The Walton 24th National Swimming Championship gets underway tomorrow at the National Swimming Complex in Mirpur. Some 437 swimmers including 82 female competitors will take part in the meet. The swimmers will compete in 38 gold (19 each for both male and female) events. Besides,
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Div-I cricket
Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi, Uttara Sporting, Agrani Bank, Young Pegasus and North Bengal Cricket Academy won their respective matches on the first day of the First Division Cricket League yesterday. Favourites Sheikh Jamal (134/10) narrowly managed to beat Bangladesh Boys 124/10) by 10 runs at BKSP. Nayeem Islam took five wickets for 24 runs, but in ... Read more
Women’s college handball
Viqarunnissa Noon School & College, and Eden Girls College Senior & Junior teams moved into the semifinals of 13th Delta Life Women’s College Handball Tournament winning their respective quarterfinal matches at the Handball Stadium yesterday. Viquarunnisa thrashed Ispahani Girls College 20-1 in the first quarter. Pinky scored eight
Jitu fires Abahani to final
Dhaka Abahani reached the final of the Federation Cup for a record fifteen times defeating Brothers Union by a solitary goal in the first semi-final at the Kamalapur stadium on Monday. Midfielder Imtiaz Sultan Jitu netted the all important goal in the 45th minute of the match. Abahani will face the winners of today’s second ... Read more
Jamal-Muktijoddha second semi today
New powerhouse Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club face a revitalised Muktijoddha Sangsad KC in the second semi-final of the Grameenphone Federation Cup at the Kamalapur stadium at 5:00pm today. The semi-final will be an ‘acid test’ for Sheikh Jamal who arrived in the local football arena with the best team on papers. Making the final in ... Read more
Selectors call 20 for Zim series
The national selectors announced a 20-member preliminary squad on Monday for the one-day series against Zimbabwe in December this year. Chief selector Rafiqul Alam said that they picked the squad keeping the World Cup in mind. Former national skipper Mohammad Ashraful, who was dropped for the recently concluded
NCL 2nd round today
Favourites Rajshahi will face Chittagong in the second round of the National Cricket League one-day version at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium today. Star-studded Dhaka will take on Sylhet at the Shaheed Kamruzzaman Stadium in Rajshahi while Khulna will meet Barisal at the Shaheed Chandu Stadium in Bogra in the other two matches of the
Sakib officially best of all Tigers
Sakib al Hasan has made big jump in the latest ICC ranking for one-day batsmen, moving 15 places up from his previous ranking to be placed at 26th, the International Cricket Council said on Monday. The latest ranking made him the highest ranked Bangladeshi batsman, bowler and all-rounder, a feat rarely achieved by any cricketer ... Read more
Abahani, BU first semi today
Dhaka Abahani will face Brothers Union in the first semi-final of the Grameenphone Federation Cup at the Kamalapur stadium at 5:00pm today. The match will be transmitted live in BTV. Brothers Union have displayed a good brand of football thanks to their overseas players’ performances. They arguably have the most attractive set of foreign recruits ... Read more
Kamal’s dramatic U-turn?
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president AHM Mustafa Kamal subtly moved from his refreshing ‘professionalism’ stance yesterday, suggesting the position of the chief executive officer (CEO) could soon become history. During a press conference after the Annual General Meeting at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel,
Where is Nimbus money?
There were many issues on the agenda during the press conference after yesterday’s annual general meeting of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) but the subject that brought it to life was one word: Nimbus. The groundbreaking six-year deal, penned in July 2008 (after the Head of Agreement of the contract was signed in November 2006), ... Read more
Women’s h’ball gets underway
Holy Cross School and College recorded a 3-1 win over Central Women’s College in the opening match of 13th Delta Life Women’s College Handball Tournament at the Handball Stadium yesterday. The first-half of the game was locked at 1-1. In other matches, Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, Eden Women’s Collage (Junior),
Sabbir leads Rajshahi to win in NCL opener
Title contenders Rajshahi got off to a flying start in the one-day version of the National Cricket League while Chittagong and Barisal also won their respective matches in the opening round on Saturday. Sabbir Rahman smashed a brilliant century to power Rajshahi to 111-run win over Khulna as Chittagong shocked Dhaka by 23 runs. Defending ... Read more
MSC thrown out of semis
Defending champions Dhaka Mohamme-dan Sporting Club hit a new low as they failed to make the semi-finals of the Federation Cup for the first time after drawing 1-1 with Feni Soccer at the Kamalapur stadium on Saturday. Earlier in the day’s first match, Muktijoddha’s Sudanese forward James Saeed Moga
Ticket rates for Zim series fixed
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has fixed the ticket rates for the five-match one-day series against Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on November 27 and the first match will be take place on December 1 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in
Women’s College Handball begins today
Holy Cross College will take on Central Women’s College today in the opening match of the 13th Delta Life Women’s College handball tournament at the Handball Stadium. This was announced at a press conference at the Bangladesh Handball Federation office
St. Joseph win school football
St. Joseph defeated Mohammadpur Govt. High School 5-4 in penalty shootout to clinch the Pran Mango Juicepak School Champions Trophy football tournament at the Banani Chairmanbari ground yesterday. Former national footballer Kaiser Hamid was the chief guest and distributed prizes among the winners. Pran Group brand manager
Army, Ansar clinch titles in Korea Cup Taekwondo
Bangladesh Army emerged champions in the men’s group of the Korea Cup Taekwondo Competition securing six gold, four silver and three bronze medals, which concluded on Saturday at the National Sports Council gymnasium. Bangladesh Ansar clinched the top slot in the women’s group of the competition collecting three gold, four silver and one bronze. Bangladesh ... Read more
Muktis sail, MSC fail
Brothers Union first to reach semi-finals Brothers Union became the first team to reach the semi-finals in the Grameenphone Federation Cup beating a 10-man Dhaka Mohammedan SC 2-0 at the Kamalapur stadium on Thursday. In the other match of the day, Sudanese forward James Saeed Moga slammed a hat-trick as Muktijoddha Sangsad KC kept their ... Read more
Nostalgic Mashrafee
The four consecutive wins over New Zealand in the recent one-day series may have taken Bangladesh’s cricket to a new height, but it also left at least one man nostalgic in the dressing room, recalling the sad old days. Not many days ago, Bangladesh were at the receiving end of many consecutive defeats