Manvinder Bisla (89) and Jacques Kallis (69) helped Kolkata Knight Riders beat Chennai Super Kings by 5 wickets to win their maiden Indian Premier League title at MA Chidambaram stadium on Sunday, reports TNN. Manoj Tiwary (9 not out) hit...Full story
Newcomers BJMC rode on a hat-trick from Guinean Ismael Bangoura to beat Farashganj Sporting Club 3-1 in the Bangladesh Premier League on Monday. Bangoura, who scored a brace against Brother Union last week, scored the first goal late...Full story
Farashganj Sporting Club players staged a sit-in protest for five minutes after their Bangladesh Premier League match against Team BJMC at the Bangabandhu National Stadium accusing BJMC team...Full story
German hockey coach Gerhard Peter, who took charge of the Mohammedan Sporting Club team on Sunday, a day after his arrival in Bangladesh, said he expects a good season with the club as most of...Full story
Few nations would swap places with Denmark who have to take on the Netherlands, Germany and Portugal at Euro 2012. But having been crowned surprise European champions in 1992, the Danes know they...Full story
Private television channel Masranga bagged the exclusive broadcasting rights of the forthcoming Euro Championship football in Bangladesh, it was announced at a press conference in Dhaka on Sunday. Full story
The Prime Bank Cricket Club (formerly Old DOHS) are likely to miss the services of their skipper Mohammad Ashraful when they resume their title charge in the Dhaka Premier League, said an official on Sunday.Full story
Bangladesh’s pace bowler Rubel Hossain returned to Dhaka on Sunday after undergoing a successful surgery on his right shoulder in South Africa recently. Rubel went to South Africa on May 14 for the...Full story
Dipali Jubo Sangha registered a 37-run victory while Orient SC won by five wickets in their respective matches of the 4th Women’s Club Cricket League at different grounds of BKSP on Sunday. Full story
French Open dangerman Juan Martin Del Potro shrugged off a knee injury scare as well as sweltering 30-degree heat to reach the French Open second round on Sunday.Full story
England were dismissed for 428 in reply to West Indies’ first innings 370, a lead of 58 runs, at tea on the third day of the second Test at Trent Bridge here on Sunday. England captain Andrew Strauss top-scored...Full story
England captain Andrew Strauss was determined to post an even bigger score after his unbeaten century saw the hosts reduce West Indies’ first innings lead in the second Test here at Trent Bridge.Full story
Pakistan on Saturday awarded former captains Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik central contracts, which saw players given a 25-percent hike in their monthly salaries. Afridi’s contract was suspended after he...Full story
Roy Hodgson was left sweating on an injury to Gareth Barry after launching his reign as England manager with a 1-0 win over Norway at the Ullevaal Stadium. Barry had come on as a half-time replacement...Full story
Poland coach Franciszek Smuda produced no surprises when he named his 23-man squad for Euro 2012 on Sunday. It was largely expected that Smuda would drop midfielder Tomasz Jodlowiec and...Full story
All-time US goal leader Landon Donovan scored a hat-trick Saturday as the Americans routed Scotland 5-1 in an international football friendly that served as a World Cup qualifying tune-up.Full story
Australian driver Mark Webber won the Monaco Grand Prix here on Sunday to give his team Red Bull a third successive win in the race.
The 35-year-old driver - winning his second Monaco Grand Prix in three...Full story
England’s Carl Froch stopped defending champion Lucian Bute of Romania in the fifth round to take the IBF super-middleweight title in Nottingham early Sunday. The 34-year-old Froch was coming off a rare...Full story
Giovanni Trapattoni will wait until today before deciding whether Shay Given and John O’Shea are fit enough to make the Republic of Ireland’s squad for Euro 2012. Trapattoni must submit his final 23-man group on...Full story
Germany and the Netherlands, two of the sides widely-tipped as potential Euro 2012 winners, suffered worrying friendly international defeats on Saturday. Germany slumped to a shock 5-3 defeat in Switzerland while the Dutch were booed...Full story
Sevilla striker Alvaro Negredo edged Roberto Soldado for the final striker’s spot in defending champions Spain’s squad for Euro 2012 announced by coach Vicent del Bosque here on Sunday.Full story
A young Brazil side stepped up their preparations for the London Olympics by beating Denmark 3-1 in a friendly in the northern German city of Hamburg on Saturday.Full story
Christian Eriksen is regarded as one of the brightest young stars in football and he will hope that he can justify the tag of being Denmark’s successor to Michael Laudrup at Euro 2012.Full story
Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas is set to miss a big chunk of Spain’s preparations for Euro 2012 after being ruled out for seven to 10 days with a hamstring strain, the Spanish club said on Saturday. Full story