Every year, the Dhaka Premier League (DPL) begins with unwavering commitments from authorities to make it even more competitive than the previous years.
“Ben Duckett cost them [England] the game… scored too slow, mate… they should have got to at least 380,” former South Africa batter Herschelle Gibbs said about Duckett’s innings after England lost their Champions Trophy opener against Australia in Lahore last Saturday, despite posting 351 for eight -- the highest total in the competition’s history -- only for Australia to chase it down with five wickets and 15 balls to spare.
The greatest stages produce the greatest heroes.
When the Prime Minister of a nation makes a serious statement about sports, it is clear that the underlying causes go beyond the game itself -- that the tension arises from something much larger on a broader scale.
Last season, around this time, there was a surprise package in Girona in the top three of LaLiga. However, a year later, the Spanish league has returned to the status quo, with Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Atletico Madrid -- the three giants of Spain -- occupying the top three spots on the table at the end of 2024.
The 101-run win over hosts West Indies in the second and final Test in Jamaica on Tuesday was the fitting way for Bangladesh to close out the 2023-2025 World Test Championship (WTC) cycle -- the best one the Tigers experienced to date.
Bangladesh cricket is set to get a glimpse of a new era in Tests when they take on hosts West Indies in the first of the two World Test Championship (WTC) fixtures from November 22 in Antigua.
Bangladesh batters have an abundance of tricks in their basket to surprise the audience.
The Kanpur Test between hosts India and Bangladesh could be considered a reference point for teams in terms of how to force victories in the longest format of the game -- an aspect that teams lean towards more nowadays, especially since the introduction of the World Test Championship (WTC).
There are some positive signs and a few ill omens for Bangladesh ahead of their second and final Test against hosts India, beginning tomorrow in Kanpur.
If there is one thing that Cristiano Ronaldo could not master in his illustrious career, it is the concept of giving up.
Portugal will remember the Euro 2024 as another golden opportunity squandered to get silverware with arguably one of the most talented bunch of footballers, but for their captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, the tournament will remain as a case of whether the 39-year-old forward has stretched his international career one tournament too long.
While batting as a whole has been a big concern for Bangladesh in white-ball cricket recently, it is the opening conundrum that has bugged the Tigers most in the ongoing T20 World Cup.
It was an easy presumption to put Bangladesh’s bowling as their main weapon ahead of the T20 World Cup, especially since the batters have provided very little to be excited about in recent times.
As it so often happens in major ICC events, Pakistan have very little in their hands regarding the prospect of advancing in the ongoing T20 World Cup in the USA and the West Indies. And, as always, it is mostly a making of their own.
We are on to the fifth day of the ongoing T20 World Cup and it still does not seem like the ninth edition of the mega event, being held in the USA and the West Indies, is being able to hook cricket lovers.
“When you don’t kill Real Madrid, Real Madrid kill you,” Xavi Hernandez, who had to come up against Real Madrid a number of times in his career both as a Barcelona player and manager, had said just last year.
Come June 1, when Real Madrid players line up for the UEFA Champions League’s grand finale at the iconic Wembley Stadium, they will not only be up against the yellow army of Borussia Dortmund but against the entire footballing world -- and there are ample reasons for that.
