BUENOS AIRES – Argentine football great Diego Maradona underwent successful brain surgery for a blood clot in a specialist private clinic in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, his doctor said. “We managed to successfully remove the clot. Diego coped well with…
BUENOS AIRES – Argentine football great Diego Maradona was admitted to hospital Monday for medical checks, his personal doctor announced. “It’s not a serious situation and we didn’t come for an emergency,” Leopoldo Luque told reporters outside the clinic in…
DHAKA – Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal and senior batsman Mahmudullah were given No Objection Certificate (NOC) today to play the Pakistan Super League (PSL). Both of the players will go to Pakistan to play play-off match as the replacement…
DHAKA —The Bangbandhu T20 Cup, a five-team tournament, is all set to be deferred for one week in a bid to organize the tournament in grand style. The tournament is considered to be the second step for the Bangladesh Cricket…
DHAKA —The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) expected to finalize the team sponsors of the Bangabandu T20 Cup within some days as they have got a good response from some reputed companies of the country to sponsor the team. The Bangabandhu…
DHAKA –Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence party takes on Bangladesh Police Handball Club in the final of Bangabandhu Federation Cup Handball competition (men’s) scheduled to be held tomorrow at Shaheed Captain M Mansur Ali Handball Stadium in the city. The…
Dhaka, Nov 03- Veteran Sports Journalist, commentator, former cricketer and senior sportsroom editor of ATN Bangla MA Hannan Khan died Monday evening during treatment at the Bangbandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital.
DHAKA — Ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan’s return to the cricket won’t be straightforward as he would have to prove his fitness to play the upcoming Bangabandhu T20 tournament. Shakib who is in the USA with his family is set…
DHAKA — World Cup winning Under-19 skipper Akbar Ali hits form, cracking a century in the two-day High Performance intra-squad match at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium on Monday. Thanks to Akbar Ali’s 161 ball-136, which included 20 fours and two…
DHAKA – Bangladesh national football team skipper Jamal Bhuyan said they have to work harder to raise the fitness level for the two friendly matches against Nepal. “Honestly the team is not fully effective at all …. today we played…
DHAKA — Former Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, who is set to return to cricket with the upcoming Bangbandhu T20 tournament, sustained a hamstring injury, leaving him in an uncertain state to make a comeback to cricket. Mashrafe sustained the…
DHAKA – Bandarban District Sports Association and Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence party won their respective matches of the Bangabandhu Federation Cup Handball competition (men’s) held today at Shaheed Captain M Mansur Ali Handball Stadium in the city. In the…
LONDON – Elite sport will continue to be allowed behind closed doors despite a new month-long lockdown being imposed across England by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday. The strict series of measures reintroduced to try and curb rising…
LOS ANGELES – Naoya ‘Monster’ Inoue defended his unified WBA and IBF bantamweight world titles in his Las Vegas debut on Saturday with a seventh-round knockout of Australia’s Jason Moloney. The undefeated Japanese superstar floored Moloney with a shuddering punch…
DHAKA – Akbar who led Bangladesh Under-19 to lift the Youth World Cup earlier this year is focused on to hone his skill more as he believes he can’t only rest on the World Cup laurels for more days. Akbar…
DHAKA – World Cup winning Under-19 star Parvez Hossain Emon sets his target to play for the national team but he knows it will not be a cake-walk. Emon so wants to go ‘step by step’ to fulfill his dream…
DHAKA – The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) wants International broadcast for the upcoming Bangabandhu T20 tournament in a bid to make it a more gorgeous event. A total of 75 local cricketers will take part in the five-team competition. BCB…
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan – Shaheen Shah Afridi grabbed five wickets and Wahab Riaz took four as Pakistan thwarted a fighting Zimbabwe to win the first one-day international by 26 runs in Rawalpindi on Friday. Afridi finished with 5-49 while Riaz had…
DUBAI – West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has been fined for throwing his bat in frustration after missing out on a record-extending seventh IPL century by one run. The 41-year-old, who became the first batsman in Twenty20 history to hit…
DHAKA – Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence party beat Team Handball Dhaka by 50-15 goals in the inaugural match of the Bangabandhu Federation Cup Handball competition (men’s) that has began from today at Shaheed Captain M Mansur Ali Handball Stadium…
DHAKA – The first players registration window for local and foreign players on the occasion of Bangladesh Premier League 2020-21 begins tomorrow (Sunday) and it will continue till December 15 in each working day at the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF)…
SYDNEY – Highly rated young all-rounder Cameron Green was Thursday included in Australia’s squad for their white-ball series against India, while Moises Henriques earned a recall. Green, 21, was a surprise inclusion for three ODIs and three Twenty20s starting next…
DHAKA -Bangabandhu Federation Cup Handball competition (men’s) begins from Saturday (Oct. 31) at Shaheed Captain M Mansur Ali Handball Stadium in the city. A total of four teams – Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defense Party, Bandarban District Sports…
DHAKA — The Bangladesh cricketers welcomed Shakib Al Hasan on his return to cricket ground after his ban was lifted, expecting that the ace all-rounder will rule the way he was used to. The return of one of the best…
DHAKA -National football team’s head coach Jamie Day arrived today from the UK to join the ongoing national team’s training camp ahead of the Fifa friendlies against Nepal. Along with the head coach Day, two other foreign coaching staff —…
DHAKA – State Minister for Youth and Sports Zahid Ahsan Russell MP today said the National Youth Day will be celebrated on Sunday (November 1) through various programmes across the country and on occasion of this day, twenty six successful…
DHAKA —Ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan received a ban from the International Cricket Council (ICC) a week before Bangladesh’s tour of India last year. Bangladesh in fact was preparing for the tour as Shakib was set to lead the side…
DHAKA – National defender Topu Barman today said he found everyone serious in the ongoing national team’s training camp ahead of the Fifa friendlies against Nepal. “Our target is November 13 and 17 which will be held against Nepal ……
DHAKA —The Twenty20 tournament that the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will launch in mid-November will be named as “Bangabandhu T20 Cup” to mark the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The BCB has invited…
BARCELONA – Under-pressure Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu suggested Monday that “now would be the worst time” to leave his post. Bartomeu faces a vote of no confidence after turbulent times at the Camp Nou, not least the stand off…