DHAKA: Michael Phelps has been suspended from all competition for six months by USA Swimming following his drink-driving arrest, BBC reports. Phelps, 29, was stopped by police after being caught travelling 84mph (135km/h) in a 45mph zone in Baltimore, Maryland, on 30 September.The most

DHAKA: Australia beat Pakistan by six wickets in the one-off Twenty20 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.  Pakistan had made 96 runs for the loss of 9 wickets which was chased by Australia in just 14 overs at the loss of 4 wickets. David Warner with his remarkable 54

DHAKA: Bangladesh ODI Cricket Captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has blessed with baby boy on his own birthday.Shumona Haque, Mashrafe's wife, gave birth to a baby boy at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College Hospital on Sunday.Mashrafe sought blessings from his fans and well-wishers for his

DHAKA: The 17th Asian Games ended with a dazzling cultural extravaganza on Saturday. Asian Games drew to a close with dazzling extravagant cultural after 15 days of high-voltage action. A traditional Korean folk dance troupe performed the concluding act with resonant theme of humanity

DHAKA: Despite being dismissed for 133, Sri Lanka fought back and routed Afghanistan by 68 runs to take the gold medal at the Asian Games in Incheon.  After Lahiru Thirimanne's fifty steered the innings, Sri Lanka's bowlers made sure the Afghanistan batsmen never got comfortable in the

DHAKA: Bangladesh Women’s Kabaddi Team won bronze medal in the 17th Asian Games Kabaddi though losing to Iran in South Korea’s Incheon. The country women, however, have been defeated to Iran by 15-40 points in the 2nd semifinal at the Asiad on Thursday. Iran, which earned six lonas

DHAKA: Tigers won bronze medal defeating Hong Kong by 27 runs in the playoff at the Asian Games men’s cricket at Incheon in South Korea on Friday.Bangladesh set 162-run target in the 20 overs for Hong Kong.Shakib Al Hasan was the top scorer with 46-run while Mahmudullah, Shamsur and

DHAKA: Internet reports in Palestinian and Arab media say that Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer icon, is being mentioned as a possible candidate to become coach of the Palestinian national team.Reports in Arab news sources from the Gulf claim that Maradona is in advanced stages of

The much awaited T 20 match contest between two ICC full member country Bangladesh and Sri Lanka could last only 11 overs Bangladesh was recovering from 6/3 in the fourth over to 59/3 in 11. Not a great going. But a score of 130 -140 was possible. On the other hand Bangladesh could

DHAKA: The toss of a coin put Sri Lanka into the Asian Games men's cricket final and sent Bangladesh to Bronze Medal playoff against Hong Kong after the second semi-finals was ended by rain on Thursday. According to cricinfo.com, as the ground remains unplayable, Match Referee

DHAKA:  Heavy downpour halted ongoing semi final between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka after 11-over batting of tigers at Incheon on Thursday. According to cricinfo.com match update, the rain has stopped at 4.30pm. Just one swatch of dark cloud coming with the breeze above the ground, the

If one is asked what are the achievements of Bangladesh Cricket over the last one year or so. The answer would be successfully staging T20 World Cup and Asia Cup. The other successes some person may like to say getting the position of President ICC for a year which is however rotated

DHAKA: Tigers beat Kuwait by 203 runs in the quarterfinal of the XVII Asian Games cricket match at Yeonhui Cricket Ground on Wednesday.Replying to Tigers’ 224 the Kuwait’s innings packed up by 21 runs off 13 overs. The match started at 11:00am Bangladesh time.Bangladesh set a

DHAKA: Kolkata Knight Riders off spinner Sunil Narine has been reported for a suspected illegal bowling action following his side's 36-run win over Dolphins in the Champions League Twenty20 Group A match in Hyderabad, espncricinfo.com reports.  The charge was laid by on-field umpires

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) reduced three years ban of Mohammad Ashraful from eight-year in corruption in Bangladesh Premier League (BPL).The disciplinary panel of the BCB reduced the punishment on Monday, with the last two years suspended.Earlier, the former Bangladesh

To boost its sagging morale Bangladesh Cricket team desperately needs to successfully defending the Gold Medal from Incheon, Korea Asian Games. Bangladesh won it in 2010 beating the emerging cricket nation Afghanistan in the last Asian Games held at Guangzhou China. This is one of the

DHAKA: An overhaul of Bangladesh's domestic first-class structure could be mooted at Tuesday's BCB board meeting, with the region-based National Cricket League (NCL) being replaced by a tournament featuring the six top Dhaka clubs. The primary reason for the move, if it were to be

Pakistan 97/6 in 20 overs [ Bismah Maroof 24 , Nain Abidi 18, Marina Iqbal 14 ,Rumana Ahmed 2/13 ] beat Bangladesh 38/9 in 7 overs [ Rumana Ahmed 10 ,Farghana Ahmed 10 ,Nida Dar 2/2 ,Sadiya Yusuf 2/2 ,Sana Mir 2/11] by 4 runs [ D/L target was 43 in 7 overs. Team tigress looked so good so

DHAKA: Pakistan women cricket team defeated Bangladesh women by four runs in the Asian Games women's final at Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon on Friday. The tigresses failed to reach 43 runs simple target with 7-over. They scored 38 runs for nine in the required overs.   After a halt

DHAKA:  Heavy rains have halted the start of Bangladesh women’s batting in the Asian Games women's final at Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon on Friday.Earlier, a fine bowling performance by Bangladeshi women bowlers helped restrict Pakistan Women to 97 for six in 20 overs in the