Agency :Former England middle-order batsman Jonathan Trott was on Friday named as the new coach of Afghanistan, replacing Graham Thorpe...
AFP, Lyon :Argentinian international left-back Nicolas Tagliafico has left Ajax to join Lyon on a three-year contract for a transfer...
Agency :Peru’s Kimberly Garcia Leon bagged her second gold medal at the World Athletics Championships after winning the women’s 35km...
Agency :India just managed to hold off the challenge of an inspired West Indies team with the under-strength visitors coming...
Matteo Berrettini put the brakes on Dominic Thiem’s impressive return to the courts on Saturday crushing him 6-1, 6-4 in the semi-finals in Gstaad. The Italian world number 15, playing his first tournament since having to withdraw from Wimbledon with Covid, made short work of the 2020 US Open champion, putting him away in just 77 minutes. It has still been a good week for the Austrian who has slipped to 274 in the ATP rankings after a year of...
Former world number one Venus Williams will make her singles comeback after nearly a year at the Citi Open in Washington, DC that begins next week, organizers said on Thursday. The seven-time Grand Slam champion accepted a wildcard for the July 30-Aug 7 WTA 250 event a day after announcing she will also compete at next month’s WTA 1000 event in Toronto, where she will be joined by her sister Serena. Venus, 42, last played a singles match at the...
Agency :Wicketkeeper-batter Nurul Hasan Sohan has been named the captain of the Bangladesh squad for the upcoming T20I series against...
Sports Reporter :Ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is likely to play for Bangla Tigers in T-Ten Cricket, which is scheduled...
AFP, Eugene :Noah Lyles defended his world 200m title in electric fashion in a second US sprint cleansweep on Thursday,...
AFP, London :Germany remain on course for a ninth women’s European Championship title but were made to work hard for...
AFP, Rabat :Sadio Mane was crowned African Player of the Year in Rabat on Thursday for the second time.The Senegal...
Michael Bracewell rounded off New Zealand’s crushing 88-run win over Ireland in the second T20I at Belfast on Wednesday with a hat-trick. Ireland, chasing 180 to win, collapsed to 91 all out inside 14 overs at Stormont and were all but beaten when off-spinner Bracewell removed tailenders Mark Adair, Barry McCarthy and Craig Young with successive deliveries to become only the third New Zealand bowler to take a hat-trick at this level after pacemen Jacob Oram and Tim Southee. Leg-spinner...