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
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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
PCL gets foreign flair
PCL Chittagong 2009 PCL gets foreign flair Jeehan, Chamara sign on Preparation for the country’s first-ever Twenty20 tournament, “Habib Group-Port city Cricket League (PCL), to start on Saturday next at Chittagong’s MA Aziz Stadium, is now at its finishing stage. The eight participating teams and organisers are equally caught up in an enthusiastic mood to ... Read more
Super-sub breaks local hearts
AFC Challenge Cup Super-sub breaks local hearts Myanmar midfielder Pai Soe came off the bench to score a late brace to break Bangladesh hearts in their crucial AFC Challenge Cup qualifier at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday. The super-sub produced two goals in the span of eight minutes as Myanmar cancelled out Enamul Haque’s early ... Read more
Cambodia beat Macau 2-1 to taste first win
Cambodia beat Macau by 2-1 goals to taste the first win in group A match of the AFC Challenge Cup Qualifier at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Tuesday. Strikers Teag Vathanak and Keo Songorn scored one goal each for the winners, who led the first half 1-0. Medio Chan Man Hei netted the goal for ... Read more
India takes World Cup charge after Pakistan exit
India will organise a major part of cricket’s World Cup in 2011 after Pakistan was stripped of co-hosting rights, the International Cricket Council said on Tuesday. The showpiece event awarded to South Asia was thrown into turmoil earlier this month after the ICC removed Pakistan as a host nation due to security concerns, following the ... Read more
Clarke leads Australia to beat Pakistan
Michael Clarke’s all-round performance helped his team give Pakistan a dose of their own medicine as Australia won the third day-night international by 27 runs at Abu Dhabi Stadium here on Monday. The 28-year-old hit a fighting 66 to anchor an otherwise struggling Australian innings which helped them reach 198-7 in their allotted 50 overs ... Read more
Pathan powers Rajasthan
Yusuf Pathan hammered an unconquered 30-ball 62 as Graeme Smith anchored the Rajasthan Royals chase with an unbeaten 44 to romp to a five-wicket win over the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in Pretoria on Tuesday. The brutal innings from Pathan, sedate but no less important knock by Smith and another typically ... Read more
‘Anyone can be captain’
Ray Jennings, the Bangalore Royal Challengers coach, says he has yet to decide who will captain the embattled franchise once Kevin Pietersen departs for England after Wednesday’s match against Kolkata. Jennings’s comments come as a major surprise, given Bangalore had previously nominated South African Jacques Kallis to take over from Pietersen when the England batsman ... Read more
Tendulkar, Jayasuriya win it for Mumbai
Senior pros Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya produced vintage strokeplay to give Mumbai Indians a key victory in the Indian Premier League here on Monday. The ageing duo hammered 127 for the first wicket from just 12.2 overs as Mumbai scored 187-6 in 20 overs after electing to take first strike and then bowled out ... Read more
Dido calls for patience
Bangladesh face Cambodia today Bangladesh’s football coach Edson Silva Dido has asked the people of the country to be patient and remain in support of the team as they take on Cambodia in their first Group A match of the AFC Challenge Cup at the Bangabandhu National Stadium today. “[My message for the people] is ... Read more
Hosts face Cambodia today
Bangladesh will be wary of any complacency when they take on Cambodia in the second match of the AFC Challenge Cup Group A qualifying round at the Bangabandhu National Stadium today at 6:00pm. In their two previous meetings with Cambodia, Bangladesh had won 2-1 in the inaugural AFC Challenge Cup in 2006 and drawn 1-1 ... Read more
Tamim, Tk 7.7 lakh boy
Amid colours, deafening sounds and nonstop flashing of lights, auction of 48 cricketers for the country’s first-ever Twenty20 tournament, the PCL (Port-city Cricket League) 2009, was held yesterday at Chittagong Club auditorium with dashing Tigers opener and local boy Tamim Iqbal stealing the show with a whopping Tk 7.70 lakh price. The nine-day tournament is ... Read more
First-ever Women’s Club Cricket on
A new chapter in country’s women’s cricket opened when the Women’s Club Cup tournament kicked off at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The popular Abahani got off a winning start when they handed a five-wicket defeat to BKSP in the opening match as the Dhanmondi based club scored 130 for five in 32.3 ... Read more
Rangamati emerges Zone-C champion in women handball
Rangamati became champion in the Zone-C competition of the Exim Bank 20th National Women Handball Championship defeating Kishoreganj 11-7 in the final at Rangamati Stadium on Saturday. The winners led the first half 6-5. Rina of Kishoreganj was adjudged the best player of the tournament. Chairman of Rangamati sadar upazila Mohammad Musa gave away prizes ... Read more