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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