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Paraguay sensationally sent four-time champions Germany crashing out of the World Cup on Monday as Brazil were given a huge scare before snatching a last-gasp victory over Japan to reach the last 16.Germany's hopes of mounting a deep run at the tournament ended at Foxborough's Gillette Stadi...
Kylian Mbappe marked his 100th cap by scoring two more World Cup goals on Monday as France eased to a 3-0 win over Iraq in a game delayed by two hours by a severe storm.Mbappe opened the scoring in the 14th minute and added another nine minutes into the second half, with last year's Ballon d'...
Lionel Messi became the leading scorer in World Cup history as the captain struck twice to give Argentina a 2-0 win over Austria on Monday and send the champions into the last 32.The player widely regarded as the greatest of all time pounced late in the first half in Texas with a trademark left-foot...
Lionel Messi became the leading scorer in World Cup history when the Argentina captain netted against Austria on Monday to take his total to 17 goals.Messi had equalled Miroslav Klose's all-time mark of 16 World Cup goals when hitting a hat-trick in a 3-0 win over Algeria to open his country'...
Cricket
Bangladesh suffered a 3-0 T20I series whitewash against Australia after a comprehensive seven-wicket defeat in the third and final match at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Sunday. The hosts once again struggled with the bat, managing only 109 for 8 before Australia chased dow...
Sports
Switzerland reignited their World Cup challenge with a 4-1 thrashing of Bosnia-Herzegovina on Thursday as South Africa kept their tournament alive with a draw against the Czech Republic.With the opening round of group stage fixtures now complete, Thursday's fixtures got under way with several te...
Ghana scored a dramatic 1-0 victory over Panama in their opening World Cup Group L clash in Toronto on Wednesday.Caleb Yirenkyi bundled in the winning goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time, sending thousands of Ghanaians in Canada's largest city into a frenzy and settling an otherwise attrit...
England launched their World Cup bid with a rollercoaster 4-2 win against Croatia on Wednesday as Cristiano Ronaldo and Portgual stumbled to a draw against the Democratic Republic of Congo.In an enthralling Group L game at the Texas home of the Dallas Cowboys NFL team, Harry Kane scored twice before...
Iran twice battled back for a 2-2 draw with New Zealand on Monday in their frenetic opening match of a World Cup campaign that has been utterly overshadowed by war, politics and protests. The Iranian team's very presence at the Los Angeles Stadium had long felt uncertain, after months of military c...
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s daughter Barrister Zaima Rahman on Monday visited the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan (BKSP) in Savar on the outskirt of the capital and played football with women players.A video of Zaima Rahman playing football at the BKSP has gone viral on social media, d...
Left-arm pacer Shariful Islam produced a sensational six-wicket haul, but Bangladesh still went down fighting as Australia secured a narrow one-wicket victory in the third and final ODI at Mirpur on Sunday, completing the series on a high.Chasing 275, Australia reached the target with three balls an...
Germany thrashed World Cup debutants Curacao 7-1 on Sunday while Japan fought back to grab a 2-2 draw with the Netherlands as Iran made their long-awaited arrival in the United States with a call for unity.Curacao, the smallest nation by population ever to qualify for the tournament, made a bright s...
Bangladesh wicket-keeper Liton Das finally broke his ODI half-century drought at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium with a determined unbeaten 58 in the third and final ODI against Australia.Liton's ODI journey began at Mirpur against India in 2015, where he scored just 8 runs on debut. ...
Australia marked the start of its World Cup campaign with a convincing 2-0 victory over Turkey on Sunday, dampening the Turks’ long-awaited return to football’s biggest stage after a 24-year absence.Goals from Nestory Irankunda and Connor Metcalfe secured the Group D win for the Socceroo...
Co-hosts Canada grabbed a second-half equaliser to draw 1-1 with Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday in the first World Cup finals game ever played on Canadian soil.Cyle Larin got Canada's goal after Jovo Lukic put Bosnia ahead with a header in the 21st minute in Toronto.The result gave Canada its ...
The United States could scarcely have scripted a better start to their World Cup as a Folarin Balogun brace and Gio Reyna curler fired the co-hosts to a 4-1 drubbing of Paraguay in front of Hollywood royalty in Los Angeles on Friday.The hosts took the lead in the tournament's first game on US so...
Mohammedan Sporting Club won the Dhaka Premier League (DPL) title on a dramatic final day of complex mathematical equations and weather disruptions, ending a painful 16-year championship drought.The historic victory marks Mohammedan's first league crown since the tournament received official Lis...
The biggest FIFA World Cup in history got underway on Thursday as co-host Mexico faced South Africa in the tournament’s opening match at the iconic Mexico City Stadium, formerly known as Azteca Stadium.Despite ongoing protests and social tensions in the Mexican capital, more than 80,000 specta...
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