Bangladesh Navy beat Bangladesh Army by 2-1 goals in the last league match of the Walton Refrigerator Independence Day Hockey Tournament at the Maulana Bhashani National Stadium on Monday. With the day’s result, Navy reached the final of the meet as they finished second in the five-team fray securing six points while Bangladesh Army tops ... Read more
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Zia beat Indian GM Anurag in Dubai Open Chess
Bangladesh Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman beat Indian GM Anurag in the 8th round match of the 15th Dubai Open Chess Championship in Dubai on Sunday night. With this win, Zia earned 5.5 points from eight matches. Zia was scheduled to play Georgian GM Pantsulaia Levan
BOA left to dry by NSC
The Bangladesh Olympic Association carried out some renovation works with their own funds due to little interest shown by the National Sports Council ahead of the upcoming 8th edition of the Bangladesh Games. The Bangladesh Games will have 31 disciplines,
Tamim aims at Zimbabwe
TOURING Bangladesh batsman, Tamim Iqbal, says the Tigers are prepared to launch a strong offensive when they clash with Zimbabwe in a month-long tour that begins next Wednesday. Tamiml, who made his debut in Zimbabwe in 2007, is not expecting an easy outing against their close rivals and said Bangladesh are aware of the challenge
Bangladesh could host Asia Cup next year
The Bangladesh Cricket Board is hoping to stage the Asia Cup 2014 after they received a green signal from India, which was originally scheduled to host the one-day tournament in February-March next year, said the officials on Saturday. The Asian Cricket Council had offered India to hosts the twelfth
‘Our inexperience was exposed’
Inexperience played a major role for the recent failure of the Bangladesh national women’s cricket team on their just concluded tour of India after they failed to grasp the opportunity on several occasions, said captain Salma Khatun on Saturday. The women cricketers returned home on Saturday
First U-19 four-day match ends in a draw
The first four-day match between the Bangladesh Under-19 team and Sri Lanka Under-19 side ended in a draw at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Saturday. The young Tigers, chasing an improbable target of 233 runs, were batting on 71-3 from 25 overs in their second innings when bails were drawn for
Labib Cup golf tournament concludes
The two-day long Labib Cup golf tournament ended at the Ghatail Shaheed Salauddin Cantonment golf course in Tangail on Saturday with Major Gen. SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, ndu, psc elected champion. A total of 60 players under 11 golf clubs of Bangladesh
GM Zia loses to Indian GM
Bangladeshi Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman lost to Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta in the 6th round match of the 15th Dubai Open Chess Championship on Friday. Zia earned 3.5 points from six matches. Zia is scheduled to meet GM Mohannad Farhan of Jordan
Champions League T20 sans Dhaka Gladiators
Two-time Bangladesh Premier League champions Dhaka Gladiators were left out of the Champions League for the second season in a row as the organisers of the private Twenty20 tournament announced the line-up on Friday. Ten teams were divided into two groups with the top
Zimbabwe’s moment of truth
Zimbabwe national cricket team caretaker coach Steve Mangongo says he respects their opponents Bangladesh as the two teams at the basement of Test rankings prepare to renew their rivalry in a month-long tour that begins next week, according to report published in Zimbabwe’s daily Herald on Friday. The teams are set to clash in a ... Read more
Mehedy, Mosaddek make merry
Mehedy Hasan and captain Mosaddek Hossain blasted sparkling centuries to cap a fine comeback by the Bangladesh Under-19 team after the end of the third day’s play of the first four-day match against the Sri Lankan Under-19 team at Mirpur on Friday. Mehedy scored 105 from 171 balls while Mosaddek posted 107
So close yet so far for Bangladeshi women
The Bangladesh national women’s cricket team squandered a great opportunity to claim a morale-boosting win against their Indian counterparts after going down by 58 runs in the third and final one-day international in Ahmedabad on Friday. The Bangladeshi women bundled their experienced opponents
Zia back on winning track
Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman Zia again return to the winning track as he beat WIM Olsarova Tereza of Czech Republic in the 5th round of the 15th Dubai Open Chess Championship held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Thursday. In the 5th round matches, Zia won with white pieces.
Games hit by controversy
The upcoming 8th Bangladesh Games was hit by the opening ceremony controversy that forced the ceremonies committee chairman Asaduzzaman Noor to step down from his post in order to avoid further chaos. Asiatic Events, a company of which Noor is
Local coaches attend Dutch school
National head coach Lodewijk de Kruif and assistant coach Rene Koster met with the local coaches in an hour-long session at the BFF house on Thursday. The Dutch coaches introduced themselves to the 19 local coaches who are employed by the BFF and briefed them on the training methods of
Shuktara reported for suspect action
The Bangladesh national women’s cricket team received a blow on their ongoing tour of India as spinner Ayesha Rahman Shuktara was reported to the International Cricket Council for a suspect bowling action, said an ICC press release on Thursday. The off-spinner was reported by on-field umpires
Mushfiq oozes confidence
15-member Bangladesh squad depart for Zimbabwe Bangladesh will look to cash in on the low confidence of the Zimbabwean cricketers after the Southern African country’s below-par performance against the West Indies recently, said skipper Mushfiqur Rahim on Wednesday. Bangladesh boarded for Zimbabwe to feature in a two-match Test series,
Dutch coaches to take charge on May 15
Dutch coach Lodewijk de Kruif and his assistant Rene Koster will take charge of the Bangladesh national football team on May 15, one-and-a-half months ahead of original schedule, the Bangladesh Football Federation announced on Wednesday. The date was brought forward as Bangladesh are scheduled
Bangladesh fall short again
Rumana Ahmed fought hard but could only delay the inevitable as the Bangladesh women’s cricket team suffered a 46-run defeat against their Indian counterparts in the second one-day international in Ahmedabad on Wednesday to concede an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. In reply to India’s score of 256-6, Bangladesh