

REUTERS 2021-04-14 16:56:30

The former Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak has been given an eight-year ban for five breaches of the International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption code, the governing body said on Wednesday. Th...

Bangladesh preliminary Test squad leave for Sri Lanka

Bangladesh preliminary Test squad leave for Sri Lanka

-- 2021-04-12 16:11:00

A 21-member Bangladesh preliminary test squad left the capital for Sri Lanka on Monday by a chartered flight of Bangladesh Biman to play a two- match test series against the Island nation. Earlier, t...

Tokyo Olympic organisers to secure 300 hotel rooms for athletes with COVID-19

Tokyo Olympic organisers to secure 300 hotel rooms for athletes with COVID-19

-- 2021-04-11 18:59:52

Tokyo Olympic organisers plan to prepare 300 hotel rooms for athletes who test positive for the coronavirus at this summer's Games but show no or minor symptoms of COVID-19, Kyodo news agency said on...

Mominul says Bangladesh can beat Sri Lanka even without Shakib, Mustafiz

Mominul says Bangladesh can beat Sri Lanka even without Shakib, Mustafiz

-- 2021-04-11 17:15:03

Bangladesh Test captain Mominul Haque said they are confident of winning the two-match series in Sri Lanka even without the service of Shakib Al Hasan and Mustafizur Rahman who are busy playing in the...

Rizwan leads Pakistan to T20 win over South Africa

Rizwan leads Pakistan to T20 win over South Africa

REUTERS 2021-04-11 09:55:00

Opener Mohammad Rizwan smashed an unbeaten half-century to lead Pakistan to a nail-biting four-wicket victory over inexperienced South Africa in the first Twenty20 International at The Wanderers on Sa...

Is Pakistan cricket resurrecting?

Is Pakistan cricket resurrecting?

Shafin Saif 2021-04-10 23:20:18

Unpredictable Pakistan, once again, seems to be emerging as a superpower in world cricket by beating South Africa in the recent ODI series on their own turf with some emphatic performances. With a bun...

The Romanticism Behind Athletic Bilbao

The Romanticism Behind Athletic Bilbao

Ayman Chowdhury 2021-04-09 23:48:53

Athletic Bilbao was crowned the Champions of the Spanish Super Cup 2021, beating mighty Barcelona in the final. What’s more impressive is that the team had beaten another ‘big boy’ R...

BCB announces preliminary squad for Sri Lanka Tests

BCB announces preliminary squad for Sri Lanka Tests

-- 2021-04-09 16:46:24

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Friday announced a 21-member preliminary squad for Sri Lanka Tests, including three new faces. The final squad for this two-match Test series will be announced once...

ICC sticking to hosting T20 World Cup in India this year

ICC sticking to hosting T20 World Cup in India this year

-- 2021-04-07 19:50:01

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 exp...

Weightlifter Mabia wins gold in Bangladesh Games

Weightlifter Mabia wins gold in Bangladesh Games

-- 2021-04-07 18:33:21

Country's celebrated weightlifter and SA Games gold medal winning Mabia Akhter Simanta clinched gold with new record in her favourite 64 kgs weight category event of the Bangabandhu 9th Bangladesh Gam...

Bangabandhu Bangladesh Games to continue until further instructions

Bangabandhu Bangladesh Games to continue until further instructions

-- 2021-04-03 19:10:11

The ongoing edition of Bangabandhu Bangladesh Games will continue although the government is set to enforce a 7-day lockdown from Monday to stem the spread of Covid-19. This sports event kicked off o...

Bangladesh women’s cricket team granted Test status

Bangladesh women’s cricket team granted Test status

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-04-02 17:10:34

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has decided to award the Test and ODI status permanently to Bangladesh, as a full-member team of the council. As per the decision, which was taken during a rec...

Tendulkar hospitalised a week after catching coronavirus

Tendulkar hospitalised a week after catching coronavirus

Reuters 2021-04-02 13:23:01

Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar said on Friday he has been admitted to hospital as a precautionary measure after contracting the novel coronavirus last week. Tendulkar, who will turn 48 later...

Match referee apologises to Bangladesh over DL method confusion

Match referee apologises to Bangladesh over DL method confusion

-- 2021-03-30 21:32:11

Jeff Crowe, the match referee of the second T20 between Bangladesh and New Zealand, apologised to Bangladesh due to confusion over their target in the match set following the Duckworth-Lewis Method (D...

Tigers lose T20Is series despite blazing fifty from Soumya

Tigers lose T20Is series despite blazing fifty from Soumya

-- 2021-03-30 17:47:19

Despite a blazing fifty from Soumya Sarkar, Bangladesh lost the 2nd T20I of the three-match series against New Zealand at Napier on Tuesday by 28 runs in DL method. At the end of the match, there are...

Tushar, Zakir continue to shine in NCL

Tushar, Zakir continue to shine in NCL

-- 2021-03-30 08:47:05

Veteran batsman Tushar Imran of Khulna Division, Zakir Hasan of Sylhet Division and Pinak Ghose of Chattogram Division hit First-class centuries on Monday, the day one of the second round of the Banga...

Manchester City: En route to creating history

Manchester City: En route to creating history

Ayman Chowdhury 2021-03-28 22:21:15

Manchester City is on the hunt for an unprecedented Quadruple after qualifying for the semi-finals of the FA cup. The club managed to turn around their woeful fortune at the start of the season to now...

Tigers dealt a crushing blow in 1st T20, too

Tigers dealt a crushing blow in 1st T20, too

-- 2021-03-28 12:09:43

Tigers continued their losing streak on Sunday as they lost the three-match T20Is series opener against New Zealand by 66 runs. They earlier lost the ODI series against the Kiwis too, 3-0. Devon Conw...

Sachin Tendulkar contracts coronavirus

Sachin Tendulkar contracts coronavirus

-- 2021-03-27 12:16:23

Sachin Tendulkar, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket, has tested positive for Covid-19 and is currently in home isolation in Mumbai. This was announced by the In...