Saturday, 27 Jul, 2024

Sports

Busy Bustling Day of World Cricket

Eight out of the ten ICC full member countries will appear in four venues across the world in four matches in three different versions of the game making it a super Friday of world cricket.Australia plays India at Woolongaba in the second ODI of the current series. Australia winning  

ICC World T20 trophy at Bashundhara City

DHAKA: ICC World Twenty20 India 2016 trophy arrived in Bangladesh on Thursday (January 14) as part of its global journey titled ‘Nissan Trophy Tour’.The trophy reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in city by an Emirates flight this morning.The prestigious silverware was then

Bangladesh not taking Zimbabwe lightly

KHULNA ABU NASER STATDIUM: Bangladesh National Cricket Team captain Mashrafe bin Mortaza said the hosts are not taking visiting Zimbabwe as a weaker opponent.‘Considering the importance of the series, we will give our best and uphold our potential. We are not willing to take the guest

Bangladesh U-19s win series against WI U-19s

DHAKA: Bangladesh Under-19s won by 171 runs against West Indies under-19 at Jahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Thursday.Chasing 300-run target, West Indies Under-19s scored 128 in 49.3 overs losing all wickets.Earlier, Pinak Ghosh’s second Youth ODI hundred and Shanto’s

Bangladesh 1-1 Malaysia Felda United FC

DHAKA: Bangladesh have qualified to the knockout stage of Bangabandhu Gold Cup after drawing their group stage match against Felda United FC of Malaysia at Bangabandhu National Stadium in city Wednesday night.It had been a fascinating and ultimately frantic match where both teams showed

Fifth Ballon d’Or for Lionel Messi

DHAKA: Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d'Or award for the world’s best player for the fifth time.The 28-year-old Argentine had 41.33% of the vote, with Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo (27.76%) second and Barca’s Neymar (7.86%) third, reports the BBC.Either

Cake Walk for Junior Tigers

First ODI Bangladesh under 19 Vs West Indies Under19 Played at SBNCS on 11 January 2015 Bangladesh Under 19: 116/2 in 20.3 Overs (Nazmul Hossain Shanto41* and Saif Hasan39*) Beat West Indies Under 19:114 All Out (GD Pope 31, EWA Stewart 30, Saleh Ahmed Shawon 4/24, Saeed Sarkar 2/9 and

The Making of a Winning T20 Tiger Brigade

Bangladesh Cricket team will encounter serious challenge in maintaining its prolific forms and creating consistency of success in 2016. It won majority of the matches in 2015 in limited version of the game.It started showing steady progress in test cricket also. It is almost unimaginable

Zimbabwe team due in afternoon

DHAKA: After miserable ODI and T20 series against Afghanistan, a 16-member Zimbabwe team is set to arrive in Dhaka on Monday (January 11) to play a four-match T20 series against Bangladesh.From United Arab Emirates, a flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the Zimbabwean cricketers landed

Why Mashrafe, Mustafiz Should Win Cricinfo Laurels?

2015 was glorious year for Bangladesh in international cricket .It was a year of achieving milestone successes. It started with outstanding performance in ICC World Cup qualifying for the first time for the quarterfinal and losing to India at MCG partly due to diabolic umpiring decisions.

Tigers Changing Bangladesh

With milestone successes in international cricket in 2015, Bengal Tigers (Bangladesh Cricket team affectionately called) rocked and rolled the Bangladesh at home and abroad, cricket glorified Bangladesh among the world nations.It became the symbol of Bangladesh. It integrated Bangladeshis

Golden Opportunity for Team Tigers

The ensuing Asia Cup to be played for the first time in T20 format in Bangladesh presents a unique opportunity for winning a major international tournament for the first time. The closest that Bangladesh went was in 2012. Bangladesh narrowly lost to Pakistan in the final after prevailing

Amla steps down as South Africa captain

DHAKA: Hashim Amla has resigned as South Africa captain following the second Test against England at Newlands.AB de Villiers will take over for the final two Tests of the series in Johannesburg and Centurion, reports espncricinfo.Amla has come in for criticism of his leadership since the

Ireland U-19s take Australia’s spot

DHAKA: Ireland will send a team to the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh, taking the place of Australia.Cricket Ireland had indicated on Tuesday that it was likely to accept the ICC’s invitation to step in, although it now faces a challenge to arrange logistics with just three weeks

Team Tigers For Zimbabwe Series

BCB has just announced a fourteen-member tiger squad for the first two of the four matches T20 series against Zimbabwe starting on 14 January in Khulna. For preparing the other venues for Asia Cup and Under-19 World cup matches other venues will not witness any T20 match of the series.The

Australia pull out of U-19 World Cup

DHAKA: Australia have pulled out of the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh starting on January 27 due to security concerns.CA chief executive James Sutherland said the decision was taken after advice from the government stated that the threat to Australian interests in Bangladesh was as

US-Bangla Airlines partner of Bangabandhu Gold Cup

DHAKA: US-Bangla Airlines has been made the Airlines Partner for upcoming international football tournament “Bangabandhu Gold Cup 2016”.Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) will organize the tournament, to begin on January 8 in Dhaka and Jessore simultaneously.Venues of this

Bangladesh to host 12th SAFF Championship

DHAKA: The next SAFF Championship will be held in Bangladesh. The 12th edition of tournament of South Asian countries will be held in 2017. The decision has taken in a meeting of South Asian Football Federation held at Kerala on Saturday.On Sunday, India beat defending champions

Robi, BCB team up to hunt for Fast Bowlers

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and the sponsor of the Bangladesh National Cricket team Robi have teamed up to look for promising fast bowlers, both male and female, from all over the country.The campaign ‘Robi Fast Bowler Hunt’ will get underway on January 17 and continue till

Bangladesh beat Bhutan by 3-0

DHAKA: Bangladesh National Football Team has beat ten-man Bhutan by 3-0 goals in their well contested last match in SAFF Suzuki Championship 2015 on Monday.Bhutan made four changes in the penultimate group stage match of South Asian Football Championship (SAFF) 2015 as K. Nidup, K.