Bangladesh Ansar and BJMC reached the semifinals of the Meizan National Women’s Kabaddi Championship by winning their respective matches at the Dhanmondi Sultana Kamal Women’s Sports Complex yesterday. In the day’s matches, BJMC defeated Jamalpur by 37-19 points while Bangladesh Ansar
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Pont arrives with a mission
The newly-appointed bowling coach of the Bangladesh cricket team, Ian Pont, arrived on Thursday and took no time to meet his pupils practising at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. Pont, the former bowling consultant of county side Northamptonshire, reached Dhaka in the morning and just dropped his luggage at the hotel before rushing to stadium to ... Read more
AFC U-19 Women’s Football Qualifiers from September 20
Bangladesh Football Federation will arrange the AFC Under-19 Football Championship (Qualification Round) in Dhaka from September 20. The five-day long football meet for women will be staged in Bir Sreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal stadium in Kamalapur. Host Bangladesh, Iran, India and Jordan will participate in the
More officials than athletes!
C’wealth Games More officials than athletes! Ratna to carry flag Sharmin Akhter Ratna, gold medalist in the South Asian Games and Commonwealth Shooting Championship, will carry the national flag during the march past in the Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi over October 3-14. The decision was taken yesterday during a meeting between ... Read more
Shakib’s quiet end to county stint
Shakib Al Hasan might have only made 14 in his final county innings of the season but his team Worcestershire set themselves on course for promotion into Division One of the County Championship, beating Sussex by four wickets yesterday. Worcestershire’s promotion would depend on the result of the match between Derbyshire and
National Women’s Kabaddi begins today
The Meizan National Women’s Kabaddi Competition begins today at the Dhanmondi Sultana Kamal Women’s Sports Complex. Bangladesh Kabaddi Federation will arrange the three-day long kabaddi meet under auspices of Bangladesh Edible Oil Limited. Marking the ensuing kabaddi meet, a press conference was held at the Kabaddi Stadium on
Abahani romp to Bordoloi Trophy
A double-strike from Mehdi Hasan Ujjal guided Abahani to the Bordoloi Trophy as the three-time Bangladesh League champions handed an easy 3-0 defeat to Nepal’s Three Star in the final of the 59th edition of the provincial meet in Assam yesterday. Apart from the Ujjal brace, new midfielder Imtiaz Sultan Jitu struck the other to ... Read more
Rajshahi face Sylhet in NCL opener
Holders Rajshahi will face Sylhet at the Shamsul Huda Stadium in Jessore in the opening match of the 12th National Cricket League to be held from September 29 to October 2, Bangladesh Cricket Board said on Wednesday. In the other two matches of the opening round, Chittagong will take on Barisal at the
Pleasure in performance
Shakib returns on September 18 Shakib Al Hasan confessed that he had no qualms of being lonely in the West Midlands of England. “I am enjoying my time so much that I don’t feel homesick,” said all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan while talking with the Daily Star Sport over phone yesterday, moments before he left home ... Read more
Tamim ruled out of Kiwi series
Ashraful ommited, Nafees recalled Bangladesh opening batsman Tamim Iqbal will miss the upcoming ODI series against New Zealand as he underwent a surgery in Australia while former skipper Mohammad Ashraful was left out of the 14-member Bangladesh squad, announced by the Bangladesh Cricket Board on Monday. Opener Shahriar Nafees got a national recall after two ... Read more
Rubcic sees finishing as weakness
Robert Rubcic, the new Croatian football coach, pointed out a lack of finishing and not performing off-the-ball duties well as the major weaknesses of Bangladesh footballers and vowed to work hard on the flaws on Monday. Rubcic, who roamed around the Dhaka city during the three-day vacation on occasion
Abahani move into final
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
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