Bangladesh A earned three points from their drawn opening match against Baroda Cricket Association XI in the Shafi Darashah cricket tournament at the KSCA ground in Alur yesterday. Mominul Haque’s second fifty of the game shepherded the side’s second innings after it was set 344 runs to win the game. Baroda made a comeback when ... Read more
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London Diary
Neymar ran to the sideline and struck the famous Usain Bolt lightning pose. It was football’s biggest Olympic star honouring one of the London Games’ most acclaimed athletes. Neymar celebrated by imitating his idol after scoring from a free-kick and leading Brazil to a 3-1 win over Belarus on Sunday, securing the gold medal favourites ... Read more
Syque nearly made it
After two disappointing displays in archery and shooting, Bangladesh finally have got something to tell in Olympics 2012 when gymnast Syque Caesar nearly made it to the final round on Saturday. Syque missed pommel horse and rings events because of a torn bicep and yet finished 17th in all-round category which earned huge plaudits in ... Read more
Bindra in for big battle
When Abhinav Bindra takes the range at the Royal Artillery Barracks today, he will be keenly followed by a 71-member strong Indian media contingent and millions of fans back at home. Never a country expected so much from one single athlete who shot India to glory four years ago in Beijing, winning their first ever ... Read more
Tigers return quietly
The Bangladesh national cricket team returned home quietly on Sunday after completing their tour of Europe where they played six Twenty20 Internationals against Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands. The tour, organised by the Bangladesh Cricket Board as part of the Tigers’ preparations for the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka, had a mixed experience for ... Read more
Ryan wins medley gold as Phelps finishes fourth
Ryan Lochte thrashed American compatriot and double Olympic champion Michael Phelps to take 400m individual medley gold. Phelps, the greatest all-round swimmer his sport has seen and gold medallist in both Athens and Beijing, was left without even a bronze as Brazil’s Thiago Pereira took second and
Michigan gymnast to fight in London Olympic for Bangladeshi parents
He’d toyed with the idea for months. “I’d say something,” Syque Caesar recalls, “and then I’d never really do anything about it.” But now that he has — and who’s to say what provided the final push? — the Michigan gymnast is happy to say something else: This Olympic journey is proving to be equal ... Read more
London Diary
Two days have gone past since the opening ceremony and the battle for gold medals has just intensified. China seized the early momentum winning gold medals from shooting, weightlifting and swimming while Italy, Kazakhstan and United States are also among the gold winners. The biggest star
Blind archer breaks world record
Milon ranks 61st Bangladeshi archer Emdadul Haque Milon will come up against Great Britain’s Larry Godfrey after finishing 61st out of 64 competitors at the Men’s Ranking round in the archery event of the London Olympic Games held at Lord’s yesterday. They will face-off in a winner takes all contest which will be held at ... Read more
Feel it the Federer way
Even by his lofty standard it was big. On his way to 17 grand slam wins, Roger Federer has attended many press conferences, handled umpteenth media sessions, but perhaps he has never seen so much enthusiasm about him. Around 500 journalists waited for him for more than 45 minutes, but none
Ashes at Lord’s
London Olympic 2012 Ashes at Lord’s Even at the best of times, archery is a low-key, quiet affair that requires intense concentration. As such there is often little hubbub surrounding the sport and none of the passion that sets apart sports like football. But yesterday at the Lord’s Cricket Ground, it was archery that kicked-off ... Read more
London Diary
It was a quiet morning for Steve Waugh until he met a group of Bangladeshi journalists during the opening archery event at the Lord’s Cricket Ground on Friday. The event was dominated by Koreans who hardly knows anything about cricket. Completely unnoticed, Waugh was having a good time with old foe Michael Atherton, who was ... Read more
Tigers to return on Sunday
The Bangladesh national cricket team will return home on Sunday after completing their Europe tour where they played six Twenty20 international matches against Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands. Opener Mohammad Ashraful and Jahirul Islam along with coach Richard Pybus, fielding coach Jason Swift and bowling coach Shane Jurgenson are expected to reach the country next
In the land of the blind
London Olympic 2012 In the land of the blind Im Dong-Hyun cannot read the letters on a keyboard. By all accounts, if you dictated this article to him, he could not have typed it up on a computer. His vision is 20/200; in layman’s terms that is vision which is ten times worse than the ... Read more
Milon blessed by Waugh before Lord’s ‘Test’
A meeting with Australian cricket legend Steve Waugh at Lord’s cricket ground is a great dream for any cricketer and perhaps more than that if he happens to be a Bangladeshi. The two times when Bangladesh played a Test match at this hallowed home of cricket none of the cricketers ever had had such opportunities ... Read more
Tigers end tour on losing note
The Tigers ended their tour of Europe with a one-wicket defeat as the Netherlands snatched a last ball victory in the final T20 International at Sportpark Westvliet in The Hague last night. A second upset was inflicted upon Bangladesh by an associate team in the space of three days with Scotland earlier defeating the Tigers ... Read more
U-19s confident heading into WC
Coach Sarwar Imran and captain Anamul Haque said yesterday that the Bangladesh Under-19 team are ready to achieve something big in the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2012 to be held in Brisbane, Australia in August. They expressed their optimism despite the team’s recent debacle in the Asia Cup in Malaysia while talking at an ... Read more
Whitewash pleases Pybus
Head coach Richard Pybus was happy with the workout the Bangladesh team had in Ireland after they completed a 3-0 whitewash in the Twenty20 series at Stormont in Belfast on Saturday night. He was particularly pleased with the spinners, who helped his side control the home side’s belligerent batsmen in all three games. Elias Sunny got ... Read more
Tigers’ depth makes Mushfiq happy
If there were anything for Bangladesh to achieve from the just ended series against Ireland, it was the ranking, something that did not come their way as they played fewer matches than it required. After a 3-0 win it came almost as an embarrassment as Bangladesh ended up in fourth position, something which even left ... Read more
Tigers’ chance to seal series
Rejuvenated by a comprehensive victory in the first match, the spirited Tigers will try to seal the three-match series when they take on Ireland in the second T20 international at Stormont in Belfast today. The match will start at 5pm local time (10pm Bangladesh Standard Time). Mushfiqur Rahim’s men have displayed no deficiency in acclimatising ... Read more