DHAKA: Germany reached the Euro 2016 semi-finals after winning a breathtaking penalty shootout against Italy in Bordeaux. Joachim Low's World Cup holders looked on course for victory in normal time against a country they had never beaten at a major tournament when Mesut Ozil

DHAKA: Russian doping whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova has been cleared by athletics chiefs to run as a ‘neutral’ at this summer's Olympic Games in Rio. The decision, which must be approved by Olympic organizers, comes with the Russian athletics federation banned from

DHAKA: Portugal reached the semi-finals of the European Championship for the fourth time in five tournaments with a penalty shootout victory over Poland. Ricardo Quaresma scored the winning spot-kick after Jakub Blaszczykowski's effort was saved by Rui Patricio. Robert

DHAKA: Barcelona’s Neymar and Bayern Munich's Douglas Costa have been selected as over-age players in Brazil's Rio 2016 Olympics squad. The third permitted over-age player is Palmeiras goalkeeper Fernando Prass, BBC reports on Thursday (June 30). Gabriel Barbosa, the

DHAKA: A bronze statue of Argentine football star Lionel Messi has been unveiled in Buenos Aires just days after the player announced he was retiring from the national team. Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Larreta Rodriguez unveiled the statue on the shores of the River Plate, reports the

DHAKA: Andy Murray and defending champion Serena Williams confirmed the second round of Wimbledon Championship beating Liam Broady and Amra Sadikovic respectively in the opening round. Murray, seeded second, saw off the 22-year-old world number 235 from Stockport 6-2 6-3 6-4 on Centre

Two Tier Test Cricket format -the Three Musketeers India –England –Australia brokered and plotted strategy of ICC is set to get approval soon.  ICC has ten full members which play test cricket. Given the growing popularity it is considered wise to support the cricket development

DHAKA: World soccer has witnessed some very interesting turnaround in the last 24 hours. Chile winning the Copa America for the second time in succession almost in the similar manner against the same opposition favorite Argentina, in my opinion was not much of a surprise. They were

DHAKA: The England national cricket team is set to tour Bangladesh for the first time since 2010 for two Tests and three ODIs in October. The English are likely to arrive in Dhaka on September 30 for the third multi-format tour. The tour will begin with a warm-up one-day match in

DHAKA: Australia have beaten West Indies by 58-run in the triangular series final at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados on Sunday (June 26). Winning the toss, Australia captain Steve Smith chose to bat first. M Wade, AJ Finch, S Smith and M Marsh scored 57, 47, 46 and 32 runs

DHAKA: Ace footballer Lionel Messi on Monday (June 27) announced retirement from International Football after Argentina’s loss in Copa America final. “For me the national team is over. I've done all I can, it hurts not to be a champion,” the 29-year-old Barcelona superstar

DHAKA: Chile have won the Copa America Centenario cup beating Argentina in the penalty shoot out by 4 goals to 2. The match progressed into the penalty shoot out as both the teams failed to score in the 120 minutes. Castillo Mora, Charles Mariano Aránguiz Sandoval, Jean André

Some very inconsistent and completely uncalled for statements of BCB President has recently appeared in different print media of Bangladesh.  Over the last few days he reacted very angrily to ongoing strong criticisms of some unfortunate incidents of DPL 2016 and controversial

DHAKA: India have appointed former captain and leg spinner Anil Kumble as their new head coach on a one-year deal. Kumble, 45, has no international or first-class coaching experience but is India's leading Test wicket taker with 619 wickets in 132 games. India have been without

DHAKA: Lionel Messi became his country's leading scorer with a superb free-kick as Argentina beat hosts the USA 4-0 reach Copa America final. The Barcelona forward, 28, passed Gabriel Batistuta's 54-goal tally with a 25-yard strike, BBC reports on Wednesday (June 22). Messi

DHAKA: Britain's Andy Murray took apart Milos Raonic's huge serve to become the first man to win the Queen's Club title five times. Raonic led by a set and 3-0 before Murray became the first player this week to break the Canadian's serve, doing so twice in chain, BBC

DHAKA: Switzerland and France played out a Euro 2016 goalless draw which took the Swiss into the last 16 and saw the French win Group A. Paul Pogba recalled by France in one of five changes was lively and hit the woodwork twice in the first half, BBC reports on Monday (June 20).

The Directors of Bangladesh Cricket Control Board (BCB) in a recent meeting gave the proposal for unique double tier selection processes given go ahead.  Media reported that such a controversial uncalled for arrangement did not require any voting with two important board members

DHAKA: For the thousands of Americans that have spent June cheering Lionel Messi’s name and imploring him to wow them, it may be a case of “be careful what you wish for.” Argentina, with Messi in the starting lineup for the first time, eliminated Venezuela from the Copa America

DHAKA: Colombia progressed to the next stage of the Copa America after a beating Peru 4-2 in a penalty shootout in the second quarterfinal in New Jersey. The game went to penalties as both teams were locked at 0-0 after 90 minutes. Colombia captain, James Rodriguez stepped up to