DHAKA:  Opener Lokesh Rahul was ruled out of the Indian cricket team's upcoming tour of Bangladesh as he is yet to recover from dengue.The 23-year-old, who made his Test debut against Australia in Melbourne, was declared unfit for the one-off Test starting June 10 and no replacement has

DHAKA: Barcelona completed a trophy treble in Luis Enrique's debut season in charge as they beat Juventus 3-1 in the Champions League final in Berlin on Saturday.Luis Suarez produced his most crucial contribution of his short career at Camp Nou when he restored Barca's lead 22 minutes

DHAKA: Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Friday, announced the 15-man Coca-Cola South Africa under-19 team that will take on Bangladesh youths from 29 June to 21 July 2015 in a seven-match.The Youth One-Day International series will be played in Durban and Pietermaritzburg of South Africa.The

We are not sure how seriously Bangladesh cricket think tank takes notice of what are happening every day in the cricket world. If they do they have so much to learn form and replicate. A very important test match is in progress between Australia and West Indies. On the second day of the

DHAKA: Hours after sustaining injuries of Tigers’ ODI captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza in a road accident, this time all-rounder Mohammad Mahmudullah was injured during a practice session on Thursday.Mahmudullah suffered injuries in two fingers of his left hand while participating in a

DHAKA: Team Bangladesh ODI captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza sustained injuries as a passenger bus hit a rickshaw carrying him in city’s Mirpur area on Thursday morning.Mashrafe was on way to Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium to attend a practice session. A bus hit the rickshaw from

DHAKA: Team Bangladesh ODI captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza sustained injuries as a passenger bus hit a rickshaw carrying him in city’s Mirpur area on Thursday morning.Mashrafe was on way to Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium to attend a practice session. A bus hit the rickshaw from

DHAKA: Former top Fifa official Chuck Blazer admits that he and others on the executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the choice of South Africa as 2010 World Cup host, reports BBC.The American says he also helped to arrange bribes over the 1998 event.Blazer was

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has announced a 14 member squad for the only test against India staring on 10 June. The squad Tamim Iqbal , Imrul Kayes , Liton Kumar Das , Mominul Haq , Mahamudullah Riad .Shakib Al Hasan , Mushfiqur Rahim , Soumya Sarkar , Taijul Islam , Rubel Hossain ,

DHAKA: Interpol has issued international wanted person alerts - or "Red Notices" - for two former FIFA officials including Jack Warner.The notices were issued by the international police force at the request of the US, and also include Paraguay's Nicolas Leoz, a former Fifa executive

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Wednesday announced 14-member final Bangladesh squad for playing Test against India.Mushfiqur Rahim will lead the Tigers while Liton Kumar Das will make debut and Rubel Hossain and Zobayer returned to the team.Full Team: Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al

DHAKA: Sepp Blatter resigned as president of FIFA in a stunning capitulation to critics as a mounting corruption scandal engulfed world football’s governing body on Tuesday. The 79-year-old Swiss official, FIFA president for 17 years and only reelected on Friday, calmly told a hastily

DHAKA: Former India cricketer Ravi Shastri has been named as the interim national coach for the upcoming tour to Bangladesh, on Tuesday.The veteran cricketer had previously served as Team Director since August of last year and till the end of the World Cup 2015 when his contract

DHAKA: The International cricket is in its full swing after the end of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 and Indian Premier League (IPL). Most of the top teams are busy with their international assignments.However, two teams – Bangladesh and Pakistan – are currently facing an interesting

DHAKA: Bangladesh are clearly out-ranked by India as the favourites to win the one-off Test and 3 ODIs. According to reports of NDTVsports, Bangladesh have some firepower in their bowling arsenal when they take on the big boys of the sub-continent:Mashrafe Mortaza: Injury-prone but

DHAKA: The National Cricket Championship (NCC) 2014-15 is set to commence on Monday.  The 35th edition of the competition will be played on turf wickets at 12 venues across the country. There will be three venues in Dhaka division, two each in Rajshahi, Khulna and Chittagong and lone

DHAKA: A wonder goal from Lionel Messi set Barcelona on its way to the second leg of the treble by lifting the Copa del Rey Saturday with a 3-1 victory against Athletic Bilbao.Even by his incredible standards, this was something special as the Argentine maestro picked up the ball wide on

DHAKA: Veteran Singapore golfer Mardan Mamat shot a final-round two-under 69 on Saturday to win the US$300,000 (S$404,000) Bashundhara Bangladesh Open-2015 by two strokes.Mardan Mamat secured the top position on the leaderboard from the first round for his fifth Asian Tour title at

The very positive performance of Bangladesh in the World Cup Cricket 2015 has ushered in major change in the Bangladesh Cricket. Emergence of some bold, courageous new quality players and consistent performance of established performers led Bangladesh to quarter final of the tournament.

DHAKA: Sepp Blatter has been re-elected president of Fifa, football's world governing body, in a vote overshadowed by arrests and corruption allegations.Blatter's rival, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan, had forced a second round of voting but withdrew.In his victory speech, Mr Blatter