BBC Online :Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson will headline a 72-strong England athletics team at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.World 200m champion Asher-Smith will compete in the women’s 100m and 4x100m – the latter in which she won gold at the 2018 Games.Heptathlon world champion Johnson-Thompson will also defend her title.Tokyo Olympic medallists Keely Hodgkinson (800m) and Holly Bradshaw (pole vault) are also in the squad.Other selected athletes hoping to repeat their gold medals from the Gold Coast in 2018...
AP, Colombo :A nation dealing with its worst economic crisis and high inflation for months had something to celebrate on Tuesday when Sri Lanka sealed a limited-overs cricket series victory with a game to spare against Australia with a last-ball thriller in Game 4.Having been sent in and restricted to 258 in 49 overs, Dasun Shanaka’s Sri Lanka lineup held its nerve to bowl out Australia for 254 to secure the five-match ODI series 3-1. The last game Friday will...
Agency :Serena Williams made a winning return to action at the Eastbourne International on Tuesday as she and partner Ons Jabeur came from a set down to beat Sara Sorribes Tormo and Marie Bouzkova 2-6 6-3 (13-11) in the women’s doubles.The former world number one had not played competitive tennis since limping out of last year’s first-round match at Wimbledon – where she has won seven of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles – in tears due to a leg...
Sports Reporter :Malaysia Women’s Football team arrived in Dhaka on Monday to play two-match series of FIFA International Friendly matches...
Agency :West Indies fast bowler Kemar Roach has set his sights on another milestone after equalling Michael Holding’s 249 wickets during the opening Test against Bangladesh.“[I want to reach] 300 Test wickets. I have 249 now but I still have two to three more years in me,” said Roach. “I am proud because of how I started. Obviously, I came into the team under very difficult conditions and then obviously to build a career and get amongst the greats is...
BSS, Dhaka :The Bangladesh men’s and women’s archers will start their Archery World Cup Stage-3 mission with recurve division matches scheduled to be held today in Paris, the capital of France.Bangladesh’s recurve division qualification round matches will starts at 6 pm (BST), according to a message received here from Bangladesh Archery Federation.Ahead of the matches, officials practice, team managers meeting and instrument inspection and compound division qualification round matches were held on Tuesday.A total of 360 archers — 212 of...
Sports Reporter :Bashundhara Kings blanked Rahmatganj MFS by two goals to nil in their match of the TVS Bangladesh Premier...
Liverpool forward Sadio Mane reportedly landed in Germany by a private jet on Tuesday in order to undergo a medical and sign for Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich. Kicker magazine and top-selling German daily Bild both say that after touching down at the city’s airport, the 30-year-old was taken to a Munich hospital for a medical exam by Bayern’s team doctor. Mane’s transfer to the Bundesliga giants is expected to cost around 41 million euros (o35 million, $43 million). The Senegalese...
Agency :Ryan Giggs confirmed on Monday that he has resigned as coach of Wales’ national football team.The former Manchester United...
Agency :Former Australia cricketer Lisa Sthalekar has become the first woman to be appointed as president of the Federation of...
Japan will host this year’s delayed AFC Champions League (CL) knock-out stages for teams in the East of Asia, the region’s football governing body said Monday. The East Zone’s round of 16, quarter-final and semi-final matches will be played in August as single-leg ties, the Asian Football Confederation said. Saitama, just outside Tokyo, will host the first knockout round in the east. The West Zone, which comprises mostly clubs from the Middle East, will not play its knockout rounds until...