Friday, 26 Apr, 2024

Sports

Sheikh Kamal Int’l Club Cup begins Oct 20

CHITTAGONG: Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup 2015 is scheduled to kick-off on October 20.Three local and five international football clubs will participate in this tournament.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the tournament through video conference.These were

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh tri-series soon!

DHAKA: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is probably considering to play a tri-series with neighboring countries Pakistan and Bangladesh in case the planned series with Pakistan fails to be turned up, sources said.As stated by the sources, BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur and

U19 Cricket World Cup 2016 in Bangladesh

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cricket Board will host next year’s ICC U19 Cricket World Cup from 22 January to 14 February. The ICC Board took the decision in its final round of meetings of 2015 at the ICC Headquarters in Dubai on Tuesday.AS per decision, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB),

Foreign players keen to play in BPL

DHAKA: Nearly 200 foreign cricketers have expressed interest in Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) despite security threats that forced the Australian team to cancel its tour of the country.Quoting a BPL official, cricbuzz reports that Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Amir and Chris Gayle from

Priorities of Bangladesh for Cricket

We have observed some recent conversation and speculation about future of international cricket in Bangladesh in electronic, pint and social media. These have got momentum after Cricket Australia postponing the scheduled tour to Bangladesh upon Australian Government advice originated from

South Africa Won a Thriller

South Africa Vs India IST ODI at Green Park Kanpur Played on 11 October 2015South Africa 303/5 (AB de Villiers 104*, F du Plessis 62, HM Amla 32, Farhan Behardin 35* ,A Misra 2/47 , UT Yadav 2/71)  beat India  298/7  ( RG Sharma 150, AM Rahane 60 ,MS Dhoni 31, SR Dhawan 23 ,Imran Tahir

Cricket Giants Lock Horns

In recent times Bengal Tigers in their own backyard hunted both India and South Africa in ODI cricket series.  Mashrafe squad was simply brilliant in winning both the series 2-1. But without any semblance of doubt they are the formidable forces of world cricket and any contest between

'Would Australia have pulled out of an India tour?'

DHAKA: A week after Australia called off their tour to Bangladesh citing security concern, former Australia captain Ian Chappell has said he believed the decision might have been a "little different" had a similar situation arisen ahead of a tour to India,”He also said that the ICC

Mashrafe hospitalized with illness

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cricket Team captain Mashrafe Mortaza has been hospitalized with illness early Friday. The number one pacer was admitted to Apollo Hospital with high fever at around 2:30am, said Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Physician Dr Debashish Chowdhury.He has bee diagnosed with

Blatter, Platini, Valcke suspended from FIFA

DHAKA: Fifa has provisionally suspended its president Sepp Blatter, secretary general Jerome Valcke and vice-president Michel Platini for 90 days.Former Fifa vice-president Chung Mong-joon has been banned for six years and fined 100,000 Swiss Francs.The punishments were handed out by the

Bangladesh-Zimbabwe Test series in November

DHAKA: Zimbabwe will visit to Bangladesh to play a two-Test cricket series in November after Australia postponed a planned visit this month due to security concerns. Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hasan on Wednesday said Zimbabwe had agreed to tour that month although no

Cricketer Shahadat remanded

DHAKA: A Dhaka court placed cricketer Shahadat Hossian Rajib on a three-day remand rejecting his bail petition in the case ‘for torturing domestic help’.After hearing, Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Yusuf Hossian passed the orders on Thursday morning.Earlier, Shahadat was produced

Tigress were defeated but not disgraced

Bengal tigress in the brave tour to Pakistan may have lost all matches must they earned lot of respect and honor from Pakistan cricket community.In cricketing terms this was white wash. But it was not that they were overwhelmed. Excepting the last match they were not outplayed and even

Bangladesh yet to get first-class test structure

DHAKA:  Bangladesh's Test cricket will complete its 15th year in coming November. After securing Test status, Bangladesh played the first Test against India at Bangabandhu National Stadium in city on November 10 in 2000.Scoring Test century on debut, Aminul Islam Bulbul drew the

Afridi slams Autralia over Bangladesh tour

DHAKA: Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi criticised Australia's decision to call off their Bangladesh tour citing terrorism fears, saying Monday that while security was paramount tours should "not be cancelled over minor issues".Australia scrapped its two-Test tour of Bangladesh last

Postponing Bangladesh tour dangerous for cricket: PCB

DHAKA: Pakistan Cricket Board chief Shaharyar Khan sees a grave danger to world cricket after the manner in which Cricket Australia decided to postpone their tour to Bangladesh for an indefinite period. The PCB boss said that Pakistan would be raising the issue of scheduled bilateral

Cricketer Shahadat sent to jail

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Monday sent cricketer Shahadat Hossain to jail in a case filed on allegation of ‘torturing domestic help’.Earlier in the morning, he surrendered before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court and filed a bail petition.But metropolitan magistrate Yusuf

Bengal Tigress Went Down

Pakistan Women Vs Bangladesh Women ODI Match Played at Southern Cricket Stadium Karachi on 4 October 2015 Pakistan Women 214 All Out ( Bismah Maroof 92 ,Nain Abidi 27, Nida Dar 21* , Javira Khan 21 , Salma Khatun 3/ 31) beat Bangladesh Women 194 All Out ( Rumana Ahmed 70 ,Farghana Haq 26,

Atletico Madrid 1-1 Real Madrid

DHAKA: Real Madrid missed out on the chance to go top of La Liga as Atletico scored late to draw the Madrid derby.Karim Benzema scored an early header from Dani Carvajal's cross and Real goalkeeper Keylor Navas saved Antoine Griezmann's penalty, BBC reported.Gareth Bale, returning after

Shashank Manohar new BCCI president

DHAKA: Shashank Manohar, who was Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president between 2008 and 2011, has been formally elected for a second term at the board's special general meeting (SGM) in Mumbai on Sunday. Manohar's election, which was necessitated by the death last month