Bangladesh Football Federation bade Serbian football coach Zoran Djordevic goodbye after refusing to accept his demand for signing a four-year contract on Saturday. BFF president Kazi Salahuddin thanked Zoran for his contribution to Bangladesh football before rejecting the Serbian’s plea for contract extension. Salahuddin, who returned to the country on Friday night after attending a ... Read more
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Kutumb leaves a lasting impression
The 11th South Asian Games came to a grandeur end with another delectable display of light, sound, fire and water. It was a spectacle of a magnitude that has never been staged before in South Asia. It had ingredients similar to that present in the opening ceremony, but this time it concentrated totally on our ... Read more
Womanpower drives hosts
Bangla-desh’s female athletes may have been outperformed by their male team-mates in the end, but their success has contributed to a large extent to the hosts’ outstanding results in the just-concluded SA Games. Bangladesh claimed as many as 18 gold medals that took them to third place in the medals table, a position that they ... Read more
Bangladesh’s record haul
Bangladesh ended their campaign of the 11th SA Games Dhaka 2010 winning 18 gold medals, the highest haul in the 26-year history of South Asian Games. The hosts grabbed four gold medals on the penultimate day including two in boxing and one each in football and wushu to seal the third position in medals’ tally, ... Read more
Hosts’ best ever finish
Bangladesh signed off their campaign in the 11th SA Games on Monday winning as many as 18 gold medals that included key events of football and cricket. The hosts added four gold medals on the penultimate day from football, boxing and wusu which sealed their third position in medals table something which has never happened ... Read more
Tigers crash again
Bangladesh’s abysmal batting performance continued in New Zealand as they suffered a five-wicket defeat in the second one-dayer at the University Oval in Dunedin yesterday. With this win New Zealand clinched the three match series. It was a painful experience for the ardent fans in the country who had switched on their
Hosts’ gold rush
It was a gold rush for Bangladesh on the tenth day of the 11th South Asian Games yesterday. And believe it or not the ladies picked up more than the men on a day Bangladesh crossed their previous best effort in the regional showpiece event by winning six gold — an astonishing four in karate, ... Read more
Cricket glory Bangladesh’s
Bangladesh posted an exciting six-run victory over Sri Lanka to delight the country with a gold in the cricket event of the 11th South Asian Games at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The young Bangladeshi cricketers made history by becoming the first team to win the cricket gold included for the first time ... Read more
BD women booters lose opener
Bangladesh women football team’s bid to win the gold medal of the South Asian Games suffered an early blow when they were beaten 1-0 by Nepal at Birshreshtha Mostafa Kamal Stadium yesterday, reports The Daily Star Jamuna Gurung struck the all-important goal in the 36th minute for the visitors. Before the Bangladesh-Nepal match, favourites India ... Read more
Bangladesh keen to beat Sri Lanka in hockey
Bangladesh hockey team seeks nothing but a win against Sri Lanka in its inaugural match in the 11th South Asian Games (SAG) at Moulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium in Dhaka today, reports TBT The hockey competitions of the SAG start with the match between India and Nepal, beginning at 1pm, while Bangladesh is facing Sri ... Read more
Bangladesh expects better show from shooters
Bangladesh shooters are determined to put up an improved performance in the 11th South Asian Games (SAG). Bangladesh won two golds in shooting in the 2004 SAG in Islamabad, Pakistan but this time they are expecting to bring more laurels for the country, Report TBT. Shooting in Bangladesh came to spotlight when Asif Hossain Khan ... Read more
Gala opening of SA Games today
‘The preparation of the ensuing 11th South Asian Games has been completed’, said Kutubuddin Ahmed, Secretary General of Bangladesh Olympic Association on Thursday. The inaugural ceremony of the upcoming 11th South Asian (SA) Games starts today at 4.00 PM at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be the chief guest on ... Read more
Bangladesh claim Plate Championship
Bangladesh thrashed Ireland by 195 runs to win the ICC U-19 World Cup Plate Championship and secure the ninth place in the tournament. Bangladesh batsmen came up with a brilliant collective display to post a massive total of 307 for six, while a hat-trick by seam bowler Kamrul Islam Rabbi never gave Ireland any chance. ... Read more
India win test series
India won the two-Test series 2-0 wshen the visitors defeated Bangladesh by 10 wickets in the second Test of the Idea Cup on the fourth day at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Wednesday. Earlier, India beat Bangladesh by 113 runs in the first Test at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong, ... Read more
Bangladesh, India 2nd Test from today
Bangladesh will take on India in the second and final Test of the Idea Cup at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium from today. India led the series with 1-0 after crushing Bangladesh in the first Test by 113 runs at Chittagong. Bangladesh though put up huge fight on the first day of the first innings, they ... Read more
Mushfiqur sparkles but India win
Chittagong: Despite Mushfiqur Rahim’s crowd-pleasing maiden test century, Tigers could not escape defeat against the number one ranked Test team in the ICC ranking, as India won the first Test of the Idea Cup series by 113 runs on Thursday. Bowlers Amit Mishra and Ishant Sharma shared seven wickets in India’s 113-run victory over Bangladesh ... Read more
IPL matches to be broadcast live on Youtube
Cricinfo The IPL’s 2010 season will be broadcast live on YouTube, following an arrangement between the league and Google, owners of the internet channel. The deal – under which all 60 games will be shown live or on a short delay on a dedicated YouTube channel – will apply across the world, except in the ... Read more
Bangladesh 67 at stumps on the fourth day
Chittagong: Chasing a victory target of 415 runs, Bangladesh were 67 for the loss of two wickets at stumps on the fourth day of the first Test against India here on Wednesday. Tamim Iqbal (23) and Mohammad Ashraful (16) were at the crease when stumps were drawn due to bad light. Earlier, India had declared ... Read more
Swimmers expect four golds
Bangladesh swimming squad at ongoing ‘Meet the Team’ programme on Monday expected four gold medals in different events in the upcoming 11th South Asian Games to be held in Bangladesh from January 29 to February 9. Combining experience with youthfulness, Bangladesh Swimming Team targeted three gold medals in the men’s 50m Breaststroke, 50m Butterfly and ... Read more
Bangladesh U-19 lose last-over Thriller
Jr. Tigers lost their 2nd Group D match of the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup as they lost to West Indies by a single run at Fitzerbert Park in Nwe Zealand on Sunday. Chasing 250 to win, Bangladesh needed two runs from three balls with one wicket in hand, but Shaker Ahmed’s run-out sparked wild ... Read more