Sports Reporter : An all-round performance by Shakib Al Hasan helped Bangla Tigers to earn a narrow two-run win over...
Argentine soccer player Angel Di Maria said Tuesday that safety concerns mean he will not finish his career in his native Rosario, after a bullet-pierced pig’s head was thrown at a family business. The 36-year-old, who won the World Cup with Argentina in 2022, had said he wanted to return to his boyhood club in the nation’s third-largest city, which has recently seen an explosion in gang-related crime. “There was a threat at my sister’s business: it was a box...
Agency : Brazilian forward Endrick shed tears of pride after signing a six-year contract with Real Madrid, days after celebrating his 18th birthday. The LaLiga club had agreed to sign Endrick from Sao Paulo-based Palmeiras in 2022, with a view to him joining Madrid in July 2024 after turning 18. Spanish media reported that Endrick, who will wear Real’s number 16 jersey, was signed for an initial fee of 35 million euros ($38 million) with a further 25 million euros...
Agency : Poland’s Iga Swiatek launched her bid for Olympic gold with a 6-2 7-5 win over battling Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu in the opening round of the singles on Saturday. Fifty days after clinching a fourth French Open title, the 23-year-old Swiatek returned to the Parisian clay and showed why she is favourite to add the Olympic crown to her resume. The opening day of the tennis event was disrupted by heavy rain with thousands of spectators without tickets for...
Agency : France’s capital city is set to rock to a sporting beat on Saturday as the Olympic Games get underway in earnest on the back of an opening ceremony as dazzling as it was rainswept. After a tumultuous Friday, which started with a pre-dawn attack by saboteurs on France’s high-speed train network, the focus now turns to gold medals and sporting excellence. No fewer than 14 will be up for grabs as day one promises action across multiple sports:...
AFP, Paris : Reigning Ballon d’Or Aitana Bonmati scored one goal and helped create another as World Cup holders Spain beat Japan 2-1 in their first game of the women’s Olympic football tournament on Thursday, while record four-time gold medallists the United States of America (USA) beat Zambia 3-0. Spain made their Olympic women’s football debut at the Paris Games 2024 but are leading contenders to win gold after their World Cup triumph in Australia and New Zealand last year....
Sports Reporter : Bangladesh National Women’s Cricket team lost to India National Women’s Cricket team by 10 wickets in the first semi-final of the Women’s T20 Asia Cup at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in Sri Lanka on Friday. By virtue of yesterday’s victory, India take place in the final. Chasing Tigresses’ paltry total of 80 for the loss of eight wickets in the stipulated 20 overs, India reached the winning target just in 11 overs making 83 for the...
Bangladesh National Women’s Football team will face Bhutan National Women’s Football team in their second FIFA International friendly match today at the Changlimithang Stadium in Thimpu, the capital city of Bhutan. The match will kick-off at 6:00pm (Bangladesh Standard Time). Earlier, Bangladesh women thrashed Bhutan women 5-1 in their first FIFA International friendly match at the same venue on July 24....
Sports Reporter : Motivated Bangladesh National Women’s Cricket team will take on favourites India National Women’s Cricket team today in the first semi-final of the Women’s T20 Asia Cup at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in Sri Lanka. The first semi-final will start at 2:30pm (Bangladesh Standard Time). Private satellite channel GTV and private satellite sports channel T Sports will telecast the match live. The Tigresses became runners-up in the Group-B collecting four points from three matches. On the other...
AFP, Paris : Dina Asher-Smith once watched up close as Jessica Ennis-Hill won Olympic heptathlon gold and now Britain’s greatest ever female sprinter hopes the roles will be reversed in Paris. Asher-Smith carried bags for athletes at the London Games 2012 and watched one of her heroines Ennis-Hill take the title on what became known by the hosts as ‘Super Saturday’ as Greg Rutherford won the long jump and Mo Farah the 10,000 metres. At 28 this could be Asher-Smith’s...
The Dhaka phase of training session for the upcoming Pakistan Test series is set to start on August 3 with more cricketers joining in this phase. The cricketers who could be in the Test squad have been training in the Chattogram for the last one month while some more cricketers were with HP team in Australia to play four-day matches against Pakistan A team as part of their preparation for the upcoming series. “Four Bangladesh cricketers—Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful...
Agency : Every Olympics has its defining sporting moment such as Usain Bolt in the 100metres sprint at the Beijing Summer Games 2008 or Sydney Crosby’s golden goal for Canada on home ice in Vancouver in 2010. Some appear as if out of thin air. Others can be scheduled, as in Paris where on the opening night of competition on Saturday at the La Defense pool three world record holders could get the Summer Games off to an explosive start...