The tickets for the opening ceremony of the ICC World Cup will go on sale on the first week of February. The opening ceremony for the 14-nation grand tournament will be held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on February 17. BCB’s ticket and seating committee chairman GS Hasan Tamim informed yesterday that the
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Super League from Jan 25
League leaders Abahani take on Bangladesh Biman in one of three Super League matches of the Premier Cricket League on January 25 at the Shaheed Chandu Stadium in Bogra. Defending champions Mohammedan Sporting Club, who are three points adrift of Abahani with 17 points, face Cricket Coaching School (CCS) at the BKSP while surprise package ... Read more
Footballer father, cricketer son
His action said is to have some similarity with South African Makhaya Ntini, but Nazmul Hossain reminded all of Australian legend Glen McGrath with his accuracy in a foggy January morning in 2009 when his three-wicket burst left Sri Lanka reeling at an unprecedented five for six in the tri-series one-day final in Dhaka. Until ... Read more
Street Cricket
Cricket Kids One and Kathalbagan Royals won their respective matches on the opening day of Polar Ice Cream Street Cricket Championship at the Dhanmondi cricket ground on Friday. Cricket Kids One defeated Street Boys by 78 runs while Kathalbagan Royals won by three wickets against Royal Champs in the day’s second match. Former captain and ... Read more
Protests all over for Mashrafee
Protes-ters in the hometown of pace bowler Mashrafee bin Murtaza observed a half-day general strike on Thursday following the former captain’s omission from Bangladesh’s final 15-man World Cup squad. They also burnt an effigy of coach Jamie Siddons and vandalised some vehicles in the district town of Narail, 300kms (188 miles) southwest of
Dull ending of first phase
The first leg of the Dhaka Premier League ended with a mediocre performance as CCS lost to Gazi Tanks Cricketers by one wicket in the eleventh round match at the Fatullah stadium on Thursday. Although Bangladesh Biman, CCS and Kalabagan finished on equal 12 points after the completion of the eleventh round, Biman and CCS ... Read more
Prime Bank badminton
Four shuttlers advanced into the next round of the Prime Bank Pallima Sangsad Badminton tournament beating their respective rivals on the opening day at the Sangsad premises at Khilgoan yesterday. In the men’s singles, Rana, Humayun Kabiar, Lal Chand and Pesta defeated Sony, Deen Islam, Biplob and Lion respectively all by 2-0 sets while the ... Read more
Street Cricket starts
A six-a-side cricket tournament called the Polar Ice Cream Street Cricket started at the Dhanmondi Club ground on Thursday to create the cricket hype among the youth ahead of the World Cup. The 13-day long tournament will follow the rules of street cricket and it is open to all and any team, composed of seven ... Read more
Hard-fought win for MSC
Holders Mohamme-dan fought back from 107-6 to score 245-8 to beat Bangladesh Biman by two wickets in the crucial Dhaka Premier League match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Wednesday. A brilliant all-round performance by Rajat Bhatia powered Abahani to a 39-run win over Prime Doleshwar at the Fatullah stadium while Kalabagan defeated Surjo Tarun ... Read more
Mr Dependable Roqibul
Born into a middle-class family in Jamalpur, Roqibul Hassan, the youngest one of nine siblings, burst onto the cricket scene when the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishthan held a camp for the under-16 batsmen in his home town early in 2001. Roqibul never got his chance to study at the BKSP, but showed his class in ... Read more
American Cup golf from today
The 31st American Cup Golf Tournament gets underway at the Kurmitola Golf Club today with some 500 professional and amateur golfers taking part in the two-day meet. Chevron Bangladesh continues to be the co-sponsors of the event along with a host of local and international business organizations including hotels, banks, airlines, oil and gas service ... Read more
Mashrafe out
Mashrafe Mortaza, the Bangladesh allrounder, has not been included in the 15-man squad for the World Cup. Mortaza had injured his right knee while playing club cricket in Dhaka in December and was striving to recover in time for the tournament. He had begun bowling off a short run-up during net sessions in the last ... Read more
Mashrafe yes, Mashrafe no
All the talk has centred on the Mashrafe Bin Mortaza question and there seems to be no end to speculations ahead of today’s World Cup squad announcement. The three-member selection panel again sat with the technical committee last evening to deliberate the issue, but the feeling among many (including those who matter) was that the ... Read more
Pallima badminton from today
Prime Bank Pallima Badminton tournament gets underway Farashganj at the Pallima Sangsad premises in Khilgaon, Dhaka. Country’s top shuttlers including Enayet, Muktar, Rana, Elina, Konica are taking part in the 26th edition of the meet since its inception in 1976, said speakers at a press conference at the
Farshganj win again
Farashganj SC recorded their second victory in the Grameenphone Bangladesh League with a single-goal win over visitors Chittagong Abahani at the Birshreshtha Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur yesterday. Farashganj, on back of their morale boosting 1-0 win over holders Abahani, took only nine minutes to break the deadlock. Striker Sohel Rana was again the hero ... Read more
Malik arrives to play for Mohammedan
Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday to play for defending champions Mohammedan Sporting Club in the Dhaka Premier League. Malik joined compatriot Azhar Mahmud and is expected to play against Bangladesh Biman today. He will be the fifth Pakistani cricketer to play for Mohammedan
Tigers’ squad on hold
To be disclosed tomorrow after review The country will have to wait till the last day of deadline to know the Tigers’ World Cup squad after the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) decided to announce the 15-member team on January 19. After a marathon meeting of the technical and evaluation committee that lasted more than three ... Read more
Pakir Ali joins Jamal as coach
Sri Lankan Pakir Ali joined Sheikh Jamal KC as the coach on Monday filling the void left by Serbian coach Zoran Krajlevich. Pakir, who spent a decade from 1981 to 1991 in popular Dhaka giants Abahani in his playing days, however, had a poor start as coach with Jamal losing to Arambagh in his first
H’ball teams triumph
Men’s and women’s team from Bangladesh emerged champions in the International Friendship Handball Tournament that concluded at Haldia in the State of West Bengal, India yesterday. Bangladesh Men’s A team beat their Indian counterparts in the last match by 31-26 points to emerge champions and the Women’s A team followed suit. Imdadul of the men’s ... Read more
Easy ride for Muktis
National striker Mithun Chowdhury scored a goal in each half as Muktijoddha Sangsad Krira Chakra squeezed a 2-1 win over Feni Soccer Club in the Bangladesh League at the Kamalapur stadium on Sunday. The win took Muktijoddha to the second position in the league table, three places up from their previous standing, with nine points ... Read more