Sports,Cricket
Former Australia wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist has questioned the growing dominance of Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises in world cricket and said the current trend of “monopolisation” by them is dangerous.Gilchrist's remarks came amid reports suggesting that Australian batter Dav...
Sports,Football
Paulo Dybala was left stunned when he was unveiled in front of around 10000 Roma fans at the Square Colosseum on Tuesday. Fans lined the streets of the Italian capital as the club presented their latest signing. Roma managed to secure Dybala's signature ahead of Serie A rivals Inter Milan a...
Can the Bangladesh Cricket Board call spade a spade? It seems highly unlikely factoring in the recent turn of events involving the senior duo of Mahmudullah and Mushfiqur Rahim, and their so-called “rest” from the three-matchT20I series against Zimbabwe. Have they been rested or axed is ...
Newly appointed T20I captain Nurul Hasan says that he is “normal” and not over the moon at the chance of leading Bangladesh for the first time. Nor is he too bothered about the nature of the job at hand, which at best is understood to be a stop-gap arrangement considering Shakib al Hasan...
As Sri Lanka continues to grapple with political turmoil, cricket will remain in the background once again as Pakistan aim for a Test series sweep in Galle, starting Sunday (July 24). The home side, with a few injured absentees, have their task cut out in order to secure series parity.Sri Lanka coul...
Bangladesh team director Khaled Mahmud feels that cricketers need to shed their fear of failure in order to excel in the shortest format. The former national captain and current board director appointed as the team director of the national cricket team spoke at length with Cricbuzz regarding the jus...
The Asia Cup, which was supposed to be hosted in Sri Lanka, has been moved to the UAE, according to BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Thursday."Asia Cup will be in UAE, as it is the only place where there won't be rains," Ganguly told reporters after the Board's Apex Council meeting...
The plaudits have come in thick and fast for first Test hero Abdullah Shafique with a former Pakistan great declaring his match-winning innings against Sri Lanka as one of the greatest he has ever seen from a Pakistan player.Shafique showed his class with a brilliant unbeaten 160 to help Pakistan ch...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board's potential revenue in 2022-23 is more than Tk362 crores. The amount was presented at the organization's 9th Annual General Meeting on Tuesday in Dhaka.The financial report presented at the AGM included information for the 2020-21 fiscal year as well as the curre...
South Africa’s chances of winning their ODI series in England improved exponentially just more than 24 hours before the start of the ODI rubber in Durham on Tuesday. Hold that thought: their chances will improve after the match.That’s the likely immediate impact of Ben Stokes’ anno...
The president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), Nazmul Hassan Papon, has stated that the board will take its time in deciding on Mahmudullah Riyad's T20I captaincy.The BCB president also stated that there were no conversations concerning T20I captaincy during the board meeting on Sunday, an...
Bangladesh’s ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal said that he is getting an idea about how his team is shaping up towards next year’s 50-over World Cup. Bangladesh clean-swept West Indies in the ODI series and appear to have a blueprint for success in the format, having sauntered to victory in the C...
Last ball. 5 runs needed. Stumps shattered. Fireworks. Hampshire go on a victory run. Players celebrate. Umpires call for a no-ball. The celebrations were delayed for Hampshire, but not denied. Eventually defending three runs off the last ball, Richard Gleeson missed connecting a swing off a slower ...
Russell Domingo, the Bangladesh head coach, insisted that they need to play more first-class matches in order to do well in Test cricket. Even though Bangladesh clinched the ODI series against the West Indies, they were swept away in both the Test series and the T20Is.Since Domingo took over, Bangla...
New Zealand survived a record-breaking Ireland charge led by centuries from Paul Stirling and Harry Tector for a dramatic one-run victory in Friday’s third ODI in Dublin.“It was an amazing game,” said Ireland captain Andy Balbirnie. “A bitter pill to swallow, but it was great...
Pakistan captain Babar Azam has come out in support of Virat Kohli, whose lean patch with the bat has extended for more than two years, saying this phase would pass and he would come out stronger.Taking to Twitter, Babar wrote while sharing a picture of him alongside Kohli "This too shall pass....
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has announced the Bangladesh A Team squads for the four-day and one-day series’ against West Indies A.All matches will be hosted by the Darren Sammy Cricket Ground in Saint Lucia, with the first four-day encounter slated to begin on August 04 after the A team...
Sports,Tennis
Novak Djokovic intends to compete at the US Open at the end of August, but will not risk a reoccurrence of the vaccination-related furore that saw him deported from Australia.The Serbian lifted his seventh Wimbledon title earlier this month, moving level with Pete Sampras for the second-most wins at...
World,Front Page
At the end of June, gas prices in Europe increased six times year-on-year and are still rising, Sputnik quoted European Commissioner for the Economy Paolo Gentiloni in a report on Thursday."Commodity prices are being showing signs of easing lately, in the face of global weakness; however, gas i...
Although the story seems to crop up every transfer window, the reactions, feelings and emotions change like the wind. Just the thought of seeing a Chelsea icon back in the royal blue at Stamford Bridge is enough to get the fans excited.Todd Boehly is already closing in on a triple deal as Chelsea pr...
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