Vintage Modric till the end
4 July 2026, 00:30 AM
It was supposed to be a farewell for a legend in Toronto.
4 July 2026, 00:30 AM
Calmness that defies logic
30 June 2026, 23:30 PM
When the entire Brazil dugout erupted in celebration, one man barely flinched. As Gabriel Martinelli buried the winner in the final minute of stoppage time to seal Brazil's 2-1 victory over Japan in the World Cup Round of 32 on Monday, Carlo Ancelotti remained almost expressionless, except for a familiar twitch of his eyebrows, as though the ending had been written long before the final whistle.
30 June 2026, 23:30 PM
Can Brazil overcome Japan threat?
29 June 2026, 14:00 PM
Carlo Ancelotti's Brazil have grown into this World Cup with every passing game, but as the tournament enters its knockout phase, there is little room for error. The Selecao face arguably their toughest challenge yet when they take on an impressive Japan side in tonight's Round of 32 clash in Houston.
29 June 2026, 14:00 PM
Off the bench, Messi still steals the show
29 June 2026, 09:00 AM
He came on for a cameo appearance, playing just 36 minutes. Yet that was all he needed to steal the spotlight.
29 June 2026, 09:00 AM
Neymar inspires, Vinicius delivers
26 June 2026, 00:30 AM
If not Neymar, then who? The answer to that question, often asked whenever doubts emerge around Brazil, is being delivered by Vinicius Junior at this World Cup -- perhaps without the attention he deserves, but certainly with greater conviction than ever before.
26 June 2026, 00:30 AM
Ronaldo rewrites the narrative
25 June 2026, 11:30 AM
“There is a player more dangerous than Cristiano Ronaldo… it’s Cristiano Ronaldo who didn’t score in the previous match.”
25 June 2026, 11:30 AM
Neymar available, but questions remain
24 June 2026, 10:00 AM
When coach Carlo Ancelotti confirmed last week that Neymar would be available for Hexa-chasing Brazil’s final Group C game against Scotland in Miami on Thursday morning, the news likely felt sweeter than ever for Selecao fans.
24 June 2026, 10:00 AM
Mbappe: Built for the biggest occasion
24 June 2026, 09:00 AM
At just 27, Kylian Mbappe has already become one of those rare figures whose name inevitably surfaces whenever the FIFA World Cup conversation begins.
24 June 2026, 09:00 AM
Smug Shakib, clueless Bangladesh
Could the Tigers spiral down further? The omens would suggest a very bleak answer for fans of a cricket-crazy nation.
25 May 2024, 01:00 AM
A fan turns unlikely hero
Two years back, when Real Madrid had defied the odds almost in each of the knockout rounds to be in Paris for the Champions League final against Liverpool, Joselu was just another face amid the thousands cheering for Los Blancos and watching them win the most elite European competition for a record 14th time.
9 May 2024, 16:00 PM
The Mourinho case in changing landscape of football
“I am Jose Mourinho and I don’t change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects,” Mourinho said it back in 2010 when he was announced as the manager of Real Madrid.
17 February 2024, 01:30 AM
Tossing away BPL’s charm
The combined uncertainty and the thrill of not knowing the outcome beforehand is what usually pulls and hooks spectators to a sporting event. But as far as the outcome is concerned, the ongoing 10th edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is anything but irregular.
25 January 2024, 01:00 AM
Walks in and takes a wicket, did Mashrafe expose BPL’s true stature?
Durdanto Dhaka pacer Shoriful Islam's maiden T20 hattrick, teams comfortably posting and chasing totals over 150, and the crowd coming in numbers at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur -- the opening day of the 10th edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) had events aplenty to hook the cricket lovers.
20 January 2024, 05:39 AM
Carrying the same old headache into 2024
“At the beginning of the series, we spoke about what we have done before and that we want to do better than that. So, in that sense, I think this is a very successful tour,” Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha reflected on how it went for the Tigers in their final series of 2023.
1 January 2024, 02:30 AM
Moving on to right path finally?
If Bangladesh are not to not find sombre answers to this then they might need to act on what Pothas said, especially on the part where he mentioned "leaving the team alone" in order to let the players keep on "just playing".
29 December 2023, 01:00 AM
Girona arrive, but the challenge is to stay
Who would win LaLiga 2023-24?
22 December 2023, 19:00 PM
A fixer-upper with no fix in sight
An act of publicly taking the blame and responsibility, an initiation or indication of setting in motion an overhaul, or a statement of how things are to be taken from here on -- none of the aforementioned measures or steps were taken by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) even as over a fortnight passed since Bangladesh closed their disastrous World Cup campaign.
28 November 2023, 01:00 AM
Is the outrage and the extent of it justified?
It was an anticlimactic finish to the 2023 World Cup for arguably the largest cricketing fanbase -- India fans -- as they saw the best team on paper tumbling at the final hurdle only for Australia to clinch their sixth title last week.
25 November 2023, 01:05 AM
Kohli show to go on
It was inevitable.
More than it being a question of if, it was rather a debate over how and when.
16 November 2023, 18:00 PM
A reluctant captain at the centre of mess
From aspirations of making it to their maiden semifinal to barely qualifying for the 2025 Champions Trophy with an eighth-placed finish, Bangladesh’s World Cup dream has fluctuated as wildly as its tumultuous state of affairs.
14 November 2023, 01:30 AM
An outcome befitting the approach
What’s the trademark of a big team in modern cricket?
19 October 2023, 18:00 PM
Ability to score 300-plus to define Ind-Ban game?
Bangladesh will take on India at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune, a venue where 300-plus scores are the order of the day.
19 October 2023, 04:53 AM
That’s the way to chase
“I did not do anything special,” Mohammad Rizwan said after guiding Pakistan to a record World Cup run-chase against Sri Lanka in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
11 October 2023, 18:00 PM
Shakib’s toughest test yet
Four years back, the country’s top all-rounder, Shakib Al Hasan, was engulfed by the type of pressure that all athletes feel at least once in their careers: the pressure of not performing on the field.
6 October 2023, 18:00 PM
Will sense dawn after the ‘reality check’?
Having gone into the Asia Cup with lofty dreams, as it so often is the case with Bangladesh despite no history of success in major tournaments, skipper Shakib Al Hasan has already put it in the rearview mirror.
11 September 2023, 02:00 AM
A chance for pacers to show what they are made of
Rubel Hossain’s yorker going through the bat and pads of James Anderson at the Adelaide Oval in the 2015 World Cup will forever remain one of the most iconic moments in Bangladesh cricket.
28 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Saudi Pro League here to stay!
Links of Kylian Mbappe to Real Madrid, rumours of Neymar returning to Barcelona have been the commonalities of the transfer market over the past few years. This summer, however, in addition to the aforementioned sagas, the emergence of one major entity -- the Saudi Pro League -- has taken the transfer market by storm.
12 August 2023, 03:30 AM
Not another pyrrhic success spell
From a statistical vantage point, the winning streaks of then and now might seem similar – or some might keep the streak of 2021 ahead as it involved the Aussies and the Kiwis, two giants of the game -- but in reality there lies a stark difference.
17 July 2023, 04:43 AM