DHAKA: Australia has confirmed its two overseas test matches in Bangladesh in June-July 2020. Cricket Australia's head of cricket operations Peter Roach confirmed it saying "We are delighted to be touring Bangladesh in June 2020.  "The two boards felt this was a more beneficial

DHAKA: Bangladesh through to final of SAFF under-18 championship with a 3-0 draw against Nepal at the APF Stadium in Kathmandu on Friday (September 27). Bhutanese have not been able to defeat Andrew Peter Turner's team who has played offensive football since the very beginning.

The King of football Pele is likely to visit Bangladesh in October to watch a friendship match between Swadhin Bangla Football Team & Friends & Footy Hags Team & Friends, slating for next month.  Ashikur Rahman, the captain of the Footy Hugs Team and Friends and also chairman of the

DHAKA: Late Monsoon rain caused the final match of the OBHAI Tri Nation T20 series abandoned without a bowl being bowled. With no provision for a reserve day and per rules of the tournament Bangladesh and Afghanistan were declared joint winners much to the disappointment of expectant

DHAKA: Bangladesh, Afghanistan declared joint champions as rain washes out final match of T20I tri-nation series at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur on Tuesday (September 23). The match was scheduled to begin at 6 pm.   Bangladesh (probable): 1 Liton Das, 2 Najmul Hossain,

DHAKA: The Tri-nation T20 series final between Bangladesh and Afghanistan is being delayed by consistent rain. The match is scheduled to begin at 6 pm at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Tuesday (September 23). Bangladesh (probable): 1 Liton Das, 2 Najmul Hossain,

DHAKA: Lionel Messi beat Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk and Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo to claim a record sixth FIFA's The Best award, which is given to the top men's player, on Monday. The award was handed to the Barcelona and Argentina captain at a ceremony in

Finally a winning formula appears to have been worked out. Zimbabwe showed the way and Bangladesh followed. Afghanistan Cricket team in OBHAI T20 tri nation series was looking like invincible in the first leg of the tournament winning the matches comfortably. Zimbabwe and Bangladesh never

DHAKA: Russia could face a ban from all major sports events over "discrepancies" in a lab database, the World Anti-Doping Agency has warned. The country has been given three weeks to explain "inconsistencies" or risk being excluded from the Olympics and world championships, reports

DHAKA: Bangladesh through to semifinal of SAFF under-18 championship with a 0-0 draw against India at the APF Stadium in Kathmandu on Monday (September 23).  Bangladesh need a goalless draw in their second and last match of Group A. Earlier on Saturday, Bangladeshi booters

DHAKA: Madhav Apte, the former India Test opener, died in Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital on Monday, aged 86. When alive, he was the fourth-oldest living Indian Test cricketer. In his seven Tests for India in 1952-53, Apte averaged 49.27, the highlight being a match-saving, unbeaten

It will give a big boost to the sagging morale of Bangladesh team if it can win the championship of Tri nation T20 series on Tuesday at SBNCS Dhaka. For that to happen they have to repeat its performance or better what they did in the last group match at Chattogram. In recent times

Championed by controlled aggression by Shakib Al Hasan (70* in 45 balls) and much improved bowling and fielding finally led Bangladesh got over the Afghanistan jinx. Team tigers won its first T20 international against Afghanistan in its 6th meet by 4 wickets in a low scoring match scoring

DHAKA: Bangladesh defeated Afghanistan by four wickets in the last league-phase game of Tri-series at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Saturday (September 21). Shakib Al Hasan scored 70 runs remaining undefeated. Afgans struggled to score 138 runs with the loss of 7

DHAKA:  Bangladesh Under-16 Women’s Football team earned a creditable 2-2 goal draw against strong Australia in their third and last group A match of the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship. The match held at IPE Chonburi Stadium in Chonburi of Thailand on Saturday (September 21). In

DHAKA:  Afghanistan set 139-run target for Bangladesh in the last league-phase game of Tri-series at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram on Saturday (September 21). Afgans managed to score 138 runs with the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. Bangladesh won the toss and

OBHAI T20 Tri Nation Series  Fifth Match played at ZAC Chottogram on 20 September 2019  Zimbabwe Vs Afghanistan Brief Scorecard  Zimbabwe 156/3 (Hamilton Maskadza71 ,Regis Chakava 39, SC Williams 21, Mujeeb Ur Rahman 2/28) beat Afghanistan 155/8( Rahmatullah Gurbaz 61.

There is no denial that war and conflict ravaged Afghanistan has started making giant strides in world cricket. In only two years of getting full ICC membership they have developed nucleus of a strong test team. In not too distant past also they got ODI status and started playing T20

DHAKA: Virat Kohli has overtaken teammate Rohit Sharma in the list of highest run-getters in T20I history.  Kohli is now the highest run scorer in the format’s history after notching up his 22nd T20I half-century on Wednesday night as he led India to a comfortable victory against

Finally a huge win by 39 runs cooled the wrecking nerves of team tigers.They are relived qualifying for the final against Afghanistan with a match at hand. Given the opportunity of batting first on a flat wicket and producing aggressive batting (Mahmudulllah 62 in 41, Liton 38 in 22 and