Bangladesh finished second behind India as usual to earn the silver medals in the Women’s 10 metre Air Rifle team and individual events in the 5th SAF Shooting Championships at the BKSP on Monday. Bangladesh scored 1,177 points, four behind gold medallists India who totaled 1,181. In the individual event of Women’s 10 metre Air ... Read more
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Khulna lift Danone Nations Cup
Khulna District Football Association team triumphed the Grameen Danone Under-12 football championship defeating the BFF Development Squad by 2-1 in tri-breaker. By virtue of winning the title, Khulna DFA have earned the right to represent Bangladesh in the Danone World Cup final phase to be held in Brazil. The Khulna booters converted two penalty shots ... Read more
Mirpur Friends Club win handsome in qualifying cricket
Mirpur Friends Club hardly to sweat hard as they recorded a handsome 145 runs win over Nawabganj Cricket Academy in the Third Division Qualifying Cricket League match held at the Jagannath Hall ground here on Monday.
2011 WC will remain in sub-continent, says ICC
July 6 : Pakistan’s intent to seek legal recourse on hosting rights issues may have cast a shadow over the 2011 World Cup but the ICC today made it clear that there was no risk of the event being shifted out of the Indian sub-continent. Pakistan’s share of 14 matches has been allotted to other ... Read more
Tigers handed a tough draw
Bangla-desh were handed a tough draw in the ICC World Twenty20 2010 when they were placed in Group A alongside defending champions Pakistan and Australia, the International Cricket Council said. The ICC completed the draw at St Lucia in West Indies on Saturday. Bangladesh, seeded eighth for the tournament, will begin their campaign against holders ... Read more
Ball kills cricket umpire in Wales
ESPN.com news services SWANSEA, Wales — A cricket umpire has died after being struck on the head by a ball. Alcwyn Jenkins collapsed after the blow, which came from a ball thrown by a fielder during a Welsh cricket league match in Swansea on Saturday. He was 72. “I’m led to believe it was one ... Read more
Tigers start mission WI today
Mashrafee bin Murtaza will make his debut as Bangladesh captain when he will lead the side against West Indies A team in a three-day match starting from today at the Kensington Oval in Barbados. Bangladesh, who will play two Tests and three one-day international matches during their Caribbean tour, reached West Indies on Tuesday and ... Read more
BFF to get artificial turf by November
The installation of artificial turf in the BFF compound at Motijheel under FIFA Goal Project-2 will be completed in November with the laying process starting from mid-August. Italian firm Limonta will provide Tango turf and Bangkok-based Seara Sports Systems will lay it. Davide Bertoli, the export manager of Limonta, Jan van Paridon and Patrick Dean ... Read more
A bad day for Bangladesh at AYG
Bangladesh conceded humiliating defeats in both of their FIBA 3 on 3 Basketball matches of the First Asian Youth Games at the Anglican High School in Singapore on Thursday. Bangladesh suffered 06-33 defeat against United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the morning and 04-33 defeat against Thailand in the
U-19 team play 2-day match in England from today
Visiting Bangladesh Under-19 team will start their England tour with a two-dayer practice match against the England Under-18 team today. Mahmudul Hasan led Under-19 side arrived here on Wednesday to play two four-dayer, five one-dayer and two Twenty20 matches against
Zia atop alone
Grand Master Ziaur Rahman picked up his fourth straight win to take the solo lead in the Mercantile Bank 35th National Chess Championship at the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall room yesterday. Playing with Black pieces, the country’s number one player adopted the Modern Defence of Tartakower system and eventually earned resignation from Fide Master Taibur ... Read more
Bangladesh advance two steps in FIFA ranking
Bangladesh advanced two steps in the FIFA-Coca Cola World Ranking in the beginning of July. After this move Bangladesh are now on the 169th position from 171st position. With this move, Bangladesh left behind Nepal who are on 173rd position and are on the fifth in context of sub-continental
Siddons hails captaincy move
Bangladesh coach Jamie Siddons has hailed the BCB’s move to change the captain of the side and said it was handed to the right person with Mashrafee bin Murtaza replacing Mohammad Ashraful. ‘It’s good for Ash (Ashraful) and tough for Mash (Mashrafee). It’s tough to captain the national team on the world stage. But Mashrafee ... Read more
Coach positive too
Bangladesh cricket coach Jamie Siddons displayed a similar sort of satisfaction like his ex-captain Mohammad Ashraful on the Tigers’ recent performance in the ICC World Twenty20 after he faced the local media for the first time yesterday since returning from Australia at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. After Bangladesh made their exit from the ... Read more
Bangladesh cricketers leave for West Indies today
New skipper Mashrafe bin Mortaza hopes to produce improve performance as Bangladesh cricket team leave for Barbados, West Indies on a five weeks tour today. Ace pace bowler Mashrafe replaced Mohammad Ashraful as captain of the national cricket team. His deputy on the tour will be World’s number one-day all rounder Shakib Al Hasan. BCB ... Read more
BFF, Beximco design biggest ever tourney
Bangabandhu Gold Cup this year The much talked about ‘Ten Crore Taka’ football tournament will be materialised at the end of this year with Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) and the Beximco Group jointly organising the Bangabandhu Gold Cup. BFF president Kazi Mohammed Salahuddin, who has been indicating at a mega budget tournament over the last ... Read more
Bangladesh to take part in 4 disciplines: First Asian Youth Games begins today in Singapore
The first Asian Youth Games begins today (Monday) in Singapore at 7 pm local time. A large number of youth athletes from 43 Asian countries will compete in nine disciplines of sports for 90 gold medals at stake. The nine disciplines of sports are — Athletics, Aquatic, Basketball (3 on 3), Bowling, Shooting, Sailing, Beach ... Read more
12 stadiums to be known by its old names
The present government restored the actual names of the sports infrastructures across the country which the previous government removed. The National Sports Council (NSC) in a notification on Sunday circulated names of 12 stadiums around the country. Those are – Jahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium (Chittagong Divisional Stadium), Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium (Khulna Divisional Stadium), Shaheed ... Read more
Bangabandhu International Gold Cup Football Tournament in October/November
The Bangabandhu International Gold Cup Football Tournament will be held in October or November. The names of the participating teams and the fixture yet to be finalised. The tournament will be held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium. The budget of the competition has been estimated at Tk ten crore. Two teams from Bangladesh and six ... Read more
Exit Ash, Enter Mash
Mashrafe Bin Mortaza is the first paceman in the country to lead the national team as Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Tuesday appointed him as captain and Shakib Al Hasan as his deputy for the tours of West Indies and Zimbabwe. The 25-year-old cricketer, dubbed as Narail Express, took over the helm as the fifteenth ... Read more