Dhaka Abahani will be looking to start their AFC President’s Cup campaign with a win when they take on Sri Lanka Army team in the inaugural match of Group B at the Bangabandhu National Stadium at 6:00pm today. Sri Lanka Army, playing for the first time in any AFC affiliated competition, however, vowed
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We know what you’re doing Buchanan
It was tolerable for the first three games but after the Kolkata Knight Riders ignored Mashrafe Bin Mortaza for the tenth consecutive time, patience is running thin for millions of cricket fans in the country. The Knight Riders turned a million heads when they insisted on landing Mashrafe in their books for an astonishing 600,000 ... Read more
Mohammedan lift Women’s Club Cup
Mohammedan added yet another feather in their cap when the popular club clinched the first-ever Women’s Club Cup cricket title at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The Motijheel outfit kept their cool in the battle of nerves to record a five-wicket win over pre-tournament favourites Bangladesh Ansar and VDP. Mohammedan posted 127 for ... Read more
Brothers claim T20 glory
PCL T20 Chittagong 2009 Brothers claim T20 glory Chamara Kapugedera’s blitzkrieg and yet another captain’s knock from Nafis Iqbal gave Chittagong Brothers Union the glamorous first-ever Habib Group Port-City Cricket League Twenty20 tournament title here at the MA Aziz Stadium yesterday. They defeated Dhaka Sports Club by six wickets in front of a full house ... Read more
Ziaur gem stuns Abahani
Dhaka Sports Club meet BU in final today An astonishing 78 off 31 balls by Ziaur Rahman stunned Chittagong Abahani as Dhaka Sports Club snatched a win from their grasp with three-wicket semi-final victory to reach the final of the Port-city Cricket League at the MA Aziz Stadium on Saturday. In the final, the Dhaka ... Read more
BCB puts BNS saga to rest
Opts for SBNS, Fatullah for WC matches The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Saturday ruled out the chance of holding any World Cup 2011 matches at the Bangabandhu National Stadium and instead chose Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium and Fatullah Stadium for the event. The BNS, however, has been retained as the venue for the opening ceremony while ... Read more
Nafis carries BU thru’
PCL T20 Chittagong 2009 Nafis carries BU thru’ Local boy Nafis Iqbal led from the front to steer Brothers Union to the final of the Habib Group PCL Twenty20 tournament in the exciting first semifinal where they beat Dada Warriors by six wickets at the MA Aziz Stadium here yesterday. Batting first, Dada Warriors scored ... Read more
Shirin, Taslima steal the show
Shirin Akhtar and Taslima Akhtar of BKSP stole the opening day’s show in the Dhaka Bank 25th National Junior Athletics Championship which began at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Saturday. Both Shirin and Taslima earned a couple of gold medals out of 12 events decided on the first day. Taslima became first in the juvenile ... Read more
Bangladesh hammered by Japan 5-0
Bangladesh slumped to a 0-5 defeat against Japan in its first match of the 8th Asia Cup hockey at Kuantan Stadium, Malaysia on Saturday. Bangladesh put up a miserable show against Japan and conceded two goals before the break. Japan with its spirited display took the command of the game and shot into the lead ... Read more
Amit steers Bangladesh U-19
Promising youngster Amit Mojumdar struck a brilliant 102 runs to anchor Bangladesh Under-19 team to secure a thrilling three-wicket win over visiting Sri Lanka Under-19 team in the last match of the five-match one-dayer series at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Saturday. With the win, the host comfortably sealed the five-match series by 4-1. ... Read more
Asian Beach Volleyball from today
The 2nd Asian Beach Volleyball Tournament organised by Bangladesh Volleyball Federation (BVF) gets underway tomorrow at the Cox’s Bazar Laboni Point. In this connection, the draw of the competition held at local hotel at Cox’s Bazar on Saturday in presence of all the teams. All the attendees observed a minute’s silence in the memories of ... Read more
Seven-a-side Rugby final today
Bangladesh Boys and Khilgaon Pragoti Sangsad reached the final of the first ever Seven-a-side Rugby Tournament on Saturday. The final will be held at 5 pm today (Sunday) at the outer stadium. National Sports Council (NSC) director (sports) Abdur Rahman will
GM Ziaur Rahman finishes 14 in Mayor’s Cup Open International Chess
GM Ziaur Rahman of Biman finished 14th in the 2nd Mumbai Mayor’s Cup Open International Chess Tournament held in Mumbai, India on Saturday. GM Niaz Murshed of Leonine Chess Club became 23rd in the meet. Zia and Niaz both earned eight points each after end of the 11th round matches. In the last round matches, ... Read more
Bangladesh through to final round
Bangladesh moved into the final round of the AFC Challenge Cup 2010 after finishing runners-up in Group A with a facile 3-0 win over Macau at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Thursday. Midfielder Zahid’s brace helped Bangladesh finish as the best runners-up and qualify for the final round. Bangladesh made a lively start against their ... Read more
Myanmar unbeaten champs
Myanmar became Group A champions with an all-win record after beating Cambodia 1-0 in their third and last match of the AFC Challenge Cup qualifying round at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Thursday. With the win Myanmar joined India, Tajikistan, North Korea, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Sri Lanka in the final round scheduled to be held ... Read more
Women’s Club Cup Cricket : Mohammedan in semis crushing Victoria by 258 runs
Mohammedan SC moved into the semifinal of the Women’s Club Cup Cricket Tournament crushing Victoria SC by massive 258 runs at the Gulshan Youth Club ground here on Thursday. With this feat, Mohammedan SC have secured four points from three matches to reach the semis from Group B after beating Indira Road KC by 10 ... Read more
BCB U-15 win over CAB U-15 team in 3rd one-day match
BCB Under-15 earned an emphatic nine-wicket victory over touring Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) Under-15 team in the third one-day match at the Mymensingh Stadium on Thursday. Hosts BCB team also outplayed the tourists by 144 runs in the 2nd one-day match on Wednesday at the same venue. Batting first after winning the toss in ... Read more
Hammam ‘ignores’ FIFA in voting dispute
AFC president Mohamed bin Hammam has rejected FIFA’s instruction to reinstate the voting rights of five countries at next week’s crucial congress of the regional football body, officials said. FIFA’s legal director last week told the AFC that Kuwait, Laos, East Timor, Afghanistan and Mongolia had the right to vote in deciding who will fill ... Read more
Ctg metropolis becomes champion in Zone-C nat’l handball
Chittagong metropolis hand-ball team emerged champion, while Chittagong district team finished runners-up in the Zone-C competition of the Exim Bank 19th Men’s National Handball Cham-pionship. Chittagong district team defeated Dhaka 26-13 and Chittagong metropolis team outplayed Chittagong district team 30-15 in the ‘super-three’ competitions at Rangamati Stadium on Thursday. Both champion and runners-up teams earned ... Read more
Bangladesh gets 3 more WC matches
Bangladesh has been awarded eight matches of the World Cup 2011 including two quarter-finals at a meeting of the Central Organising Committee in Mumbai on Tuesday. It was the first meeting of the COC since the ICC Board resolved earlier this month that, given the current uncertainty over the security situation in Pakistan, the country ... Read more