Pune: Royal Challengers Bangalore making it to the final of the Indian Premier League (IPL) second season in South Africa on Sunday caught punters on the wrong foot. “Season 2 saw an overwhelmingly upward trend for bookies,” said a bookie on condition of anonymity. “With the Challengers making it to the finals, it has elevated ... Read more
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Siddons targets India
ICC World Twenty20 Siddons targets India Bangladesh national cricket team have tar-getted beating India in their first match of the ICC World Twenty20s in England and are all set to depart amidst some modest but important concerns from coach Jamie Siddons. Siddons’s biggest worry is the lack of international exposure that the Tigers have had ... Read more
Bangladesh players lack basic skills
Bangladesh national hockey players lacked international basic skills and they need to play more international matches to improve their standard, Bangladesh national hockey team’s German coach Gerhard Peter Rach said on Monday. “We realized very bitterly in the 8th Asia Cup that the Bangladesh players lacked basic skills. The time we got before the Asia ... Read more
Mehrab to lead Bangladesh A
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced a 15-member Bangladesh A team for the three-match one-day series against Maharashtra Cricket Association. Left-handed Mehrab Hossain will lead the team while all-rounder Sohrawordi Shuvo has been named his deputy. The Rafiqul Alam-led selection panel included players like Nafis Iqbal and Hannan Sarker, who were out-of-favour for a long time, ... Read more
Bashar’s belated wisdom
Former national skipper Habibul Bashar urged the new generation of cricketers to think twice before moving away from the mainstream. “Over the last eight months I realised the pains of staying away from the mainstream,” Bashar said explaining the reasons behind his decision to cut ties with the unapproved Indian Cricket League (ICL). It was ... Read more
BCB XI earns 2nd successive win in T20 Cricket, beating Maharashtra CA by 46 runs
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Eleven earned second successive victory in the three-match Twenty20 Cricket series beating Indian Ranji Trophy side Maharashtra Cricket Association by 46 runs at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Monday. Hosts BCB Eleven, studded with the cricketers of Bangladesh national team for the next month’s ICC Twenty20 World Cup ... Read more
Ansar win Women’s v’ball title
Bangladesh Ansar & VDP team clinched the EXIM Bank 20th National Women’s Handball title beating hosts Faridpur DSA by 23-14 goals in the final at the Faridpur Stadium on Monday, reports UNB. The winners led the first half by 14-7 goals. This was the 14th national crown for the Ansar & VDP team including 11 ... Read more
BCB XI’s huge win
The England-bound national cricketers warmed up well with a comfortable 63-run victory against Maharashtra Cricket Association in the first T20 match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The most encouraging factor for the Tigers, who are scheduled to fly for England on May 23 to take part in the ICC Twenty20 World Cup, ... Read more
Bashar first at BCB door
Habibul Bashar was the first to come forward to take the opportunity of “amnesty” announced by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) for the players who joined the unauthorised Indian Cricket League (ICL). The former national skipper submitted a letter to BCB president Lt Gen Sina Ibn Jamali yesterday mentioning that he wanted to avail the ... Read more
Ashgabat through
Abahani down but not out Ashgabat FC of Turkmenis-tan emerged as the champions of the AFC President’s Cup Group B after playing out a goalless draw with Dhaka Abahani at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Saturday. The draw put Ashgabat level with Abahani on four points at the top but the Turkmenistan side won the ... Read more
Mashrafe’s losing debut
Indian Premier League Mashrafe’s losing debut Deccan Chargers climbed one place to third in the Indian Premier League table after a thrilling six-wicket win over struggling Kolkata Knight Riders at Wanderers on Saturday. Kolkata made 160-5 after they lost the toss and were sent in to bat and Deccan reached 166-4 off the last ball ... Read more
Abahani-Ashgabat tussle today
Perfect finishing will be the key in the crucial Group B match of the AFC President’s Cup match between Dhaka Abahani and Ashgabat FC of Turkmenistan at the Bangabandhu National Stadium at 6:00pm today. Both the teams had a perfect warm-up for the crunch tie with victories against Sri Lanka Army, the third team of ... Read more
Sakib scoops player of the year award
All-rounder Sakib al Hasan scooped the Garmeenphone-Prothom Alo player of the year award 2008 on Friday for his outstanding performance with bat and ball last year, especially in Test cricket. Sakib was the runaway winner ahead of weightlifter Fahima Akhter Moina and shooter Asif Hossain Khan, who bagged the runner-up awards for winning international
Sakib back to boost Tigers
Sakib al Hasan returned to cricket after a long injury lay-off to inspire the Bangladesh cricket team to a 49-run victory over the Bangladesh A team in the third warm-up match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Thursday. Sakib took the ball after the Tigers had suffered two embarrassing defeats to their second fiddles in ... Read more
Ashgabat FC demolish Sri Lanka Army
Ashgabat FC of Turkmenis-tan demolished Sri Lanka Army 5-1 on Thursday to get the ideal warm-up before playing Dhaka Abahani in the AFC President’s Cup Group B deciding match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Saturday. The first-half was almost a one way traffic as the tall and physically stronger players of the Turkmenistan side ... Read more
India drubs Bangladesh 11-1
Bangladesh finished seventh in the 8th Asia Cup hockey tournament after a 11-1 defeat against India in the classification match at Wisma Belia Stadium of Kuantan, Malaysia on Thursday. India, which surprisingly failed to make it to the last four, started the game with an aggressive note and swooped on the Bangladesh team from the ... Read more
AFC President’s Cup Football qualifier: Abahani make good start beating Sri Lanka Army in opener
Abahani Limited made a good start in the AFC President’s Cup qualifier beating Sri Lanka Army team by 2-1 goals at the floodlit Bangabandhu National Stadium here on Tuesday. The match was locked in 1-1 goals during the first half. National defender Wali Faisal and substitute Shahajuddin Tipu scored one goal each for Abahani Limited ... Read more
Sri Lanka Dev Squad takes 375-run lead dismissing GP-BCB Academy team for 164
Visiting Sri Lanka Development Squad took massive 375-run lead over GP-BCB National Cricket Academy team after dismissing the hosts cheaply for 164 in the first innings on the 3rd day of the 2nd four-day match at the Bir Shrestha Shaheed Ruhul Amin Stadium in Chittagong on Tuesday. Replying to Sri Lanka’s huge first innings total ... Read more
Bangladesh suffer 9-0 defeat against South Korea in Asia Cup Hockey
Bangladesh National Hockey team suffered another humiliating 9-0 goals defeat against Asian giant South Korea in their last Pool A match of the 8th Asia Cup Men’s Hockey Tournament in Kuantan Pathang, Malaysia on Tuesday. World number five South Korea dominated the first half 4-0 against the 34th ranking Bangladesh. With the day’s comfortable victory, ... Read more
Cristiano Ronaldo shelves dream move to Madrid
Manchester United will continue to tolerate the diva-like behaviour of Cristiano Ronaldo in the Old Trafford dressing-room next season after it emerged last night that the World Player of the Year is close to dropping his pursuit of a move to Real Madrid for another 12 months. However, United’s players are far more concerned about ... Read more