Bangladesh League champions Abahani Ltd moved into the final of the Bordoloi Trophy with a 1-0 win over Shillong Lajong (U-19) in the second semi-final at the Nehru Stadium in Guwahati, Assam, on Monday. After a barren 90 minutes of regulation time the game went into extra time and experienced forward Alfaz struck the all-important ... Read more
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Rubcic sets lofty goal
Newly appointed head coach of Bangladesh national football team Robert Rubcic announced his intention to take Bangladesh thirty places higher in the FIFA rankings within the next year. The 47-year Croat, who arrived in the capital last morning after travelling 24 hours from Zagreb, stated his aim at a crowded press conference at the BFF ... Read more
New BCB chief executive takes office
Manzur Ahmed, a former wicketkeeper-batsman, joined the Bangladesh Cricket Board as its new chief executive officer on Wednesday, ending the country’s cricket oversight body’s long wait for the top executive post. Manzur, who had a distinguished club and zonal cricket career spanning two decades in
Tigers learn from golf
Bangladesh cricketers had a fanfare when they were taken to the Kurmitola Golf Club on Tuesday for the practice of golf which has things common with cricket. All 26 the cricketers but Sakib al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal joined coach Jamie Siddons and his assistant Julien Fountain at the golf club where they stayed for ... Read more
Website wants to live -stream games
Bangla-desh Football Federation on Monday received an offer from a Germany-based website for live streaming of the Bangladesh League matches. Al Musabbir Sadi, general secretary of the BFF, said the federation will take the matter seriously. ‘It is a good opportunity to present Bangladesh football to the viewers around the
Sky Blues’ twin targets
Leave for Assam today Three-time Bangladesh League champions Abahani leave for Assam this afternoon to take part in the Bordoloi Trophy as part of their preparations ahead of the upcoming season. Abahani, who are still unaware of their opponents, will start their campaign from the second round as they have been drawn along with two ... Read more
Sraboni, Shahanaz win bronze in Korea
Sraboni Biswas and Shahanaz Parvin won bronze medals in the 6th Korea Open International Taekwondo Championship held in Gumi yesterday. Sraboni defeated a Chinese player to finish third in the 67kg category while Shahanaz Parvin beat Thailand to win the 62kg bronze medal, said a press release
Razzak’s slide after changed action
The general perception on Abdur Razzak recently among the cricket fraternity has been that the left-arm spinner has lost his bite after his bowling action went through a change, but the bowler sees it quite differently. He believes that it is the introduction of Twenty20 cricket which has made the bowler’s job difficult these
New football coach arrives on Wednesday
Robert Rubcic, the new Croatian coach of Bangladesh national football team, will arrive on Wednesday to join his job. Rubcic will be the third foreign coach for the national side in two years since the present committee of the Bangladesh Football Federation took the helm in April, 2008. Rubecic is the 14th foreign national coach ... Read more
Klusener turns down Bangladesh
South African all-rounder Lance Klusener finally refused to be the Bangladesh cricket team’s new bowling coach. Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) spokesperson Jalal Yunus said, “Klusener told us on Monday that he is not coming to Bangladesh.” “Klusener couldn’t convince his wife in this
Psychologist joins Tigers
Newly-appointed sports psychologist Soumendra Saha has joined the Bangladesh cricket team on Wednesday, hoping to enhance the mental strength of struggling Tigers. Soumendra was accompanied by his wife Srilekha Saha, a doctorate in sports psychology, when he visited the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium to see the practice of national players in
Bangladesh get direct entry
AFC Challenge Cup Bangladesh get direct entry The Asian Football Confede-ration (AFC) yesterday revealed the rules and regulations for the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup with Bangla-desh playing in the 16-team finals directly. The fourth edition of the Challenge Cup, which is designed for the third-tier nations of the continent, will however have stage qualifiers among ... Read more
Hockey team lose first tie in Germany
Bangladesh hockey players who are touring Germany played their first practice match against a Second Division side on Tuesday after arriving in Bonn the previous day, said a letter sent by coach Gerhard Peter Rach yesterday. Rach, who took 17 of his best players for giving them some experience of the
Aminul cleared for Asiad
Experien-ced goalkeeper Aminul Haque is eligible to play in the Asian Games after the Asian Football Confederation gave him clearance on Wednesday. An e-mail from the AFC stated that Aminul’s one-match suspension, after he was red-carded when playing against Sri Lanka in the AFC Challenge Cup last January, will not be
Online transfer system debuts at BFF
A two-day workshop on FIFA’s electronic transfer matching system got underway at the BFF house today, with the participation of all the professional league clubs. The day also opened the window of the foreign players’ transfer, which will be closed on October 15. Each of the 12 clubs will be eligible to sign five foreigners ... Read more
Klusener unlikely as bowling coach
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) are yet to get any response from Lance Klusener who is supposed to join the national cricket team in the first week of September as a specialist bowling coach. Apparently there is hardly any chance that the BCB could make the deal with the former South Africa all-rounder
Ex-girlfriend says Asif a ‘serial fixer’
Mohammad Asif’s ex-girl friend has launched a scathing attack at the bowler and accused him of being directly involved in match-fixing. As a panelist on a news channel, Asif’s former girl friend Veena Malik accused the fast bowler of being ‘criminal minded’ and a
Imran says any guilty players must face tough punishment
Former cricket captain Imran Khan called for exemplary punishment to be given to any player found guilty of spot fixing during the tour of England. “I think there is a need to send out a message to youngsters…that crime does not pay,” Imran told Geo News on Sunday
Wake-up call for Tigers
The latest match-fixing scandal of Pakistan gripped the Bangladesh cricket team on Sunday as they resumed practice after two days off at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. The Tigers were also under the scanner just two months ago at the same Lord’s after Sakib al Hasan had confessed a day before their Test match against England ... Read more
Test continues amid ‘fixing claims’
The Test match between England and Pakistan has resumed under a cloud of controversy following allegations that some of the tourists were involved in match-fixing. Mazhar Majeed, a 35-year-old agent, was arrested on Saturday night and four Pakistani players gave statements to the police over claims about the