Monday, 23 Dec, 2024

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Pistorius released under house arrest

DHAKA: South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released under house arrest nearly one year after he was jailed for killing his girlfriend.Prison officials say, reports the BBC.He is expected to spend the remainder of a five-year prison sentence at his

2 India football teams reach Ctg

CHITTAGONG: Two popular football teams of India’s West Bengal ‘Kingfisher East Bengal’ and ‘Kotkata Mohammedan’ have reached Chittagong to take part in the upcoming Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup in the port city.Organizers of the tournament received the players at Shah

Why Test Cricket Is Ultimate Frontier?

England Vs Pakistan Test Played at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, 13-17 October 2015 Match Drawn Pakistan 523 /8  Declared ( Shoaib Malik 245 , Asad Shafiq 107 , Mohammad Hafiz 98 , Younis Khan 38 , BA Stokes 4/57 ) and 173 All Out ( Misbah Ul Huq 51, Younis Khan 45 , Mohammad Hafiz 34

East Bengal off to Bangladesh

KOLKATA: India’s premier football club Kingfisher East Bengal has left Kolkata for Bangladesh on Sunday to play in Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup.The tournament scheduled to begin on October 20 in Chittagong port city.East Bengal will face Chittagong Abahani Club at MA Aziz Stadium

Australia to tour Bangladesh in 2017

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan Papan on Friday said after several weeks’ depression the sun started shining on Bangladesh cricket environment.The BCB boss returned from the Board Meeting of International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday.He said that Zimbabwe

Zaheer Khan announces int’l retirement

DHAKA: With 610 international wickets, Zaheer finishes as one of India’s most successful bowlers, being the fourth-highest wicket-taker for India across formats.He has the second-highest wickets tally (311) for an India seamer in Tests, behind Kapil Dev's 434.Zaheer, though, played few

What Bangladesh Cricket Gains From BPL?

The third version of BPL T20 Cricket with six franchises is set to start from End November. A debate has ensued in cricket community of Bangladesh about perceived benefits of BPL for Bangladesh Cricket.The recent successes of Bangladesh cricket in ODI format of international cricket and

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