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Grameenphone Test Series, Bangladesh-Srilanka Mahela not taking Zimbabwe lightly Sports Reporter “If anything goes wrong against Zimbabwe, you guys will have a lot to write about,” joked Mahela Jayawardene yesterday. It would be a surprise to hear the Sri Lankan captain speak in such a cynical manner ahead of their match against lowly Zimbabwe in ... Read more

Ispahani Mirzapore Tea 10th National Cricket League Barisal equal with Rajshahi Sports Reporter Barisal repeated their success against Rajshahi to share the lead in the National Cricket League when they won the second-leg one-day match at the Fatullah Cricket Stadium yesterday. It was however a day for out-of-favour Nafis Iqbal who smashed an unbeaten hundred ... Read more

Sports Reprter Bhasha Shaheed Abdul Jabbar Ansar &VDP School and College of Gazipur, Palsha Ideal Secondary School of Mymensingh, Gorihar Al Arabia Dhakhil Madrasa of Rajshahi, Banagram Secondary School of Jessore won their respective matches of the Standard Chartered National School Kabaddi Competition on Sunday. In the day’s first match, Bhasha Shaheed Abdul Jabbar Ansar ... Read more

Azad Majumder. Chittagong An extraordinary effort by Mashrafee bin Murtaza saved Bangladesh from following on in the second Test against Sri Lanka on Sunday, but that hardly came as a consolation as a huge defeat is still on cards unless the hosts make a significant turnaround. Blame again shifted on Mohammad Ashraful, the Bangladesh captain, ... Read more

Citycell B League Brothers now second Our Correspondent, Chittagong Two goals from striker Henry Quae fired Brothers Union into second position of the Citycell B. League after a 2-1 win over Chittagong Abahani at the MA Aziz Stadium yesterday. The victory took Brothers to 25 points from 12 matches, a single point behind defending champions ... Read more

Azad Majumder . Chittagong Anyone who has never watched the Bangladesh cricket team batting in the nets would take Ashraful Hossain as just another net bowler, who was invited to assist the national players in their practice. But to Mohammad Ashraful and his team-mates the 18-year-old Chittagong boy was just not an

Azad Majumder . Chittagong Anyone who has never watched the Bangladesh cricket team batting in the nets would take Ashraful Hossain as just another net bowler, who was invited to assist the national players in their practice. But to Mohammad Ashraful and his team-mates the 18-year-old Chittagong boy was just not an

UNB, Dhaka Holders Dhaka Abahani maintained their solo lead in the Citycell 2nd B. League with a 1-0 win over Chittagong Mohammedan SC at the Chittagong Stadium on Friday. With this result, Dhaka Abahani increased their tally to 26 points, while Chittagong Mohammedan remained at 17 points, both playing 12 matches. In the day’s match, ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Chittagong, Barisal and Sylhet registered victories over Dhaka, Rajshahi and Khulna in a low scoring opening round of the Ispahani Mirzapore Tea National Cricket League one-dayers at different venues across the country on Thursday. Chittagong v Dhaka At the BKSP, Chittagong opted to bowl first and bowled Dhaka out for 173 in 47.2 ... Read more

Sports Correspondent Farashganj Sporting Club registered its fourth victory in the Citycell 2nd B. League football championship when it inflicted a 3-1 defeat on Rahmatganj Muslim Friends Society at Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city on Thursday. Kabir Hossain pulled off the first breakthrough for Farash-ganj scoring from spot after 19 minutes to put the ... Read more

Azad Majumder Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene praised Bangladesh for their brave fight in the first Test and said he wasn’t surprised at all the way the hosts batted to score 413 runs in the fourth innings. Here are the excerpts from Jayawardene’s post-match press conference. Did he get scared at any stage? No, I ... Read more

Sports Reporter It is always worth watching Mohammad Ashraful bat but he is so inconsistent that one cannot even recall the last time he had a good effort. The 24-year-old Bangladesh skipper returned among runs in style with a hundred but the problem was that it took too many innings in the middle to see ... Read more

Sports Reporter The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) ended the year 2008 on a high, announcing on the New Year’s Eve the arrival of a Brazilian coach for the national team. Edson ‘Dido’ Silva, former footballer of Brazilian giants Flamengo (1979-81) and Santos FC (1983-84), will take over from February as Head Coach, confirmed BFF vice-president ... Read more

Azad Majumder Left-arm spinner Sakib al Hasan claimed three wickets as Bangladesh left Sri Lanka stuttering at 172 for six before bad light stopped play early on the opening day of the first Test on Friday. After scalping Kumara Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene, the two most experienced batsmen in the Sri Lankan line-up, Sakib removed ... Read more

CricInfo, undated AB de Villiers erased a lingering hoodoo for South Africa as they sealed their most satisfying win with a record-breaking chase of 414 for 4 that buried Australia in the first Test at the WACA on Sunday. Since coming back into the international arena in the early 1990s, South Africa have had the ... Read more

Test, ODI Series Lankan cricketers arrive Sports Reporter The Sri Lanka cricket team arrived here yesterday to play two Tests and a tri-nation one-day series. Mahela Jayawardene’s men landed at the Zia International Airport more than two hours after their scheduled arrival was delayed due to heavy fog in the city. This is the Lankans ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Alamu Bukola Olalekan (C) the Nigerian forward of Dhaka Mohammedan forces his way through the Sheikh Russell defence at the BNS on Tuesday. — New Age photo Title contenders Dhaka Mohammedans inflicted the first defeat on Sheikh Russell on Tuesday, winning 2-1 in the crucial Citycell B League match at the Bangabandhu National ... Read more