Three teams moved into the finals of the Standard Chartered National Kabaddi Championship after emerging zonal champions at different venues yesterday. Dhaka clinched the zonal title beating Kishorganj 62-27 in the final. Tangail emerged champions defeating hosts Manikganj 56-22 while hosts Dinajpur beat Joypurhat 29-16 to become zonal
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Title goes to India
SA Games champions India maintained their dominance of South Asia’s women’s football edging past Nepal 1-0 in the final to win the first ever SAFF Women’s Football Championship on Thursday. It was an action-packed match, full of attacks and counter-attacks at a full house Cox’s Bazar stadium. The spectators cheered all along despite the absence ... Read more
ICC Cricket World Cup History
ICC Cricket World Cup South Africa 2003 Cup Facts The 2003 World Cup, the eighth cricket World Cup, was the first to be held in Africa. The co-hosts were South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya. The majority of the matches were played in South Africa, with Zimbabwe hosting six matches and Kenya two. The 2003 World ... Read more
MSC sack Mashud as skipper
Defending Dhaka Premier League champions Mohammedan Sporting Club sacked skipper Khaled Mashud on Thursday and replaced him with national star Sakib al Hasan after just two matches of the new season. Mashud, who helped the side regain the trophy after eight years in the last season, was made their new head coach as well as ... Read more
Mashrafee hoping against hope
Paceman Mashrafee bin Murtaza can still play in the World Cup if he can recover from the knee injury within the period the doctors have set for him. Mashrafee, who collapsed on the pitch and hurt his knee after he had been back by his non-striking batting partner on Sunday, was advised ‘a conservative management ... Read more
Mehrab ton powers DOHS
Old DOHS, powered by the first century of the tournament by Mehrab Hossain Jr, recorded their second successive win, this time against Victoria SC by narrow eight runs in the Dhaka Premier League in Rajshahi on Wednesday. In the other matches of the day, Kalabagan KC eked out a one-wicket win over Gazi Tanks
Tourism Board chalks up WC programmes
The Bangladesh Tourism Board has drawn up an elaborated programme to promote Bangladesh during the upcoming Cricket World Cup, to be held in February-March next year. The board has already signed a contract with the ICC becoming its local partner, which will allow the organisation to promote the country through TV commercials and other
ICC Cricket World Cup History
The good, the bad, and Mugabe The 2003 World Cup was the first to be held in the continent of Africa with South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya as co-hosts. Zimbabwe at that time was in turmoil under the iron fist of Robert Mugabe and his party ZANU-PF, a rule that victimised white farmers. Mugabe had ... Read more
Sheikh Jamal almost in Premier Div
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club have all but confirmed a place in next season’s Premier Cricket League with a massive 140-run victory over Uttara Sporting Club in the First Division Super League at the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium yesterday. Rampant through thirteen consecutive wins in the league, Sheikh Jamal are just one win
India take on Nepal in final today
SA Games champions India will meet silver medallists Nepal in the final of first ever SAFF Women’s Football Championship at the Cox’s Bazar stadium today. India, who scored a total of 39 goals and conceded none in this tournament, thumped their opponents 3-1 in the SA Games final early this year. The Himalayan side
19 Bangladeshi cricketers listed for IPL auction
All 19 Bangladeshi cricketers who have applied to play in the next Indian Premier Cricket League have been put on the list for January 8-9 auction to be held at Mysore Hall, the Royal Gardenia Hotel, in Bangalore. A total of 416 foreign players, including the Bangladeshis, have expressed their willingness to be a part ... Read more
Mashrafee hurt in knee again
Pacer Mashrafee bin Murtaza suffered yet another injury, in his right knee, when he was playing for his club, Abahani, in the Dhaka Premier League against Bangladesh Krira Sikkha Pratishthan in the BKSP ground on Tuesday. Mashrafee collapsed on the crease after facing just one ball when his non-striking partner
Nepal break hosts’ hearts
Bangladesh’s dream of playing in the final of the first-ever SAFF Women’s Football Championship was dashed as an inspired Nepal thumped the hosts 3–0 in the second semi-final at the Cox’s Bazar stadium on Tuesday. Nepal’s striking duo of Jamuna Gurang and Anulama kept their opponents busy creating
Bangladesh trio listed for IPL auction
Only three Bangladeshi cricketers – Sakib al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mohammad Ashraful–have been bracketed in the top categories of Indian Premier Cricket League players’ auction, to be held in Bangalore on January 8 and 9. Sakib has got the highest base price of $200,000 among the Bangladeshis. Tamim on the
Mohammedan suffer shocking tie
Defending champions Mohammedan Sporting Club lost a valuable point when they were held to a dramatic tie in their second match of the Dhaka Premier League by newcomers Prime Doleshwar at the Shaheed Kamruzzaman Stadium in Rajshahi on Tuesday. Abahani and Bangladesh Biman recorded their second consecutive win in the other matches of
A footballer by default
Prolific striker Sabina Khatun who scored three goals in the first ever SAFF Women’s Football Championship at seaside town Cox’s Bazar, won a laptop after she was adjudged as the best player for Bangladesh on Tuesday. Sabina, a schoolgirl of class ten from Satkhira, wanted to be a cricketer in her childhood but
V-Day tennis
All seeded players moved into the pre-quarterfinals of the men’s singles in the Runner Group Victory Day Tennis Tournament after beating their respective rivals at the National Tennis Complex in Ramana yesterday. Top seed Amol Roy got a walkover against Rafiqul Islam while second seed Alamgir Hosain, third seed Ranjan Ram and fourth seed Dipu Lal ... Read more
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Bichel’s day in the sun The best match of the 2003 World Cup was between two familiar rivals, England and Australia. They met in England’s final group match at Port Elizabeth on March 2, a match that they needed to win to progress. Australia, on the other hand, had blasted away all opposition in the ... Read more
Pacific clinch badminton title
Pacific Associates Badminton Club emerged champions in the Knit-Concern Second Division Badminton League that concluded yesterday at the Suhrawardi Indoor Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. Pacific Associates Bad-minton Club, which earned 14 points in 12-team point table, were awarded Tk 50,000 while runners-up Rockland Badminton Club, with 12 points, received Tk
Tickets info next week
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Tickets info next week The fate of the ICC World Cup tickets will be known next week as the Local Organising Committee (LOC) still could not confirm the major aspects of its sales. Yesterday the LOC sat for their meeting later than the scheduled time, subsequently pushing back Bangladesh Cricket ... Read more