Siddikur Rahman was placed 32nd on the leaderboard with a par score of 144 and six shot off the leaders after two rounds of play in the Hero Honda Indian Open at the Delhi Golf Club yesterday. Siddikur scored par in both rounds of the 72-hole tournament. However, the first round score had him in ... Read more
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Division-II football
Garpara Association emerged champions in the Second Division Football League with a convincing 3-1 win over Kowri KCH Muslim Sporting Club at the Shahid Miraz-Tapan Stadium in Manikganj yesterday. Chanchal gave Garpara a 17th minute lead before Arif levelled for Kowri KCH Muslim Sporting in the 33rd minute. However, two minutes later, Garpara went ahead ... Read more
Sakib gets his boys
Bangladesh-Zimbabwe 2nd ODI today Skipper Sakib al Hasan is likely to get his preferred team when Bangladesh will play the second one-day international against Zimbabwe on Friday. Sakib called the team selection for the first match into question saying he would have liked middle-order batsmen Roqibul Hassan and
Flower backs Zimbabwe
Former Zimbabwe cricketer and at present their batting consultant Grant Flower thinks his team has enough firepower to repeat their feat in their second one-day international against Bangladesh today. Zimbabwe eked out a narrow nine-run win in the first ODI on Wednesday to take an unexpected 1-0 lead in the five-match series. Flower joined the ... Read more
ICC Cricket World Cup History
Cup facts The 1987 World Cup was the fourth cricket World Cup, and the first to be held in the Indian subcontinent. Neighbours India and Pakistan were the co-hosts of the tournament, which was spread over 21 venues across the two countries. The format was the same as in 1983: two groups of four with ... Read more
Hosts drawn in tough group
Bangladesh, the host nation of the first ever SAFF Women’s Football Championship, were placed in Group A alongside SA Games champions India in the draw of the competition at the BFF House on Thursday. The other two rivals of the host team in Group A are Sri Lanka and Bhutan. On the other hand Nepal, ... Read more
BCB comes up to celebrate 10-years of Test status
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will hold a concert as well as a fireworks show at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) to celebrate Bangladesh’s 10 years in Test cricket this month. The game’s governing body initially did not think of any programme to celebrate the decade of Test status although all former Test captains of ... Read more
Batting fallacy cost Tigers
Zimbabwe Take 1-0 Lead Batting fallacy cost Tigers Four run outs punctuated with a number of ill-conceived shots made Bangladesh pay heavily as the hosts fell to Zimbabwe by nine runs yesterday in the first game of their five-match one-day series. After the visitors put up a 210-run target on the predominantly batsman-friendly Sher-e-Bangla National ... Read more
Sakib blasts team-mates, questions selection
Sakib al Hasan is known for his outspokenness and his monosyllabic reply to many questions, still the manner in which he lambasted his team-mates after Bangladesh’s nine run defeat to Zimbabwe in the first one-day international on Wednesday came as a big shock and surprise to many. After his gallant batting effort proved futile, Sakib, ... Read more
The Ashraful fantasy
Micromax ODI Cup Bangladesh Vs Zimbabwe 2010 The Ashraful fantasy Mohammad Ashraful still looks odds on to walk out to bat on Friday at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium since he is the only name the decision-makers trust and try for all their money’s worth. If news from within the Bangladesh team’s think-tank is to be ... Read more
Loss mars milestone
Bangladesh ace spinner Abdur Razzak achieved the most coveted milestone of his career taking his ODI haul to 153 wickets when he sent four Zimbabwe batsmen back to the pavilion in the first of the five-match one-day series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Wednesday. Razzak was the pick of the bowlers taking four wickets ... Read more
ICC Cricket World Cup History
Tiring travelogue The 1987 Cricket World Cup was the most colourful, and more widely watched than any of its predecessors. It was the first to be staged away from England and the first to be held in the subcontinent. A lot of matches were extremely close affairs; in the first match itself the co-hosts Pakistan ... Read more
Chigumbura was confident of a win
Zimbabwe skipper Elton Chigum-bura always believed they were going to win the first one-day international against Bangladesh despite the game was hanging in the balance for most of the period. Zimbabwe won the match by nine runs but not before Sakib al Hasan gave them a scare with a brilliant half-century. Sakib was out at ... Read more
Jamil refutes Rach’s report
Khondoker Jamiluddin, the general secretary of Bangladesh Hockey Federation has refuted coach Gerhard Peter Rach’s claim of the federation being an ‘Old Town Mafia’, adding that the German apparently indulged in this smear campaign in an effort to shirk his responsibility for the Asiad debacle. “Someone has to take the blame for the hockey team’s ... Read more
Bangladesh in Asian Beach Games
Bangladesh will take part in two disciplines in the second Asian Beach Games to be held in Muscat, Oman from December 8 to 16. Bangladesh contingent comprising women’s Kabaddi team and two body builders are expected to leave for Muscat on December 6. The women’s kabaddi team are being sent in light of their success ... Read more
Winning the only option
When Bangladesh kick off their five-match one-day series against Zimbabwe today there would be only one expectation: maintain the purple patch leading upto next year’s World Cup. The Tigers are buoyant after their recent 4-0 drubbing of New Zealand and go into the first one-dayer at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur with the tag ... Read more
Battle of spinners
Bangladesh-Zimbabwe series begins today Bangladesh and Zimbabwe are geared up for what their coaches have described as the potential battle of spinners, which begins at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today. The first match of the five-match one-day international series will begin at 9:00am and will be aired live on Bangladesh Television
Comeback boost for Tamim
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal received a morale booster before his comeback to the international match against Zimbabwe when he was handed the certificate of Wisden Test Player of the Year on Tuesday. Tamim, who missed Bangladesh’s previous series against New Zealand because of his injury, received the certificate from none other than Sakib al Hasan, ... Read more
ICC Cricket world cup history
A thrilling start From the viewers’ perspective, the 1987 World Cup can lay claim to being the most thrilling. A large number of matches, including the final, were close with the result not clear till the last over. For sheer drama and late twists, the match of the tournament probably was the one between hosts ... Read more
Bangladesh League starts end of Dec
The fourth edition of the Bangladesh League will start in the last week of December at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Mostafa Kamal Stadium while the second edition of the Super Cup will be held in April next year at the Bangabandhu National Stadium after the conclusion of the ICC Cricket World Cup. The decision was taken ... Read more