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Bangladesh clinched SAFF U-16 football championship 2015 by defeating India 4-2 in tie-breaker at Sylhet District Stadium. The final match went into tie-breaker after both teams ended full-time at 1-1. Fahim Murshed gave Bangladesh the lead on the 46th minute when he forcefully drove Shawon’s cross to beat the Indian goalkeeper. India leveled the scores after the hour mark when ...

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) extended their outlook to the development of Bangladesh women’s cricket alongside men’s team and formulated a comprehensive but effectual plan for them. The board arranged four home and away series for the eves team, which will be held before and after the upcoming ICC Women’s World Twenty20. Prior to the World Twenty20, the board managed to ...

Bangladesh Under-16 football team is one win away from their maiden international title as they face holders India in the third SAFF Under-16 Football Championship final at Sylhet today. The match, which will be telecast live on Bangladesh Television, will start at 5:00pm. The Bangladesh Football Federation has apologised for a blunder it committed in the match ticket, which mentioned ...

At least ten buyers have expressed their interest to purchase the Bangladesh Premier League’s (BPL’s) franchises for the third edition of the T20 competition League due to begin in November this year. Yesterday was the last date for interested candidates to apply for an opportunity to own a team in the cash-rich competition. It was learnt that companies like Beximco ...

Emdad Rahman The Scintilla Seniors returned to winning ways after a 157 run victory over Bow Green. At West Ham sports ground Scintilla opted to bat after winning the toss. With the English national team regaining The Ashes at Trent Bridge, the inspired ECCL champions rediscovered their devastating staying power at the crease to reach 320/10 from 42.1 overs. Too ...

The venue for the ICC Under-19 cricket World Cup, to be held in Bangladesh in January next year, was finalised with 48 matches being played at different venues across the country. The BCB chose four districts – Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Cox’s Bazar as the venue for the event. Dhaka got the highest number of matches. Two venues of Dhaka- ...

Nepal made a flying start in the six-nation SAFF U-16 Championship crushing the Maldives by 5-0 goals in the Group B opener at the Sylhet Stadium on Monday. The winning side led the first half by 3-0 goals. Prezen Tamang and Suman Aryal struck two goals each while Laxman Pariyar netted the other goal for the earthquake-hit Himalayan country. Laxman ...

Australia’s cricket board has promised a review of the Ashes debacle after the dead rubber Test at The Oval and will seek answers to the team’s continued flops on foreign pitches, according to cricket.com.au. Cricket Australia (CA) promised to look into the matter ahead of their series in Bangladesh in October. Australia cricket team is due to arrive in Dhaka ...

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Bangladesh ODI and T-20 skipper, reportedly will fly to Singapore for the treatment of his baby boy. Sahel Mortaza, Mashrafe’s 10-month-old boy has been sick since 2015 World Cup. Since then the baby’s sickness is not coming round that made Mashrafe forced to take this decision. Meanwhile, local doctors repeatedly have failed to diagnose his disease. Mashrafe ...

Beijing has been chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, beating the bid of Kazakhstan’s Almaty. Having hosted the 2008 Olympics, the Chinese capital will be the first city to host both a summer and winter Games. Beijing and Almaty were considered outsiders when the 2022 bid race opened two years ago. But after a host of European ...